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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · Mar. 3, 1887 · Chapter 362

Chapter 362. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 362.— An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sundry civil appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury DepartmentPublic buildings. public buildings. For purchase of ground on which to erect public building in Camden,Camden, N. J. New Jersey, forty-thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuationBaltimore, Md. of building, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars. For customhouse at Charleston, South Carolina: For taking downCharleston, S. C. stone and brick work on east and west porticos, restoring broken balustrade and other broken stone work, and rebuilding the same, including 510 the replacing of slating, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; for other exterior repairs, five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post office at Chicago, Illinois: For furnishingChicago, Ill. and putting in place iron tie-rods to strengthen the building, thirty-five thousand dollars; for balance for repairing stone work, thirty-five thousand dollars; for ventilation of building, nine thousand dollars; and for necessary painting to interior of building, five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-four thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Concord, New Hampshire: ForConcord, N.
II. approaches complete, nine thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Dallas, Texas: ForDallas, Tex. approaches complete, five thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Danville, Virginia: ForDanville, Va. completion of building, fixtures, inclosure, and approaches, two thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Denver, Colorado: ForDenver, Colo. continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For customhouse, post-office, and courthouse at El Paso, Texas:
ForEl Paso, Tex. completion of building under the present limit, including heating apparatus and approaches, one hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Erie, Pennsylvania: ForErie, Pa. approaches complete, five thousand dollars. For custom house at Galveston, Texas: ForGalveston, Tex. continuation of the building under the present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Hannibal, Missouri: ForHannibal, Mo. approaches complete, four thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Harrisonburg, Virginia: ForHarrisonburg, Va. the enlargement and completion of building, forty-thousand dollars. For post-office and customhouse at Jacksonville, Florida: ForJacksonville, Fla. procuring site and commencing the erection of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For the foundation of the public building at Key West,Key West, Fla. Florida, eight thousand dollars. For post-office and customhouse at Detroit, Michigan:
ForDetroit, Mich. securing site and commencing the erection of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Los Angeles, California: ForLos Angeles, Cal. purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. For construction of public building at La Crosse, Wisconsin, in addition La Crosse, Wis.to the one hundred thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the purpose, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky:
ForLouisville, Ky. continuation of building, two hundred thousand dollars. For court house and post office at Manchester, New Hampshire: ForManchester, N. H. completion of budding under present limit, including heating apparatus and approaches, one hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Macon, Georgia: ForMacon, Ga. approaches complete, four thousand dollars. For post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: ForMinneapolis, Minn. completion of building under present limit, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty-six cents.
For court-house and post-office at Nebraska City, Nebraska: ForNebraska City, Nebr. completion of building, including heating apparatus, thirty-one thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at New Albany, Indiana: ForNew Albany, Ind. approaches complete, four thousand dollars. For post-office at New Bedford, Massachusetts: ForNew Bedford, Mass.Vol. 23, p. 308.Laws, 1st sess. 49th Congress, p. 223. the erection and completion of a post-office building at New Bedford, Massachusetts, to be erected on land already purchased by the Government for the purpose under the provisions of the acts of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred thousand dollars. 511 For customhouse at Philadelphia:
For repairs to roof, and for painting,Philadelphia, Pa.Sale of old courthouse. five thousand one hundred and forty dollars. That in the sale of the land and premises known as the “old courthouse and post-office,” in the city of Philadelphia, lying upon Chestnut street, and extending to Library street, and between Fourth and Fifth streets, and adjoining the present custom house site in said city, under the act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, theLaws 1st sess. 49th Congress, p.Easement. purchaser at said sale, his heirs and assigns, shall have permission to use and enjoy, in common with the United States, a passageway, of not more than nineteen feet in width extending from Chestnut to Library street, adjoining the said “old courthouse and post-office” building on the east.
For court house and post office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: ForPittsburgh, Pa. continuation of building, two hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Troy, New York: For completion of building underTroy, N. Y. present limit, including beating apparatus and approaches, one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Reading, Pennsylvania: For completion of buildingReading, Pa. under present limit, including heating apparatus and approaches, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Rochester, New York:
For completionRochester, N. Y. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars For customhouse and post-office at Saint Joseph, Missouri: For completionSaint Joseph, Mo. of building under present limit, including heating apparatus and approaches, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. For the building known as the old customhouse building at Saint Louis, Missouri:Saint Louis, Mo. For necessary repairs and alterations, eighty thousand dollars. For repairs on the United States mint building at Denver, Colorado,Denver, Colo. two thousand dollars.
For courthouse and post-office at Saint Paul, Minnesota: For theSaint Paul, Minn. purchase of additional ground fronting on Fifth street, adjoining the premises now owned by the United States, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, thirty thousand dollars; and the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the purchase of ground adjoining the UnitedLaws, 1st sess. 49th Congress, p. 223. States courthouse and post-office building in said city is hereby made available for the purchase of the ground herein authorized.
For courthouse at Springfield, Massachusetts: For purchase of site,Springfield, Mass. and commencing the erection of building, fifty thousand dollars For courthouse and post-office at Williamsport, Pennsylvania: ForWilliamsport, Pa. completion of building under present limit, including heating apparatus and approaches, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For public building at Worcester, Massachusetts: For purchase ofWorcester, Mass. site and commencing the erection of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For post-office, customhouse and court house at Wilmington, NorthWilmington, N. C. Carolina: For purchase of site and commencing the erection of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Jefferson. Texas: For purchase of Jefferson, Tex.site and commencing the erection of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Houston, Texas: For purchase of site and commencingHouston, Tex. the erection of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For public building at Santa Fe, New Mexico:
For completion of theSanta Fé, N. Mex. building, fifty-two thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Agusta, Georgia: For purchaseAugusta, Ga. of site and commencing the erection of building, fifty-thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Chattanooga, Tennessee: For continuationChattanooga, Tenn. of the building, fifty thousand dollars. For heating apparatus complete to be furnished before June thirtieth,Heating apparatus. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for the following new public buildings, namely:
At Aberdeen, Mississippi; Augusta, Maine, Clarksburg, 512 West Virginia: Columbus, Ohio; Concord, New Hampshire; Council Bluffs, Iowa: Dallas, Texas; Erie, Pennsylvania; Hannibal,Missouri; Jefferson City. Missouri; Leavenworth, Kansas; Lynchburg, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; New Albany, Indiana; Pensacola, Florida; Peoria, Illinois; Quincy, Illinois, Shreveport, Louisiana; Syracuse, New York; Terre Haute, Indiana; Toledo, Ohio; Tyler; Texas; and Waco, Texas; one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
That contracts shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury forContracts to be advertised for. furnishing and. putting in heating apparatus for public buildings, upon advertisements in some leading newspaper in the State where each building is situated, containing specifications of the kind of heating apparatus required, and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidder therefor. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall for the fiscal year eighteenSecretary of the Treasury to report number of persons employed on public buildings. hundred and eighty-seven, and for each fiscal year thereafter in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons employed outside of the District of Columbia, as superintendents, clerks, watchmen and otherwise, and paid from appropriations for the construction of public buildings showing where said persons are employed, in what capacity, the length of time and at what rate of compensation, and hereafter where public buildings shall be completed with the exception of heating apparatus and approaches but one person shall be employed by the Government for the supervision and care of such building.
