FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 359. 1878. 231 COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. Current expenses, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; For Deaf and dumb. support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, fifty-one thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs of fences and walks, five thousand dollars; which shall be immediately available. FBEEDM:EN’s HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM. Support of Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Freedmenm Hos- Oolumbia: For subsistence, eighteen thousand dollars; for salaries and Pimlcompeusation, as follows: For surgeon-in-chief, two thousand dollars; medical assistance, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; matron, two hundred and sixteen dollars; nurses and cooks and labor, three thousand six hundred dollars; fuel and light, three thousand dollars; clothing and bedding, three thousand five hundred dollars; rent of hospital buildings, four thousand dollars; medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; and miscellaneous expenses, two thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars in all, forty thousand five hundred dollars. INDIAN AFFAIRS. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay A. G. Lawrence for A. G. Lawrence. services and expenses as commissioner, appointed on the sixth of September, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, to aid in the conduct of certain negotiations to be had with the hostile Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the British province of Manitoba, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay Henry S. Neal, H. F. H. S. Neal. Hawks, and Asa Hodges, special commissioners, appointed to investi— H·F·H=*Wk¤· gate the aifairs of the Osage Indian agency in eighteen hundred and A·H°dg°“‘ seventy-Eve, for per diem and expenses, the following amounts respcctively: three hundred and four dollars, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents, and one hundred and sixty dollars; in all, one thousand and forty-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary To pay outstanding indebtedness for and on account of the Indian service in Arizona and New Mexico, and other Territories, as follows: For amount amount due T. D. Burns, as per vouchers for supplies fur- T. D. Bums. nished the Abiquiu agency, New Mexico two thousand six hundred and ‘ seventy dollars and forty-tive cents For amount due Z Staab,.as per vouchers, for blankets, flour, and Z·Sf>=¤¤b- other supplies furnished for the Southern and Mescalero agencies, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and dfty-two cents. For amount due L. and H. Hnming, as per vouchers, for supplies of _ Land H. Humilour, eorn_corn meal, barley and beans furnished the Indian service in mg- Arizona, fourteen thousand five hundred and seven dollars and eighty three cents. For amount due M. Barth, as per voucher, for freight charges on flour M. Barth. delivered at Camp Apache, Arizona, two thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. For amount due W. B. Hooper and Company for flour furnished the W- B- Hwper & Indian service in Arizona Territory, as per voucher, thirty four thou- C°· sand two hundred and ten dollars. Amount due Thomas D. Burns, as per voucher or vouchers, for supplies furnished for the service at the Abiquiu agency, New Mexico, six T·D· Bumshundred and seventy-seven dollars and eleven cents. Amount due Joseph. J. Woods for services rendered from October J. J.Wood¤. twenty-ninth to November sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy one, at eight dollars per day, as commissioner to examine Cherokee country
