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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · October 2, 1888 · Chapter 1069

Chapter 1069.

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CHAP. 1069.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposed.October 2, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. For courthouse and post-office at Augusta, Georgia: For completionAugusta, Ga. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For customhouse at Bangor, Maine: For not exceeding one-halfBangor, Me.Protection of. the cost of constructing stone abutments and piers for the protection of the United States customhouse and post-office building, and approaches, situated in the Kenduskeag Stream, at Bangor, in the State of Maine, the sum of ten thousand dollars, the expense of such works to be borne in equal proportions by the United States and by said city of Bangor: *Provided*, That the plan of construction of said works*Provisos*.Plans. shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *And provided further*, That the entire amount to be thus contributed by the UnitedMaximum.
States shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated. For courthouse and post-office at Bay City, Michigan: For purchaseBay City, Mich. of site and commencement of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Birmingham, Alabama: ForBirmingham, Ala. purchase of site and commencement of building, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For purchase of siteBridgeport, Conn. and commencement of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For post-office and customhouse at Camden, New Jersey: ForCamden, N. J. completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars, and in addition thereto any portion of the sum appropriated for the purchase of ground on which to erect said building not expended for that purpose may be used for the construction of the building. For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For approaches andChicago, Ill.Marine hospital. breakwater complete, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs of post-office and customhouse building, Chicago, Illinois,Post-office, repairs. twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For customhouse at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion of repairs,Cleveland. twenty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For continuationDenver. of building under present limit, one hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said building may be located not lessOpen space. than sixteen feet from any other building. For courthouse and post-office at Detroit, Michigan: For continuingDetroit, Mich. erection of building under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars. 506FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Duluth, Minn.For courthouse, customhouse, and post-office at Duluth, Minnesota: For purchase of site and commencement of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. Eastport, Me.Foundation.For post-office and customhouse at Eastport, Maine: For additional amount for foundation of building, eight thousand dollars. If, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, a safe foundation can not be provided for this sum, or the interests of the New site if necessary.Government require it, then he is hereby authorized to sell or exchange the present site and purchase or procure another, and for that purpose he may use so much of this appropriation as may be necessary.
Fort Smith, Ark.For United States jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas: That not exceeding four thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the sum Vol. 24, p. 5.appropriated by the act approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the construction of a jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas, may be expended for a heating apparatus for said jail. Frankfort, Ky.Names of persons working on, etc., to be reported to Congress.For public building at Frankfort, Kentucky: That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby directed to ascertain and report to this Congress at its next session the names of the persons who furnished materials for or performed labor on the public building at Frankfort, Kentucky, for which they have not been paid by reason of the Government taking the construction of the building from the original contractor, together with the amount and reasonable value of such material and labor.
Galveston, Tex.For custom-house at Galveston, Texas: For completion of the building under the present limit, ninety thousand live hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-one cents. Greenville, S. C.For courthouse and post-office at Greenville, South Carolina: For purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. Houston, Tex.For post-office at Houston, Texas: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Huntsville, Ala.For courthouse and post-office at Huntsville, Alabama:
For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Helena, Ark.For courthouse and post-office at Helena, Arkansas: For purchase of site and completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. Hoboken, N. J.For post-office at Hoboken, New Jersey: For purchase of site and completion of building, sixty thousand dollars. Jacksonville, Fla.For post-office and customhouse at Jacksonville, Florida: For completion of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars.
Jefferson, Tex.For courthouse and post-office at Jefferson, Texas: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Louisville, Ky.For courthouse and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky: For continuation of building, sixty thousand dollars. Lowell, Mass.For post-office at Lowell, Massachusetts: For purchase of site and commencement of building, one hundred thousand dollars. Los Angeles, Cal.For courthouse and post-office at Los Angeles, California:
For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Minneapolis, Minn.For post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: For heating apparatus, complete, thirty-one thousand dollars, and for one elevator, six thousand five hundred dollars: in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. New Orleans, La.For customhouse at New Orleans, Louisiana: For additions, alterations, and repairs, including elevators, one hundred and *Proviso*.All public offices to be removed to.sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars: *Provided*, That as soon as the work herein authorized is completed all public offices of the United States in the said city of New Orleans, occupying buildings or portions of buildings for which the Government pays rent, shall be removed to said customhouse and to suitable apartments therein, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Marine hospital.For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For approaches complete, twenty thousand dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.507 For public building, Oxford, Mississippi: For completion of approaches,Oxford, Miss. four hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Opelousas, Louisiana: For purchaseOpelousas, La. of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse, customhouse and post-office at Brownsville,Brownsville, Tex.
Texas: For purchase of site and completion of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Charlotte, North Carolina: ForCharlotte, N. C. purchase of site and completion of building, eighty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Ottumwa, Iowa: For purchase of site and completionOttumwa, Iowa. of building, forty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Statesville, North Carolina: ForStatesville, N, C purchase of site and completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the United States Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For anPhiladelphia, Pa.Additions to Mint. additional story to, and enlarging the building, including vault, alterations, and other necessary work, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: ForPittsburgh, Pa. continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Portsmouth, Ohio: For purchase of site andPortsmouth, Ohio. completion of building, sixty thousand dollars.
For marine hospital at Portland, Maine: For furnishing water supply,Portland, Mo. two thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Peoria, Illinois: For completionPeoria, Ill. of the building, twelve thousand dollars. For customhouse at Richmond, Virginia: For heating apparatus,Richmond, Va. twelve thousand five hundred dollars; for approaches, one thousand dollars: in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Rochester, New York: For heatingRochester, N.
Y. apparatus, twenty thousand dollars; and elevator, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Savannah, Georgia: For continuationSavannah Ga. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. courthouse at Santa Fe, New Mexico: For approaches complete,Santa Fe, N. Mex. twelve thousand dollars. For the old customhouse at Saint Louis, Missouri: For necessarySaint Louis, Mo.Repairs to old customhouse. repairs and alterations to the building known as the old customhouse building at Saint Louis, Missouri, including the construction of an additional story thereon, fifty thousand dollars: said structure being intended for its present occupants and for the occupancy of all Federal officers now renting offices in any building or buildings in Saint Louis, Missouri, not owned by the Government and for which the Government pays rental: *Provided*, That all such offices shall be removed*Proviso*.Removal of offices. to said customhouse building when completed and to suitable apartments therein, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
For courthouse and post-office at Springfield, Missouri: For purchaseSpringfield, Mo. of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse at Springfield, Massachusetts: For completion ofSpringfield, Mass. building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Texarkana, Arkansas: For purchaseTexarkana, Ark. of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. courthouse and post-office at Tyler, Texas: For construction of aTyler, Tex. fence around the site, one thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post-office at Toledo, Ohio: For elevatorToledo, Ohio. and mail lift, seven thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Vicksburg, Mississippi: ForVicksburg, Miss. purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. 508FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Wilmington, N. C.For post-office and customhouse at Wilmington, North Carolina: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Wheeling, W.
Va.For customhouse at Wheeling, West Virginia: For necessary repairs of building, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Worcester, Mass.For post-office at Worcester, Massachusetts: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Washington, D. C.Treasury and Winder Buildings.Repairs, etc.For Treasury Building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury Building and Winder Building, one thousand dollars: resetting and repairing loose tile flooring, eight hundred dollars; for flooring rooms, two thousand four hundred dollars; repairs to roadway west of building, three hundred dollars: lead calking for joints in the approaches on the north, south, and west, three hundred and fifty dollars: reslating southwest pavilion roof, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: painting remainder of roof, one thousand eight hundred dollars: in all, eight thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
Repairs and preservation.For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repair and preservation of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall Report.report to Congress at its next session a statement of the expenditure of the appropriation for repairs and preservation of public buildings for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight showing on what public buildings said appropriation was expended and the number of persons employed and paid salaries therefrom. light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.
Charlotte Harbor, Fla.Charlotte Harbor, Florida: For the establishment of a light or lights and other aids to navigation to guide into Charlotte Harbor. Florida, thirty-five thousand dollars. Cape May, N. J.For the purchase of a site and erection of a boathouse for lightships boats, at Cape May, New Jersey, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Goose Rocks, Me.Goose Rocks, Maine, light and fog-signal: For the establishment of a lighthouse and fog-signal at or near Goose Rocks, at the entrance to Fox Island Thoroughfare, and the establishment of a day beacon at or near Channel Rock, in the vicinity of Goose Rocks, Maine, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Crabtree Ledge, Me.Crabtree Ledge Light-Station, Maine: For additional amount for completion of a lighthouse on Crabtree’s Ledge (so called), bet ween Bean Island and the mainland of Crabtree’s Neck, in Frenchman’s Bay, Maine, thirteen thousand dollars. Lubec Narrows, Me.Lubec Narrows Light-Station, Maine: For additional amount for completion of a lighthouse at or near Lubec Narrows, Maine, twelve thousand dollars. Deer Island, Mass.Deer Island lighthouse and Fog-Signal, Massachusetts:
For additional amount for completion of a lighthouse and fog-signal at or near Deer Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, six thousand dollars. Stonington, Conn.Stonington Harbor, Connecticut: For the establishment of a light and fog-signal on the breakwater at the entrance to Stonington Harbor, Connecticut, eight thousand dollars. Cob Point Bar, Md.Cob Point Bar Light-Station, Maryland: For establishing a lighthouse at or near Cob Point Bar, Wicomico River, Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars.
