gress may direct, so as to preserve the free and convenient navigation of Right to build, said river. And the authority to erect and continue said bridge shall be &c., subject to revocation. subject to revocation or modification by law whenever the public good shall, in the judgment of Congress, so require, without any expense or charge to the United States. Act may be altered, &c. SEC. 6. That the right to alter or amend this act, so as to prevent or remove all material obstructions to the navigation of said river by the construction of bridges, without expense to the United States, is hereby expressly reserved. APPROVED, May 25, 1872. May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXVIII. paid. An Act to provide for the Abatement or Repayment of Taxes on distilled Spirits in Bond, destroyed by Casualty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Taxes on dis- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treastilled spirits in bond, destroyed ury be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon the production of satisfactory by casualty, may proof to him of the actual destruction by accidental fire or other casualty, be abated, or re- and without any fraud, collusion, or negligence of the owner thereof, of any distilled spirits on which the tax at the time of the destruction of said spirits had not been paid and while the same remained in the custody of any officer of internal revenue in any distillery warehouse or bonded warehouse of the United States, to abate the amount of internal revenue taxes accruing thereon, and to cancel any warehouse bond, or enter satisfaction thereon, in whole or in part, as the case may be; and if such taxes have been collected since the destruction of said spirits, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall refund the same to the owners thereof out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. When act takes effect. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect in all cases of loss or destruction of distilled spirits as aforesaid which have occurred since the first day of Proviso when January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight: Provided, however, That when the spirits were the owners of such distilled spirits, so destroyed as aforesaid, may be indeminsured, &c. nified against said tax by a valid claim of insurance, said tax shall not be remitted to the extent of such insurance. APPROVED, May 27, 1872. May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXIX. — An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to accept the Peninsula in Lake Erie, opposite the Harbor of Erie, in the State of Pennsylvania. Secretary of the title to the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, War may accept and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to receive and accept from peninsula in Lake the Marine Hospital of Pennsylvania, a corporation duly incorporated by Erie, opposite the the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the title to a piece or parcel of harbor of Erie, Pa., if, &c. May 27, 1872. A certain act of the legislative assembly of Dakota Territory land, being the peninsula lying to the northward of and inclosing the bay of Presque Isle, and containing two thousand and twenty-four acres, more or less, to be held by the government of the United States for the protection of the harbor of Erie: Provided, That the deed conveying the same shall not be received or accepted until the title to, the same is complete and indefeasible, nor unless the acceptance thereof shall be recommended by a board of officers of the corps of engineers appointed by the President. APPROVED, May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXX. · An Act in Relation to the Dakota Southern Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, and approved by the governor on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy clared a legal cor one, entitled "An act to enable organized counties and townships to vote disapproved, exaid to any railroad, and to provide for the payment of the same," be, and cept, &c. the same is hereby, disapproved and annulled, except in so far as is herein otherwise provided. But the passage of this act shall not invali- Dakota Southdate or impair the organization of the company heretofore organized for ern R.R. Co. dethe construction of the Dakota Southern railroad, leading from Sioux poration, and city, Iowa, by way of Yankton, the capital of said Territory, to the west votes of counties line of Bon Homme county, or any vote that has been or may be given aid to its conor towns granting by the counties of Union, Clay, Yankton, and Bon Homme, or any town- struction, not inship granting aid to said railroad, or any subscription thereto, or any thing validated. authorized by, and that may have been done in pursuance of, the provisions of the aforesaid act of the legislative assembly of said Territory toward the construction and completion of said railroad; and the said Dakota Southern Railroad Company, as organized under and in conformity to the acts of the legislative assembly of said Territory, is hereby recognized and declared to be a legal and valid corporation; and the provisions of the act of said legislative assembly first aforesaid, so far as the same authorize, and for the purpose of validating any vote of aid and subscriptions to said company for the construction, completion, and equipment of the main stem of said railroad, between the termini aforesaid, are hereby declared to be and remain in full force, but no further, and for no other purpose whatsoever. tion. Conditions, &c., to be complied with. SEC. 2. That for the purpose of enabling the said Dakota Southern Right of way Railroad Company to construct its said road through the public lands be- through the public lands granted tween the termini aforesaid, the right of way through the said public to said corporalands is hereby granted to said company to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of said road: Provided, That nothing in this act shall relieve said Dakota Southern Railroad Company from constructing and completing said railroad in accordance with the conditions and