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Show 'V-V- f Z7-- ' v. '1; fc. v"-'.- "-- r of employees, remove from PUBLIC ACTS wnojiSiiLSSHSS? & WALLACE OF THK CO si Congress of the United States. Forly-Thi- nl office, anc make appointments to any office author ized by law, and the compensation o all officers and employees, except teach- 181. Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Wash-- ington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1873,and was adjourned without day on Tuesday, the twenty-thir- d day of June, 1874. ALE 1D Dealers In Retail An for the in valid of and other payment pensions of the United States for the year ending June thirtieth, 1875. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums b, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropiated, for the payment of pensions for tho fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1S75: For Army pensions to invalids, and dependent relatives, revolutionary pensions, and pensions to soldiers of the war of 1S12, and for furnishing artificial limbs or aparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefore also, for compensation to pension agents, and tho expenses of tho several agencies, and for fees for preparing vouchers and admisistcring oath, as provided for bvthe acts of April 24, 1816; July 4, 183G; May 13, 184G; February 20, 1847; February 2, 1S48; July 20, ISIS; Februaay 5, 1853; Juno 3, 1858; July 11 and 17, 1SG2; June 13, 18G4, Juno G and July 25, I860; July 27,1SG8; June 17, and July 8 and 11, 1870; February 15 and Juno S, 1872; February 20, i871; and March 3, 1873; and all other pensions provided 20,500,000. For navypensions to invalids, widows and dependent relatives, and pensions to sailors of the war of 1812, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor; compensation to pension agents, expenses agencies, and fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided by the acts of April jltOCERIES -- AND- jflEHAL actmaking appropriations -- MERCHANDISE CORINNE, U.'T widows, w, by-la- WE CARRY THE 23 1800; Largest Stock in Corinne 1818; February 20, 1847; August 11 July 14 and 17, 1862 June 13 18G4 June 6 and July 27, 18G8, 11, 18-70- , July 25, 1SGG, March 2 1SG7 June 17 and July 8 and June 8 1871; and March 3, 1873, and all other pensions provided by law, 4S0,000. Provided, that the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions AGENTS OF THE and the other expenditures "under that head, shall bo paid from the income 'of the navy pension fund so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose. Provided further, that the fees for prevouchers and administering paring oaths, which are now by law: 30 ccnt9 case, shall hereafter be 25 cents for tho same and no more. Approved, Juno 20. 1874. in-ea- California Works. Powder ch An act to fix the time for the election of in jo.Vmg pjflrtrekht prr-- lots ak San Fr&nrieo sol j, FWKIESEt'&CO Representatives in tho Forty-four- th Congress from the State of Mississippi. Bo it enacted by the Senate and IIoue of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That tho election Representatives in h Forty-fourtthe Congress, from the tho State of Mississippi, shall be hoi ln' on tho first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and seventy-five- , anything in tho constitution or laws of said State to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, June 20, 1874, f-- r FORWARDI NG AXD J AU the of said act as their acts to the president, to be by him transmitted to congress, at the tird day next session thereof. Each of the said officers constituting said board ihall be paid the sum of 2,000 for his services that, deed conveying the so sold under this act, out of tho funds of said property shall be executed by the said board of district, in addition to his presant commissioners provisions to tho sale of property and the collection or taxes in arrears are hereby made ap plicable to the taxes imposed and in arrears as aforesaid, except the ADvcm:n:i3T8. J. 7. a TUCKER 10 , ers in the public schools, and officers anc employees in tho fire department, shal be reduced twenty per centum per annum. Such commissioners shall each, instead of the JL, 3Ht before entering upon the discharge of and secretary. Sec. 7. That the sinking fund comhis duties, take an oath to the support o 8sc, missioners are hereby continued; and it constitution of the United States and to shall be shall be the two of appointed, duty of said sinking fund consisting faithfully discharge the duties imposed senators, to ba Jfov. 101 A 103 UoNlfuui.rj fftr commissioners to cause bonds of the the appointed presidby upon him by law; aud shall each give ing officer of the District of Columbia to be prepared, in senate, and two mem bond in tho penal sum of fifty thousand bhrs of the sums of 50, 500, bearingjdate August to be bouse, appointed by dollars, to be approved by the Secretary the of the house 1, speaker Corner Kutl. 1874, of payable 50 years after date, and of the Treasury, for the faithful disrepresentawhose duty it shall be to prepare a bearing interest at the rate of three and tives, charge of the duties of his office; and suitable framo of hundredths per centum per government for the sixty-fivshall each receive for his services a comDistrict of Columbia and appropriate annum, payable to be SAN FRANCISCO' pensation at the rata of five thousand draughts of statutes to be the secretary