For marine hospital, Chicago, Illinois: For breakwater, ten thousandChicago. dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForTreasury building, Washington. annual renual repairs to Treasury building, eight thousand dollars. For vault in the Treasury building: For constructing a suitable vaultVault for silver dollars. in the Treasury building for the storage of silver dollars, as estimated for in Senate Executive Document Number Nine, second session Forty-ninth Congress, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents, the same, to be immediately available.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing and Quartermaster’s Corral, Engraving and Priming Bureau, and quartermaster’s corral.Washington, District of Columbia: For the construction of new sewers to connect with the city sewer, for the proper drainage of the buildings of said Bureau and the Quartermaster’s Department, in square two hundred and thirty-two in said city, two thousand four hundred and Drainage.forty-three dollars and thirty cents, the work to be done under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and the Laws, 1st sess. 49th Congress, p. 224; repealed.provision of the sundry civil act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, appropriating one thousand two hundred hundred dollars for a new sewer for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is hereby repealed.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed,Commission to appraise buildings, etc., sq. 689. to appoint three persons familiar with the cost of buildings and the value of ground in the city of Washington, who shall appraise, as to its value for the use of the Government the land and buildings thereon, being lots numbered eleven and twelve of the sub division of square numbered six hundred and eighty-nine on the original plat of lands in the city of Washington, bounded north by South B Street, east by New Jersey avenue, and west by South Capitol street, and he is hereby directed to report the result of such appraisement to Congress at its next session; and whether in his judgment at such appraisal the same *Proviso*.can be used economically and for what purpose. *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall in any way commit the United States to the purchase of said property.
For urgent and necessary repairs to central and western portions ofSmithsonian Institute. the Smithsonian Institution building, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs, etc. of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, two hundred thousand dollars. 513 That the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to make examinationNeed of Marine Hospital at New York to be examined. respecting the needs of the Government for a marine hospital at or in the vicinity of New York City; and in case such hospital is required to submit a plan for same, and an estimate of the cost thereof, the said hospital to be erected upon property now belonging to the United States if such property can be found suitable for the purpose. light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.
For supply steamer: For the construction of a steamer for the transportationSupply steamer, Atlantic and Gulf coasts. of oil, and other supplies to the light houses on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, one hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For steam-tender for the Western rivers: Fora new tender for theSteam-tender, Western rivers. maintenance of lights upon the Western rivers, forty thousand dollars. Gould Island Light-Station, Rhode Island:
For establishing completeGould Island, R. I. a fight and fog-signal at Gould Island, Narragausett Bay, Rhode Island, ten thousand dollars. Grand Island Light-Station, Michigan: For the purchase of the landGrand Island, Mich. upon which the light-house structures are erected at Grand Island, Michigan, one hundred and fifty dollars. Lights and other aids for channels leading to Pensacola, Florida:Pensacola, Fla. For the following aids to navigating channels leading to Pensacola, Florida:
Range-Lights near Fort McRae; re establishment of Fort Barrancas Ranges; lighted-beacons at or near Devil’s Point, Escambia Bay, at or near the anchorage in Santa Maria de Galvaez Bay; at or near the turn of the channel, and at Bay Point, Blackwater Bay; and for a day beacon to mark the shoals between the anchorage and Blackwater Bay, seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Mosquito Inlet Light Station, Florida: For completing the constructionMosquito Inlet, Fla. of the light-house at Mosquito Inlet, Florida, twenty-thousand dollars.
Northwest Seal-Rock Light Station, California: For continuing theSeal-Rock, Cal. construction of a light-house on Northwest Seal Rock, off Point Saint George, California, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Point Sur Light-Station, California: For completing the light-housePoint Sur, Cal. and steam fog-signal on Point Sur, California, fifty thousand dollars. San Luis Obispo Light-Station, California: For establishing completeSan Luis Obispo, Cal. a light and fog signal to guide into San Luis Obispo Bay, California, the Light-House Board being allowed to choose separate sites for the same should they consider it advantageous to mariners to do so, fifty thousand dollars.
Cape Meares, Tillamook Bay, Oregon: For purchasing a site and theCape Meares, Oreg. construction of a first order coast light-house, at Cape Meares, Tillamook Bay, Oregon, or at Cape Lookout, Oregon, if in the opinion of the Light-House Board that site is more advantageous to mariners, sixty thousand dollars Watch Point Light-Station, Lake Champlain, New York: For the reestablishmentWatch Point, Lake Champlain, N. Y. of a light on Watch Point, Lake Champlain, New York, five hundred dollars.
North and South Hero Islands, Lake Champlain: For the reestablishmentNorth and South Hero Islands, Lake Champlain. of two stake-lights to mark the channel between North and South Hero Islands, in Lake Champlain, upon foundations sufficiently strong to secure them against the floating ice, four thousand dollars. life saving stations.lifesaving stations. For salaries of superintendents for the lifesaving stations as follows:Superintendents’ salaries. On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one, and on the coast of Massachusetts, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode 514 Island and Long Island, who shall reside on the mainland of the StateSuperintendents’ salaries, Life Saving Service—continued. of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For salary of one superintendent on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent for life saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars; of one superintendent for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; and of one on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of superintendents for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations, one on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one on the coast of Lake Michigan, and one on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon and California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. For salaries of two hundred and twenty-eight keepers of lifesavingKeepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the lifesaving and lifeboatCrews. stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at lifesaving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each Miscellaneous expenses.volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of Vol. 22, p. 57.sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draught animals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other bead of lifesaving stations on the coasts of the United States, seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For establishing new lifesaving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries and expenses. lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen,and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; shipchandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the interests of the Government on the seal-islands and the sea-otter bunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, nine hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For constructing a revenue-steamer for Southern coast: For the constructionNew steamer for Southern coast. of one revenue-steamer for duty on the Southern coast of the United States, sixty thousand dollars. 515 engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing.Salaries. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate-printers and plate printers’ assistants, three hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be*Proviso*. expended for printing United States notes of large denomination in lieu of notes of small denomination canceled or retired.
For wages of not more than one hundred and eighty-seven plate-printers,Wages. at piece-rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of not more than one hundred and eighty-eight printers’assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each when employed, and for wages of not more than twenty-six printers’ assistants at steam-presses, at one dollar and fifty cents a day each when employed, and for royalty for use of steam plate-printing machines, three hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That any part of this sum may be used*Proviso*.Improved presses.Materials, etc. for purchasing and operating new and improved plate-printing presses.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and sixty-four thousand seven hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereafter authorized and requiredSilver certificates for one, two, and five dollars. to issue silver-certificates in denominations of one, two, and five dollars; and the silver certificates herein authorized shall be receivable, redeemable, and payable in like manner and for like purposes as is provided for silver-certificates by the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An act to authorize the coinage Vol. 20, p. 26.of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character; ” and denominations of one, two, and five dollars may be issued in lieu of silver-certificates of larger denominations in the Treasury, or in exchange therefor upon presentation by the holders; and to that extent said certificates of larger denominations shall be cancelled and destroyed. light-house establishment.Light-house establishment.
Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying the light houses, beacon-lights,Supplies. and fog-signals with illuminating, cleansing, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. Repairs of lighthouses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. light houses, and buildings and grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pier-head lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use, and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, three hundred thousand dollars.
Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations,Keepers’ salaries, etc. rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of lightships, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of bouyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining bouys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog-signals. and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand dollars. 516 Inspecting-lights: For mileage or traveling expenses of membersInspection. of the Light-House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, three thousand dollars. Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting rivers. post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, New York; the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland:
Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s River, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; at Chicot Pass and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Great Kanawha Rivers; on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; and on Puget Sound, Washington Territory, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighting the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor: ForLighting Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor. building for engines and boilers, ten thousand dollars; incandescent light plant, two thousand five hundred dollars; dynamos, lamps, and lens for torch, four thousand dollars; removing present machinery to new building, additional houses for side lamps, putting grounds in order, fencing and incidentals three thousand dollars, in all, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys,Survey of sites. and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Alaska coast.Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tidewater or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings; temperature and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; improving the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the fieldwork, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, *Proviso*.Advances.to be expended under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct:
For party expenses:Party expenses. For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coast of Maine in Cobseook Bay and Saint Croix River, and for off shore soundings between Matinicus and Seguin Lights, ten thousand dollars. For resurveys: For triangulation, topography, and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Block Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, and approaches, and including Vineyard Sound, fifteen thousand dollars. For physical hydrographic surveys on Monomoy Shoals, four thousand dollars.
For physical hydrography in New York Harbor and its approaches, three thousand dollars. 517 For observing the movement, lodgment of, and obstructions by ice inParty expenses—continued. the Delaware River, and noting the changes caused thereby in Cherry Island Flats, two hundred dollars. For examinations and resurveys on the Virginia coast from Chincoteague to Cherrystone, and especially at Cape Charles and in its vicinity, including triangulation, hydrography, and topography, five thousand dollars.
To continue the surveys in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, and up the Cooper and Ashley Rivers to the head of navigation; and to continue the astronomical, latitude, and azimuth work, and, in connection therewith, the recovery and remarking of old triangulation stations, for their preservation, and the connection of some detached triangulation between Beaufort and the mouth of the Cape Fear River, North Carolina; and the connection of the Gape Fear River triangulation with the coast triangulation at Masonsborough, two thousand dollars.
To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Cape Sable north to Cape Romano, and for hydrography off the same coast, six thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta and between Barataria Bay and Sabine Pass, seven thousand dollars. To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars.
For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern California, ten thousand dollars; For continuing the primary triangulation of Southern California, and for connecting the same at Mount Conness and Macho stations with the transcontinental arc, and for a primary base line in the vicinity of Los Angeles, six thousand dollars; For continuing the resurvey of San Francisco Bay and San Pablo and Suisun Bays and the strait of Carquinez, the examination of San Francisco Bar and entrance, and the mouths of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, live thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including offshore hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, seven thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, nine thousand dollars. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical longitude and magnetic stations between Sitka and the southern end of the Territory, ten thousand dollars;
For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, three thousand dollars. For examination into reported dangers on the eastern, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, one thousand dollars. To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf slopes, five hundred dollars. For continuing magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, at the Los Angeles Magnetic Observatory, one thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing the exact line of levels from Cairo westward, two thousand dollars.
For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, at Kadiak, in Alaska, and at Saucelito, near San Francisco, in California, two thousand three hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, at Pulpit Harbor, Maine, and at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, two thousand dollars. 518 To continue gravity experiments, at a cost not exceeding five hundredParty expenses—continued. dollars per station, except for special investigations and experiments authorized by the Superintendent at one or more stations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven.
For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied, as far as practicable, in States where points have not been furnished, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For determinations of geographical positions (longitude party), three thousand dollars. For continuation of geodetic work on transcontinental main line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, nineteen thousand dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, andTravelling expenses of Navy. for any special surveys, that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, threeUrgent objects. thousand dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyTen per cent, interchangeable. for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred dollars.
For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenanceRepairs, etc. of vessels. of the complement of vessels used in the Coast anti Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pay of Field Officers:Pay of field officers.Superintendent.Assistants. For pay of the Superintendent, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at four thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars. For pay of one assistant, three thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars For pay of two assistants, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.
For pay of two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of three assistants, at two thousand three hundred dollars each, six thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars.
For pay of ten assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. For pay of nine assistants, atone thousand five hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of three sub-assistants, atone thousand four hundred dollars each, four thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of two sub-assistants, at one thousand three hundred dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four sub-assistants, at. one thousand one hundred dollars each, four thousand four hundred dollars.
For pay of six aids, at nine hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of one aid, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Total pay in field, one hundred and twenty-two thousand nine hundred*Proviso*.Reduction of force. and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That no new appointments shall be made to the above force until the whole number of assistants, sub-assistants, and aids shall be reduced to fifty-two. 519 For one accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars.Pay of employees in office.
For one accountant, one thousand four hundred dollars. For one general office assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For one draughtsman, two thousand one hundred dollars. For two draughtsmen, at two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For one draughtsman, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For one draughtsman, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For two draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, one thousand one hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, nine hundred and forty dollars. For two computers, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For one computer, one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
For one computer, one thousand three hundred dollars. For one computer, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For one computer, one thousand one hundred dollars. For one tidal computer, two thousand dollars. For one tidal computer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For one engraver, two thousand and sixty dollars. For one engraver, two thousand dollars. For one engraver, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For two engravers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For one engraver, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one engraver, one thousand five hundred dollars. For one engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars. For one engraver, nine hundred dollars. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand one hundred dollars per annum, two thousand one hundred dollars. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum, eight hundred dollars. For one electrotypist and photographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one electrotypists’ helper, five hundred dollars. For one apprentice to electrotypist and photographer, five hundred dollars. For one copper plate printer, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For two copperplate printers, at one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars each, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For one copperplate printer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For two plate printer’s helpers, at seven hundred dollars each, one thousand four hundred dollars. For one chief mechanician, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one mechanician, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one mechanician, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For one mechanician, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For one mechanician, one thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For one mechanician, nine hundred dollars. 520 For one mechanician, five hundred and forty-five dollars.Pay of employees in office—continued. For one carpenter, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one carpenter, eight hundred dollars. For one carpenter and fireman, five hundred and seventy dollars. For one night-fireman, five hundred and fifty dollars. For one map-mounter, one thousand and twenty dollars. For one librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For one clerk, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars. For one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars. For one clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars. For one clerk, nine hundred dollars. For one clerk, one thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For one map-colorist, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, nine hundred dollars. For one writer, eight hundred and forty dollars. For six writers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, six hundred dollars. For one messenger, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars. For three messengers, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
For three messengers, at six hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For one driver, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For one packer and folder, eight hundred and twenty dollars. For one packer and folder, six hundred and thirty dollars. For two laborers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For two laborers, at five hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand one hundred dollars. For one laborer, three hundred and fifteen dollars.
For one laborer, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars. For two watchmen, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Total for pay of office force, one hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and five dollars. Office expensesOffice expenses.. For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter-shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, and charts, nine thousand dollars.
For copperplates, chart-paper, printer’s ink; copper, zinc, and chemicals for electro typing and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for extra engraving; and for photolitliographing charts and printing from stone for immediate use, ten thousand dollars. For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice, and washing, six thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Total general expenses of office, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. 521 For rent of office buildings: For rent of buildings for offices,Rent. workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of fireproof building number two hundred and five New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records, of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts, of instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars.
