68 FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS. II. Ch. 38, 39. 1880. rent, ¤<>¤i¤ ¤s¤¤t ated, to be available during the current fiscal year, the sum of forty-eight °‘P°“°°°· thousand doHars for the employment of additional clerks in the Pension - Oihce, but the salaries of said clerks shall not exceed the_sum of one hundred dollars per month; a.lso for rent of additional office room for the Pension Oihce, the sum of four thousand nine hundred dollars, and for contingent expenses of the office, nine thousand dollars, making in all sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. _ Surgeon-Gem That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, author1zed to appoint <>¥=¤l’¤ *H°°» ¤·ddi· seventy additional clerks, forty for the office of the Surgeon-General, at
- "’“"‘l "l°'k“· a salary of eighty-three and one-third dollars per month each, and thirty.
0***0 of Adj'? clerks for the office of the Adjutant-General, at a salary of one hundred E;;f':R3‘;__f{’2·“dd" dollars per month each; and purchase furniture for the use of said clerks pumm,m{,,Sm_ in the office of the Surgeon-General at a cost not exceeding one thousand germ-Gcncral’s Of- dollars; and that said clerks shall be exclusively engaged in preparing nec. and making reports to expedite the settlement of pension applications Appropriation. called for by the Commissioner of Pensions, and the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the use of the War Department for said purposes, which shall be available immediately for the purposes of the current fiscal year. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 11ot otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand eight Add i t 1 o n al hundred dollars for the employment of twelve additional clerks in the §l°’k°df;;` 31Fg:° °f office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, at a salary not exceeding °°°" u I" one hundred dollars per month, for the remainder of this current fiscal year, to be available immediately, which clerks shall be employed exclusively in matters relating to pensions. Approved, March 16, 1880. March 16, 1880. CHAP. 39.—An act for the relief of certain actual settlers on the Kansas trust and ···········; diminished reserve lands in the State of Kansas. ` Be it emwted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Settlers on Kan- States of America Congress assembled, That the persons included in the 5s5m:?:;; fggmfgé provisions of section one of the act approved July live, eighteen hunm,ds_ dred and seventy-six entitled, "An act providing for the sale of the -1876, ch. 168. Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers, and for the disposi- 19 Stet., 74. tion of the proceeds of the sale", or the heirs, legal representatives and assigns of said persons, shall be permitted to complete the payment for iN°“g!/ emaued the_lands to which they are entitled under said act, at the newly apm:» ,,f’,;,'”:8;’f1’“:V· praised value as ascertained and approved by the Secretary of the _ ’ ‘ Interior, under section three of said act, and in completing such pay- ment credit shall be given for all sums heretofore paid as principal and interest, which sums shall be considered as constituting one instalment upon the present appraised value ut the date when the last payment thereof was made; and the balance shall be paid in three equal instalments, the first to be paid on or before the iirst day of January eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and the remaining instalments shall lie pay- _ able annually from the date of the first; each instalment to draw in- _ terest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the date when the Pfvmvv- last payment heretofore made, was received by the district oftlce: Pro- Pwzgrzgwrc. ended, That if any of said persons have failed to make payment hereto- . ,8 SMU 2,,2; fore of any portion of the purchase money, as required under the act aforesaid, or the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy- four, relating to these lands, such persons, their heirs legal representatives or assigns, being in possession thereof shall be7required priorto the urst day of January eighteen hundred and eighty-one to inake entry and pay for their respective claims in three equal instalments the first on the day of entry and the remaining instalments annually from Bondsmpmvent that date and drawing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum waste. until paid; bond being required in case of timbered lands to prevent
