Chapter 392.
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CHAP. 392.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for public printing, pensions and pay of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.May 28, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriation. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty six, namely: public printing and binding.
For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePublic printing and binding. 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 Department of State, the Treasury Department, and the Court of Claims, 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 hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred 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 and Allotment.debates, two hundred thousand dollars; for the State Department, five thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, twenty-four thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, two thousand five hundred dollars. pensions. For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorPensions. children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war *Provisos*.of eighteen hundred and twelve, six million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. pay of the army.
For pay of the Army, being a deficiency for the fiscal year endingPay of the Army. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. treasury department. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the appropriationTreasury Department; contingent expenses. “contingent expenses, Treasury Department, fuel, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,” a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “contingent expenses, Treasury Department, gas, and so forth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
” Approved, May 28, 1886.