Publishing observations.—For one computer, one thousand eightPublishing observations. hundred dollars; one computer, one thousand six hundred dollars; and three copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic Subsistence not allowed to civilians in Washington, nor naval officers.Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty in the office at Washington, or to officers of the Navy attached to the survey; nor shall there hereafter be made any allowance for subsistence to officers of the Navy attached to the Coast and Geodetic Survey. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.Treasury, miscellaneous.Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc.
Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight, and salaries of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, fifty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations op internal-revenue laws: ForPunishing violations internal-revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act.
Contingent expenses independent Treasury: For contingentExpenses of fiscal agents.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3653/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy thousand dollars. Expenses of the national currency: For paper, expressNational currency expenses. charges, and other expenses, six thousand two hundred dollars.
Distinctive paper for the United States securities: ForDistinctive paper, etc. paper, including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, forty-five thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin,Silver coin, transportation. by registered mail or otherwise, fifty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount*Proviso*. in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins: ToRecoinage, etc., minor coins. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the United States mint at Philadelphia, for cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in or which may be hereafter received at the subtreasury offices in excess of the requirements for the current business of said offices, and for expense of transportation for such reissue, four thousand dollars; and to 522 enable the Secretary of the Treasury to recoin any and all uncurrent minor coins now in the Treasury, and to reimburse the Treasury for the loss on such recoinage, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars.
Transportation of gold coin: For the transportation of goldGold coin, transportation. coin from San Francisco to New York, live thousand dollars. Storage of silver, transportation: For transportation of silverSilver coin, storage. coin between subtreasury offices, fifty thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinage of gold andRecoinage, gold and silver. silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars.
Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodians ofCustodians dies, rolls, and plates, Engraving and Printing Bureau. the dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, atone thousand six hundred dollars each; distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Destruction of securities.Pay of witness.
For pay of representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materialsSealing and separating securities. needed to seal and separate United States notes, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm oil, white printing-paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles, two thousand dollars.
Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantPay of assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this, sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings:Inspector of furniture, etc., public buildings.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture, repairs, carpets, etc. of furniture, including carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, lights,Fuel, lights, water, etc., public buildings. water, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, six hundred thousand dollars; and the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia under the control of the Treasury Department shall include the rental or use of any gas-governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by the *Proviso*.Gas-governors.Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid for such rental or use of such gas-governor, 523 gas-purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby.
Heating apparatus for public buildings: For repairing heating,Heating, etc., apparatus. hoisting, and ventilating apparatus for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under control of Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, includingVaults, safes, and locks. new buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars.
Plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials,Plans for public buildings. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food fishes: For the introduction by the UnitedFish Commission.Expenses. States Fish Commission into and the increase in the waters of the United States of food-fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and for continuing the enquiry into the fisheries of the United States and their subjects, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Fish-hatchery on the Columbia River: For the establishmentFish-hatchery, Columbia River.*Proviso*. of a salmon-hatchery upon the Columbia River, its tributaries or their branches, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if, in the opinion of the United States Fish Commissioner, the existing laws of Oregon and Washington are not sufficient for the protection of salmon in the ColumbiaLegislation for protection of salmon. River and its tributaries, this appropriation shall not be available until the legislatures of the State of Oregon and of Washington Territory shall have enacted such additional legislation as, in the opinion of the Fish Commissioner, shall be necessary to protect the salmon from improper capture and destruction.
Rent of office United States Fish Commission: For rent ofRent. rooms in the city of Washington, two thousand and forty dollars. Maintenance of Fishponds: For the preparation and maintenanceFish ponds. of Fishponds in Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of the eggs and young of the white fish, salmon, shad, cod, carp, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels:
For the maintenance of the vessels ofVessels. the United States Fish Commission, and for boats apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars. Fish-ponds, Monument Lot: For restoring the drainage of theMonument for ponds. United States Fishponds in Washington, destroyed by the filling up of the flats, and for an increased supply of water, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars.
Steam-vessels, food-fishes: For new boilers and for a thoroughSteamer Fish Hawk. repair and refitting of the steamer Fish Hawk, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries shall submit to CongressDetailed statement to be submitted. at its next session a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven under all appropriations for “Propagation of food-fishes;” and annually thereafter a detailed statement of expenditures under all appropriations for “Propagation of food-fishes” shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each session thereof.
International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution: For expensesSmithsonian Institution.International exchanges expenses. of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian 524 Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twelve thousand dollars. North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution: ForNorth American ethnology. the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For the expensesDetecting and punishing counterfeiting, etc. of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars.
Lands and other property of the United States: For custody,Custody of lands, etc. care, and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws thirty thousand dollars. For defraying the necessary expenses of local appraisers at quarterlyExpenses of local appraisers’ meetings. meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, two thousand dollars.
Expense incurred under act relating to Chinese: To meetChinese immigration, expenses.Vol. 22, p. 58. such expenses as may be necessary to be incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, including the printing of certificates therein required, five thousand five hundred dollars. alaskan seal-fisheries.Alaskan seal-fisheries. For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries inSalaries, agents, and assistants.
Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of Preventing and suppressing epidemic diseases.Laws, 1st sess. 49th Congress, p. 237.threatened or actual epidemic of cholera or yellow fever, to use the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated therefor by the act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and for maintaining quarantine and maritime inspections at points of danger; and the President is further authorized to use of the same unexpended balance a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of investigating the merits of Investigation of inoculation.the method practiced in Mexico and Brazil for preventing yellow fever by inoculation.
International Medical Congress: For the purpose of entertainingInternational Medical Congress, expenses. and providing for the expenses of the International Medical Congress at its ninth annual meeting, to be held in Washington in September, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ten thousand dollars; and tho same shall be expended under such regulations as the *Proviso*.Personal expenses not to be paid.Vouchers.Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: *Provided*, That no part of this shall be paid as the personal expenses of any delegate; and no money shall be expended except upon vouchers to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. 525 UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENTDepartment of State.
French Spoliation Claims: To enable the Secretary of State to French spoliation claims.Completing search, procuring records, etc.complete the search now being in France for records and other documents affecting the rights or claims of American citizens under the act of Congress approved January twentieth,eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled “An act to provide for the ascertainment of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to JulyVol. 23, p. 283. thirty-first, eighteen hundred and one”, and to make a similar search in Spain or elsewhere, and to procure such records and documents as already have been found and that may hereafter be found, or certified copies or abstracts thereof, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, and to be immediately available.
Conference of tiie Red Cross Association: To pay the expensesRed Cross Association Conference. of the representatives of the United States (two in number, to be appointed by the President of the United States) to the fourth conference of the Red Cross Association, to be held at Baden on September nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, three thousand dollars; and to pay the contributory portion of the expenses of the United States at Expenses of delegates.said conference, the additional sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, four thousand dollars; the same to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Department o f the Interior. public buildings. Casual repairs of the Interior Department building: ForRepairs, Department building. casual repairs of the Department building, five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. That as soon a practicable after the completion as provided for in theRemoval of offices to Pension building.Laws, 1st sess. 49th Congress, p. 238. sundry civil act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and not later than December first eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be removed to the Pension Budding the General Land Office, Bureau of Education, Office of Commissioner of Railroads, and Bureau of Labor, and vacate the buildings rented for and now occupied by said offices and Bureaus, or portions thereof.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expendPurchase of electric-light plant, Department building. from any balance of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses office of the Secretary of the Interior”, and so forth, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, that may be required for other purposes or remain unexpended, not, however, to exceed twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the introduction in the Interior Department building of an electric-light plant, including dynamos, engines, boilers, pumps, wires, lamps, and such other material, and also labor as may be required for the introduction of said plant; and the said sum of twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes herein specified.
