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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · August 4, 1886 · Chapter 902

Chapter 902. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 902.— An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.August 4, 1886. *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 stuns be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings To complete the construction of a frame or log court-house and jailJuneau City Alaska. at Juneau City, Alaska, four thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuationBaltimore, Mb. of building, two hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Baltimore, Maryland: For approaches, twenty thousand dollars; for completion of buildings, five hundred dollars; and for laundry apparatus, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post-office at Buffalo, New York: For repairsBuffalo, N. Y. to building and sidewalk, ten thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Cairo, Illinois: For completionCairo, Ill. of the approaches and buildings, four thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-three cents. For customhouse at Charleston, South Carolina: For completingCharleston, S. C. wharf, forty thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Chattanooga, Tennessee: For purchaseChattanoga, Tenn. of site and completion of building, one hundred thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post-office at Chicago, Illinois: For extraordinaryChicago, Ill. repairs, fifty-thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Columbus, Ohio: For approaches,Columbus, Ohio. six thousand dollars. For court-house and post office at Detroit, Michigan: For continuationDetroit, Mich. of building, fifty-thousand dollars. For customhouse, court-house, and post-office at El Paso, Texas: For procuringEl Paso, Tex. site and commencing the erection of building, fifty-thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Erie, Pennsylvania: For completionEric, Pa. of building under present limit, fifty-thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Fort Scott, Kansas: For approachesFort Scott, Kans. and heating apparatus complete, twelve thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Fort Wayne, Indiana: For heatingFort Wayne, Ind.Galveston, Tex.Vol. 23, p. 195. apparatus, elevator, and approaches complete, fifteen thousand dollars. For custom house at Galveston, Texas:
That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, for continuation of the court-house and post-office, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated and made available for the completion of the customhouse at Galveston, Texas. For court-house and post-office at Jefferson City, Missouri: For approachesJefferson City, Mo. complete, exclusive of iron fencing, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For customhouse and post-office at Kansas City, Missouri: That theKansas City, Mo.Vol. 23, p. 480. balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for approaches, sewerage, and clock may be applied to completion of work in the building, as contemplated in the estimate for appropriation; and that an additional sum of two thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty cents be appropriated to reimburse the construction appropriation for expenditures for temporary heating, and one thou- 223 sand eight hundred dollars for marble wainscot in post-office working-room; in all, four thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty cents.
For post-office at Lexington, Kentucky: For approachesLexington, Ky. and heating apparatus complete, thirteen thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For approachesLeaven worth, Kans. complete, exclusive of iron fence, four thousand five hundred dollars; for connection to city sewer, fourteen dollars and three cents; in all, four thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and three cents. For court house and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky:
For continuationLouisville, Ky. of building, two hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Lynchburg, Virginia: For approachesLynchburg, Va. complete, exclusive of iron fence, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For court-house and post-office at Macon, Georgia: For completionMacon, Ga. of building under present limit, fifty-thousand dollars. For post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: For continuationMinneapolis, Minn. of building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Nebraska City, Nebraska: For approachesNebraska City, Neb. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. To repair walks and fountain in United States grounds surroundingLincoln, Nebr. post-office building in Lincoln, Nebraska, five hundred dollars. For mint building at New Orleans, Louisiana: For extraordinaryNow Orleans, La. repairs absolutely necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. For post-office at New Bedford, Massachusetts: For the purchaseNow Bedford, Muss.Vol. 23, p. 304. of land adjoining and additional to that authorized to be purchased by the act of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, thirty-thousand dollars.
For the post-office, customhouse, internal-revenue office, and court-houseNow Haven, Conn. at New Haven, Connecticut: To pay an assessment for the connection with the city sewer, two hundred and ten dollars. To pay assessment for replacing sidewalk for marine hospital, Detroit,Detroit, Mich. Michigan, five hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-two cents. For court-house and post-office at Oxford, Mississippi: For approachesOxford, Miss. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars.
For post-office and court-house at Peoria, Illinois: For approachesPeoria, Ill. complete, exclusive of iron fence, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For court-house and post-office at Pensacola, Florida: For approachesPensacola, Fla. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuationPittsburgh, Pa. of building, two hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at Port Townsend, Washington Territory:
For approachesPort Townsend, Wash. and heating apparatus complete, twelve thousand dollars. For post-office at Poughkeepsie, New York: For approachesPonghkeepsin, N. Y. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Quincy, Illinois: For approachesQuincy, Ill. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For post-office, customhouse, and court-house at Rochester, New York: For continuingRochester, N. Y. the work on and construction of the building, one hundred thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post-office at St. Joseph, Missouri: For continuationSaint Joseph , Mo. of building under present limit, fifty-thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Saint Paul, Minnesota: To enableSaint Paul,Minn. the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase the ground, consisting of two lots, adjoining the United States court-house, and post-office building in the city of Saint Paul, in the State of Minnesota, fronting not to exceed one hundred feet on Wabasha street and extending back to the depth of the said lots, or, in his discretion, ground adjoining the said premises of the United States, and fronting not to exceed one hundred feet on Fifth street and extending back the depth of said Government premises, thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 224 For court-house and post-office at Savannah, Georgia:
For purchaseSavannah, Ga. of site and commencing the erection of building, fifty thousand dollars. For post office at Springfield, Ohio: For approaches and heating apparatusSpringfield, Ohio. complete, ten thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Syracuse, New York: For approachesSyracuse, N. Y. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Shreveport, Louisiana: For completingShreveport, La. approaches, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For post office at Terre Haute, Indiana: For approachesTerra Haute, Ind. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For custom house and court-house at Toledo, Ohio: For approachesToledo, Ohio. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Tyler, Texas: For approachesTyler, Tex. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Waco, Texas: For approachesWaco, Tex. complete, exclusive of iron fence, five thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Wilmington, Delaware: For purchaseWilmington, Del. of site and completion of building, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Winona, Minnesota: For completionWinona, Minn. of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. For the completion of the public building at Montpelier, Vermont, in additionMontpelier, Vt.Vol. 23, p. 482. to the sum appropriated by the act entitled “An act for the erection of a public building at Montpelier, Vermont,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, fifty-thousand dollars.
For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For annualTreasury building, Washington, D. C.Plumbing, etc. repairs to Treasury building, nine thousand dollars. To put the Treasury building in a proper sanitary condition by improved plumbing, sewerage, and drainage, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For construction of a new sewerBureau of Engraving and Printing.New sewer. from the south side of said building to the corner of Fourteenth and D streets southwest, to connect at that point with the city sewer, one thousand two hundred dollars; the work to be done under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs andRepairs, etc., of public buildings. preservation of customhouses, court-houses, post-offices, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, two hundred thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of marine hospitals, twentyRepairs, etc., marine hospitals. thousand dollar’s. light-houses, beacons and fog-signals.Light houses, beacons, and fog-signals. Winter-Quarter Shoal Light-Ship, Virginia: For completingWinter-Quarter Shoal, Va. the construction and establishment of a light-ship, with fog-signal, for Winter-Quarter Shoal, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars.