Holland’s Island Bar, Md.Holland’s Island Bar Light-Station, Maryland: For establishing a lighthouse at Holland’s Island Bar, near the entrance to Kedge’s Straits, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, thirty-five thousand dollars. Tangier Sound, Va.Tangier Sound Light-Station, Virginia: For the establishment of a lighthouse and fog-signal to mark the lower entrance to Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.509 Great Wicomico River Light-Station, Virginia:
For the establishmentGreat Wicomico River, Va. of a lighthouse at the mouth of the Great Wicomico River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Newport News Light, Virginia: For establishing and completingNewport News, Va. a lighthouse at Newport News Middle Ground, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars. Oil-houses for light-stations: For establishing isolated houses atOil-houses. light-stations for the storage of mineral oil, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred*Proviso*.Limit of cost. dollars in cost.
Spectacle Reef Light-Station, Michigan: For renewing the crib-work,Spectacle Reef, Mich. repairing the fog-signal, and making other necessary improvements at the station, fifteen thousand dollars. Cedar River Point Light-Station, Michigan: For the establishmentCedar River Point, Mich. of a lighthouse at or near Cedar River Point, at the mouth of Cedar River, Green Bay, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sand Island Light-Station, Alabama: For protecting the light-stationSand Island, Ala on Sand Island, Alabama, from the encroachment of the sea, twelve thousand dollars.
Two Harbors Light-Station, Minnesota: That the appropriationTwo Harbors, Minn. of ten thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation act, approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for theVol. 24, p 225. establishment and completion of a lighthouse at Two Harbors, Minnesota, is hereby authorized to be used for the establishment and completion of a light-station at the point named. For the purchase of a sight and erection of a buoy depot, at AbseconAbsecon Inlet, N.J.
Inlet, New Jersey, fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Washington Buoy-Depot North Carolina: For purchase of landWashington, N. C. and extension of buoy-depot at Washington, North Carolina, five thousand dollars. Point Loma Light-Station, California: For establishing the light-stationPoint Loma, Cal at Point Loma, California, in a situation lower down the cliff, thirty thousand dollars. Ballast Point Light-Station, California: For establishing a light orBallast Point, Cal lights and fog-signal on or near Ballast Point, entrance to San Diego Bay, California, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Umpqua River Light-Station, Oregon: For the purchase of a siteUmpqua River, Oregon. and the construction of a coast lighthouse on the headlands, near the mouth of the Umpqua River, Oregon, fifty thousand dollars. Pier-Lights: For the construction of pier-lights at Duluth, LakePier-lights on the lakes. Superior, Minnesota; Kewaunee, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin; Charlotte Harbor, Lake Ontario, New York: and Port Washington, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, sixteen thousand dollars. Supply-steamer for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts:
For an additionalSupply steamer Atlantic and Gulf coasts. amount for the construction of a steamer for the transportation of oil and other supplies to the lighthouses on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. life-saving service.Life-saving Service For salaries of superintendents for the lifesaving stations as follows:Superintendents’ salaries. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars: For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars: For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand dollars; 510FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand five hundred dollars:
For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the lifesaving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars: For one superintendent for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent of the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars: For one superintendent for the lifesaving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars.
Keepers.For salaries of two hundred and thirty-one keepers of lifesaving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fifty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Crews.For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the lifesaving and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at lifesaving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may Miscellaneous expenses.determine: pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge: repairs and outfits for same: rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for Vol. 22, p. 57.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 apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of lifesaving stations on the coasts of the United States, seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
New stations.For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service. Salaries and expenses.For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, 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; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for 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; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.511 advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction of revenue-steamer for Southern coast: For additionalSteamer for Southern coast. amount for construction of one revenue-steamer for duty on the Southern coast of the United States, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress at itsDetailed estimates to be submitted. next session a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight under the appropriation for the Revenue-Cutter Service, and annually thereafter a detailed statement of expenditures under said appropriation shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salariesSalaries. of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate-printers and plate-printers’ assistants, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing*Proviso*.Notes of large denomination. United States notes of large denomination in lieu of notes of small denomination canceled or retired.
For wages of plate-printers, at piece-rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, and for wages of printers’ assistants at steam-presses, at one dollar and fifty cents a day each, when employed, and for royalty for use of steam plate-printing machines, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That there shall not be an increase of the number of steam*Proviso*.Steam-presses not to be increased.Materials. plate-printing machines, in the Engraving and Printing Bureau.
For engravers.’ printers.’ and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to purchase,Additional ground to be purchased. or to acquire by condemnation in such manner as the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall direct, lot twelve, in square two hundred and thirty-one, as an addition to the site of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and for this purpose the sum of seven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the balance remaining unexpended of the appropriation made by act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.Vol. 21, p. 260. light-house establishment.Light-house establishment.
Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying the lighthouses, beacon-lights,Supplies. and fog-signals with illuminating, cleansing, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. Repairs of lighthouses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. lighthouses, and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith: for establishing and repairing pier-head lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use, and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the expenditure of*Proviso*. seven thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and nine cents, 512FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. which has been made from previous appropriations for repairs for Point Reyes, Cal.Boston, Mass.the erection of keepers’ dwellings at Point Reyes Light-Station, California, and Boston Light-Station, Massachusetts, is hereby authorized, the same involving no further expenditure of money from the Treasury. Keepers’ salaries, etc.Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.
Light-vessels.Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of lightships, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Buoyage.Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Fog-signals.Expenses of fog-signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand dollars.
Inspection.Inspecting lights: For mileage or traveling expenses of members of the Light House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, three thousand dollars. Lighting rivers.Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, New York; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Connecticut; the Elk River, Maryland:
Cape Fear River, North Carolina: Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s River, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers: on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California: and on Puget Sound, Washington Territory; the lighthouse Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Survey of sites.Survey of lighthouse sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Alaska coasts, etc.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tidewater or ship navigation: deep-sea soundings; temperature and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations: the necessary resurveys: the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other works relating to terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them: and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the fieldwork, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the lighthouse Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.513 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 in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Advances.
That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. For party expenses:Party expenses. For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coast of Maine in Cobscook Bay and Saint Croix River, and to the International boundary monument, and for offshore soundings (all new work), seven thousand dollars. For resurveys:
For triangulation, topography, and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Block Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals and approaches, and including Vineyard Sound, and Connecticut River to Hartford, Connecticut, and Hudson River to Troy, New York, seven thousand dollars. For physical surveys of Monomoy Shoals and entrance to Vineyard Sound, observations and reductions, six thousand dollars. For physical surveys of New York Harbor, to continue observations and reductions, three thousand dollars.
For observing the movement, lodgment of, and obstructions by ice in the Delaware River, and noting the changes caused thereby in Cherry Island Flats, two hundred dollars. To correct to date former surveys of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers for use on a new large-scale chart of the same in the vicinity of Philadelphia and up the Delaware River to Trenton, two thousand dollars. To complete the surveys in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, and up the Cooper and Ashley Rivers to the head of navigation: and to continue the astronomical, latitude, and azimuth work, and in connection therewith, the recovery and remarking of old triangulation stations, for their preservation, two thousand dollars.
To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Cape Sable north to Cape Romano, and for hydrography off the same coast, seven thousand dollars. For the survey of the tributaries of Pensacola Bay, two thousand dollars. For the triangulation, topography, and hydrography of Perdido Bay, and its connection with the coast triangulation and for resurvey of Mobile Bay entrance, three thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta, and between Barataria Bay and Sabine Pass, seven thousand dollars. To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars. For hydrography, coast of California, five thousand dollars. For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern California, including necessary tertiary triangulation, eight thousand dollars.
For continuing the primary triangulation of Southern California and for connecting the same at Mount Conness with the transcontinental arc, and for a primary baseline in the vicinity of Los Angeles, eight thousand dollars. 514FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Party expenses—ContinuedFor continuing the resurvey of San Francisco Bay, and of San Pablo and Suisun Bays, the examination of San Francisco Bar and entrance, and the bar and approaches, two thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including offshore hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, seven thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, nine thousand dollars. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical longitude and magnetic stations between Sitka and the southern end of the Territory, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, two thousand dollars. For examination into reported dangers on the eastern, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five hundred dollars.
To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf slopes, one thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, at the Los Angeles Magnetic Observatory, one thousand two hundred dollars. To remove the magnetic observatory from Los Angeles, and to reestablish it either at Seattle or Port Townsend, Washington, or at Austin or San Antonio, Texas, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For continuing the exact line of levels from Cairo southward to Okolona, Mississippi, two thousand dollars.