and treasurer of signed enacted by bv dollars per annum: !S Provided, That Congress for carrying the same into said sinking fund commissioners and nothing in this act shall be censtrued to effect, abate or ;n anywise interfere with any houses and report the same to the1 two countersigned by the comptroller of said suit pending in favor of or against the tho nextrespectively, on the first day of district, and sealed as the hoard may diP0.YD, REYNOLDS & CO., session thereof; and they shall rect; which bond shall be exempt from District of Columbia; And provided also prepare and submit to congress a taxation by federal state or municipal niPOaTEDS AKD JOBBCXtS IV further, That in suit hereafter comstatement ot the proper, proportion of authority, engraved and printed at the menced against the District of Columbia the expense of said government, or any expense of the District of Columbia, not' process may be served on any one of branch said commissioners, until otherwise pro- funded thereof, including interest on the inconsistent herewith. And tho faith of debt, which should be borne by the United States is hereby pledged that vided by law. said district and the United States, rethe United States will, by propor pro912 CAlifornift Street, Sec. 3. That the President of the spectively, with as contemreasons the portional together appropriations' United States shall detail an officer, of upon which their conclusions may be plated by this act, and by causing to be San Francioco, California. the Engineer Corps of the Army of the based; and in Uic levied upon the property within said of du.v the discharge United btated, who shall, subject to the hereby imposed, suid committee is district such taxes as will ORDERS MLIC1T1:. the provide eepftf general supervision and direction of the authorized to such assistance as revenues necessary to pay the interest on said board of commissioners, have the it may deem employ said bonds as the same may become due at an control and charge of the work of repair not to exceed advisably,and said expanse MICHAVI. KANB. ?urn, or and payable, and create a sinking fund C. C. Ki E, T. V. Wt and improvement of all streets, avenues, so much of it as5,000; be may be, for the payment of the principal thereof necessary, alleys, sewers, roads and bridges of the and the same is horeby, appropriated" for at maturity. Said bonds shall be numDistrict of Columbia; and he is hereby that purpose. bered consecutively and be registered in WARD, EIRE & CO., ve.ted with all the power and authority Sec. 0. That it shall be the duty of the office of the register of the treasury of, and shall perform all the duties herethe first comptroller of the treasury and of the United States, for which last (Successors to Hunt.r, Wml X Co.) tofore devolved upon, the chief engineer the second comptroller of the of named registration the secretary of the treasury ot the board of public works. He shall the United States, who aro treasury shall make such provisions as hereby contake possession of, and preserve and stituted a board IMPORTERS ANO WHOLESALE DEALERS IN of audit, to examine and may be necessary. And said commiskeep, all the instruments pertaining to audit for settlement all' the unfunded or sioners shall use all necessary means for said office, and all the maps, charts, floating debt of the District of Columbia the prevention of cay unauthorized or surveys, books, records, and papers relat- and of the board of public works, here- fraudulent issue of any of said bond. ing to said Dittrict, or to any of the ave- inafter specified, namely: First, the And tho said sinking fund commissionnues, streets, alleys, public spaces, debt evidenced ,by sewer certificates; ers are hereby authorized to exchange Proprietors squares, lots and buildings thereon, sew- secondly, tho debt purporting to ba evi- said bonds at par for like sums of ar.y ers, or any of them, as are now in or denced and ascertained by certificates of class of indebtedness in the preceding Hunters California Wheat Whiskey, belonging to the office of said engineer the auditor of the board of public works; sections of this act named, including of the boa'rd of public works, and shall, thirdly, tho debt evidenced by the certif- sewer taxes or assessments paid, evi- Al?o, Agents for .705EPII FINCH'S CELEBRATED PENNSYLVANIA in books provided for that purpose, keep icates of the auditor and the denced by certificates of the auditing comptroller and preserve the records now required to of the District of Columbia; fourthly, board provided for in this act. ' be kept, and such as may be required by claims existing or hereafter created for Sec. 8. That the authority conferred regulations of said board. He may, which no evidence of has been issued, upon the board of public works to issue 607 and 609, Front St., near Jackson, with the advice and consent of said ari.sing out of contracts, written or'oral, additional certificate of indebtedness by board of commissioners, appoint not mado by tho boiud of public works; section 4 of the act of the legislative as SAN FRANCISCO CAl. rnoe than two assistant engineers from fifthly, claims for which no evidence of serubly approved May 29, 1873, is herecivil life, who shall each receive a salary indebtedness has been issued, arising out by annulled. , sepStf No property shall be of one thousand eight hundred dollars contracts, written or oral, made by or advertised for sale or sold for