362 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 105. 1877. hereby re-appropriated and made immediately available for the payment of the preliminary expenses of said commission To payniail-con- That the sum of three hundred and seventynve thousand dollars, or '°F¤°*°fS in S°¤’¤h· so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropiated to pay the amount
- 3;;lBS,;‘f};1it,?;`° b°` due to mail contractors for mail service performed in the Stlate of Ala-
` . bama Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Kentucky Louisiana ississippi Misso7uri, North) Carolina, South Carolina, Texas Tennessee, Virginia and NVest Virginia, in the years eighteen hundred and fifty-nuns, eighteen hundred and sixty eighteen hundred and sixty-one and be ore said States respectively engaged in war against the United States, and the R. S.,a4s0,p. 693. provisions of three thousand four hundred and eighty of Rev1sed Statutes of the United States shall not be applicable to the payments therein P*°VlS°· authorized: Provided, That any such claims which have been paid by the Confederate States government shall not be again paid. Isaac Strohm. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives, (who fis hereby directed) to pay Isaac Strohm for making out warrants or bringing, by order of the House, persons before its bar, and other papers requiring the seal of the House of Representatives, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to the fourteenth day of August eighteen hundred and seventy-six, inclusive, at the rate per annum theretofore paid to him for such service, two hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty-nine cents, which sum,hereby appropriated, is made immediately available. Additions! force To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the fol- E‘f‘]°f_H°“S° D0"' lowing additional force under the Doorkecpcr, to wit: six messengers, wpd' six pages and three laborers, the usual compensation for services rendered during the present session, the sum of three thousand, seven hungred arid eightgen dolhirs and eight cents, subject to the approval of the ommi ee on ccoun s. Nathaniel S. To pay Nathaniel S. Clark the sum of three hundred dollars for serv- 01**- ices rendered as messen er from the first Monday of December eighteen hddd tgtfthMh'hthddd un re an seven y-six o our arc cig een un re an seventy-seven. C<>mmiS¤i°¤€Y9 The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to set- . g cgjgf? Rm tle the accounts arising out of the appointment, on June twenty-fourth
- " y` and July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by the Secretary of the Interior of commissioners to investigate affairs at the Red
Cloud agency such accounts to be paid out of moneys appropriated tor the Sioux Indians for the hscal ears cndin r June thirtieth, eighteen un re anx seven y·six h d d i t5 E Mark A- Duffy- To pay Mark A. Duffy the sum of four hundred and thirty dollars as compensation in full for services as subpmna clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms and as general messenger to investigating committees from Decemlber eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six to March third eighteen undred and seventy-seven inclusive. _C. W. C. Dim- To pay C. W. C. Dunnington, J. L Knight, B. E. Hambleton, J; W; “‘Pgt°“¤ J- 1**- W1gg1ns, Allen Wood, J. M; Johns, D. L. Payne, G. P. Jordon, S. lh KmgM>“nd°°h"S' Freeman, N. Dawson, C L Freeman, C. J. Lewis, W. F Weeks, J. L. Walters, H. T. Murray, W H Minnix, W YV Lester, and J. M. Buchanan fifty dollars each, for extra work and labor in the folding room of the House during the months of September, October, November, and December last to be immediately available, in all nine hundred dollars J-W· J<>¤¤i¤HS· To J. W. Jennings late assistant doorkeeper for services under the Doorkeeper, his salary from September fifteenth up to and including the fourth of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, four hundred and thirtyeight dollars and thirty-two cents. Approved, March 3, 1877.