For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, at Kadiak, in Alaska, and at Saucelito, near San Francisco, in California, two thousand five hundred dollars. For one season’s series of tide observations at Sitka or vicinity, and at Unalaska or vicinity, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, five hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, at Pulpit Harbor, Maine, and at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and to begin observations at Savannah, Georgia, two thousand one hundred dollars.
To establish a self-registering tide-gauge at Savannah, Georgia, or vicinity, one thousand two 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, the unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. For furnishing points for State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, eight thousand dollars.
For determinations of geographical positions (longitude parties), three thousand dollars. For continuation of transcontinental geodetic work on line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, twenty thousand dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Travelling expenses, Navy.For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the lighthouse Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars.
Urgent objects.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, three thousand dollars. Contribution to International Geodetic Association.For contribution to the “International Geodetic Association for the measurement of the earth,” or so much thereof as may be necessary, FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.515 four hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, or so much thereof as may be necessary, five hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That such contribution and expenses*Proviso*. of attendance shall be payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named.” and after the adhesion by the Government of the United States to the convention of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of the International Geodetic Association aforesaid.
And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be availableInterchange of amounts. interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred dollars. Alaska Boundary Survey: For expenses in carrying on a preliminaryAlaska boundary survey. survey of the frontier line between Alaska and British Columbia, in accordance with plans or projects approved by the Secretary of State, including expenses of drawing and publication of map or maps, twenty thousand dollars, said sum to continue available for expenditure until the same is exhausted.
For repairs andRepairs, etc., of vessels. maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pay of Field Officers:Pay of field officers.Superintendent.Assistants. For pay of Superintendent, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at four thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of two assistants, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of three assistants, at two thousand three hundred dollars each, six thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of six assistants, at two thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of ten assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. For pay of nine assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of three subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, four thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of two subassistants, at one thousand three hundred dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For pay of four subassistants, at one thousand one hundred dollars each, four thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of three aids, at nine hundred dollars each, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Total pay in field, one hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no new appointments shall be made to*Proviso*.Reduction of force. the above force until the whole number of assistants, subassistants, and aids shall be reduced to fifty-two. pay of office force.Pay of office force.
For one accountant, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one accountant, at one thousand four hundred dollars. For one general office assistant, at two thousand two hundred dollars. 516FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Pay of office force—Continued.For one draughtsman, at two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand one hundred dollars. For two draughtsmen, at two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For three draughtsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars, four thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. 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 one thousand one hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at nine hundred and forty dollars. For additional draughtsmen, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum each, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For two computers, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each, 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 additional computers, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand eight 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 two thousand dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For two engravers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand five hundred dollars. For one engraver, at one thousand two hundred dollars.
For one engraver, at nine hundred dollars. For additional engravers, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand eight hundred 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 and photographer, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one electrotypist’s helper, five hundred dollars. For one apprentice to electrotypist and photographer, five hundred dollars. For one copperplate printer, at one thousand seven hundred dollars. For two copperplate printers, at one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars each, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. For one copperplate printer, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.517 For two plate-printers’ helpers, at seven hundred dollars each, onePay of office force—Continued. thousand four hundred dollars. For one chief mechanician, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one mechanician, at one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one mechanician, at one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For one mechanician, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For one mechanician, at one thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For one mechanician, at nine hundred dollars. For one mechanician, at five hundred and forty-five dollars. For one carpenter, at one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one carpenter, at eight hundred dollars. For one carpenter and fireman, at five hundred and seventy dollars. For one night fireman, at five hundred and fifty dollars. For one map-mounter, at one thousand and twenty dollars. 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 dollars each, 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 each, two thousand four hundred dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars. For one clerk, at nine hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. 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 each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, at six hundred dollars. For one messenger, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars. For three messengers, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. For three messengers, at six hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For one driver, at seven hundred and thirty dollars. For one packer and folder, at eight hundred and twenty dollars. For one packer and folder, at six hundred and thirty dollars. For two laborers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For two laborers, at five hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand one hundred dollars. For one laborer, at three hundred and fifteen dollars. For one laborer, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For one janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars. For two watchmen, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Total for pay of office force, one hundred and thirty thousand nine hundred and five dollars. 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, and subscriptions, nine thousand dollars. 518FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Office expenses—Continued.For copperplates, chart-paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for extra engraving: and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone for immediate use, ten thousand dollars. For stationery for office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice, and washing, six thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, three thousand five hundred dollars. Total general expenses of office, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Rent.For rent of office buildings: For rent of buildings for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of fireproof building number two hundred and five New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records, of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts, of instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars. Publishing observations.Publishing observations: For one computer, one thousand eight 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.
SubsistenceThat no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic 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. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.Treasury, miscellaneous. Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc.Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight, and salaries of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, fifty thousand dollars.
Punishing violations of internal-revenue laws.Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For 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, thirty-seven thousand five hundred 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.
Expenses of fiscal agents.Contingent expenses independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and [R. S., sec. 3053, p. 719](/us/rs/s3053/p71).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. Silver coin transportation.Transportation of silver coin:
For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twenty-five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when *Proviso*.Deposits.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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.519 Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins:Recoinage, etc., of minor coins. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States Mint at Philadelphia, for cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in or which may be hereafter received at the subtreasury offices in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of four 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 recoinage; in all, eight thousand dollars. Old copper cents at the mint at Philadelphia: To coverCopper cents. the difference between the nominal value of a stock of old copper cents and their value as metallic copper, in order to enable the mint at Philadelphia to properly dispose of a stock of such coins unfit for recoinage or for the purpose of alloy, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to reimburse the Treasury for the loss on such coin.
Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinage of gold andRecoinage of gold and silver coin. silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,Distinctive paper, expenses, etc. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, sixty thousand dollars.
Sealing and separating United States securities: For materialsSealing and separating securities. needed to seal and separate United States notes, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm-oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta percha belting, and other necessary articles, and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Destruction of securities.Pay of witness. 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.
Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodians ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. Engraving and Printing Bureau. the dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors:
For pay of assistantAssistant custodians and janitors, public buildings. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars: and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings:Inspector of furniture, etc., public buildings.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars: and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars: in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs, public buildings. of furniture, including carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals, and furniture, carpets, chandaliers, and gas-fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal service except for work done by contract, 520FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. two hundred thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, water, etc., public buildings.Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, lights, water, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia under the control of the Treasury Department shall include the rental or use of Gas governors, etc.any gas-governor, gas-purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury *Proviso*.Limit of rental.and ordered by him in writing: *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, etc., public buildings.Heating apparatus for 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, exclusive of personal services except for work done by contract, ninety thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks, public buildings.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, including new buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services except for work done by contract, 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, four thousand dollars. Detecting and punishing counterfeiting, etc.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For the expenses 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, including four thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for Burial of deceased pensioners.[R.S., sec. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/s4718/p919).reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-four thousand dollars.
Indian bounty claims.Investigating pay and bounty claims of Indian soldiers: For continuing the investigation of certain claims of Indian soldiers and their heirs for arrears of pay and bounty, two thousand dollars. Care of lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, five hundred dollars. Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, thirty thousand dollars.
Local appraisers’ meetings.Expenses of local appraisers meetings: For defraying the necessary expenses of local appraisers at quarterly meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, two thousand five hundred dollars. Anchorage grounds, New York.*Ante*, p. 151.Anchorage of vessels in port of New York: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect the provisions of “An act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York,” FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.521 approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, thirty-five thousand dollars. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the purposeReturn of laborers imported under contract.Vol. 23, p. 332.Vol. 24, p. 415. of carrying into effect the provisions of the alien contract-labor law approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as amended by the act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and to defray the expenses which the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to incur by the provisions of said last-named act, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid out of the “immigrant fund” provided for in the act of August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitledVol. 22, p. 214.
“An act to regulate immigration.” Expenses of collecting revenue from customs: To defray theCollecting customs revenue. expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaska seal fisheries. Salaries, etc., agents. agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows:
For one agent three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each: necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: For compensationFish Commission.Commissioner. of the Commissioner, five thousand dollars.
Propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by the UnitedExpenses. 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 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: *Provided*, That the building known as*Proviso*.Use of Armory Building. the Armory Building, Washington, District of Columbia shall be occupied as at present, jointly by the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries and the National Museum.
Rent of Office United States Fish Commission: For rent ofRent. rooms in the city of Washington, two thousand five hundred dollars. Distribution of Food Fishes: For the distribution of the eggsDistribution. and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad, carp, cod, lobster, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries, or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars Establishment of Stations: For the construction of buildings,Establishing station at Neosho, Mo. ponds, and appliances for a station for fish culture at Neosho, Missouri, eight thousand dollars.
For maintenance of same, five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels andVessels. steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For continuing the enquiryInquiries and investigations. into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the Interior in the interests of fish culture: for the study of the methods and relations of the fisheries, with a view to their improvement: for the exploration of the fishing grounds of the South Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with a view to the development of the 522FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. commercial fisheries; and for the preparation of reports relating to the enquiry, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of scientific assistants, fishery experts, and other necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars. Fisheries statistics.Statistical inquiry: For the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries of all portions of the United States, including persons employed, capital invested, and the quantity and value of the products, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner may find necessary in the prosecution of this work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten thousand dollars.