Mosquito Inlet Light-Station, Florida: For completingMosquito Inlet, Fla.*Proviso*.Limit. the construction of the light-house at Mosquito Inlet, Florida, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the entire cost of this work shall not exceed the original estimate of two hundred thousand dollars. Anclote Keys Light-Station, Florida: For completingAnclote Keys, Fla. the establishment of a light at Anclote Keys, Florida, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Angel Island Fog Signal, California:
For completing the fog-signalAngel Island Cal. on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, California, five hundred and fifty dollars. Destruction Island Light-Station, Washington Territory: For completingDestruction Island, Wash. Ter. a first-order light and fog signal on Destruction Island, Washington Territory, forty-five thousand dollars. Moose Peak Light-Station, Maine: For rebuilding the tower at MooseMoose Peak, Me. Peak Light-Station, Maine, ten thousand dollars. 225 New Bedford Beacon Light, Massachusetts:
For the establishmentNew Bedford, Mass. of a light on the bridge between New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, two hundred dollars. Cape Charles Light-Station, Virginia: For purchasing land, if necessary,Cape Charles, Va. and protecting the site of the Cape Charles Light-Station, entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars. Dutch Gap Canal Light-Station, Virginia: For the purchase of additionalDutch Gap Canal, Va. land for the Dutch Gap Canal Light-Station, James River, Virginia, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Seul Choix Point Light-Station, Michigan: For establishing a lightSeul Choix Point, Mich. on Seul Choix Point, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars Chesapeake Bay Light-Ship: For the construction of a light ship,Chesapeake Bay entrance. with steam fog-signal, to be located off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, sixty thousand dollars. Point Sur light-house and Fog-Signal, California: For commencingPoint Sur, Cal. the construction of a light-house and fog-signal at or near Point Sur, on the coast of California, fifty-thousand dollars.
Castle Hill light-house and Fog-Signal, Rhode Island: For the establishmentCastle Hill, R. I. and completion of a light-house and fog signal on Castle Hill, Rhode Island, at the entrance to Newport Harbor, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That a suitable site for the same can be obtained*Proviso*. without expense to the Government, upon terms and conditions to Site.be agreed upon by the light-house Board with the owner of the land at Castle Hill. Whitehall Narrows Light-Station, New York:
For the establishmentWhitehall Narrows, N. Y. and completion of a light above Pulpit Point, Whitehall Narrows, New York, two hundred dollars. Gull Rocks light-house and Fog-Signal, Rhode Island: For the establishmentGull Bocks, R. I. and completion of a light-house and fog-signal on one of the Gull Rocks, opposite the United States Naval Training-School, in Upper Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, ten thousand dollars. Crab-tree’s Ledge light-house, Maine: For the establishmentCrab-tree’s Ledge, Me. and completion of a light-house on Crabtree’s Ledge (so called), between Bean Island and the mainland of Crabtree’s Neck, in Frenchman’s Bay, Hancock County, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Deer Island light-house and Fog-Signal, Massachusetts: For the establishmentDeer Island, Mass. and completion of a light-house and fog-signal at or near Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, thirty-five thousand dollars. Lubec Narrows light-house, Maine: For the establishmentLubec Narrows, Me. and completion of a light-house at or near Lubec Narrows, Maine, forty thousand dollars. Two Harbors light-house, Minnesota: For the establishment and completion ofTwo Harbors, Minn. a light-house at Two Harbors, Minnesota, ten thousand dollars.
North Point Light-Station, Wisconsin: For the establishment and completionNorth Point, Wis. of a light-station at or near North Point, to take the place of the old one near Milwaukee, on Milwaukee Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. Steam-tender for the fourth light-house district: For buildingSteam-tender, fourth light-house district. and completing a new steam-tender for service in the fourth light-house district, sixty-eight thousand three hundred dollars.
The light-house Board is hereby authorized to place a light-shipRam Island Reef, Long Island Sound, N. Y. off the south end of Bam Island Beef, Fisher’s Island Sound, Long Island Sound, New York. For the establishment of a light-ship to be stationed off Grosse Pointe,Grosse Pointe, Mich. Lake Saint Clair, Michigan three thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to remove the light-shipHogg Island Shoal, Narragansett Bay. formerly stationed at Eel Grass Shoals to the southeast end of Hogg Island Shoal, Narragansett Bay, one hundred dollars.
For reestablishing the light at Harbor Island Bar, between PamlicoHarbor Island Bar. N. C.. and Cove Sounds, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars. 226 life-saving stations.Life-saving stations. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:Superintendents’ salaries. On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one, and on the coast of Massachusetts, one, at one thousand live 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 Island and Long Island, who shall reside on the mainland of the State 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 live hundred dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent of 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 life-saving 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 life-saving 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 three keepers of life-savingKeepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fifty-six thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews. stations during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving 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 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 Miscellaneous expenses.shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of 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 Vol. 22, p. 57.apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty 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; ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; travelling expenses of officers travelling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; contingent expenses including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising surveys, labor and miscellaneous 227 expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
For the construction or purchase of a steam revenue-vessel for use onSteam revenue-vessel for Mississippi River. the Mississippi River between New Orleans and the Passes, ten thousand dollars. Storehouse Revenue-Marine Service, Wood’s Holl, Massachusetts:Store-house, Wood’s Hall, Mass. For extension of wharf and erection of a building to be used as a warehouse and coal storehouse for Revenue-Marine Service, at Wood’s Holl Massachusetts, twelve thousand dollars. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, eighteen hundredSalaries. and eighty-seven: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, and for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving transferring, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving notes, bonds, and other securities or obligations of the United States and national-bank notes, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Largo notes not to be issued in place of small denominations.Wages of plate-printers, etc. portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of large denomination in lieu of notes of small denomination cancelled or retired.
For wages of not more than one hundred and eighty plate-printers, 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 two hundred printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty five cents a day each when employed, and for royalty for use of steam plate-printing machines, three hundred and seven thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That any part of this sum may be used for *Proviso*.Improved presses.Materials, etc.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 forty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. *Provided*, That hereafter receipts for*Proviso*.Receipts from miscellaneous work. miscellaneous work authorized by law to be performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the several Departments of the Government, and the amounts properly chargeable to national banks tor engraving their plates shall be deposited, and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
And the Secretary-of the Treasury is hereby authorized and requiredSilver-certificates of one, two, and five dollars to be issued.Vol. 20, p. 26. 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 of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character,” and denominations of one, two, and five dollars maybe 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 light-houses: 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 fifty thousand dollars. 228 Repairs of light-houses: 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 varions objects three hundred thousand dollars, Salaries of keepers of light-houses:
For salaries, fuel, rations,Salaries of keepers, etc. rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand and fifty light-keepers and fog-signals keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: For seaman’s wages, rationsLight-vessels., repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty lightships, two hundred thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expensesBuoyage. of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred thousand dollars.
Expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, replacing, Fog-signals.duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, fifty thousand dollars. Inspecting lights: For mileage or travelling expensesInspection. of members of the light-house Board in visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, three thousand dollars. Lighting of rivers:
For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post-lights of the Hudson Hiver,Lighting rivers. New York; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s River, Florida; Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, Survey of light-house sites: For preliminarySurvey of sites. examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars.