stipulations under which the citizens of the counties therein named voted aid to said railroad in accordance with the laws of said Territory, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: Pro- Amount of vided further, That said Dakota Southern Railroad Company shall issue, stock to be isto the respective counties and townships voting aid to said railroad, paid &c. up certificates of stock in the same in amounts equal to the sums voted by the respective counties and townships. APPROVED, May 27, 1872. sued to counties, May 27, 1872. Name of CHAP. CCXXI. — An Act to change the Name of the Schooner La Pette to La Petite. to"La Petite." May 28, 1872. Certain navy CHAP. CCXXVI. — An Act for the Relief of certain Officers of the Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in conformity with and to carry into effect the recommendation and conclusions of the board of officers to be restored, &c., to officers organized in pursuance of the "Resolution for the relief of cer- original position tain officers of the navy," approved July first, eighteen hundred and on navy list. Vol. xvi. p. 383 seventy, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to restore Commodore Joseph F. Green to his original position on the navy list, next Joseph F. below Rear-Admiral Boggs; to promote Commodore John DeCamp to Green, John De his original relative position as a rear-admiral on the retired list; to pro- W. Pickering. Camp, Charles mote Commodore Charles W. Pickering to the grade of commodore on the retired list, with the retired pay of his advanced rank; to advance Egbert Thomp- Captain Egbert Thompson in rank next below Captain Thomas G. Corson, Samuel R. bin; to promote Commander Samuel R. Franklin to take rank next after Franklin, John H. Russell and Commander James S. Thornton; to restore Commander Edward Y. Mcothers. Cauley to his original rank, next after Commander W. D. Whiting; to restore Commanders John H. Russell, A. W. Johnson, P. C. Johnson, John Watters, A. E. K. Benham, Austin Pendergrast, and W. P. McCann, respectively, to their original places on the navy list. APPROVED, May 28, 1872. May 28, 1872. CHAP CCXXVII.— An Act to restore Lazarus L. Reamey to the Navy of the United Lazarus L. Reamey may be restored to the navy as, &c., if, &c. May 28, 1872. Trusses to be furnished to Union soldiers, ruptured in line of duty. Applications therefor, how to be made. Surgeon-General to purchase the trusses. States as a Midshipman. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, if in his opinion the good of the service will be promoted thereby, to restore Lazarus L. Reamey to the navy of the United States as a midshipman at the foot of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy, of which he was a member at the time of his resignation. APPROVED, May 28, 1872. CHAP. CCXXVIII, — An Act to provide for furnishing Trusses to disabled Soldiers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every soldier of the Union army who was ruptured while in the line of duty, during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, shall be entitled to receive a single or double truss of such style as may be designated by the Surgeon-General of the United States army as the best suited for such disability. SEC. 2. That application for such truss shall be made by the ruptured soldier to an examining surgeon for pensions, whose duty it shall be to examine such applicant, and for every such applicant, found to have a rupture or hernia, shall prepare and forward to the Surgeon-General an application for such truss, without charge to the soldier. SEC. 3. That the Surgeon-General of the United States army is hereby authorized and directed to purchase and procure the number of trusses which may be required for distribution to such disabled soldiers, at a price not greater than the same are sold to the trade at wholesale; and Cost, and how the cost of the same shall be paid, upon the requisition of the Surpaid. geon-General, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, May 28, 1872. May 28, 1872. CHAP. CCXXIX. — An Act to provide for the Completion of three Volumes of Wilkes's Three unfin Wilkes's U. S. United States Exploring Expedition. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint committee on the ished volumes of library be, and they are hereby, authorized to contract for the completion exploring expe- of three unfinished volumes of the United States Exploring Expedition dition to be com- of the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight to eighteen hundred and pleted and published. forty-two, to consist of physics and hydrography of the expedition by See Post, p. 362. Charles Wilkes, and the volume of botany of the expedition by John Torrey and others; said publication to be made in the same style as the volumes heretofore published, and distributed in the same manner: ProLimit to cost. vided, That no more than nine thousand dollars shall in any case be required to finish said volumes. APPROVED, May 28, 1872. CHAP. CCXXXIII. An Act making Appropriations for the current and contingent May 29, 1872. for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and Appropriations they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not other- expenses of wise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent partment and expenses of the Indian department, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with treaty stipulathe various Indian tribes : tions. For pay of eight superintendents of Indian affairs, namely: Two Superintendsuperintendents for the tribes east of the Rocky mountains; one for Ore- ents. gon; one for the Territory of Washington; one for the Territory of New Mexico; one for California; one for the Territory of Arizona; and one for the Territory of Montana, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of sixty-eight agents of Indian affairs, viz.: Five for the tribes in Oregon, viz.: Warm Springs, Klamath, Grand tribes in Ronde, Siletz, and Umatilla agencies; Agents for Three for the tribes in Washington Territory, viz.: Neah Bay, Yakama, and S. Kokomish agencies; Three for the tribes in California, viz.: Hoopa Valley, Round Valley, and Tule River