Schooners Sarah C. Wharf and Champion.Payment for damages to.Schooners Sarah C. Wharf and Champion: To pay damages sustained by the schooner Sarah C. Wharf, five hundred and twelve dollars and sixty cents, and by the schooner Champion, four hundred and twenty-five dollars, by collision with the United States Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk, on February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; in all, nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents. Mary H. C. Baird.Payment to.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Mrs.
Mary H. C. Baird, widow of the late Spencer F. Baird, twenty-five thousand dollars, in full compensation for the services and expenses of the said Spencer F. Baird during his administration of the office of commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, including rent of rooms for the use of said Commission from February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the time of his death, in August, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. prevention of epidemics. Preventing etc., epidemic diseases.The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera or yellow fever to use the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated therefor by the act Vol. 24, p. 524.approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 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 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Department of the Interior. public buildings. Repairs.Repairs of the Interior Department and Pension buildings: For repairs of buildings, eight thousand dollars. Capitol.Repairs, etc.For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics, workmen, and fresco-painter, thirty-five thousand dollars. Elevator, House wing.Power elevator: That not exceeding three thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for an elevator for the House wing of the Capitol, in the act making appropriations Vol. 24, p. 526.for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby authorized to be used in constructing a power elevator and gallery thereto from the book vaults at the south terrace of the Capitol.
Steam-boilers, House wing.Steam-boilers, House Wing of the Capitol: For new boilers for House wing, and for fitting up boiler vaults, and steam-pipes connected with the same, twelve thousand dollars. Capitol grounds.Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including pay of landscape architect, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardners, and laborers, twenty thousand dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.523 Capitol Terraces: For artificial pavement and for fountain inCapitol terraces. front of terrace, pavement in area between terrace and building, and for bronze lampposts and vases for north and south terraces, fifteen thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the Capitol,Lighting Capitol and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For the erection of four reservoires in the corridors of the CapitolDrinking reservoirs. Building for the purpose of supplying drinking water to the public, one thousand five hundred dollars. Senate stables and engine-house: For renewal of portions ofSenate stables.Repairs. the roof on the Senate stable and fire-engine house, and for casual repairs of said buildings, four hundred dollars. For the purchase by the Secretary of the Interior of that part ofPurchase of additional ground. lot eleven, in square six hundred and eighty-three, situated in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, as laid out and recorded in the original plat of the city and District aforesaid, lying directly north of the Senate stables, and containing six thousand and eighty-seven square feet, six thousand and eighty-seven dollars, upon proof of a perfect title and the execution to the Unit d States of a deed good and sufficient in law and in form approved by the Attorney-General; said ground to be used in connection with the Senate stables. building for the library of congress.Library Building.
For the building for the Library of Congress, as herein providedexpenses of building. for, and for each and every purpose connected there until, including the cost of all professional and other personal services that the Chief of Engineers of the Army may deem necessary for the work and shall specially order five hundred thousand dollars. This appropriation and all appropriations hereafter made, and allTo be under direction of Chief of Engineers, Army. sums available from appropriations heretofore made for this purpose shall be expended under the direction and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, who shall have the control and management of all of said work and the employment of all persons connected therewith.
And all contracts for the construction of said building, or any part thereof, shall be made by the Chief of Engineers of the Army, and so much of the act entitled “An act authorizing the constructionLibrary commission abolished. of a building for the accommodation of the Congressional Library” approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-sixVol. 24, p. 12. as requires the construction of said building substantially according to the plan submitted to the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, by John L.
Smithmeyer and so much of the first section as provides for a commission together with the eighth section of said act be and the same are hereby repealed, and the duties of said commission under said act are hereby devolved upon the Chief of Engineers of the Army, who shall annually report to Congress at the commencement of each session a detailed statement of all the proceedings under the provisions of this act, and hereafter, until otherwise ordered by Congress, no work shall be done in the construction of said Library except such as is herein provided for, and all contracts for work or materials not necessaryContracts rescinded. for the execution of the work contemplated herein are hereby rescinded.
And all loss or damage occasioned thereby or arising underPayment of damages. said contracts, together with the value of the plan for a Library Building submitted to the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress by John L. Smithmeyer in the Italian Renaissance style of Architecture, may be adjusted and 524FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. determined by the Secretary of the Interior, to be paid out of the *Provisos*.New plans.sums heretofore or hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That before any further contracts are let for the construction of said building general plans for the entire contraction thereof shall be prepared by or under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, which plans shall be subject to the inspection and approval of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further*, That Limit of cost.the total cost of said building shall not exceed four million dollars exclusive of appropriations heretofore made.
Pension Office Building.fireproof building for the Pension Office: For slate base around galleries and corridors, three thousand dollars. For the construction of skylights with adjustable sash, similar to the one now in use at the western front of the building, three thousand dollars. For one elevator in the Pension Building, four thousand dollars. For the purchase and pitting in position of two boiler-iron water-tanks, with necessary pipe connections from pumps, three thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the sewerage of building, five hundred dollars. Removal of city post-office to Pension Building.That the Postmaster-General be, and is hereby, granted authority to remove the Washington City post-office to the center of the court of the Pension Building in said city, and use such portion of said court as is hereafter specified for the principal post-office of said city, until *Provisos*.Space.further action by Congress: *Provided*, That only a space of two hundred and ninety feet in length by ninety feet in width of said court shall be so occupied, and in such space there shall be set apart and arranged to the satisfaction to the Architect of the Capitol a compartment, or compartments, for the accommodation of the post-offices of the Senate and House of Representatives: and to defray the expense of such removal and for fitting up and furnishing the said post-office there is hereby appropriated five thousand five hundred dollars, or so General Land Office and Education Bureau not to be removed.Vol. 24, p. 525.much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided further*, That so much of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as requires the removal of the General Land Office and the Bureau of Education to said Pension Building be, and the same is hereby repealed. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Sales of public lands.
Salaries, register and receivers.Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, land offices.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
Depositing moneys.Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars. Timber depredations.Depredations on public timber: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars. Protecting from illegal entries.Protecting public lands: For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, one hundred thousand dollars. Hearings in land entries.Expenses of hearings in land entries:
For expenses of hearings held by order of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, thirty thousand dollars. swampland claims.Settlement of claims for swampland and swampland indemnity: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and for indemnity for swamplands, FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.525 twenty-thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed*Proviso*.Per diem for agents. under this and the appropriations for “Depredations on public timber” and “Protecting public lands,” while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing worn plats, etc. 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 offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing transcriptsTranscripts from records. of records and plats, and paying therefor, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended” under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. surveying the public lands.Survey of public lands.
For surveys and resurveys of public lands one hundred thousandExpenses dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per lineal mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that as to mountainous lands or lands covered with dense timber or under brush, the rate shall not exceed thirteen dollars per mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township and seven dollars for section lines, when the survey is made upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That in expending*Provisos*.Preference to settled townships. this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of Surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers: and the surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations.
And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be expended for the examination of Surveys in the field, to test the accuracy of the work, including in this, and if found necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, the resurveyResurveys. of township thirty south of range four west of Willamette meridian, in the State of Oregon, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors: and for inspecting mineral deposits, coalfields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States: *Provided further*, That the SecretaryNebraska and Iowa.Transfer of land records to. of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to the Secretary of state of the States of Nebraska and Iowa, or to such officers as may be entitled to receive them, the field-notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to land surveys in said States which are now stored in the district land-office at Lincoln, Nebraska: and the office of surveyor-general for the district of NebraskaSurveyor-general abolished. and Iowa is hereby abolished: *Provided*, That the aforesaid field-notes, maps, records, and other papers pertaining to the State of Nebraska shall not be delivered to the proper authorities until said State shall have provided by law for the safe keeping of theSafe-keeping, etc., of records. same as public records, and for the allowance of free access to field-notes, maps, records; and other papers by the authorities of the United States, as provided by section twenty-two hundred and[R.
S., sec. 2221, p. 390](/us/rs/s2221/p390). twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, the State of Iowa having heretofore enacted the requisite legislation. For survey of confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, at ratesNew Mexico, private land claims. prescribed by law, three thousand dollars. For care and preservation of abandoned military reservations transferredAbandoned military reservations. to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 103. eighty-four, two thousand dollars. 526FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. Pay of scientific assistants.For salaries of the scientific assistants of the geological Survey: For five geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For two geologists, at three thousand dollars each; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars: For two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For two geologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one paleontologist, four thousand dollars;
For one paleontologist, two thousand dollars; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one chemist, two thousand dollars; For one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For three geographers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one general assistant, three thousand dollars; For three topographers, at two thousand dollars each: in all, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Expenses.For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the 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, namely:
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, fifteen thousand dollars; Topographic Surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars; Geological surveys.For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, one hundred thousand dollars.