That the light and fog-bell appropriated for by the act of March thirdBush’s Bluff, Va., light and fog-bell.Vol. 23, p. 485. eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to be established on Bush’s Bluff, near Norfolk, Virginia, may be placed at such point in the vicinity of the bluff as the light-house Board may select. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic,Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts and rivers.
Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the bead 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; a magnetic map of North America; 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 travelling 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, to be expended under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance of money to *Proviso*.Advances of money to be made only to commissioned or bonded.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. 229 For party expenses:Party expenses.
For continuing the survey of the coast of Maine eastward from Machias Bay toward Quoddy Head, eight thousand dollars. For examination of reported dangers and changes on the eastern coast, five hundred dollars. For continuing resurvey of Long Island Sound, and finishing same, fifteen thousand dollars. For completing resurvey of Delaware Bay and River, including current observations, two thousand dollars. For continuing examination of changes and resurveys on the seacoast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For continuing the examinations and surveys of estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, and of sounds and tidewater passages in North and South Carolina not heretofore surveyed, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Estero Bay southward and from Saint Joseph’s Bay northward, and hydrography of same, five thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of t he Mississippi Delta, and hydrography on the coasts of Louisiana and Texas, five thousand dollars.
To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, six thousand dollars. For physical surveys and examinations of Monomy Shoals. Nantucket Sound, two thousand dollars. For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, two thousand five hundred dollars. For determinations of geographical positions (longitude party), three thousand dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three thousand dollars.
For continuing an exact line of levels from the Gulf to the transcontinental line of levels between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and for continuing the transcontinental line of levels, one thousand five hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, two thousand dollars. To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,, five hundred dollars. To continue gravity experiments, at a cost not exceeding five hundred dollars per station, except for special investigations and experiments authorized by the Superintendent at one or more stations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern California, five thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including offshore hydrography, and to complete the survey of ColumbiaRiverand Willamette River to the head of ship navigation, six thousand five hundred 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, four thousand dollars. For travelling 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 four thousand dollars. For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand Party expenses.two hundred and fifty dollars.
For magnetic observations on the Pacific coast one thousand five hundred dollars. 230 For objects not hereinbefore named-that may be deemed urgent three thousand dollars.Party expenses—Continued. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyTen percent, to be interchangeable. for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For furnishing points for State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, eight thousand dollars.
Transcontinental geodetic work:Transcontinental work. For continuation of geodetic work on transcontinental line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing resurvey of New York Bay and Harbor including East River to Throg’s Neck, eight thousand dollars. For continuing physical hydrography of New York Bay and Harbor, including East River to Throg’s Neck, eight thousand dollars. For constructing one steam-launch, three thousand five hundred dollars,Steam-launch.
For resurvey of San Francisco Bay, and of San Pablo and Suisun Bays and the Strait of Carquinez, and examination of San Francisco Bar and entrance, and the mouths of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, eleven thousand dollars. Pay of field officers:Pay of field officers.Superintendent.Assistants. For pay of Superintendent, six thousand dollars per annum. For pay of two assistants, at four thousand dollars per annum, eight thousand dollars. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand six hundred dollars per annum.
For pay of one assistant, at three thousand two hundred dollars per annum. For pay of two assistants, at three thousand dollars per annum, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants at two thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, five thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars, per annum, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of three assistants, at two thousand three hundred dollars per annum, six thousand nine hundred dollars.
For pay of six assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars per annum, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars, For pay of Six assistants at two thousand dollars per annum, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of ten assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, eighteen thousand dollars. For pay of nine assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of three subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, four thousand two hundred dollars, For pay of two snbassistants, at one thousand three hundred dollars per annum, two thousand six hundred dollars, For pay of four subassistants, at one thousand one hundred dollars per annum, four thousand four hundred dollars, For pay of six aids, at nine hundred dollars per annum, five thousand four hundred dollars, For pay of one aid, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum.
Total pay in field, one hundred and twenty-three thousand one hundred*Provisos*.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. Pay of office force:Employees in office. For one accountant, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one accountant, at one thousand four hundred dollars. 231 For one general office assistant, at two thousand two hundred dollars.Pay of employees in office—Cont’d.
For one draughtsman, at two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand one hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand and fifty dollars. For two draughtsmen, at two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars, four thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at four dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-five cents.
For one draughtsman, at one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For two draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at three dollars and fifty cents per working-day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents. For one draughtsman, at three dollars per working day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For two computers, atone thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For one computer, at one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For one computer, at one thousand three hundred dollars. For one computer, at one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For one computer, at one thousand one hundred dollars. For one tidal computer, at two thousand dollars. For one tidal computer, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For one engraver, at two thousand and sixty dollars. For one engraver, at six dollars and thirty-nine cents per working-day, two thousand dollars.
For one engraver, at six dollars and twenty-five cents per working day, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-five cents For two engravers, at five dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, three thousand six hundred dollars. For one engraver, at five dollars per working-day, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one engraver, at four dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-five cents.
For one engraver, at four dollars and fifty cents per working-day, one thousand four hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents For one engraver, at three dollars per working-day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.
For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum. For one electrotypist, at two thousand dollars. For one electrotypist’s helper, at three dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For one copperplate printer, at five dollars and fifty cents per working-day, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents. For two copperplate printers, at four dollars and twenty five cents per working-day, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents. 232 For one copper-plate printer, at four dollars per working-day, onePay of employees in office—Cont’d. thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For two plate-printers’ helpers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand four hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents. For one chief mechanician, at two thousand dollars. For one mechanician, at five dollars per working-day, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one mechanician, at four dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-five cents. For one mechanician, at four dollars per working-day, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For one mechanician, at three dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For one mechanician, at two dollars and eighty-two cents per working-day, eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For one mechanician, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per working-day, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. For one carpenter, at five dollars per working-day, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For one carpenter, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, seven hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents. For one carpenter, at one dollar and eighty-two cents per working-day, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents. For one map-mounter, at three dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. For one librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollar’s, three thousand dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand dollars. For one clerk, at nine hundred dollars. For one clerk, at three dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
For one map-colorist, at seven hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, at nine hundred dollars. For one writer, at eight hundred and forty dollars. For six writers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, at six hundred dollars. For one messenger, at two dollars and forty cents per day, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. For one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars. For three messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per day, two thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
For three messengers, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents. For one fireman, at two dollars per day, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For one fireman, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For one packer and folder, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per day, eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents 233 For one packer and folder, at two dollars per working-day, six hundredPay of employees in office—Cout’d. and twenty-six dollars.
For two laborers, at two dollars per working day, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For two laborers, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents. For one laborer, at one. dollar per working day, three hundred and thirteen dollars. For one laborer, at one dollar per day, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars. For three watchmen, at two dollars and forty cents per day, two thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.
Total pay for office force, one hundred and twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-two cents. Office expenses:Office 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 electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, electro-typing, and photographing supplies; for extra engraving; and for photolithographing 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,Contingent expenses. repairs, and extra labor, and for travelling 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.
