FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 1881-1883. 87 1 



1 clerk, 1 month, at $75 jier month $75. 00 



1 messenger, 1 1 months, at $480 per annum 440. 40 



1 messenger, 2 months and 14 days, at $180 per annum 36. 50 



1 messenger, 2 months, at $240 per annum 40. 20 



1 messenger, 4 months and 12 days, at $425 per annum 155. 02 



1 watchman, 1 1 months, at $480 j^er annum 440. 40 



1 cook, 2 months, at $40 per month 80. 00 



1 cook, 1 month and 23 days, at $45 per month 78. 75 



1 laborer, 1 month and 23 days, at $50 per month 87. 50 



1 laborer, 17 days, at $1.50 per day 25. 50 



1 teamster, 1 month, at $30 per month 30. 00 



1 foreman, 1 month and 23 days, at $75 per month 131. 25 



Services procuring Indian vocabulary (job) 11. 00 



Services backing map (job) 5. 00 



Total 12, 445. 83 



August 7, 1882. 



Sundry civil act for 1883. 



For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the 

 North American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, including salaries and compensation of all 

 necessary employees, $35,000. 



(Stat., XXII, 332.) 



March 3, 1883. 



Sundry civil act for 1884. 



For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the 

 North American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, including salaries and compensation of all 

 necessary employees, 140,000, of which $3,000 shall be expended for 

 continuing and completing the compilation and preparation of a sta- 

 tistical atlas of Indian affairs by C. C. Royce, under the direction of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, which shall be 

 immediately available. 



(Stat., XXII, 628.) 



THOMSON SIAMESE DEPOSIT. 



January 12, 1882— House. 



A bill (H. 2810) introduced by Mr. J. F. C. Talbott. 



(See Report No. 65 from Committee on Naval Affairs, Forty-seventh 

 Congress, first session. House. Presented in House January 24, 1882.) 

 August 8, 1882. 



Be it enacted^ etc., That Mary E. Thomson, mother of Passed Assist- 

 ant Paymaster Curtis H. Thomson, U. S. N., deceased, be, and is 

 hereby, authorized to accept, first, a portrait, in frame, of Her Royal 

 Highness the Princess of Siam; second, a .silver enameled cigar-case; 

 third, a matchbox and tray of Siamese work, the same being pre- 

 sented to said Curtis H. Thomson, in his lifetime, by the King of 

 Siam, and now on deposit in the Smithsonian Institution. 



(Stat., XXII, 738.) 