Paleontological researches.For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and in office, the cost of all materials and instruments, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, forty thousand dollars: Chemical and physical researches.For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and in office, the maintenance of the laboratory, the cost of instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, seventeen thousand dollars;
Illustrations.For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, including the pay of temporary employees, the cost of apparatus, instruments, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, sixteen thousand dollars: Storage reservoirs in arid region.Investigation.For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection *Post*, p. 619.of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including the pay of employees in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be performed by the Geological Survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.
And the Report.Director of the Geological Survey under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior shall make a report to Congress on the first Monday in December of each year, showing in detail how the said FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.527 money has been expended, the amount used for actual survey and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoires and an itemized account of the expenditures under this appropriation. And allLands reserved from sale. the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches or canals for irrigation purposes and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches or canals are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement or occupation until further provided by law: *Provided*, That the President may at any time in his discretion by*Proviso*.Reopening of lands to settlement. proclamation open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this provision to settlement under the homestead laws.
For the preparation of the report on the mineral resources of theMineral resources report. United States, including the pay of temporary employees, and all necessary expenses connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and two thousand dollars. Protection and improvement of Hot Springs, Arkansas:
ForHot Springs, Ark. providing a system of reservoirs, pumps, and piping, and for other purposes necessary to the collection and economical distribution of the hot water, thirty-one thousand dollars. For improvement of free bathhouse and bathing-pools, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous Objects.Miscellaneous. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Expenses. 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, two hundred and one thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred 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, twelve thousand dollars. For special improvements, as follows: For the construction and completion of an infirmary building for the sick, including all heating and ventilating apparatus for the same, twenty-five thousand dollars. For water-tank and connections, standpipe, and fire-escape, four thousand five hundred dollars. For cementing and finishing the basement of dining-hall, for the recreation of inmates, one thousand two hundred dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.
Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb:Expenses. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs, and improvements, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty-five thousand*Proviso*.Wages. dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages. 528FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Educating feeble-minded children.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the education of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, Vol. 21, p. 275.as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand five hundred dollars. howard university.Howard University.
Maintenance.For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For tools, materials, and wages of instructors for industrial Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars. For the erection of fire escapes and stand pipes, four hundred dollars. education in alaska.Education in Alaska.
For the industrial and primary education of the children of school age in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, forty thousand dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. Expenses.For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of 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, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fourteen thousand dollars;
For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars: For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For reading-matter for patients, twenty-five dollars; For one engine, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; Columbia Hospital for Women.Repairs, etc.Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum:
For extension of laundry and for machinery and engine; elevator; remodeling heating apparatus, including new boiler to supply deficiency in heat and provide power for laundry engine and elevator pumps; repairs and reconstruction of iron fence; and for general repairs, Half from District revenues.eleven thousand three hundred dollars. One-half of said sum to be paid from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. indian affairs.Indian Affairs.
Western Miami Indians.Per capita.Western Miami Indians: For the payment per capita, under such regulations for the protection of minors as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, to the Western Miami Indians from the funds to their credit in the Treasury of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians.Per capita.Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians: For the payment per capita, under such regulations for the protection of minors as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, to the Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians, forty thousand dollars, to be charged to said Indians on the books of the Treasury, and the bonds representing the amount paid shall become the property of the United States.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.529 census of the state of florida.Florida. To pay to the State of Florida the expenses of taking the census of said State in pursuance ofCensus expenses. the “Act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses,” approved March third, eighteen hundredVol. 20, p. 480. and seventy-nine, nine thousand three hundred, and twenty-six dollars and twenty-one cents. civil service commission.Civil Service Commission. For expenses of examinations held elsewhere than at Washington,Expenses of examinations. including rent of rooms and furniture and reasonable fees to janitors, two hundred and fifty dollars, and of this sum one hundred and twenty-nine dollars shall be available to pay expenses incurred in the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of InternationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars. North American ethnology: For the purpose of continuingNorth American ethnology. 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.
Under the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution as Director ofNational Museum. the National Museum. National Museum, heating and lighting: For expense of heating,Heating, lighting, etc. lighting, and electrical and telephonic service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. Preservation of collections of the National Museum: ForPreserving, etc., collections. the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For cases,Furniture, etc. furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution shall submit toDetailed statement to be submitted. Congress at its next session a detailed statement of the expenditures of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, under appropriations for “International Exchanges.
” “North American Ethnology,” and the “National Museum.” and annually thereafter a detailed statement of expenditures under said appropriations shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate-Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries. commerce.” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars.
For all other necessary expenditures to enable the Commission toExpenses.Vol. 24. p. 386. give effect to and execute the provisions of the said “Act to regulate commerce.” one hundred and nine thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 530FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. Detailed statement to be made.That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include in their annual report to Congress a statement showing in detail their expenditures for each fiscal year, including the number of persons employed and the amount of compensation to each.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Rock Island.For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows; For completing armory-shop K, an iron finishing shop, seventeen thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing storehouse K, thirty-five thousand dollars. For new office: For putting concrete floors in basement: plastering basement walls and ceilings; gas-machine and fixtures: plumbing in second story: making shelves, drawers, and pigeon holes for vaults: replacing wooden outside steps with granite: office furniture and fixtures, and connecting water arrangements with elevated tank and reservoir, nine thousand dollars.
For machinery and shop-fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements: for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power: for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars. For permanent shafting underground through north end of arsenal shops by brick tunnels between shops; gearing, and so forth, from shop “A” to shop “I,” twenty thousand dollars.
Bridge expenses.For the Rock Island Bridge as follows; For care, preservation, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. Reconstructing dam.For the reconstruction of the Government dam at the Rock Island Arsenal, and for the immediate construction of a temporary dam to furnish water-power for said arsenal and to be used as a cofferdam when the permanent dam is reconstructed, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be *Proviso*.Liability of the Government.expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be construed or held as importing or implying any obligation on the part of the United States to maintain said dam or works by reason of any obligation to said Moline Water-Power Company, and no money hereby appropriated shall he expended until the Moline Water-Power Company shall agree that no liability on the part of the Government to maintain the dam, water-power, or other works in connection therewith exists whenever the Government shall see fit to relinquish the use of said power:
Reconveyance of water-power.*Provided further*, That whenever the Government shall cease to maintain or use said water-power, it shall reconvey in fee simple, to said Moline Water-Power Company, its right and title to use the same. For repairs of draw-pier of the Rock Island Bridge, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For repairs of dykes and embankments of the water-power pool, and for dredging and scouring out mud in said pool, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Kennebec Arsenal, Maine.Kennebec Arsenal, Maine: For repairs to walks, grounds, sewers, drains, and for new and necessary sewers and drains, two thousand dollars. For introducing city water and for necessary changes and repairs in plumbing work, two thousand dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.531 Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield, Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars.
For shop fixtures for new milling shop at the National Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, consisting of shafting, couplings, pillow-blocks, hangers, and pulleys, ten thousand dollars. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For building reservoirBenicia, Cal. for additional water-supply, sixteen thousand dollars. Piccatiny Powder-Depot, Dover, New Jersey: For completing Piccatiny powder-depot, Dover, N. J.magazine number four, eighteen thousand dollars; for repairing magazine number one, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sandy Hook Proving-Ground, New Jersey: For cleaning,Proving-ground, Sandy Hook. leveling, and grading grounds, building and repairing roads, two thousand dollars. Testing-machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materialWatertown testing-machine. in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing-machine at Watertown Arsenal, including new tools and appliances, ten thousand dollars. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For a hand-powerWatervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N.
Y. loading-crane, fifty tons capacity, for use in shops, three thousand dollars; For two traveling cranes, thirty tons capacity, for use in workshops, twenty-four thousand dollars: For crab, blocks, hooks, chains, and so forth, capacity fifty tons, for shrinkage-pit, four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For new machinery to bring the plant up to a modern standard, and to replace that which is obsolete and worn out, five thousand dollars; For necessary railway facilities in arsenal grounds, connecting shops with Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Railroad, Erie Canal, and with the Hudson River, eight thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars;
For replacing the present old and unsuitable wooden bridge over the Erie Canal with an iron bridge adapted to the present wants of the arsenal, capacity one hundred and thirty tons, fifteen thousand dollars; For two steam-boilers for running steam-engine at shops, and for heating purposes, eight thousand dollars; in all, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and eight dollars. That the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toAugusta, Ga. bore, construct, and equip an artesian well at the United States arsenal in the village of Summerville, near the city of Augusta, Georgia, the money to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Repair of arsenals: For repairs of smaller arsenals, and toRepairs. 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.Buildings and grounds, Washington.Improvement and care. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, six thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.
For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. 532FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, removal and repair of high iron fences around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, lampposts, and settees, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, 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, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, ten thousand dollars. For improvement and care of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building, and asphalt walks leading to City Hall, five thousand dollars.
