FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. l. Ch. S2?. NSG. 195 IN mma Orrrcn or run Orman or Esorrznnns.-Om- chief clerk, Office or cmorof at two thousand dollars; four clerks of class tour; two clerks of class E”S‘“°°*`¤- three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, at ono thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars. And the services of skilled draughtsmen, civil engineers, and such Draughtsmen, other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be em- ¤*¤- ‘ ployed in the 4 Jfnce of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the ` various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortiiications, and surveys for military defenses, to be paid for from such appropriations: Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year cud- Proviao. ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. shall not ex- Limitation. ceed sixty thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons Report. so employed, and the amount paid to each. OFFIGE OF PUnL1cA1*1oN or Bncouns or wma REBELLION.—Fof Records or the one agent, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four, one of whom R¤l>°Ui<>¤· shall be employed on the general index; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; three copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman of printing, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one compositor and pressman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one compositor, one thousand dollars; two copy-holders, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; two watchmen; and one laborer, at six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. And hereafter the records prepared To contain only for publication under this appropriation shall contain only the records records of contemof the war of the rebellion covering contemporaneous events, arranged P°"“’°°3“ °,:’°”*°· chronologically, according to the provisions of the act of June twenty- ;;?,;5}°y_ ° r°”°' third eighteen hundred and seventy-four, making appropriations for Vol. 18, p. 222. sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. And the evidence taken Evidence, etc., by the court-martial on the trial of Fitz-John Porter, and the arguments of Fi¤¤·Joh¤ Pormade before the court by counsel for the prosecution and defence, to- :°,f,'°°°‘l";":*,°'*'°] gether with the report thereon by Judge Holt to President Lincoln and ° Pr"` ° ‘ any reply thereto tiled with the President before approval of sentence, shall be printed in connection with matter already printed concerning the proceedings of said court-martial. For the building at the corner of F and Seventeenth streets; one en- Bonding F and gineer, one thousand dollars; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and 17th streets, engitwenty dollars; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when ¤°°'· °*°· necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; one laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; and four charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand and twenty dollars. For postage-stamps for the War Department and its Bureaus, as re- Postage quired under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War and the Contingent ex- Bureaus, buildings (except the War Department building), and offices P°¤¤°¤· of the War Department; purchase of professional and scientific books, card catalogues, blank-books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, furniture, carpets, matting, oil-cloth, tile-cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus; telegraphing; freight and express charges; repairs to buildings and furniture; and for other absolutely necessary expenses, fifty-nine thousand dollars. For stationery for the War Department and its Bureaus and offices, Stationery. twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent of buildings for use of the War Department, as follows: Bent. For AdjntantGeneral’s O11ice,five thousand six hundred dollars; for the Signal Office, seven thousand five hundred dollars; for the Quartermaster-General’s Office, nine thousand dollar; for the Paymaster· General's Oiilce, three thousand six hundred dollars; for the Surgeon-
