FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 233, 234. 1868. 177 army shall reimburse to the corporation of the city of Washington for _ City of Wuh— expenses incurred in improving the property of the general government Qggfsg 2:r'°' in said city, under provisions of act of May fifth, eighteen hundred and certain Gxpansixty-four, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary $**5- of War, in book of estimates of appropriations, pages two hundred and 1$g’;%}_8;’§9?' forty-four and two hundred and forty-five, two hundred and ninety-six i ` thousand nine hundred and t"orty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents: P¢·ovz'ded, That section fifteen of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Washington and to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that Repeal of purp0se,” approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty; u11d§g2°•°h·1°*vl section three of an act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty- v,§;_ m_ p_ 59], four, entitled “An act to amend ‘An act to incorporate the inhabitants of Md the city of Washington, passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and l$g4*X‘Qll‘ 21*62} twenty,' ” are hereby repealed; and no improvements of the streets, Ne imbrcvealleys, avenues, or other property of the United States, in the city of 2***** l;***·"€3'·’*» Washington, authorized by said act, which is to be paid for by the`United {fbi'; q$,Pr`i·i,g4,. States, shall hereafter be made until an appropriation shall have been ed Smtes,_ to be made therefor, and such appropriation, when made, shall be expended K“‘l° “'?°‘l‘m°" . . . . pproprxubum under the direction of the chief engineer of the army. memo,-_ S100. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter DO contract shall No °°¤*'¤°°V> be entered into for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public build- g;Q§:°Ent;:°:'Q¥ ing, or for any public improvement whatever, which shall bind the gov- ments, &c. forernment to pay a larger sum of money than the amount in the treasury l‘"g“ SE‘“t;§h““ appropriated for the specific purpose. And if any officer of the govern- appmpm ' ment shall knowingly contract For the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building, or for any public improvement which shall bind the government to pay 2. larger amount than the specific sum appropriated for such purpose, such officcr shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof by a. court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than two Penalty. years, and shall pay a fine of two thousand dollars. SEO. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws making an appro- Appropriations priation for the payment of the salaries of the solicitor, assistant solicitor, ;‘:;;?l£J;‘i;?x§§ and deputy solicitor of the court of claims, and of the assistant attorney- repealed; general, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, he, and the same are hereby, repealed; and that there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the salaries of two assistant attorneys-general, one clerk, for assistant and two clerks of class four for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, g{t§;'&°g'l;’l?lf;‘°” eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twelve thousand four hundred dollars. ` Approved, July 25, 1868. CHAP. CCXXXIV.-—An Act for tgedBeZigf of the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw July 25, 1868. H lf1H3a Be it enacted by the'Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Compromise terior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to adopt and ratify and agmcmcm the compromise and agreements entered into and executed on the twentieth zmh Ulf 3*{¤i· and twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, between the Sjlxlysldmgc °' legally authorized representatives of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations adopted. of Indians, and the legally authorized representative of the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, claimants under the forty-ninth article of the Vol. xiv. p. 780. treaty of April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, as a full and final settlement of all claims under the aforesaid article of said treaty. And the amount as stipulated in the aforesaid agreements to be paid to Amount to be the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw claimants, to wit: To the Choctaw claimants the sum of one hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and thm_ vox,. xv. PUB.- 12