Concrete pavements.That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a finality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. Executive Mansion.Repairs, fuel, etc.For repairs and fuel of the Executive Mansion as follows:
For care, repair, repainting, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, sixteen thousand dollars to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For renewing entire superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. Lighting Executive Mansion and public grounds.Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds:
For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, and laborers: purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lampposts: purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds: fuel and lights for office, office-stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, *Proviso*.Maximum price lamp.fourteen thousand 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 said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum: 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.
Water-pipes and fire-plugs.Repairs, etc.Repair of water-pipes and fireplugs: For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.533 For furnishing a full supply of water for all purposes to the Executive Mansion by connecting the Mansion by a twelve inch main with the thirty-six inch water-main on L street, five thousand three hundred dollars.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsGovernment telegraph. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Washington Monument: For completion of the WashingtonWashington monument.Expenses. Monument, namely: For earth-tilling and grading around the monument, in accordance with existing law; insertion of memorial tablets presented for that purpose in the interior walls of the monument; office expenses, and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument andCare and maintenance. the operation of the elevator and machinery connected therewith, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one Steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month: one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month: one conductor of car, at seventy-five dollars per month: one attendant on floor, at forty-five dollars per month: one attendant on top, at forty-five dollars per month: three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; coal, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; oil, waste, packing, and repairs to engine and boiler, five hundred dollars; contingencies, ninety dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the SecretaryTo be under Secretary of War. of War, who is hereby and hereafter charged with the custody, care, and protection of the monument.
And the joint commission created by the act of August second,Joint commission dissolved.Vol. 19, p. 123. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the completion of the Washington Monument, having completed the work intrusted to it, is, at its own request, dissolved, and the unexpended balances of appropriations for this work, as well as the amount herein appropriated, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: and the Washington National Monument Society is hereby continuedWashington National Monument Society continued. with the same powers as provided in the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, creating the joint commission aforesaid; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to set apart a room for the deposit of the archives of the Washington NationalRoom for.
Monument Society (as also for the records of the joint commission dissolved) and for the continuous use of said society in the building now being erected by the said society with funds collected by it for its use and for the public comfort. Building for Army Medical Museum and Library: For aMedical Museum. cremating furnace, to be used in connection with the laboratories, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For cases, shelving, and appliances for new anatomical and biological laboratories, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For additional cases for the Museum hall, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Old Museum Building and Annex: For additional amount forOld Museum buildingRepairs. the completion of needed repairs and improvements on the old Museum Building and Annex on Tenth street, between E and F, now occupied by the record and pension division of the Surgeon-General’s Office, as follows: To complete plumbing, including the purchase of a supply tank, pump, and gas-engine, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Mississippi River Commission: For salaries and traveling expensesMississippi River Commission. of the Mississippi River Commission, and for salaries and traveling expenses of assistant engineers under them, and for office expenses and contingencies, thirty-five thousand dollars. 534FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. military posts.Military posts. Construction, etc.For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fort Riley.Cavalry and Artillery School, Fort Riley, Kansas: For continuing the work of buildings for the cavalry and artillery school, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Denver.Military post at Denver, Colorado: For continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Robinson, Nebr.Military post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska: For completing the work of constructing necessary buildings, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Niobrara, Nebr.Military post at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska:
For completing the work of constructing necessary buildings, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Meade.Additional land.Fort Meade Military Reservation, Dakota: For the purchase of certain land adjoining the military reservation of Fort Meade Dakota, known as the McMillan addition, for the purpose of obtaining a water supply for the post, three thousand dollars, or so much *Proviso*.Title.New York.thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That a good and sufficient title to the property shall first be vested in the United States.
New York, New York: For completing the work of remodeling the old Produce Exchange building, eighty-five thousand dollars: *Proviso*.To be completed without delay.*provided*, That the Secretary of War shall cause the public building in New York City, erected in place of the old Produce Exchange, to be completed and occupied without unnecessary delay: and to facilitate the work on said building, all expenditures upon the same including those from the appropriations for the support of the Army, shall be subject to the control and direction of the Secretary of War.
Yellowstone Park.Protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: 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-five thousand dollars. Signal Service.Signal Service. Pay of civilian employees.For the following civilian employees after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at annual salaries stated, in the office Chief Signal Officer, namely:
One chief clerk, two thousand dollars: two clerks of class three: three clerks of class two (including one stenographer): one chief draughtsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman of printing, one thousand four hundred dollars; one chief mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars: two draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: two telegraph operators at one thousand two hundred dollars each: two telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each: two telegraph operators, at nine hundred dollars each: thirty-five clerks, class one (including not more than three stenographers); twenty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each: ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: two copyists and typewriters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: two copyists and typewriters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: four skilled artisans (either machinists, instrument-makers, carpenters or engineers), at eight hundred and forty dollars each: one janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two assistant janitors, at six hundred dollars each: five laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one battery man, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: two messengers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each: in all, ninety-five thousand four hundred and sixteen *Proviso*.dollars and sixty-seven cents; *Provided*, That any person performing FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.535 duty in any capacity as officer, clerk, or otherwise, in the office ofTransfer of officers, etc. the Chief Signal Officer at the date of the passage of this act, who has heretofore been paid as an enlisted man in the Signal Corps, and whose office employment or place is specifically provided for herein, under the direction of the Secretary of War, may be continued in such office, clerkship, or employment without a new appointment thereto after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. observation and report of storms.Observation and report of storms.
To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of the meteorological observation and report, by telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture of the United States, as follows: For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological instruments,Instruments. and expenses in connection therewith, including those already issued and to be issued to voluntary unpaid observers, and the Secretary of War shall establish regulations respecting such issue, three thousand dollars.
For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological informationTelegraphing. in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, cold-wave, and otherStorm signals. 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 manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument shelters, andInstrument shelters. expenses in connection therewith, five hundred dollars. For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery,Contingent expenses outside of Washington. ice, stoves and fixtures, repairs, rent of telephones, textbooks, lumber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars. For river and flood observations, and expenses in connection therewith,River and flood observations. nine thousand dollars.
For expenses (including paper, forms, printing and lithographingMaps and bulletins. supplies, hire of civilian printers and engravers) of preparing, printing, distributing, and displaying weather maps or weather bulletins, and for the maintenance of a printing office, under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, in the city of Washington, for the printing of the necessary orders, circulars, maps, or bulletins, as may be necessary to carry into effect the appropriations made for the support of the Signal Service, fifteen thousand dollars.
For observations, and expenses incidental thereto, announcing theCotton region reports. probable approach and severity of frosts or rains, for the benefit of the cotton region of the United States, seven thousand dollars. For maintenance and repair of military and sea-coast telegraphMi1itary telegraph lines. lines, including rent of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies, and general repairs, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars: and of this amount not exceeding seven hundred dollars may be used for the rental of such cable and land wires as may, in the opinion of the Chief Signal Officer, be necessary to secure connection between the Point Reyes military telegraph line and the signal-office in San Francisco, California pay.
For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants,Pay, etc., of officers and men. mounted, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars: for longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps, to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars: for pay 536FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. of not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five sergeants, twenty corporals, and one hundred and seventy-five privates, including payment due on discharge, to men now in the service, one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-two *Provisos*.Not to be used for clerks in Washington.Mileage.cents: *Provided*, That no part of this money shall be used in payment of enlisted men of the Signal Corps on clerical or messenger duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer; for mileage to officers when traveling on Signal Service duty under orders, two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided further*, That this amount shall be disbursed under the same limitations prescribed for payment of mileage to officers in the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine: for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars: in all, one hundred and eighty thousand and forty-three dollars and eighty-two cents.
And the Detail from Army.Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed five commissioned officers of the Regular Army, to be exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law; and the Regular Army officers herein authorized to be detailed for the Signal Corps shall receive their pay and allowances from the appropriation for the support of the Army: and no money herein appropriated shall be used for pay Number of second lieutenants limited.and allowances of second lieutenants appointed or to be appointed from the sergeants of the Signal Corps-under the provisions of the Vol. 20, p. 219.act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in excess of the number of fourteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps. subsistence.Subsistence.
For commutation of rations of not exceeding, after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and twenty Signal Service enlisted men of the Signal Corps, and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men of said Corps, as authorized by [R.S., sec. 1144, p. 207](/us/rs/s1144/p207).section eleven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, and paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine of the Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and five thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-two cents. regular supplies.Regular supplies.
Fuel.Fuel: For various offices on the United States telegraph lines, and at stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia (for fires the year round when needed), and for sales of the regulation allowance to officers of the Signal Corps, as allowed by section Vol. 20, p. 150.eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty), seven thousand dollars. Commutation of fuel.Commutation of fuel:
For commutation of fuel for not exceeding, after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal-stations throughout the United States, thirty-four thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Forage.Forage: For forage for fourteen public animals (four to be horses), as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and eighty-six of the Army Regulations, one thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars; straw for fourteen public animals, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, ninety-eight dollars; for forage for thirteen horses actually kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety and twenty-three hundred FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.537 and eighty-five, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty-fourth,Vol. 21, p. 347. eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at one hundred and five dollars each per annum, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars; for straw for private horses actually kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraphs eighteen hundred and ninety and twenty-three hundred and eighty-five, 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 four hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty cents. incidental expenses.Incidental expenses.