agencies; Washington, Two for the tribes in Nevada, viz.: Pi-Ute and Walker River, and Pyramid Lake agencies; Two for the tribes in Idaho, viz.: Nez Perce and Fort Hall agencies; Four for the tribes in Montana, viz.: Flat Heads, Blackfeet, Crow, and Milk River agencies; Nine for the tribes in Dakota, viz.: Whetstone, Yankton, Ponca, Upper Missouri, Grand River, Cheyenne River, Fort Berthold, Sisseton, and Devil's Lake agencies; California; Nevada, Idaho; Dakota; Two for the tribes in Wyoming, viz.: Red Cloud, Shoshone, and Ban- Wyoming; nock agencies; One for the tribes in Utah, viz.: Uintah Valley agency; Utah; Six for the tribes in New Mexico, viz.: Albiquin, Navajo, Cimmaron, New Mexico; Mescalero, Apache, Southern Apache, and Pueblo agencies; Two for the tribes in Colorado, viz.: Los Pinos and White River Colorado; agencies; Six for the tribes in Nebraska, viz.: Great Nemaha, Omaha, Winnebago, Nebraska; Pawnee, Otoe, and Santee agencies; Three for the tribes in Kansas, viz.: Pottawatomie, Kaw or Kansas, Kansas; and Kickapoo agencies; Ten for the tribes in the Indian Territory, viz.: Sac and Fox, Quapaw, Indian Terri One for the tribes in Minnesota, viz.: Chippewa agency; Minnesota; Two for the tribes in Wisconsin, viz.: Green Bay and La Ponte agen- Wisconsin; cies; Michigan; Services of One for the tribes in Michigan, viz.: Mackinac agency; One for the New York Indians, viz.: New York agency: Four for the tribes in Arizona, viz.: Papago, Colorado River, Pima and Maricopa, and Moguis Pueblo agencies, one hundred and two thousand dollars: Provided, That it shall be the duty of the President to dispense with the services of such Indian agents and superintendents herein men- such agents and tioned as may be practicable; and where it is practicable he shall require to be dispensed superintendents the same person to perform the duties of two agencies or superintendencies with when prac for one salary. ticable. For pay of special agent for the Goship Western and Northwestern Special agent. Indian appro priation. Sub-agents. Clerks. Interpreters. bands of Shoshones, in Western Utah and Eastern Nevada, one thousand five hundred dollars. For three sub-agents, one for the tribes in Oregon, viz.: Alesea subagency; and two for the tribes in Washington Territory, viz.: Tulalip and Quinaielt sub-agencies, three thousand dollars. For pay of clerk to superintendent for California, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For temporary clerks to superintendents, six thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of ninety interpreters, as follows: Twenty-one for the tribes in Oregon and the Territories of Washington, Utah, and New Mexico, at five hundred dollars each; thirty-six for the tribes elsewhere, at four hundred dollars each; seventeen extra for the tribes elsewhere, at four hundred dollars each; three for the Indian service in Utah, at five hundred dollars each; one for the Shoshones and one for the Utahs, at one thousand dollars each; one for the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux, four hundred dollars; one for the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, now in Tama county, Iowa, four hundred dollars; nine for the Indian service in the Territories of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and the State of Nevada, at five hundred dollars each; in all, forty thousand five hunAgency build- dred dollars; ings. Vaccination. Presents and provisions. Rescue and re turn of prisoners from Indians. Arrest, &c., of persons charged with crimes against Indians. Contingent ex penses. Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. Vol. xv. pp. 584, 590. Apaches. Who to have the benefit of this appropriation. Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kio For buildings at agencies, and repairs of same, ten thousand dollars. For vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, five thousand dollars. For presents to and provisions for Indians, ten thousand dollars. For actual expenses incurred, and that may hereafter be incurred, by officers of the Indian department, in the rescue of prisoners from Indian tribes and returning them to their homes, and for expenses incident to the arrest and confinement within the territory of the United States, by order of such officers, of persons charged with crimes against Indians, five thousand dollars. For contingencies, including travelling, incidental, current, and contingent expenses of superintendents and agents, and of their offices, fifty thousand dollars. Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. - For fifth of thirty instalments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article treaty of October twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, concluded at Medicine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, with the Kiowas and Comanches, and under the third article treaty of same date with the Apaches, thirty thousand dollars. For purchase of clothing, as provided in same treaties, twenty-six thousand dollars. For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, five thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of physician and teacher, two thousand five hundred dollars. Apaches. - For this amount, to subsist and properly care for the Apache Indians in Arizona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be expended only in behalf of those Indians who go and remain upon said reservations and refrain from hostilities. Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas.For subsistence of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apache, Kiowas, and Comanwas, Comanches, che Indians, and Wichita Indians (and transportation of the same), who and Wichitas. have been collected upon the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, two hundred thousand dollars. Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans. Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans. For this amount, to be expended in such goods, provisions, and other articles, as the President may from time to time determine, including transportation thereof, in instructing in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, in providing employees, educating |