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224 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 27, 31. 1877. Pensions; and hereafter he shall report the total annual amount paid for additions also reductions on the annual pension rolls; fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, in accordance with the act of 1974, e. 335, June twentieth eighteen hundred and seventy four, two hundred and 18 Sm·»115· twenty-five thousand dollars; fees of examining-surgeons, two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars; compensation to pensionagents, and the expenses of the several pension-agencies, two hundred and hfteen _ R. S., 47e1,p.936. thousand dollars, as provided under the act of June sixth, eighteen 1874, c. 335, hundred and seventy-four, and of section forty-seven hundred and eighty- 18 Swi-.115- one of the Revised Statutes. Navy pensions. For Navy pensions to invalids, and for widows and dependent relatives, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; for fees of examiningsurgeons, two thousand six hundred dollars; for fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided by the several acts of Congress, three thousand four hundred dollars ; compensation to pen ionagents, two thousand dollars, including uch contingent expenses as may be recommended by the Commissioner of Pensions, and approved Pioviso. by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions, and other expenditures under that head, shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same R- S-, 4755,r- 932- may be sufficient for that purpose, as provided by the act of July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy. . Approved, January 19, 187 7. _],,,,_g0, 137; CHAP. 31.-—An act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to .-. remove the Lail on Judiciary Square to grounds near to the Washington Asylum for I AMG,1]. 28. the use of the District. - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United J ail on J iirlioiory States of America dn Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the S‘1“°“° may be ’°‘ District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to tear down "'°v°d‘ and remove the jail situate on Judiciary Square, in the city of Wash- Use of m,,m;,,l_ ington,.and with the material thereof, and such other as may be necessary, to locate and construct, within the present year, a suitable building or buildings for the workhouse of the Washington Asylum, for the Lcmaou of now use of said District, upon the following grounds, namely: Upon the buildings. public reservation in said city of Washington now occupied in part by the buildings of the Washington Asylum, beginning on the east side of_ Nineteenth street east, at the southwestern angle of the ground occupied by said Washington Asylum; running thence south along the east line · of said street to the point at which the north line of E street, if pro longed, would intersect the east line of said Nineteenth street east ; running thence east three hundred feet, thence north to the south boundary of the asylum grounds; thence west three hundred feet to the point of Usoofnow build- beginning; and that it shall be lawful to use said building or buildings . i¤s¤· _ and grounds for the imprisonment, under the laws, of persons sentenced to imprisonment by the police court of said District, ‘or by the Supreme " court of said District in cases appealed from said police court, for violation of the municipal laws or ordinances in force in said District. Limit of oooh Sec. 2. That said Commissioners shall not expend more than fourteen thousand dollars in and about the aforesaid work of tearing down, Appropriation, removal, and construction ; which sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. G 1=»<ii¤ s, ow-. Sec. 3. That, for the removal of earth and rubbish, grading, sewerage “‘·¤""°· and other improvements of Judiciary Square, the sum of two thousand Appropriation- ‘ dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in lieu of the money to have been derived from 1874, o. 455, the sale of the jail in said square and appropriated June three, eighteen 19 St¤»t·,2¢¢€>- hundred and seventy-four. Approved, January 20, 1877.