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 safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records, of the original topographical and hydrographic maps end 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. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs andRepairs, etc., of vessels. maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey,, twenty-five thousand dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and GeodeticSubsistence not allowed to civilians on duty in Washington, nor to 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. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight, andPaper for internal-revenue stamps, etc. salaries of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, fifty-thousand 234 Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws:
For Punishment for violations of 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.
To provide for the expense of executing the provisions of the oleomargarineOleomargarine act expenses.*Ante*, p, 209. act, fifteen thousand dollars, in addition to the regular appropriation for the internal-revenue service. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedPhiladelphia. to sell at public auction, in the city of Philadelphia, Old court-house and post-office to be sold at auction.Pennsylvania, to the highest bidder, after thirty days’ notice in four of the principal newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia, in one or more lots, the land and premises known as the old court-house and post-office in said city, lying upon Chestnut street and extending back to Library street, and between Fourth and Fifth streets, and adjoining the present customhouse site in said city; the time and place of said sale in said city to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at a date not later than ninety days after the passage of this act, and at a price not less than three Minimum price.hundred thousand dollars, with power to reject any or all bids, and to readvertise and offer the said property in like manner as often as may be necessary to secure the value thereof, and the cost to be paid from the proceeds of sale; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Assessment of value.Treasury to cause inquiry to be made as to the value of this property, and if it shall appear that the price above-named is inadequate he is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three persons in the employ of the United States to assess the value of the said property, and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, when the sum fixed by this board shall be the minimum price at which the property may be thus sold.
Contingent expenses independent Treasury: For contingentPublic moneys, R. S., sec. 3053, p. 719.Expenses of fiscal agents. 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. For additional clerical force for the assistant treasurer of New York,Assistant treasurer, New York. six thousand four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Freight on bullion and coin: For freight on bullion and coinFreight on bullion and coin. between the mints and assay-offices, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Expenses of the national currency: For paper, express charges,National currency expenses. and other expenses, twenty thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, including transportation,Distinctive paper. etc. salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, thirty thousand dollars.
Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coinSilver coin, transporting. by registered mail or otherwise, seventy-five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries,To be free of charge.*Proviso*. free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount 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: TheRecoinage, etc., of minor coins. Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States 235 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 requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the expense of transportation for such reissue.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to recoin any and all the uncurrent minor coins now in the Treasury; and the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to reimburse the Treasury for the loss on such coinage. Transportation of gold coin: For the transportation of goldGold coin, transportation. coin from San Francisco to New York, ten thousand dollars. Storage of silver, transportation: For transportation of silverSilver coin, transportation. coin between subtreasury offices, fifty thousand dollar’s.
Mint at Philadelphia: For the removal of the steam power plantMint, Philadelphia. to the northwest corner of the mint property, locating theRepairs, etc. boiler-room outside of the walls of the main building, for underpinning, new walls, girders, brickwork, new boilers, engine, steam-pipes, and shafting, fifty-four thousand six hundred thirty-nine dollars and twenty cents; to be expended under the immediate supervision of the superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia, on contract, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinageGold and silver coins, recoinage. of gold and silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodians of Custodians of dies, rolls, and plates, Bureau of Engraving and Printing.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; distributer of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Destruction of United States securities.Pay of witness to. For pay of the 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 sixty-five dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materialsSecurities, expenses of sealing and separating. needed To seal and separate United States notes, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm-oil, white printing-paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta percha belting, and other necessary articles, one thousand two hundred 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 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:Inspection of furniture, etc., for public buildings.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect ah 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, carpets, repairs of furniture, etc. of furniture, including carpets, and awnings where necessary, 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 fifty 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. 236 Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, water, etc., for public buildings. lights, water, electric-light plants for public buildings in New York and elsewhere when deemed necessary 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.
Gas in District of Columbia.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 Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Proviso*.Rent of gas-governor, etc.*Provided*, That no sum shall be paid for such rental or use of such gas-governor, gas-purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby.
Heating apparatus for public buildings, including new buildings:Heating, etc., apparatus, public buildings. For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and thirty-five 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:Plans for public buildings. For books, photographic materials, 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 introductionPropagation of food-fishes, expenses. by the United 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 inquiry 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 at Duluth, Minnesota: For the establishmentFish-hatchery, Duluth, Minn. of a fish-hatchery on Lake Superior, *Proviso*.at or near Duluth, Minnesota, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the city of Duluth shall furnish without charge a suitable site for said fish-hatchery. Rent of office United States Fish Commission: For cent ofSite.Rent. rooms in the city of Washington, two thousand and forty dollars. Maintenance of fish-ponds: For the preparation and maintenance of fish ponds in Fish-ponds.Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of the eggs and young of the whitefish,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 of the United States Fish Commission,Vessels. and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and the other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars Steamer Albatross: For the constructionSteamer Albatross, expenses. and introduction of new boilers for the steamer Albatross, and other necessary general repairs, twenty thousand dollars; for expenses of voyage from New York to San Francisco, including cost of coal and other necessary supplies, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution: For expenses of the system ofSmithsonian Institution.Expenses of international exchanges. international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian 237 Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten 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 grimes: 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 lieuCompensation in lieu of moieties. of moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty 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. For one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred ingoingTraveling expenses. to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed six hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheriesProtection of interest of the Government, seal-Islands, etc. in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue-steamers for the protection of the interest of the Government on the seal-islands and the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty thousand dollars, prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case ofPrevention and suppression of epidemic diseases.Vol. 23, p. 496. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera or yellow fever, to use the un-expended balance of the sum appropriated therefor by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five 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.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For completion of stoneMare Island navy-yard, California. dry-dock, one hundred and ninety-one thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars; for completion of iron crane, twenty-two thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. 238 Navy yard, Brooklyn, New York: For repairing and preservingBrooklyn, N. Y., navy-yard. granite dry-dock, one hundred thousand dollars.
Naval Training-Station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, Erode Island:Coaster’s Harbor naval training station, Rhode Island. For extending wharf and dredging; repairs to main causeway, sea wall, roads, buildings and grounds, Expenses.and the necessary labor and implements required for the proper preservation of the same, eight, thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements on buildings; heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery; freight and other contingent expenses; facing building with Portland cement; purchase of food and maintenance of horses, and mail wagon, and attendance on same, six thousand dollars.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards,Repairs, etc., navy-yards and stations. and stations, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. French spoliation claims: To enable the Secretary of State to French spoliation claims.To complete search for and procure records, etc.Vol, 23, p. 283.complete the preliminary search already made 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 July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and one”, and to make a similar search in Spain or elsewhere, and to procure the records and documents already found and that may hereafter be found, or certified copies or abstracts thereof, to be used by the Attorney-General of the United States before the Court of Claims, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.