For the Capitol: For work at the Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, fitting up file-room with iron shelving in basement of House wing, including wages of mechanics, workmen, and fresco-painter, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of theCapitol Grounds, improvement, etc. improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for the care of the grounds, including pay of landscape architect, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, twenty thousand dollars.
Capitol terraces: For the completion of the terraces of the CapitolCompleting Capitol terraces. and grand stairways, including wages of mechanics and laborers, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 526 Lighting-the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol,Capitol and grounds.Lighting. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables: For gas and electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-titters, and for materials for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty four thousand dollars.
Elevator for Senate wing of the Capitol: For the constructionElevator, Senate wing. of an elevator in the south end of the eastern corridor of the Senate wing of the Capitol, fifteen thousand dollars; and the Architect of the Capitol is directed to have the same completed for use by December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Elevator for the House wing of the Capitol: For the constructionElevator, House wing. of an elevator for the use of the public in the House wing of the Capitol, to be located at the south end of the western corridor and to run from the basement to the upper story, twelve thousand dollars, and the architect is directed to have the same completed for use by December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
Building for Library of Congress: That the Library CommissionLibrary of Congress.Rents. is hereby empowered to make leases and to collect rents for such houses on the library site as in its judgment may remain temporarily without obstructing the work, the proceeds from such rents to be paid into the Treasury. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public landsSales of public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForSalaries, registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land-offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred thousand dollars.Limit of fees retained.
And hereafter all fees collected by registers or receivers, from any source whatever, which would increase their salaries beyond three thousand dollars each a year, shall be covered into the Treasury, except only so much as may be necessary to pay the actual cost of clerical services employed exclusively in contested cases; and they shall make report quarterly, under oath, of all expenditures for such clerical services, with vouchers therefor. Contingent expenses of land-offices:
For clerk-hire, rent, andLand offices, contingent expenses. other incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. That all the public lands in the Territory of Wyoming lying in theBuffalo land district, Wyoming, created. counties of Johnson and Crook, in said Territory, shall constitute, a new land district, to be called the Buffalo district. That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint, by andRegister and receiver to be appointed. with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof and until the next session after such appointment, a register and a receiver for said district, who shall be required to reside in the town of Office to be at Buffalo.Buffalo, Wyoming Territory, until such time as the President may, in his discretion, remove the site of said land-office from said town; and they shall be subject to the same laws and be entitled to the same compensation as is or may hereafter be provided by law in relation to the existing land offices and officers in said Territory.
Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingExpenses, depositing public moneys. moneys received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber: To meet the expenses of protectingProtecting timber. timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars. Protecting public lands: For the protection of public lands fromProtecting from fraudulent entry. illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, one hundred thousand dollars.
Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearingsExpenses, hearings in land entries. held by order of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, twenty thousand dollars. 527 Settlement of claims for swampland and swampland indemnity:Swamp-land claims, expenses. For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under *Proviso*.this and the appropriations for “Depredations on public timber” and “Protecting public lands,” while traveling on duty, shall be allowedPer diem for agents. per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate hot exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing worn plats of surveys. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land-officers with the same, five thousand dollars. Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing transcriptsTranscripts of records. of records and plats, and paying therefor, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. surveying the public lands.Survey of public lands.
For surveys and resurveys of public lands, at rates not exceedingExpenses. nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines fifty thousand dollars: and of the sum hereby appropriated ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for the examination of surveys in the field; to test the accuracy of the work and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors; for inspecting mineral deposits, coalfields, and timber districts; and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States.
For survey of confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, at ratesNew Mexico, private land claims.Care, etc., abandoned military reservations.Vol. 23, p. 103. prescribed by law, three thousand dollars. For care and preservation of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand dollars. united states geological survey.Geological Survey.
For the United States Geological Survey:Expenses. For the Geological survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four hundred thousand dollars; and hereafter the estimates for the Geological Survey shall be itemized.Estimates to be itemized.Salaries.
For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For salary of five geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For salary of two geologists, at three thousand dollars each; For salary of one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand dollars each; For salary of one paleontologist, four thousand dollars; For salary of one paleontologist, two thousand dollars;
For salary of one chemist, three thousand dollars; For salary of one chemist, two thousand dollars; For salary of one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For salary of three geographers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; 528 For salary of one general assistant, three thousand dollars; For salary of three topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Miscellaneous Objects. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane.Current expenses.
For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue cutter Service, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, inmates of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars; and not exceeding one thousand dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends.
For the building and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars.General repairs.Special improvements. For special improvements, as follows: For additional heating-boiler for new building for convict and homicidal insane persons, one thousand five hundred dollars. For furnishing new building for convict and homicidal insane persons, five thousand dollars. For additional accommodations for the colored insane, seventeen thousand dollars.
For rebuilding wharf, three thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For cottage at the cemetery, nine hundred dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.Current expenses. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, for general repairs, and improvements, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars: *Proviso*.Wages.Education of feeble-minded children.Vol. 21, p. 275.*Provided*, That no more than twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the education of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand five hundred dollars. howard university.Howard University.Current expenses. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, a portion of which will be paid from donations and other sources, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of buildings, four thousand dollars.Repairs.Water supply. For making suitable connections between the steam-pump at Howard University and the new reservoir, and for improving the water-supply, two thousand dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand dollars; for salaries and compensationCurrent expenses. of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, 529 two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fourteen thousand dollars: for rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars’; for fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, ten thousand five hundred dollars; one centrifugal wringer., two hundred and forty dollars; for painting inside of hospital wards, four hundred dollars, to be immediately available in all, fifty-one thousand one hundred and forty dollars. education in alaska.Alaska.
For the education of the children of school age in the TerritoryEducation of children. of Alaska, without reference to race, twenty-five thousand dollars. national museum.National Museum. Heating and lighting the National Museum: For expense ofHeating, lighting, etc. heating, lighting, and electrical and telephonic service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. Preservation of collections of the National Museum: ForPreservation of collections, etc. the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.
Furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For cases,Furniture, etc. furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department.Armories and arsenals. armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill. For continuing armory-shop K, an iron-finishing shop, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For continuing storehouse K, thirty-five thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, seventeen thousand dollars. For replacing wooden beams on Rock Island Wagon-bridge (between the island and the city of Rock Island) by iron ones, reflooring wagon-road and sidewalks, and painting, nine thousand dollars. For replacing flooring and sidewalks and for painting Moline Bridge, one thousand five hundred dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars.
For repairing temporary towers for wire transmission of water power, two thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge as follows:Bridge expenses. For care and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For protecting the Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer-booms, two hundred and fifty dollars For renewing trucks with steel rollers at end of each span; wagon-road, sidewalks, floor-beams, and stringers for supporting railroad-track, eight thousand dollars.
Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield, Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. 530 For the erection of a new fireproof milling-shop, in addition to theLaws, 1st sess. 49 Cong., p. 243. amount (thirty thousand dollars) appropriated by the sundry civil act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twenty thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For new machinery forBenicia, Cal. carpenter and machine shops, three thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For oneFrankford, Pa. circular graduating-machine for graduating instrumenta, such as star-gauges, standard gauges, calipers, and all other instruments requiring a graduated scale, one thousand dollars. Piccatiny Powder-Depot, Dover, New Jersey: For erectingPiccatiny Powder-Depot, N. J. magazines, and other necessary buildings, cleaning, draining, and grading grounds, making roads, building fences, and all expenses incident thereto, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Sandy-Hook Proving-Ground, New Jersey: For cleaning, leveling,Sandy-Hook Proving-Ground, N. J. grading and building roads, and general repairs, three thousand dollars. Testing-Machine, Watertown Arsenal: For caring for, preserving,Watertown, testing machine. using, and operating the United States testing-machine at Watertown Arsenal, ten thousand dollars. Repair of arsenals: For repairs of arsenals, and to meet suchRepairs, etc. unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, fifty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and Grounds, Washington, D.
C.Improvement and care. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, six thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States.
For construction and repair of post and chain-fences, removal and repair of high iron fences around smaller triangular reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges,iron fences, vases,lamps,lampposts, and settees, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars.
For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hand red dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improvement, care and maintenance of various reservations, twelve thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, ten thousand dollars. For improvement and care of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building, five thousand dollars. 531 For expenses, including advertising, of the sale of old condemned property, the accumulation of years, including the old copper from the roof of the Executive Mansion, one hundred dollars.
That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be madeMaximum price for concrete pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in tho District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows:Executive Mansion.Repairs, fuel, etc.
For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, sixteen thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For renewing superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds:
ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, and plumbers; purchase, erection and repair of lamps and lampposts; purchase of matches, and for re pairs of all kinds; fuels and lights for office, office-stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter*Proviso*.Maximum payment a lamp. in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including, lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.
Repair of water-pipes and fire plugs: For repairing and extendingWater-pipes and fireplugs.Repairs. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsGovernment telegraph. and Government Printing Office:
For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Washington Monument: For completion of the Washington Monument,Washington Monument. namely: For completing the earth-filling and grading around the monument, in accordance with existing law; office expenses, including rent of necessary office-rooms, and for each and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the joint commission created by the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.Vol. 19, p. 123.Medical Museum.Annex.
Building for Army Medical Museum and Library: For brick annex to main building, for laboratory and anatomical work, seven thousand five hundred dollars. military posts.Military Posts. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military Construction, etc.posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred thousand dollars. Protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: ForYellowstone National Park.Improvement, etc. the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within the park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose, twenty thousand dollars. 532 Signal Service.Signal Service. observation and report of storms.
To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of the meteorologicalObservation and report of dorms. observation and report, by telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture of the United States, as follows: For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological instruments,Instruments. and expenses in connection therewith, including those already issued and to be issued to voluntary unpaid observers, and the Secretary of War shall establish regulations respecting such issue, ten thousand dollars.
For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological informationTelegraphing. in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. For expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, cold-wave, and otherSignals. signals on the sea, lake, and Gulf costs of the United States, and in the interior, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, including the pay of observers, services of operators, lanterns, and flags, ten thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and repair of the military-telegraph line connectingRepairs, etc. the signal-stations along the Atlantic coast of the United States, including services of operators, repairmen, materials, and general service, six thousand dollars. For manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument-shelters, and expensesInstrument-snelters. in connection therewith, two thousand dollars. For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery, ice.Contingent expenses, outside of Washington. stoves and fixtures, repairs, rent of telephones, textbooks, lumber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For river and flood observations, and expenses in connection therewith,River and flood observations. nine thousand dollars. For expenses (including paper, forms, printing and lithographing Maps and bulletins.supplies, hire of civilian printers and engravers) of preparing, printing, distributing, and displaying weather maps or weather bulletins, and Printing office.for the maintenance of a printing office, under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, in the city of Washington, for the printing of the necessary orders, circulars, maps, or bulletins, as may be necessary to carry into effect the appropriations made for the support of the Signal service, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For observations, and expenses incidental thereto, announcing theCotton region reports. probable approach and severity of frosts or rains, for the benefit of the cotton region of the United States, seven thousand dollars For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines, including rentMilitary-telegraph lines. of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies, and general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars. For the repair of the Signal Service cable at the mouth of the ColumbiaCable, mouth, of Columbia River.
River, in Oregon and Washington Territory, five hundred dollars, the same to be immediately available. For the construction and maintenance of a military-telegraph lineTelegraph line, San Francisco to Point Reyes, Cal. from San Francisco, California, to a point at or near Point Reyes, California, via Point San Jose, California, two thousand five hundred dollars. pay. For pay of one brigadier-general and sixteen second lieutenants,Pay, etc., of officers and men. twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars; for longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps, to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; for pay of not exceeding one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and two hundred and 533 ninety privates, including payment due on discharge, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for mileage to all officers when traveling on Signal Service duty under orders, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Provisos*. in disbursing this amount the maximum sum to be allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per mile, distance to be computed over theMileage. shortest usually traveled routes, and, in addition thereto, upon the officer’s certificate that it was not practicable to obtain transportation from the Quartermaster’s Department, the cost of transportation actually paid by the officer over said route or routes, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when anyOn land-grant roads. officer so traveling shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, he shall be allowed for himself only four cents per mile as a subsistence fund for every mile necessarily traveled over any such last-named railroad; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
And the Secretary of WarDetail of officers for Signal Service duty. is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed five commissioned officers of the Regular Army, to be exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law; and the Regular Army officers herein authorized to be detailed for the Signal Corps shall receive their pay and allowances from the appropriation for the support of the Army; and no money herein appropriated shall be used for pay and allowances of second lieutenants appointedNumber of second lieutenants limited.Vol. 20, p. 219. or to be appointed from the sergeants of the Signal Corps, under the provisions of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in excess of the Dumber of sixteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding four hundred and seventy enlisted men of the Signal Corps. subsistence.
For commutation of rations of not exceeding four hundred and seventySubsistence. Signal Service enlisted men of the Signal Corps, and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men of said Corps, as authorized by section eleven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, and[R. S., sec. 1141, p. 207](/us/rs/t/s1141/p207). paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine of the Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars. regular supplies.
Fuel: For various offices on the United States military-telegraphFuel. lines, and at stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia (for fires the year round when needed), and for sales of the regulation allowance to officers the Signal Corps, as allowed by section eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteenVol. 20, p. 150. hundred and seventy-eight (twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty), six thousand dollars. Commutation of fuel:
For commutation of fuel for not exceedingCommutation of fuel. four hundred and seventy enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal-stations throughout the United States, forty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. forage. For forage of ten mules and six horses, one thousand eight hundredForage. and five dollars and sixty-five cents; straw for sixteen animals, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and twelve dollars; for forage for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army 534 Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the ArmyVol. 21, p. 347. approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at one hundred and five dollars each per annum, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars; for straw for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at eight dollars and forty cents per annum, one hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents; in all, three thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-five cents. incidental expenses.Incidental expenses.
