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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
but only one session each year. By act of July 28, 1866, a yearly salary of $5,000 was allowed with mileage at the rate of 20 cents per mile to and from each regular session, estimated by the nearest route usually travelled. The act of March 3, 1873, fixed the salary at $7,500 a year and actual individual travelling expenses to and from each session by the most direct route of usual travel. This act applied to the Congress that passed it, covering two years, and from that fact became ered the time from March 4, 1815. The act of Jan. 2, 1818, applied to fifty-three days of past time. The act of Aug. 16, 1856, applied to all the time from March 4, 1855. The act of July 28, 1866, reached back to March 4, 1865. The act of March 3, 1873, covered the whole term of that Congress, beginning March 4, 1871 —two years. There has not been any general law allowing mileage for attendance upon special or extraordinary sessions. Where it has been authorized it was by special act ap
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ed President......March 4, 1869 twenty-first administration—Republican, March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1873. Ulysses S. Grant, Illinois, President. Schuyler Colfax, Indiana, Vice-President. F independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty......March 3, 1873 Amendment to appropriation bill offered by B. F. Butler, fixing salary of the President orty-second Congress, $7,500, besides travelling expenses (the salary-grab bill), passed......March 3, 1873 Act to establish ten life-saving stations on the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina......March 3, 1873 Forty-second Congress adjourns......March 4, 1873 Senate convenes in special session......March 4, 1873 President Grant reinaugurated.me near Salisbury, N. C., Eng surviving Chang about two hours......Jan. 17, 1874 Act of March 3, 1873 (salary grab bill) repealed except as to salaries of the President and justices of the Supre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weather Bureau. (search)
.Nov. 4, 1870 First storm-warning bulletins along the lakes issued about......Nov. 10-15, 1870 Systematic tri-daily weather predictions begun......Feb. 12, 1871 Display of cautionary signals on the sea-coasts and lakes begun......Oct. 24, 1871 Signal service changed to extend its researches in the interest of agriculture, by act approved......June 10, 1872 Signal-service stations established at light-house and life-saving stations on the lakes and sea-coast, by act of......March 3, 1873 Monthly weather review first published......1873 System of international co-operative simultaneous weather observation, proposed by General Myer at the congress of meteorologists convened at Vienna, is begun......September, 1873 All Smithsonian weather observers transferred to the signal service at the instance of Prof. Joseph Henry......Feb. 2, 1874 Meteorological reports of army post surgeons ordered by the surgeon-general to be sent to the chief signal office......June 19