Statue of “Liberty Enlightening-the World:” To defrayStatue of Liberty enlightening the World. the expenses incident to the landing, housing, protecting, and inaugurating upon Bedloe’s Island of Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World,” and for constructions of platforms, repairs of wharf, clearing grounds of unsightly structures, Expenses of inauguration.and other incidental expenses, and for incidental expenses of the ceremony of inauguration, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars: *Proviso*.No expenditure allowed for liquors, tobacco, etc.*Provided, however*, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used to procure or pay for spirituous or intoxicating liquors, or tobacco, or stimulats or narcotics in any form, nor shall any charge or expenditure for the same be paid by the United States.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings. Casual repairs of the Interior Department building: ForRepairs of Department building. casual repairs of the Department building, five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; necessary painting and frescoing in rooms and walls of the Interior Department building, two thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Pension building: For completing the PensionPension building, completion of.
Office Building, namely: For extending the fourth floor around the whole building, to extend the wrought iron gallery, and to provide light, heat, and ventilation for the new fourth story rooms to be used for record rooms, sixty-one thousand dollars; renewing roof covering injured during construction of superstructure, and painting inside and out, plastering and decorating walls of hall and office rooms, wood flooring in office rooms, tiling and other pavements, vault lights, hall and cellars, skylights, ventilating towers, entrance gate and gateways, supervision, foremen, superintendent, office expenses, and contingencies, eighty-nine thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And the. said 239 Pension Office Building shall be under the control of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. For the Capitol: For work on the Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including wages of mechanics, workmen, and fresco-painter, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of theCapitol grounds, improvement, etc. improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including the pay to landscape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gardeners, and workmen, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Capitol terraces: For continuing the work upon the terraces ofCapitol terraces, continuing work. the Capitol, sections marked K, D, and J, as shown on printed plan accompanying the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury (Executive Document Number Nine, first session Forty-eighth Congress), including wages of mechanics and laborers, and for reconstructing boiler-vaults connected with sections 0 and K, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; of which sum twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended for the completion of the work on sections A,B, C, L, and M, of said terraces.
Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol,Capitol and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, SenateLightning. and House stables: For gas and electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters and for materials for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For introducing the electric light into the entire Senate extension Electric light in Senate wing.wing of the Capitol under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars. hot springs improvement.Hot Springs.
For completion of improvement of Hot Springs Creek, twenty thousandCompleting improvement. dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from: sales of public lands.Sales 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, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars. All fees collectedNot allowed fees in excess of $3,000. 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 maybe 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,Land-offices, contingent expenses. rent, and other incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingExpenses of depositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber: To meet the expenses of protectingProtection of timber. timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Protecting public lands: For the protectionProtection horn fraudulent entry, etc. of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, ninety thousand dollars. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearingsExpenses of hearings in land entries. held by registers and receivers, under instructions from 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. 240 Settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp land indemnity:Swamp-land claims.
For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamplands, and for indemnity for swamplands, twenty *Proviso*thousand dollars; *Provided*, That agents and others employed under this and the appropriations for “Depredations on public timber” and “Protecting public lands,” while travelling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, Per diem of agents.at a rate not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing worn and defaced 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. For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, and paying therefor,Transcripts of records. five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. surveying the public lands.Survey of public lands.
For surveying the public lands, fifty thousand dollars, at rates notExpenses. exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated, twenty-five 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, and inspecting mineral deposits, coalfields, swamplands, 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 surveying the public lands in the State of Nevada, thirty thousandSurveying public lands in Nevada. dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines.
For survey of confirmed private land-claims in New Mexico, at ratesPrivate land claims, New Mexico.Private land claims, California.Private land claims, Louisiana.Care, etc., abandoned military reservations. prescribed by law, three thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the rates prescribed by law, including office expenses, two thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in Louisiana, at the rates prescribed by law, four 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. For the survey of the alleged grant known as the Hanson grant, inSurveyor “Hanson grant,” Florida. the State of Florida, four hundred dollars, the said sum to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
Protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park:Yellow stone Park, construction of roads and bridges. For 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. united states geological survey.Geological survey.Expenses. For the United States Geological Survey: For the Geological survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the 241 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.
For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: ForSalaries. 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; 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-five thousand 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 buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars.Repairs, etc.Special improvements. Special improvements, namely: For rebuilding wash-house and drying-room of the laundry, and refitting the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. For iron stairs, with fireproof passages, and further protection against fire, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection of a hospital building for convict and homicidal insane, fifty thousand 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: *Provided*, That no more than twenty-five thousand dollars of said*Proviso*.Limit as to wages. sum shall be expended for salaries and wages. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the educationEducation of feeble-minded children. 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. 242 For the extension of the buildings of the institution for the purposeExtension of buildings. of providing additional school-room accommodation, and also room for the instruction of the pupils in industrial labor, and for furnishing and fitting up said additional building, eight thousand dollars. howard university.Howard University.
For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentCurrent expenses. 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, five thousand dollars.Repairs.Additions to library, etc. For additions to library, cabinet, apparatus, and necessary accommodations for the same, two thousand dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum.Freedmen’s Hospital.
For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District ofCurrent expenses. Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand dollars; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, two assistant surgeons, engineer, clerk, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, thirteen thousand six hundred 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; erecting one two-story building, to be used as bathrooms and water closets for wards one and two, nine hundred dollars; one mangle, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; two washing-machines, eight hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. national museum.National Museum.
Heating and lighting the National Musuem: For expenseHeating, lighting, etc. of heating, lighting, and electrical and telephonic service for the National Museum, eleven thousand dollars. Preservation of collections of the National Museum: ForPreservation of collections, etc. the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections received from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and six thousand five hundred dollars.
Furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For cases,Furniture, etc. furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. growth of industrial art. That the provision of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and“Growth of Industrial Art.”Vol. 23, p. 497. eighty-five, authorizing the reproduction of the “Growth of Industrial Art,” heretofore prepared by and under the supervision of Benjamin Butterworth, be modified and amended to the extent and as herein Provided: that the said “Growth of Industrial Art” may be reproduced of Dimensions of volume.a size not less than thirteen by seventeen inches and bound in one volume.
Such reproduction shall be under the direction and supervision of the said Benjamin Butterworth, and he is authorized to add any Additional statistics.additional statistics and historical matter which may have been prepared for said work, provided the same can be done and the entire cost of such reproduction, including the binding, which shall be done by the Public Printer, shall not exceed the amount heretofore set apart and designated for that purpose by the aforesaid act. 243 bureau of labor.Labor Bureau.
For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library of the BureauLibrary. of Labor, five hundred dollars. For the education of the children of school age in the Territory ofEducation of children, Alaska. Alaska, without regard to race, fifteen thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed toLen-ne-pi-ze-ena, alias Nancy La mountain.Payment to. pay to Len-ne-pi-ze-qua, alias Nancy Laiontain, an Indian woman residing in Miand County, State of Indiana, and of the band of Indians known as the Miamies of Indiana, the sum of six hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, with interest thereon at five per centum per annum for one.year, equal to one per capita share paid to the said Miamies of Indiana by authority of the act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, which appropriated theVol. 21, p. 433. sum necessary to make the final payment to said Indians and directed the payment thereof, the sum herein directed to be paid to said Len-ne-pi-ze-qua being her per capita share in said payment; and the sum necessary to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill. For armory-shop K, an iron-fishing shop, thirty-five thousand dollars. For commencing storehouse K, thirty-five thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, seventeen thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvement; 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 the Rock Island Bridge as follows:Bridge expenses. For care and preservation of the Rock Island Bridge, and expenses 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. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield, Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. For construction of a fireproof building to be used as a milling-shop, thirty thousand dollars.