the collec per annum, and shall be subject to his on behalf of the District of Columbia; tien of any assessment authorized by the JAM KS DAI-H. WARD. direction and control. He shall receive sixthly, all claims for private property legislative assembly by the act entitled, no additional compensation for such taken by tho board of public works from An act creating drainage and sections services. And ho shall not be deemed tho avenues, streets and alleys of the in the cities of Washington and GeorgeDALY & cities of Washington and Georgetown; town, in the District of Columbia, and by rafon of anything in this act contained to hold a civil office under the and, seventhly, all unadjusted claims for providing for tho payment of the conUnited States. And no salary or com- damages that may have been presented structions of sewers and drains therein IM POUTERS or pensation shall be paid to the surveyor to the board of public works, pursuant by assessments and issuing certificate? of tho District, or any of his subordinto an act of the legislative assembly of therefor, approved June 26, 1073, until foes such for service tho ates, except District of Columbia, entitled, An otherwise ordered by congress; and it special shall be unlawful to issue any further ns are allowed by law. And tho offices act providing for the payment of damForoign and Domestio of assiotant surveyor and additional ages sustained by reason of public im- certificates of indebtedness authorized by assistant suryeyor of tho District of Co- provements or repairs, approved Juue said act. Sec. 9. That no board of commission lumbia are hereby aboliihed. 20, 1872, which last named claims shall a of which the governor is Sec. 4. That for the support of the severally be examined and audited withexboard member of works public (the government of the District f Columbia, out regard to any examination heretofore and maintaining tho credit thereof, for mado; and shall make a detailed and cepted) shall bo abolished by this act, No. 311 Siicrumcnto Street, but the members of the ciame, other than the fiscal var ending June thirtieth, tabular statement of all tho claim prothere sen ted, tho persons or corporporations the governor, shall such board or comeighteen hundred and seventy-five- , Between Front and Battery, shall be lviedupon all real estate in the owning the same, and the amount found mission. L0. That the act of the legi.la-tiv- e Sec. on duo account with of said District, except each, together to assembly of the District of Columbia the United States and to the District of a tabular statement of the funded debt An act to fun I unsettled lia of Columbia and of the entitled, Columbia, and that u'ysd for educational of tho and Georgetown of bilities of the city of Washington, and and charitable purposes, the following cities of kind and character taxo-- , wbateoever, providing for the issuing of the bond?, namely: Upon all such real es every tho date of und levying and collecting taxes for the time of maturtate in the city of Washington, three giving isuo, approved June payment of the same, And rate and tho of interest. it dollars on each one hundred dollars of ity, ISAAC D. IIUIVT00Y, is ratified and approved; 1872, 20, said heiaby of ba board hall further the duty the present value thereof; upon to ascertain the amount of sewer tax or but none of the bonds authors ed bj all such real estate in the city of Georgepersons said act remaining unsold shall be negotown, two dollars and fifty cents on each assessment paid by any person, wet of the leg- tiated or sold at less than par. or corporation, under the on a hundred dollars of the present Shipping and Co:nmission Merchant, 1874. Juno 20, said Approved, of islative district, entitled, assembly value thereof; and upon all such An act creating drainage and sewerage roal estate outside of the cities of Washin tho cities of Washington and sections ington and Georgetown, two dollars on 413 Front Street, oaeh one hundred dollnrs of the present Georgetown, in tho District of Columbia, An act te provide for the apportionment assessed value thereof; which said tuxes anJ providing for the payment of the of tho Territory of Wyoming for shall become due and payable on the construction of sewers and drains therein legislative purposes. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. by assessments, and issuing certificates first day of November, eighteen hunBo it enacted by tho Senate and House and June 2G, 1876, dred and seventy-four- , and, if not paid, therefor, approved of Representatives of the United States shall be in arrears and delinquent from to prepare a tabulated statement thoreof, of America in Congress assembled, laitlcular attention raid to tho purchasing ef tlaid boaid of audit shall also issue to That tho of the territory of thatdito; and shall, except as herein- each appointment China and Japan Teas, California Wines and a claimant' certificate, signed by after modified, bo assessed and collected for the election of members of Wyoming Liquors. each of said board and countersigned by the noxt as how provided by law for tho assesslegislative assembly of said FOpStf said of the district, stating comptroller for ment and collection of goneral taxes territory shall be made by the governor the District of Columbia; and of the the amount found to be duo to each and thereof, in accordance with the previs thereof on what account; and a register thereof ions of