For horse and mule shoes, nails, and expenses for shoeing once each month for sixteen animals, at one dollar and fifty cents each per month (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), two hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For shoes, nails, and expenses of shoeing once each month for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, at one dollar and fifty cents per month (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), two hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For blacksmiths’ supplies, tools, lathes, and materials, one hundred dollars. For veterinary supplies, fifty dollars. For interment of officers and men, one hundred dollars.Interment. transportation.Transportation. For transportation of material, animals, and funds, as per paragraphs seventeen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, fifteen thousand dollars. For transportation of men, eight thousand dollars.
For purchase of necessary harness and other articles, and expenses of repairs to means of transportation, three hundred dollars. barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters. For commutation of quarters to not exceeding four hundred andCommutation. seventy enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal-stations throughout the United States, eighty-five thousand four hundred and forty dollars. medical department. For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted menMedical attendance, etc. of the Signal Corps, two thousand dollars.
That no part of the appropriations made for the Signal Service byNo money to be used for Fort Myer, Va. this act shall be used for the maintenance or support of a school of instruction nor of the military post at Fort Meyer, Virginia. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintaining and improving. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars.
For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-threeSuperintendents. superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the workHeadstones. of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval 535 cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 17, p. 545.Vol. 20, p. 281. seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, fifteen thousand dollars.
Maintenance of roadways to national cemeteries: For repairingRoadways. the roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, three thousand dollars. Cemetery fence, Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin: For placing anFort Winnebago, Wis. iron fence around the cemetery near the site of old Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, two thousand five hundred dollars. Monuments or tablets at Gettysburg: For the erection ofMonuments, etc., Gettysburg. monuments or memorial tablets for the proper marking of the position of each of the commands of the Regular Army engaged at Gettysburg, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Confederate cemeteries near Columbus, Ohio: For the erectionConfederate cemeteries, Columbus. O. of suitable fences around the cemeteries in which Confederate dead are buried near Columbus and on Johuson’s Island, Ohio, and for putting the grounds in good condition, two thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printingSurvey, northern and northwestern lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators, and electrotyping copperplates for chart-printing, two thousand dollars.
Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting reports, etc., to foreign countries. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus,Artificial limbs. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers:
For providing surgical appliances Appliances for disabled soldiers.for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: Support, etc., destitute patients.Providence Hospital.For the support and medical treatment of eighty-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, seventeen thousand dollars.
The Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable itGarfield Hospital. to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, ten thousand dollars. Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs andMilitary convicts. charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, ten thousand dollars. For the collection and payment of bounty, prize-money,Bounty, etc., due colored soldiers. and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors:
For payment of agents; rent of offices; stationery, office-furniture, and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents; telegraphing, postage, and post-office money orders, two thousand dollars. Publication of the Official Records of the War of theOfficial Records, War of the Rebellion.Continuing publication. Rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, as follows: For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the War of Rebellion, and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, of a compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal year, to be distributed as required by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the painting entitled “Farming in Dakota,” by“Farmingin Dakota” purchased. Carl Gutherz, three thousand dollars. 536 united states military prison at fort leavenworth.Military Prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Expenses. For the support of the Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen, twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars; For commutation of rations for prisoners on route to the Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred dollars;
For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, five hundred and forty dollars; For materials required for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For forage and bedding for six horses and thirty-two mules, used exclusively at the prison, two thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars; For hay for prisoners’ bedding, five hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-five cents; For stationery and blank-books for prison offices; memorandum books, postage-stamps, envelopes, and letter-paper for use of prisoners; and for books, periodicals, and newspapers for prison library, nine hundred and fifty dollars;
For fuel for making steam, heating, and cooking, hose and hose nozzles and couplings, belting, cotton waste, steam-pipes and fixtures, castings, disinfectants, horse and mule shoes and nails, miscellaneous stores, machinery, stoves and stovepipe, coping-stone, brick and cement, fire bricks and clay, carbolic acid and copperas, galvanized iron, sheet zinc, tin, solder, blacksmith’s coal and charcoal, iron and iron washers and nuts, doors, repair of wagons, varnish, lumber, nails, paints, wagon-wheels, harness-leather, axle-grease, sponge, oil, stable forks, glass, putty, lye, brushes, axes, shovels, wheelbarrows, and for tools and miscellaneous stores required for use in shops, laundry, stables, and police purposes not enumerated herein, eighteen thousand dollars;
For two new boilers required for increasing the generation of steam for heating new building, one thousand five hundred dollars; For hats, stockings, and material for clothing for prisoners’ wear, and for issue to prisoners on discharge, sewing-machines and parts thereof, needles, and other articles required in the tailor’s shop and in the manufacture of clothing, bunks, blankets, and bed-sacks, eight thousand dollars. For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, dressings, and articles required in the care and treatment of sick prisoners; hospital furniture and supplies; stoves and stovepipe for the hospital, two thousand dollars;
For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred dollars; For expenses for pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars. For donations of five dollars each for prisoners on discharge, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison-guard, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy cents. For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one hundred and fiftyCivilian employees. dollars per month; one clerk, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents per month; one clerk, at one hundred dollars per month; six foremen of mechanics, at one hundred dollars per month, each; two nightwatchmen and five teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and nineteen dollar: and ninety-two cents;
For materials for repairing buildings, and materials for new roofs,Repairs. including cost of labor which cannot be done by prisoners, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-five cents. 537 For donation of five dollars each and for clothing for each prisoner released from confinement under sentence executed at military posts after discharge from the military service, two thousand four hundred dollars; In all, eighty eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight dollarsTotal. and twelve cents.
Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provideArtillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. for means of instruction, such as textbooks, instruments, drawing materials, and stationery required in the course of engineering, artillery, law, and the science and art of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home, for Disabled volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers as follows:
At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses,Dayton, Ohio.Pay of officers, etc. namely: Pay of officers and non commissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinder, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, librarians and musicians, and for repairs not done by by the home; also for stationery, legal advice, and postage, and for such other expenditures as cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-four thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and five cents;
For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary-sergeantSubsistence., commissary-clerks, porters, laborers, and orderlies employed in the subsistence department; bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, bread-cutters, and butchers; the cost of all animals, fowls, and fish purchased for provisions; of all articles of food, their freight, preparation, and serving; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, baker’s and butcher’s tools and appliances, and their repair, if not. done by the home, three hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
For clothing, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing,Clothing. boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed in the tailor-shop, knitting-shop, and shoe shop, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made, one hundred thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters;Household expenses. for bedsteads, bedding, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the home; for coal and firewood; for engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, hall-cleaners, laundrymen, gas-makers, and privy-watchmen, and for all machines, tools, materials, and appliances purchased for use under this bead, and for their repair, unless the repairs are made by the home; also for all labor and material for upholstery, broom, and soap shops, eighty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and seven cents;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matron, druggist,Hospital expenses. hospital-steward, ward-masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage driver, hearse-driver, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such labor as may be necessary; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicines, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for tho sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards, kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins, and materials; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs not done by the 538 home, thirty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. home, three thousand dollars; For construction, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builder, blacksmiths,Construction and repairs. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters, stonemasons, quarrymen, white-washers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, and for repairs generally for all departments, fifty-one thousand six hundred dollars;
For one brick barrack, to replace old frame barrack, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars; For the enlargement of the hospital building at the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm expenses. farmhands, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, bog-feeders; poulterers, and laborers, and for all machines, implements, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing and seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals and fowls purchased for stock or for work, including animals in the park; for all materials, tools, and labor for flower-garden, lawn, and park; and for repairs not done by the home, thirty-six thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and twenty cents; in all, eight hundred and three thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents.