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For purchasing andBenicia, Cal. erecting one boiler for shops, one thousand four hundred dollars. For building a. brick cistern at magazine number one, three thousand three hundred dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For twoFrankford, Pa. new seventy-horsepower double deck steam-boilers, complete, with all equipments, including one steam donkey-pump, gauges, injectors, and patent grates, six thousand dollars. For one twenty-five horsepower expansion steam-engine, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For increasing height of stack, twenty-five feet, nine hundred dollars. For two compound double-action presses, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For four combined priming and shell-spreading machines, two thousand two hundred dollars. For four cartridge-trimming machines, two thousand dollars. For three cartridge-tapering machines, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one cartridge-varnishing machine, four hundred dollars. 244 New York Arsenal, New York City: For dredging in front ofNew York City. stone wharf, five hundred dollars.
Piccatiny Powder Depot, Dover, New Jersey: For gradingPiccatiuy Powder Depot, Dover, N. J. grounds, erecting magazines and other necessary buildings, and all expenses incident thereto, thirty-five thousand dollars. Sandy Hook Proving Ground,New Jersey: For clearing,Sandy Hook Proving Ground. leveling, grading and building roads and general repairs, three thousand dollars. Testing-machine, Watertown Arsenal: For caringWatertown arsenal.Testing-machine. for, preserving, using, and operating the United States testing-machine at Water-town Arsenal, ten thousand dollars.
Repair of arsenals: For repairs of arsenals, and to meet such 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. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows:Repairs, etc.Buildings and grounds, Washington,D. C. 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 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 manure, and hauling same, five thousand dollars.
For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars, For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flower-pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred 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 improving grounds around the Pension Building, Judiciary Square, five thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall beImprovement, care, etc.Limit of cost of concrete pavements. made 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 heretofore laid in the District of Columbia.
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 and greenhouses three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For repair of conservatory of Executive Mansion, six thousand dollars. 245 Lighting-the Executive Mansion and public grounds, ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamp lighters, gas-fitters, anti plumbers; gas-fitting and plumbing; purchase and erection of lamps and lampposts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand*Proviso*.Maximum payment per lamp. dollars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter 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 fireplugs—For repairing and extendingWater-pipe and fire-plugs.Repairs, etc. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, 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 Departments and Government Government telegraph.Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Building for the State, War, and Navy Departments: ForBuilding for State, War, and Navy Departments.Completion. completing the construction of the building, roofs, heating apparatus, elevators, partitions, iron work, doors, plastering and stucco-work, plumbing and gas-fitting, approaches, and for each and every purpose connected with the construction of the building, including the rent of necessary office-room, five hundred thousand dollars. Washington Monument: For completion of the Washington Monument,Washington Monument. namely:
For earth-filling and grading around the monument, filling so much of the pond just north of Monument as may be needful to secure the foundation of the monument, office expenses, including rent of necessary office-rooms, and for each and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, fifty-seven thousand dollars,Completion.Vol. 21, p. 123.*Proviso*.Filling pond. to be expended under the direction of the joint commission created by the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six: *Provided*, That the work of filling the pond north of the monument shall not be commenced before December first,eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
Building for Army Medical Museum and Library: For stacksMedical Museum. of bookcases in library hall, including iron supports, stairs, and perforated gallery-floors, twenty thousand dollars. For shelving and cases for record and pension division two thousandCases, shelving, etc. dollars. For cases for museum, ten thousand dollars. For shelving and cases for center building, two thousand dollars. For carpets and furniture, three thousand dollars. For gas-fixtures for entire building, one thousand and fifty dollars. army and navy hospital.
Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas: For labor andHot Springs, Ark., Army and Navy hospital. material for grading, constructing retaining wall, inclosing with iron fence, and improving grounds of hospital, twenty-seven thousand dollars. service army and navy hospital. For one clerk, at twelve hundred dollars; one chief steward, sevenExpenses. hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; two cooks, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; ten nurses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two ward masters, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; one matron, at four hundred and eighty dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and eighty dollars 246 each; one engineer, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one superintendent of buildings, at five hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers and watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six bathhouse attendants, at three hundred dollars each; six dining-room waiters, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; said sum to be disbursed under Secretary of War to direct disbursements.the direction of the Secretary of War, as a part of the appropriation for the Medical Department of the Army; and the estimates for this service shall hereafter be submitted as a part of the military establishment. military posts.Military Posts.
For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of suchConstruction, etc. military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; fifteen thousand dollars of which sum may be used for the purchase of additional land near Atlanta, Georgia, for the ten company post being erected there. Wharf at Fort Monroe, Virginia: In full for the constructionFort Monroe, Va.Construction of wharf. and completion of a new wharf, and improvements to the roadway leading thereto, on the Government reservation at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, upon plans to be approved by the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose. 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 storms. 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, ten thousand dollars. For telegraphing reports, messages, and other information in connectionTelegraphing. with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of storm, cautionary, off shore, cold wave, and otherSignals. signals on the sea, lake, and Gulf coasts 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 continuing the connections of signal stations with life-savingConnections with life-saving stations or light-houses. stations or light-houses, including services of operators, repairmen, materials, and general service, being for the maintenance and repair of the military-telegraph line along the Atlantic coast of the United States *Provisos*.twenty-six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That not exceeding eighteen Submarie cable, Block Island, R.
I.*Ante*, p. 7.thousand three hundred and fifty dollars of this sum shall be used for furnishing, delivering, and laying a new submarine cable at Block Island Bay, to replace the one now unserviceable, and for completing the connection by telegraph between Block Island, Rhode Island, and the mainland of Rhode Island; and the provision of the act of March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, making an appropriation of five thousand dollars to repair the submarine cable, Block Island Bay, is hereby repealed; but any expenditure already incurred thereunder may be paid from said appropriation:
Connections to be deemed necessary.*Provided further*, That such connections, in the opinion of the Superintendent of the LifeSaving Service and the Light House Board, shall be deemed necessary. To enable the Secretary of War to lay a submarine cable from CapoSubmarine cable, Cape Charles to Cape Henry.Instrument shelters. Charles to Cape Henry, twenty thousand dollars. For manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument shelters, and expenses in connection therewith, two thousand dollars. 247 For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery, ice,Contingent expenses offices outside of Washington, D.