an act of Congress entitled An sums so collected, GRAXD HOTEL, tho shall bo kept by said board, to ba transshall bo applied, first, to act to provide a temporary government also and the to mitted by congress, United States for its advances on account for the territory of Wyoming; approvd said ed 1868: Provided, That for of interest, which skull have been paid comptroller of said District;-an25, July of audit shall also aspettain and tha by the United States on the funded debt )oarti to purpose of such apportionment it congress, at the next session shall not bo necessary to take a new or JOHNSON & CO., Proprietor, repbrt of the District of Columbia and Washamount tho chargeable equitably thereof, duo and said and or of census enumeration additional payable Georgetown, ington to tho street railroad companies on r; And provided further, That territory: July first, eighteen hundred andbeseventy-fouof paving along and within the the used to and the remainder shall power hereby conferred upon the to said of tracks pursuant companies, for funds pay deficiencies in the various governor shall be continued in full force MONTGOMERY AND MARKET '.STREETS', the lifCal year ending June thirtieth, tho charters of said companies or the until an apportionment shall be made by . And acts of congress relating thereto, together the legislative assembly of said territory, eighteen hundred seventy-fourit shall under the provisions of the organic act with their reasons therefor. renot all tho remainder of said taxes of audit thereof. board said further bo tho quired for the aforesaid purposes shall to examine intodutykof of tho acSAN FRANCISCO. and audit all 1874. June be distributed for the purposes and in 20, Approved, treasand of tho sepBtf tho proportions provided by the act of counts of tho auditor aud of board the of urer works, public the legislative assembly of tho District of the auditor, tho treasurer, the col- An act to of Columbia, approved June twenty-sixtencourage the establishment ector, and tha comptroller of tho Diseighteen hundred and seventy-tiireof public marine schools. trom the date of tho An act imposing taxes trict of Columbia, entitled Be it enacted by tho Senate and House of said board and the presfor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, organization for and of said Importers and Jobbers of of Representatives of tie United JStates dirtrict; so ent government eighteen hundred and seventy-four- , in assembled of shall America hereinbefore Congress specified purposes lar as said apportionment is not incon- the to tho witnesses, That the secretary of the navy, to prosubpoena lave pewer 1, That Provide sistent with this act: witnesses mote nautical education, is hereby auexamino and administer oaths, no evidence of debt issued by the Disaccess to thorized and empowered to furnish, full have shall and under oath, trict of Columbia, or any branch thereof; all of tho records, books, papers and upon tho application in writing of the or by the board of public works, shall in vouchers 408 Front (Street, kind whatsoever of governor of tho state, a suitable vessel of of any manner bo received in payment for the board ofeveiy her all and of the with the works apparel, charts, navy, public said taxes: And provided further, That District of Columbia; end of navigation, aud instruments the to und HAY FRAVCISCy. books, sepStf no payment shall be made on account of bo without can be tbd same accounts books spared and said may provided that the militia of said district, or for the detriment lo tho naval service, to bo tnoioughly examined, and the indebted-ot used purpose of erecting a district jail. Upon for the benefit of any nautical board ness of said district, and of the all payments of said Taxe hereby imor college having a books public works, and the state of the afore- school, or schoolsestablished posed which shall be made in advance of and at each or nautical officers branch, accounts of each of tho November I, 1874, tbre shall be an New of the of York, Boston, bo accurately ascertained, any ports abatement allowed one per centum per said, may skilled and more Norfolk, and or Baltimore, one Philadelphia, shall employ month for each and every month so paid that condition the of San Francisco, upon accountants in advance; and that upon all 9aid taxes impartial such at ba maintained, port, of Columbia, and such othor there shall which shall be delinquent and unpaid on the Districtas for school the a of branch or a school deem necessary, may they said November 1, there shall be added a as.istants seain navigation, to make examination of said books, instruction of youths penalty of one per centum to the amount voucheis and papers, and discharge manship, marine enginery and ail matthereof, to be collected with such taxes; their other duties under this act, and ters pertaining to the proper constructand a like penalty of one per centum er inspection of such bank ion, equipment and sailing of vessels the shall be added on the first day of each shall procure books and papers as may bo necessary; any particular branch thereof: And succeeding month to all of said taxes as and to allow president of the United States is hereby they aro hereby authorized are then delinquent and unpaid, to be of the accountant or autberized, when in his opinion the collected as aforesaid. It shall be the for the service, such sums a same can be done without detriment to assistants