For horse and mule shoes, nails, and expenses for shoeing once each month for fourteen animals, at one dollar and fifty cents each per month (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For shoes, nails, and expenses of shoeing once each month for thirteen horses actually 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 blacksmith’s supplies, tools, lathes, and materials, one hundred dollars. For veterinary supplies, thirty dollars. For interment of officers and men, one hundred and fifty dollars. transportation.Transportation. For transportation of officers of the Signal Corps (including their baggage) when traveling on duty under orders, to be in lieu of actual cost of transportation; for transportation of the enlisted men of the Signal Corps or civilian employees (including their baggage) when traveling on duty under orders: transportation of material, animals, and fluids as per paragraphs seventeen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; for freights, wharfages, tolls, and ferriages, drayages, and cartages, and for the purchase of special delivery stamps, twenty-two thousand, dollars.
For purchase of necessary harness and other articles and expenses of repairs to means of transportation, one hundred and fifty dollars. barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters. For commutation of quarters to not exceeding, after SeptemberCommutation. first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal stations throughout the United States, fifty-six thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars. medical department.
For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted menMedical attendance. of the Signal Corps, two thousand seven hundred dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance, etc. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. 538FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.
Superintendents.For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-four superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars Headstones.Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing 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 Vol. 17, p. 548.Vol. 20, p. 281.States, and other burial places under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Roadways.Repairs OF roadways to national cemeteries: For repairing the roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, sixteen thousand dollars. Marietta, Ga.National cemetery near Marietta, Georgia: That the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil Vol. 23, p. 507.appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the construction of a roadway to the national cemetery near Marietta, Georgia, is hereby authorized to be expended in the construction of said road way without the limitation imposed by said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
Antietam, Maryland.National cemetery, Antietam, Maryland: For the construction of a macadam road from Antietam Station to the Antietam, Maryland, National Cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars. Monument, etc., at Mound City, Kans.Soldiers’ Monument at Mound City, Kansas: To enable the Secretary of War to collect the bodies of Union soldiers buried in towns adjacent to Mound City, Kansas, and to reinter the same in the military cemetery near Mound City, and to erect therein a suitable monument, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Burial of indigent soldiers.Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in cemeteries in the District of Columbia indigent Ex-Union soldiers who die in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Said sum to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave. Monuments, etc.Gettysburgh.Vol. 24, p. 535.Monuments or tablets at Gettysburg:
That the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars, made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for the erection of monuments or memorial tablets for the proper marking of the position of each of the commands of the regular Army engaged at Gettysburg, be, and Purchase of land.the same is hereby, made available for the purchase of land upon which to erect the monuments and tablets. Newburgh, N. Y.Monument at Washington’s headquarters.For the completion of the monument at Washington’s Headquarters at Newburgh, New York, and of the statues thereon, according to the plans adopted by the joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, under joint resolution of the two Houses, and for gates therein, according to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, contained in Executive Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-six, Fiftieth Congress, first session, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty-two thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous.
Survey, lakes.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, and electrotyping plates for chart-printing, two thousand dollars. Transporting reports, etc.Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs.Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.539 For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-four superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing 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, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs OF roadways to national cemeteries: For repairing the roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, sixteen thousand dollars. National cemetery near Marietta, Georgia: That the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the construction of a roadway to the national cemetery near Marietta, Georgia, is hereby authorized to be expended in the construction of said road way without the limitation imposed by said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
National cemetery, Antietam, Maryland: For the construction of a macadam road from Antietam Station to the Antietam, Maryland, National Cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars. Soldiers’ Monument at Mound City, Kansas: To enable the Secretary of War to collect the bodies of Union soldiers buried in towns adjacent to Mound City, Kansas, and to reinter the same in the military cemetery near Mound City, and to erect therein a suitable monument, two thousand five hundred dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers:
For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in cemeteries in the District of Columbia indigent Ex-Union soldiers who die in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Said sum to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave. Monuments or tablets at Gettysburg: That the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars, made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for the erection of monuments or memorial tablets for the proper marking of the position of each of the commands of the regular Army engaged at Gettysburg, be, and the same is hereby, made available for the purchase of land upon which to erect the monuments and tablets.
For the completion of the monument at Washington’s Headquarters at Newburgh, New York, and of the statues thereon, according to the plans adopted by the joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, under joint resolution of the two Houses, and for gates therein, according to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, contained in Executive Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-six, Fiftieth Congress, first session, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Appliances for disabled soldiers. Support, etc., destitute patients. Providence Hospital. Garfield Hospital Military convicts. Official Records War of the Rebellion.Continuing publication. Vol. 23, p. 508.*Proviso*.Secretary of War to certify copy to contain official records only. Vol. 24, p. 195. Pike’s Peak, Colo.Wagon road. united states military prison at fort leavenworth.Military prison.Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Expenses. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows:
For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters and two watchmen: commutation for prisoners en route to insane asylum, twenty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, five hundred and forty dollars; For materials for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand seven hundred dollars: For an electric plant, three hundred lights, three thousand five hundred dollars: For forage and bedding for public animals used exclusively at the prison, and hay for prisoners’ bedding, three thousand dollars:
For stationery and blank-books for prison offices, memorandum books, and pencils for the guard, when on duty, postage-stamps, envelopes, and letter paper for issue to prisoners, one thousand dollars. For fuel for generating steam for running engines and heating buildings, for steam pipe and fixtures, hose, hose-couplings, belting, machinery and castings, horse and mule shoes, harness-leather, horses and mules, wagons and other articles for transportation, stoves and stovepipe, bricks, cement, fire-clay and firebricks, iron, tin 540FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. solder, blacksmith’s coal, charcoal, glass, putty, nails, shingles, disinfectants, painting materials and paint, brushes, axes, wheelbarrows, and other articles required for proper police of prison buildings and grounds, for tools and miscellaneous articles required in the shops, laundry, stables, and bathrooms, twenty thousand dollars. For materials for manufacture of clothing, for hats and clothing, for wear and use of prisoners while in confinement, and on release from confinement, and for prisoners on release from confinement at military posts, for donations of five dollars each to prisoners on release from confinement in the prison and at military posts, for necessary machines and tools required for use in tailor-shops, and for blankets, bed-sacks, and bunks for prisoners’ use, twelve thousand four hundred 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, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; For advertising for proposals for supplies, two hundred dollars; For expenses for pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars: Civilian employees.For pay of civilian employees;
One clerk, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month: one clerk, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents per month; one clerk, at one hundred dollars per month: extra-duty pay for prison-guard; six foremen of mechanics, at one hundred dollars per month each; one teamster, at sixty dollars per month; two nightwatchmen and four teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each: and one fireman, at sixty dollars per month for six months, from November to April, both months inclusive, to take charge at night of the furnaces, boilers and steam-heating apparatus; in all, sixteen thousand and sixty dollars.
Repairs.For repair of officers’ and non-commissioned officers’ quarters, the hospital, the chapel, the offices, and all prison buildings and shops, including civilian labor thereon which can not be done by prisoners, five thousand dollars; in all, ninety-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Artillery School, Fortress Monroe, Va.Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provide for means of instruction, such as textbooks, instruments, drawing materials, and stationery, required in the course of engineering, artillery, law, and the science and art of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Pay of officers etc.At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and non-commissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company: for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, librarians and musicians, and for repairs not done by the home; also for stationery, advertising, legal advice, and postage, and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-nine thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
Subsistence.For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary-sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, and orderlies employed in the subsistence department; bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, bread-cutters, and FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.541 butchers: the cost of all animals, fowls, and fish purchased for provisions: of all articles of food: their freight, preparation, and serving; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, baker’s and butcher’s tools and appliances, and their repair, if not done by the home, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For clothing, namely: Expenditures, for clothing, underclothing,Clothing. boots, shoes, socks, and overalls: also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed in the tailor-shop, knitting shop, and shoe shop, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made, one hundred thousand dollars. For household, namely: Expenditures, for furniture for officers’Household excuses. quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the home; for coal and firewood: for engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, hall-cleaners, laundrymen, gas-makers, and privy-watchmen, and for all machines, tools, materials, and appliances purchased for use under this head, and for their repair, unless the repairs are made by the home; also for all labor and material for upholstery shops, broom and soap shops, one hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and ten cents:
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital expenses. hospital-stewards, ward-masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage-drivers, hearse-drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such labor as may be necessary; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicines, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and materials and all other articles necessary for the wards: kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins, and materials: for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs not done by the home, thirty-nine thousand and fifty dollars and sixty-five cents;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. home, four thousand dollars and five cents. For construction, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Construction and repairs. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters, broom-makers, stonemasons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head; and for repairs generally for all departments, sixty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-one cents.
For one brick barrack, to replace old frame barrack, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars: For one gasholder (capacity, one hundred thousand cubic feet), sixteen thousand and seventy dollars; For farm namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm expenses. farmhands, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, hog-feeders, poulterers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work: for grain, hay, and straw, dressing and seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals and fowls purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park): for all materials, tools, and labor for flower-garden, lawn, and park; and for repairs not done by the home, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-six cents.