C. repairs, rent of telephones, text books, lumber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation in cities or places outside of Washington, District of Columbia, thirty-five thousand dollars. For river and flood observations, and expenses incidental thereto nine thousandRiver and flood observation expenses.Maps and bulletins. .dollars. For expenses (including paper, forms, printing supplies, hire of civilian printers, engravers) of preparing, printing, distributing, and displaying maps or bulletins, and for the maintenance of a printing office,Printing office. under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, in the city of Washington, for the printing of the necessary orders, circulars, maps, 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 legion of the United States, seven thousand dollars. For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines, includingMilitary telegraph lines. rent of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights supplies, and general repairs, twenty-four thousand 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 ninety privates, including payment due on discharge, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for mileage to officers when travelling on duty under orders, four thousand dollars; 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 War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Detail of officers for signal service duty.Corps not to exceed five commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law; and no money herein appropriated shall be used for pay and allowances of second lieutenants appointed or to be appointed from the sergeants of the SignalNumber of second lientenant s limited.Vol. 20, p. 219. Corps, under the provisions of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in excess of the number of sixteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding four hundred and seventy enlisted men of the Signal Corps; and in reducing the force the enlistedNumber of enlisted men reduced.*Proviso*. men at Fort Myer, Virginia denoted the “permanent party” shall first be mustered out: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply to the pay or commutation or expense of return from their stations to their homes of any enlisted men in excess of the four hundred and seventy men, accruing prior to the passage of this act subsistence For commutation of rations of not exceeding four hundred and seventySubsistence.R.
S. 1144, p. 207. Signal Service enlisted men, and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men, as authorized by section eleven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes and Army Regulations one hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. regular supplies. Fuel: For varions 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) six thousand dollars. 248 Commutation of fuel:
For commutation of fuel for not exceedingCommutation of fuel. four hundred and seventy men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal-stations throughout the United States forty-five thousand dollars. forage For forage for ten mules and six horses, one thousand eight hundredForage. and five dollars and sixty-five cents; straw for sixteen animals, at seven dollars each per annum 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 Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundredVol. 21, p. 347. 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 each 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.
For horse and mule shoes, nails, and expenses for shoeing once eachIncidental expenses. month for sixteen animals, at one dollar and fifty cents each 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 each per month, (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty one), two hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For blacksmiths’ supplies, tools, and materials, one hundred dollars. For veterinary supplies fifty dollars. For interment of officers and men, one hundred dollars.Interment of officers and wen. transportation. For transportation of material and funds, as per paragraphs seventeenTransportation. hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty one, fifteen thousand dollars. For transportation of men, six 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.Commutation. For commutation of quarters to not exceeding four hundred and 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 four thousand dollars. That the Regular Army officers herein authorized to be detailed for the Signal Service shall receive their pay and allowances from the appropriation for the support of the Army. medical department.
For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted menMedical attendance. of the Signal Corps, two thousand dollars. 249 That no part of the appropriations made for the Signal Service bySchool of instruction at Fort Myer abolished. this act shall be used for the maintenance or support of a school of instruction nor of the military post at Fort Myer, 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-three Superintendents.superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuingHeadstones.Vol. 17, p. 545.Vol. 20, p. 281. the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines, in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, forty thousand dollars, miscellaneous objects.
Surveyor northern and northwestern lakes: For printingSurvey of 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:Transportation reports and maps to foreign countries.Artificial limbs. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars.
Appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliancesAppliances 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: ForProvidence Hospital.Support and treatment of destitute patients. the support and medical treatment of seventy-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, fifteen thousand dollars, Garfield Hospital:
For maintenance, to enable it to provide medicalGarfield Hospital.Treatment of transient persons. and surgical treatment to transient persons unable to pay therefor, ten thousand dollars. Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and chargesMilitary convicts. of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, ten thousand dollars. Publication of the Official Records of the War of theOfficial Records War of the Rebellion.Continuing publication.Vol. 23, p. 508.
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. Examination of claims of certain States and Territories:Examination, etc., of claims of States and Territories for suppression of Indian hostilities, etc.Vol. 22, p. 111.*Ante*, p.217.
To enable the Secretary of War to make examination and report upon the claims of the states and territories named in the act of June twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, (chapter two hundred and forty-one of the laws of the Forty-Seventh Congress first session), ten thousand dollars, said sum to be expended in his discretion. 250 united states military prison at fort leavenworth. For the support of the Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,Military Prison, Fort Leaven-worth, Kans.Expenses. as follows:
For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen, twenty eight thousand four hundred dollars; For commutation of rations for prisoners en 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 oil, wicking, and for lamps, lanterns, and chimneys for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars;
For grain and hay for horses and mules, used exclusively at the prison, three thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars; For bay for prisoners bedding, five hundred and forty-two dollars and fourteen cents. For stationery and blank-books for prison offices; 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, couplings, belting, oil, cotton waste, steam-pipes, and fixtures; tools and materials for shops; castings; disinfectants; horse medicines; horse and mule shoes and nails; miscellaneous stores; machinery and repairs; stoves and stovepipe; bricks and cement, and articles for drainage of grounds, eighteen thousand 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,one thousand seven hundred and fifty 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 night watchmen and five teamsters at thirty dollars per month each; in all fourteen thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents.
For lumber, new flooring, and paints for the hospital, and materials for general repairs of guards’ quarters, prison buildings, shops and officers’ quarters; new roofs, floors, painting, and pay of temporary employees for work which cannot be done by prisoners, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For donation of five dollars each, and for material for a complete suit of clothing and underclothing, and one pair of shoes and one hat, for each prisoner released from confinement under sentence executed at military posts after discharge from the military service, four thousand and fifty dollars;
In all eighty nine thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-six cents. 251 Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provideArtillery School, Fortress Monroe, Va. for means of instruction, such as text books, instruments, drawing materials, chemicals, instruments, and material required in the course of engineering and artillery and in the science of war, stationery and miscellaneous articles considered necessary in the course of applied sciences and in the course of international law, five thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers as follows:National Homo for Disabled volunteer Soldiers.Dayton, Ohio. At the Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses including subsistence, bedding and clothing, six hundred and sixteen thousand dollars; pay of civilian employees three thousand dollars; pay of inmate employees, thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars; and for general repairs, fifty-one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and five thousand eight hundred dollars;
At the Northwestern Branch at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For currentMilwaukee,Wis. expenses, including subsistence, bedding, and clothing, two hundred and three thousand dollars; for employees, four thousand dollars; for general repairs, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred dollars; At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, includingTogus, Me. subsistence,bedding, and clothing, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars; for employees, six thousand dollars; for general repairs, eighteen thousand one hundred dollars; in all two hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred dollars;
At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses,Hampton, Va. including subsistence, bedding, and clothing, two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars; for employees eleven thousand dollars; for general repairs, seventeen thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For necessary construction and repairs at Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia, underestimate in Appendix J, pages two hundred and ninety nine and three hundred, Book of Estimates for eighteen hundred and eighty seven, fifty seven thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Western Branch at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses,Leavenworth, Kans. including subsistence, bedding, clothing, construction and repairs, one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars; For out door relief and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars;Outdoor relief; incidental expenses. in all, one million six hundred and thirty one thousand dollars. And hereafter the estimates for the support of the Home for Disabled volunteer Soldiers shall be submitted by items.