taxes to prepare accountant and shall bo tho public service, to detail proper The duty of tho collector of which deem proper, Largestand meet Cenplei Heir 1 a complete lUt of all taxes and property they may officers of the navy as superintendents of commissioners.out of board the in die Werld. paid by And or instructors in, such schools: Provid upon which the same aro assessed in ar- of district. said of revenues the rears on March I next, and shall, within or accountants shall take ed, JThat if any such school shall be disaccountant said the same, ten days thereafter, publish of the naval serdischarge the duties im- continued, or the good h with the nojee of sale, in a newspaper oat to faithfully vessel shall be required-sucshall vice Levees (well known ae the proprietor of audit of board npHE posed by this act. Said SHERMAN HtCSE before its the restored to the of published in said district, ta be desigof secretary for the presentation immediately memerable Conflagration of Octot er nated by said board of commiss;oners, shall give notice reso officers detailed and the such in the C. navy, t th an hereinbefore specified in announcing the claims 1671,) take th, the manner the and in for the time required called: And provided further, That re completion of this new pleasure which ia iaw. deemed be necessary; enterprise, as manner may under for the their open receiued or be sentenced management shall personal by the provisions of the act of the legisallowed to, or bo audited person ot guests. An act pre- and no claim shall entitled, lative comer as a schoels such after punishment at, unless presented within ninety days CASE DUOS, & RICE,. . . . scribing the duties of certain officers of the first publication of such notice, and mutation of punishment for crime. the district of Columbi i, and fixing their 1874. June all LM.ee to 'I went Year 20, Approved said board shall muke full report of 23, approved August compensation, . com-pensatie- tfHOCJE V n. J IE W JE 4; 13 e semi-annua- lly, . -- Wines Sc Liquors . . -- Wiliest Liiiiorfi?f RYE Wins K E Y. WARD, ex-offic- that-belong- io Wines Sc Liquors ing SAN FRANCISCO. Di-tri- ct Wa-hingt- on as-se- s-ei -- An act for the government of the Disf)inpis:ov trict of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted b3T the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States leeon band a choice stock of of America in Congress assembled, That all provisions of law providing for an executive, for a secretary of the DisC'ocerie trict, for a legislative assembly, for a board of poblic works, and for a Delegate in Congress n the District of Columbia are hereby repealed: Provided, That Tobaccos, this repeal shall not affect the term of office of the present delegate in Congress. Sec. 2. That the President of the C advice United States, by and with-t- ho igars is rid consent of the Senate, hereby authorized to appoint a commission, consisting of three persons, who shall, otherwise provided by law, exercise until Cutlery, all the power and authority now lawfully vested in the governor or board ot public works in said District, except as hereinPipes, after limited; and shall bo subject to all the restrictions and limitations now impose 1 by law on said governor or board; shall have power to apply the taxes Liquors, and or other revenues of said District to the current expenses thereof, to the support of the public school, the fire departtTC., BTC., ETC. ment, and the police, and to the payment of the debts of said district secured by a pledge of the securities of said Disr . trict or board of public works as collateral, and also to the payment of debt 9 due to laborers and employees of the District h5lesa, and Retail, and board of public works, and for that purpose shall take possession and supervision of all the offices, books, papers, records, money, credits, securities, assets, and accounts belonging appertaining to the business or interests of the government of tho District of Columbia fORTcRs OF FRUIT. and the board of publicworks, and exercise the power and authority aforesaid; but said commission, in theexercise ot no jsuch power and authority, shall make other contract, nor incur any obligation (Foreiffa snd as Domestic.) than such contracts and obligations adminfaithful may be necessary to the istration of the'valid laws enacted for the exegovernment of said District, to the and cution of existing legal obligations contracts, and to the protection and pre-or servation of improvements existing, commenced and not completed, at the Agents for time of the passage of this act. t All taxes heretofore lawfully assessed and due or to become due shall be collected as herein 1, pursuant to law, except BOOTHS OYSTERS said commisbut otherwise provided; to no anticipate power sioners shall have taxes by a sale or hypothecation of 1any such taxes, or evidence thereof; conthe Territory of Montana that nothing m this clauseof law tained shall affect any provisions a depos.it of cerauthorizing or requiringwith the sinking tificates of assessment said District; and fund cemmisrioners of said commissioners are hereby authorto consolidate f cnt-- Pro- - ized, to abolish any office, - .ep-- two or more offices, reduce the number Cssb. JissnuxTs, : Ko- ro-vid- KT-- S CS y 1 ed, 1 one-four- th re-imb- urse ac-cou- nt E.MARTIN & CO., h, e, Wines and Liquorc. THK GRAND non-reside- PACIFIC HOTEL CHICAGO. deetn.-tiocin.t- as-emb- ly i he |