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F OR'I`Y—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch.114. 1871. 503 as may be necessary: Provided, That the amount so paid for said sur- Provisos. vey shall be refunded to the treasury from the proceeds of sale of said reservation: And provided further, That the compensation for making survey shall not exceed the respective prices per mile allowed by this act for surveying public lands in Nebraska and Kansas. For continuing the geological survey of the Territories of the United Hayderrs geo- States, by Professor Hayden, under the direction of the Secretary of the 1°gi°°‘l ““"°Y‘ Interior, forty thousand dollars. For continuing the completion of the survey of the Colorado of the Survey of the West and its tributaries, by Professor Powell, under the direction of the $,$]°”d° °f th° Smithsonian Institution, twelve thousand dollars. m` For expenses of prosecuting the inquiry authorized by law into the Investigating causes of the decrease of the food fishes of the coast and the lakes, five °?;.'s°é’%d‘;f'°”° thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of 0 0. S u' the/Treasury. For additional compensation to Henry Douglass, in the employ of the Henry Dougdoorkeeper of the House of Representatives, for the present fiscal year, ]°‘°”‘ one hundred dollars; and his regular annual compensation is hereby in- _ Annual pay creased that amount, asum sufficient to pay which for the next fiscal year ’°°r°”°d' is hereby appropriated, and hereafter his compensation shall be eight hundred and twenty dollars per annum. And Godfrey W'eitzel, of the corps of engineers, United States army, Payment to and in charge of the improvement of the Louisville canal, is hereby em- ggyggpzfwn powered and directed, subject to the approval of the chief of said corps Louisville gang], of engineers, to adjust and pay, out of any money appropriated for the improvement of said canal, to John B. Brown, any legal or equitable claim he may have against the United States arising out of his contract by him to perform work on said improvement of said canal, in eighteen hundred and seventy: Provided, That there shall not be paid to him in Limit to any event over eight thousand two hundred dollars, nor more under that “m°““°· sum than, together with any sums already paid him on account of said contract and work, shall be equal to the fair and reasonable value to the government of the work done by him for the government under such contract. To pay Vinnie Ream, for making the marble statue of Abraham Lin- Vinnie Ream. coln, ten thousand dollars, which, in addition to the sum of five thousand dollars already paid, shall be in full of all claims for said work. To reimburse S. Wolf; recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, $· Wolf for for certain books of record and indexes purchased by him for the use of :g?,l§;gg;§;°rd his office, one thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars. To Mary B. Walker, widow of Robert J. Walker, for money expended Wgligry B- by him when territorial governor of Kansas, thirteen thousand and three "' dollars and seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid on vouchers to be submitted to the proper accounting officers of the treasury. _ _ For defraying the expenses of taking the ninth census of the United Ninth census. States, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _ _ For the payment of pensions, under the “Act granting pensions to §’;gp¤¤rgs·50 certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, ,,,;,6* ;_ ,,,1: and the widows of deceased soldiers," approved February fourteen, ° eighteen hundred and seventy-one, four million five hundred thousand dollars WAR DEPARTMENT. Vtiar Depart- Buildings and Grounds in and around Washington.-For repairs, mellluildings and care, and improvement of public buildings, grounds, and works in the Dis- §:gl‘;:gs\$‘8§§fl trict of Columbia, under the direction of the chief engineer of the army, ,,,gm,,_ name] :—— Forycasual repairs of the Navy Yard and Upper bridges, five thousand Bridges. dollars.