For the collection and payment of bounty, prize-moneyBounty, prize-money, etc., due colored soldiers and sailors. 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, one thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Department of Justice Building: For fitting upRepairs, etc., to building. fireproof record-rooms Io preserve the records of the Department, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs to beating apparatus, Keeping the same in good order, three hundred dollars For preparing for occupancy the fifth-floor rooms, including the repairing, cleaning, and coloring of the walls, painting the wood work, procuring and putting down carpets and matting or proper floor covering, providing necessary desks, bookcases and other furniture, gas-fixtures, and beating apparatus, three thousand five hundred dollars. 252 Penitentiary in Wyoming Territory: For completion anti necessaryPenitentiary, Wyoming Territory.Reform School, District of Columbia. repairs of penitentiary building, twenty five thousand dollars.
Reform School, District of Columbia: For one family building of brick and stone, complete, to include steam-heating apparatus, gas and water supply, fifteen thousand dollars; for one brick tank-house, with wrought-iron tanks with a capacity of not less than thirty five thousand gallons, four thousand five hundred dollars; in al), nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; one-half of said sum to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Court Douse, Washington, District of Columbia:
For annualCourt-house, Washington, D. C.Repairs, repairs, steam-heating, inside changes, preparation of such rooms in the western wing of the old portion of the building as may be assigned Rooms for Civil Service Commission.for occupancy of the Civil Service Commission, and for repairing roof and cornice of the court-house, Washington, District of Columbia, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Civil Service Commission shall remain in the *Proviso*.building of the Agricultural Department until the rooms herein indicated arc ready for their occupancy. miscellaneous.
Travelling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual andTravelling expenses, judge, etc., Alaska. necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney, when travelling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand five hundred 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, one thousand dollars. Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory:
ForTerritorial courts, Utah. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court and the fees, per diems, and travelling 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 thousand dollars.
To aid in the further and more effectual prosecution of crimes in theProsecution of crime, Utah. Territory of Utah, five thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Attorney-General. Industrial Dome in Utah Territory: To aid in the establishmentIndustrial Home, Utah, established. of an Industrial Home in the Territory of Utah, to provide employment and means of self-support for the dependent women who renounce polygamy, and the children of such women of tender age, in said Territory, with a view to aid in the suppression of polygamy therein, forty thousand dollars; said sum to be expended upon requisition of and under the management Board of control.of a board of control to consist of the governor and justices of the supreme court and the district attorney of said Territory; and said board shall duly and properly expend said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes herein indicated, and shall, from time to time, report to the President their acts and doings and expenditures hereunder, for transmission to Congress.
Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending suits in claims against the United States and District of Columbia. defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia 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 District to pay one-half.Attorney-General, twenty thousand dollars.
One half of the expenses incurred hereunder on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid out of 253 the revenues of said District; and hereafter the estimates therefor shallEstimates. be submitted in the annual estimates for the District of Columbia. Prosecution and collection of claims: For expenses to be incurred inProsecution and collection of claims. the prosecution 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.Punishing violations of intercourse 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 may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecutions of crimes against the United States.Investigations, etc. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment, and for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, of the United States courts, and the 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.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from theDistrict of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five thousand dollars. Defense in French spoliation claims: To enable the Attorney-GeneralFrench spoliation claims.Espouses 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.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts. Expenses of United States courts: For defraying the expensesExpenses of United States courts. of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States and of the Districts 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 pro visions of title twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof R.
S., Title XX VI.or supplementary thereto, namely, those stated in the following itemized list: For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshals and Marshals and deputies.District attorneys and assistants.Clerks.No fee to be charged where person is under recognizance.deputies, six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. For payment of United States district attorneys and their assistants, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
But no part of the appropriations under this act shall be used to pay the fees of United States marshals or clerks upon any writ or bench 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 lake 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 or information is pending orders a warrant to issue;Clerk and marshal to be paid per diem only when court transacts business. nor shall any part of the money appropriated by this act be used in payment of a per diem compensation to any clerk or marshal for attendance in court except for days when business is actually transacted in court, and when 254 they attend under sections five hundred and eighty three, five hundredR.
S. secs. 83, 584, pp. 102, 153.R. S., secs. 671, 672, p. 124.R. S., sec. 2013, p. 354.United States commissioners, e t c.Jurors.Witnesses.Support of prison era.Rent.Bailiffs, criers, etc. 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 peace acting as United States Commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars.
For fees of jurors, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For rent of United States courtrooms fifty, thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers; of expenses of district judges who may be sent out of their districts to bold court; of meals for jurors when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars Stenographers to Justices of the Supreme Court.per day, 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 not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized 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 a party in interest, and other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For increased clerical service in the Court of Claims made necessaryCourt of Claims, clerical service, French spoliation claims. by business of French spoliation claims, one thousand two hundred dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. botanic garden.Botanic garden. For reconstructing with iron ribs greenhouse numbered twelve, for extending heating apparatus and concrete walks, and for general Repairs, etc.repairs to conservatory and propagating houses, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, five thousand five hundred dollars. works of art.Works of art.
For the purchase of works of art, and the necessary cleaning and repairingPurchase, etc. thereof, including new frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, ten thousand dollars. And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorizedDisbursing officer to be credited disallowed sum. and directed to credit the disbursing officer of the Joint Committee on the Library with the sum heretofore disallowed on his accounts for “works of art for the Capitol”, the same being for the cleaning and repairing of such works of art at the Capitol, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePublic printing, binding, paper, etc. 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, and the Departments, 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 dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely; 255 For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, nine hundred and ten thousand dollars; and printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing, shall be so recommended in a report containing an estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of the amount and cost of work previonsly ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the beads 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 seventy five thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office); for the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office); 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 twelve thousand dollars; and for the Executive Office, three thousand dollars.
And hereafter the scientific reports known as the monographs and bulletins of the Geological Survey shall not be published until specific and detailed estimates are made therefor, and specific appropriationsMonographs, etc., Geological Survey, not to be published until specifically appropriated for. made in pursuance of such estimates; and no engraving for the annual reports or for such monographs and bulletins, or of trust ratio us, sections, and maps, shall be done until specific estimates are submitted therefor and specific appropriations made based on such estimates: *Provided*, That these limitations shall not apply to the current fiscal year, nor to any of the reports, mineral resources, monographs,*Provisos*.Not to apply to present fiscal year. or bulletins that may have been transmitted for publication to the Public Printer prior to the passage of this act: *Provided further*, That all printing and engraving for the Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, and the Signal Service shall hereafter be estimated for separately and in detail, and appropriated for separately for each of said Bureaus.
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 addition 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 the lawLeave to employees Government Printing Office. 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.
For protection from destruction by fire of the Public Printing OfficeProtection of Printing Office against fire. buildings and property, at Washington, District of Columbia, by the introduction therein of such methods as the Architect of the Capitol and the Public Printer may regard a$ most efficient for the purpose, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 256 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 902, 903. 1886 SENATE.Senate. For extending Senate boiler-vaults and for additional steam-boilersBoilers. for the same, ten thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol.
To provide independent ventilating apparatus for the restaurantVentilation of restaurant-. Kitchen in the Senate wing of the Capitol, one thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol. Sec. 2. That the appropriations herein provided for shall take effect from and after July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Approved, August 4, 1886.
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