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FORTY-SEVENTH ooxmnnss. sms. 1. cn. ass. 1882. 255 For reporting the decisions of the court, and superintending the _ R•`¢P<>¤ mg d°¤i¤· pnuling of the seventeenth volume of the Reports of the Court of '°';§·é""{:,65 M Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; lé S],,,, {39 ` sand sum to he paid to the reporter notwithstanding set-tion seventeen " ' hundred and sixtydive of the Revise d Statutes, or section three of the act of J uno twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three three hundred and twenty-eighth SBC. 2. That the Secretaries, respectively, of the Departments of Requisitions up- State, of the Treasury, War, Navy, and of the Iuterior,and the Attorney- °“ uw {°"“”“‘&’*?'i General, are authorized to make requisitions upon the Postmaster- ?Q;;,_§2;,;P:'" General for the necessary amount of otlleial postage-stamps for the use ` of their departments, not exceeding the amount stated in the estimates submitted to Congress ; and upon presentation of proper vouchers therefor at the Treasury, the amount thereof shall be credited to the appropriatron for the service of the Post·OtHee Department for the same iiseal year. ' Sec. 3. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, Pay of wistnut and laborers provided for in this set, unless otherwise specially stated, '“°°°°“€f“’“· 5* °‘ shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watch men, T:;' p" T"` seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, six` ‘ hundred and sixty dollars per annum each. . Sec. 4. That no civil oillcer, clerk, draughtsman, copyist, messenger, Emnloyés tcjgo assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer or other employee Pl"'} *'°“! °P$’°‘“° shall after the tirst day of October next be employed in any of the ::};°P""'°"' executive departments, or subordinate bureaus or ouices thereof at the seat of government, except only at such rates and in such numbers, respectively as may be spssileally appropriated for by Congress for sueh clerical and other personal services for each fiscal year; and no civil ulcer, clerk, draughtsmsn, eopyist, messenger, assistant messenger, mechanic, watchman, laborer, or other employee shall hereafter be employed at the seat of government in any executive dopartment or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any speeilie or general purpose, unless sueh employment is authorised antipsy- msnt. therefor speeitleally provided in tlulnw panting the appmpriw tion, and then only for services actually reudsrediu connection with and for the purposes of the appropriation hom which payment is mad? * _ and at the rate of compensation usual and proper for such services, an . after the-tirst day of October next section one hundred and seventytwo · of the Revised Statutes, and all other laws and parts of laws inoonsist- B- B- In- * ¥°• ent. with the provisions of this act, and all laws and parts of laws an- Wm thoriziug the employment of officers, clerks, draughtsmen, eopyists, messengers, assistant messengers, mechanics, watchmen, laborers, or other employees at s different rate of pay or in excess of the numbers authorized by appropriations made by Congress, be and they are hereby, reputed; and thereafter all details of civil oflieers, clerks, or Civil omcors, other subordinate employees from places outside of the District of Oo- ¤*f·» ¤{¤··Wl;¢*t*;¤¤;; lumbia. for duty within the District of Columbia, except temporary geffffah “,'{” duty details for duty eonnecteel with their respective ofiiecs, be, and are in u,,, Dum, of ‘ hereby, prohibited; and thereafter all moneys aecruing from lapsed Columbus. salaries, or from unused appropriations for mlartes, shall be covered into the Treasury: Provided, That the sums herein specifically up- Prwlao. proprinted for clerical or other force heretofore paul for out ot general or speeiiic appropriations may be used by the several heads of departments to psy such foree until the said seveml heads of departments shall have adjusted the said force in accordance with the provisions of this uct; and such adjustment shall be eneeted before 0e· tober tlrst, eighteen hundred and eightytwo. And. in making such Appointments, adjustment the employees herein provided_ for shall, as_ for as may :i°:&d°° l’° ll??: be consistent with the interests of the servwe, be apportioned among Sm, Q'°'$f,,,,i_ the several States und Territories according topopulatrons Ptromded aorta. further, That any person performing duty nn any capacity ss onieor, Precise. -