At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nineteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for Household.the Central Branch, forty-four thousand one hundred and ten dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, nineteen thousand and ten dollars and twenty-nine cents; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction and repairs.Farm. For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand six hundred dollars;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seven thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-nine cents. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Togus, Me.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand eight hundred and five dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, eighty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty cents;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head forClothing. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for Household.the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand and three dollars and sixty cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, ten thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and eleven cents; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand seven hundredTransportation. and twenty-five dollars; 539 For construction, including the same objects specified under this headConstruction and repairs. for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm. Central Branch, ten thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty cents; in all, two hundred thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-one cents. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current Hampton, Va.Current expenses.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-three thousand and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head forClothing. the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand five hundred and forty-six dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, seventeen thousand and ninety dollars and fifty-five cents; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction and repairs.
For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm. Central Branch, sixteen thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars; in all, two hundred and eighty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For currentLeavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head forClothing. the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty-five cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;
For transportation of members of the home, two thousand seven hundredTransportation. and fifty five dollars For construction, including the same objects specified under this headConstruction and repairs. for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand dollars; For the erection of a hospital building at the Western Branch, one hundred thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, seven thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifteen cents; in all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred and two dollars and twenty-five cents.
For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars:Out-door relief. in all, one million eight hundred and ten thousand five hundred and fifty-six dollars. And hereafter the detailed statement of the expensesDetailed state-meats to be submitted. of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be reported direct to Congress in the annual report of the Board of Managers. But all of the expenditures of the said Home, including the expenses of the Board of Managers, shall be made subject to the general laws governing the disbursement of public moneys, so far as the same can be made applicable thereto, and shall be audited by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, under such rules and 540 regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Proviso*.Officers not to be connected with liquor traffic.*Provided further*, That no person shall be eligible to or hold any position or employment in the government or management of any home who is interested in or connected with, directly or indirectly, any brewery, dram-shop, or distillery in the State where such home is located.
UNDER, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.Repairs. For repairs to beating apparatus, keeping the same in good order, three hundred dollars. court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt-house, Washington. repairs, per estimate, of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actualTravelling expenses, judge, etc., Alaska. . and necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars.
Rent and incidental expenses, office of marshal, TerritoryRent, etc., marshal, Alaska. of Alaska: For rent of office for the marshal, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, live hundred dollars. Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: For defrayingTerritorial courts, Utah. the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and bis assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suits in claims against United States. the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States pending in any Department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General ten thousand dollars. Defense in French spoliation claims: To enable the Attorney-GeneralFrench spoliation claims.Expenses of defense. to make proper defense for the United States in the matter of the French spoliation claims, five thousand six hundred dollars, to be expended in his discretion.
Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecutionProsecuting and collecting claims. and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds:Indian service.Prosecuting violations of inter-course acts and frauds. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as maybe necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecution of crimes against the United States. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the Investigations, etc.courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty thousand dollars. 541 Support of convicts:
For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport, etc., of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expensesUnited States courts, expenses. of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia and Alaska; of jurors and witnesses; of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; of the safekeeping of prisoners; and of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereofR.
S., Title XXVI. or supplementary thereto, generally, the expenses stated under the following heads, namely: For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshals andMarshals and deputies. deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For payment of United States district attorneys, two hundred andDistrict attorneys. twenty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys, oneAssistants. hundred thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars:Clerks.*Proviso*. *Provided*, That hereafter no part of the appropriations made for the payment of fees for United States marshals or clerks shall be used to pay the fees of United States marshals or clerks upon any writ or benchNo fee allowed for arrest of persons under recognizance. warrant for the arrest of any person or persons who may be indicted by any United States grand jury, or against whom an information may be filed, where such person or persons is or are under a recognizance taken by or before any United States commissioner, or other officer authorized by law to take such recognizance, requiring the appearance of such person or persons before the court in which such indictment is found or information is filed, and when such recognizance has not been forfeited or said defendant is not in default, unless the court in which such indictment of information is pending orders a warrant to issue; nor shall any part of any money appropriated be used in paymentPayment of per diem only when court transacts business.[R.
S., secs. 583, 584, pp. 102, 103; secs. 671, 672, p. 124; sec. 2013. p. 354](/us/rs/t/s583/584/pp102/103/s671/672/p124/s2013/p354). of a per diem compensation to any attorney, clerk, or marshal for attendance in court except for days when the court is open by the Judge for business or business is actually transacted in court, and when they attend under sections five hundred and eighty-three, five hundred and eighty-four, six hundred and seventy-one, six hundred and seventy two, and two thousand and thirteen of the Revised Statutes, which fact shall be certified in the approval of their accounts.
For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peaceCommissioner s, etc. acting as United States commissioners, fifty thousand dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any fees to United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks, for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internalArrests under internal-revenue laws. revenue laws, unless the prosecution has been approved either before or after such arrest by the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed or the prosecution is by indictment.
For fees of jurors, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Jurors.Witnesses.Support of prisoners. For fees of witnesses, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rent of United States courtrooms, sixty thousand dollars.Rent.Bailiffs, criers, etc. For pay of bailiffs and criers; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals for jurors when ordered 542 by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, Stenographers, Supreme Court.not exceeding three days for any one term of court; for stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate justice of the Supreme Court, at a sum not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each, one hundred thousand dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, two hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. botanic garden.Botanic Garden.
For constructing storehouse for plants and for steam-heating forRepairs, etc. same, repairing green houses, for extending concrete walks, and for general repairs to conservatory and propagating-houses, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand seven hundred dollars. That the SecretaryCommission to report on historical value of manuscripts, etc. of State, the Librarian of Congress, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a commission whose duty it shall be to report to Congress the character and value of the historical and other manuscripts belonging to the Government of the United States, and what method and policy should be pursued in regard to editing and publishing the same, or any of them.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for thePublic printing and binding, paper, etc. public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, the Departments, and the United States Geological Survey, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million and twenty-seven thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings andAllotment of appropriation. debates, eight hundred and two thousand dollars; and printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress the Printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business; for the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including not 543 exceeding twenty thousand four hundred dollars for the Coast andAllotment for printing and binding—Continued.
Geodetic Survey; for the War Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service; for the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office; for the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission three hundred and fifty-thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office; for the United States Geological Survey as follows:
For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the Director, eight thousand dollars; for engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-nine thousand dollars; for printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty-one thousand dollars; for engraving for the geological map of the United States, fifty-four thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; for the Post-office Department one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eighteen thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia., one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, fourteen thousand dollars; for the Library of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars; and for the Executive Office, three thousand dollars.
And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in audition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves to employees. law granting fifteen days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, ninety-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Approved, March 3, 1887.
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