At the North western Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee.Current expenses. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand six hundred dollars; 542FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1060. 1888. Clothing.For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars:
Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars: Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-eight cents; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, three thousand dollars; Construction, etc.For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand four hundred dollars;
Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-eight cents; Togus, Me.Current expenses.At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand six hundred dollars and two cents:
Clothing.For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixteen thousand one hundred and three dollars and thirty-six cents; Transportation.Construction, etc.For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;
For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eleven thousand six hundred and three dollars and forty cents; in all, two hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred and six dollars and seventy-six cents. Hampton, Va.Current expenses.At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand six hundred and five dollars;
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars; Clothing.For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars: Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; HospitalFor hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-one thousand and fifty-four dollars and thirty cents;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Construction, etc.For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents; Farm.For construction of laundry, ten thousand dollars; Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars: in all, three hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and eighty cents.
At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.543 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred dollars: For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars:
For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifteen cents; For transportation of members of the Home, six thousand dollars:Transportation.Construction, etc. For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, nine thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents; in all, three hundred and nineteen thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty cents. At the Pacific Branch: For maintenance, fifty thousand dollars:Pacific Branch.Maintenance. For additional buildings required at the Pacific Branch, forty thousand dollars; in all, ninety thousand dollars; For additional barracks at the Northwestern, Southern, and WesternAdditional barracks.
Branches, one hundred and one thousand dollars; For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, twenty-eight thousandOutdoor relief.Balances. six hundred and fifty dollars: in all, two million and eighty-eight, thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty cents. And hereafter the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and ninety and[R. S., secs. 3690, 3691, p. 729](/us/rs/s3690/3691/p729). thirty-six hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall apply to all appropriations made for the maintenance of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: *Provided further*,*Proviso*.
That it shall be the duty of the managers of said Home, on or before the first day of October in each year, to furnish to the Secretary of War estimates, in detail, for the support of said HomeEstimates. for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July thereafter, and the Secretary of War shall annually include such estimates in his estimates for his Department. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Building, Department of Justice: For repairs to heating apparatus,Repairs. keeping the same in good order, three hundred dollars. courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia:
For annualCourt-house, Washington. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. For extension of heating apparatus and coal-vaults of City Hall, two thousand four hundred dollars. Idaho Penitentiary: For the improvement and enlargement ofIdaho Penitentiary. the penitentiary at Boise City, Idaho, twenty-five thousand dollars. Utah Penitentiary: Towards the construction of an additionalUtah Penitentiary. wing to prison, one hundred and twenty cells, with hospital, female prison, and chapel attached: for stockade entrance, to consist of offices, warden’s residence, guard-quarters, dining-rooms, and armory; for wall with sentry-boxes to inclose about two acres of land, and for purchase of water-right and twenty acres of land, the cost of said water-right and land not to exceed five thousand dollars, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Penitentiary in Wyoming Territory: For completion and necessaryPenitentiary, Wyoming. repairs of penitentiary building, in addition to the amount appropriated in the sundry civil appropriation act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten thousand dollars.Vol. 24, p. 252. 544FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. miscellaneous. Travelling expenses, Alaska.Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars.
Rent, etc., Alaska.Rent and incidental expenses, office of marshal, Territory of Alaska: For rent of office for the marshal, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Territorial courts, Utah.Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: For 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 traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Defending suits in claims against United States.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars. French spoliation claims.Defense in French spoliation claims: To enable the Attorney-General to make proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended in his discretion, five thousand dollars.
Prosecuting and collecting claims.Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Indian service.Punishing violations of intercourse acts.Punishing violations of the 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.
Prosecuting crimes against the United States.Investigations, etc.Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; 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, District of Columbia.Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars. JUDICIALJudicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses.Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska: of jurors and witnesses; of suits and preparation for suits in which the United States is interested; of FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.545 the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; of the safekeeping of prisoners; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States and of the enforcement of the provisions of titleR. S., Title XXVI. twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Accounts.
That not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes.[R. S., sec. 856, p. 161](/us/rs/s856/p161).District attorneys. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being for payment ofSpecial compensation. the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment of such special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district Attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys whoSpecial assistants. are employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty thousand dollars.
For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerks.Commissioners, etc. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any fees to United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal-revenue laws, unless the prosecution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constitutingSworn complaints to be made. the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge the affiant, or upon sworn complaint by a collector, or deputy collector of Internal Revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon information and belief and approved either before or after such arrest by a circuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed or the prosecution is by indictment.
For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Jurors.Witnesses.Support of prisoners. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, three hundred thousand dollars.
For rent of United States courtrooms, seventy-five thousand dollars.Rent. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, criers, etc. crier in each court, except in the Southern district of New York: of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals for jurors in United States cases when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associateStenographic clerks to Supreme Court. justice of the Supreme Court, at a sum not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as maybe authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney-General including the employment of janitors and 546FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888. watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative botanic garden.Botanic Garden. For extension and repairs to heating apparatus; for new sash to rotunda of conservatory, paint and reglaze conservatory and various hothouses, and general-repairs to buildings and walks, including granolithic pavement on First street, leading to Botanic Garden to Capitol, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars. senate.Senate. Indexing, etc., Senate Executive JournalsTo enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who performed the work of arranging and preparing the copy for, and indexing the Executive Journals of the Senate, from February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under Senate resolution of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States.
Folding-room.To enable the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to provide suitable rooms for the use of the folders of the Senate, one hundred and fifty dollars, and he is authorized to lease such rooms for the space of four mouths. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Contested election expenses.For allowance to the following contestants and contestees in full of expenses incurred by them in contested election cases: J. B. Morgan, seven hundred and one dollars; G. H.
Thobe, two thousand dollars; J. B. White, two thousand dollars; Robert Lowry, two thousand dollars; W. O. Arnold, seven hundred and fifty dollars; F. M. Simmons, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; Wm. Vandever, two thousand dollars; N. E. Worthington, two thousand dollars; A. C. Davidson, two thousand dollars; J. V. McDuffie, two thousand dollars; J. D. Lynch, two thousand dollars; P. S. Post, two thousand dollars; Robt. Smalls, two thousand dollars; J. G. Carlisle, one thousand two hundred and seven dollars and nineteen cents;
Wm. Elliott, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and nineteen cents. Payments from contingent fund.Hereafter no payment shall be made from the contingent fund of the Senate unless sanctioned by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, or from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives unless sanctioned by the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives. And hereafter payments made upon vouchers approved by the aforesaid respective committees shall be deemed, held, and taken, and are hereby declared to be conclusive upon all the departments and officers of the *Proviso*.Salaries.Government: *Provided*, That no payment shall be made from said contingent funds as additional salary or compensation to any officer or employe of the Senate or House of Representatives.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1069. 1888.547 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Miscellaneous. Catalogue of the Congressional Library: To enable the LibrarianCongressional Library Catalogue. of Congress to continue the work upon the Catalogue of the Congressional Library, five thousand dollars. To enable the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States,Portraits of Chief-Justices. under the direction of the court, to obtain the oil-portraits of John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, and Morrison R.
Waite, to be hung in the robing-room of the court with those of the other Chief-Justices already there, fifteen hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. Index to congressional documents: To pay for the work doneCongressional documents. in preparing and completing the Document index of the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses by Alonzo W. Church, three thousand dollars. To enable the Architect of the Capitol to protect the paintings inRotunda. the rotunda by suitable railing or wire netting, in his discretion, five hundred dollars, or so much 1 hereof as may be necessary.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding, paper, etc. For the public printing, for the public binding and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, 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 and sixty-seven thousand dollars: and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, eight hundred and two thousand dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer, of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep): and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this Appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business.
For the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 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) and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service;
For the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office; 548FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 1069, 1070. 1888. Allotment of appropriation—Continued.For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office. For the National Museum, for printing labels and blanks and for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the Museum, ten thousand dollars.
For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, eight thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty-five thousand dollars; For engraving the geological maps of the United States, fifty-four thousand dollars; For the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars;
For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars; For the Agricultural Department, thirty thousand dollars: For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars; For the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars: For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; For the Court of Claims, fourteen thousand dollars; For the Library of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars: For the Executive Office, three thousand dollars; Division of appropriation.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.
Leaves of absence.To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: to pay pro-rata leaves of absence to employees who resign or are discharged (decision of the First Comptroller), fifteen thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and five thousand dollars. New engine, etc.For a new engine and boiler, including the cost of erecting the same, twelve thousand dollars.
New story.For the construction of an additional story to the south center fireproof main building of the Government Printing Office and the removal of the electrotype foundry to the same, sixteen thousand dollars. Approved, October 2, 1888. Chapter 1070: to authorize the construction of bridges across the Kentucky River and its tributaries by the Louisville Southern Railroad Company. Chapter 1070 25 Stat. 548 1888-10-09 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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