Chapter 374. making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 374.— An Act making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.June 8, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Customs revenue.Deficiency appropriations for collecting, etc. That to defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated, the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by, or under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who is authorized to cause to be paid therefrom the full compensation which the employees in the customs-revenue service would have been entitled to receive had no order been made reducing their compensation in consequence of an estimated deficiency in the appropriation.
Sec. 2. For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids,Pensions. widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, three million five hundred thousand dollars, to supply a deficiency on account of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: *Provisos*.Navy pensions.*Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*, That the Accounts.amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
Sec. 3. That the appropriation of one hundred and ninety thousandHeating apparatus for public buildings.Appropriations continued.Vol. 24, p. 511. dollars made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for heating apparatus to be furnished before June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for the following new public buildings, namely: Aberdeen, Mississippi; Augusta, Maine: Clarksburg, West Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; Concord, New Hampshire; Council Bluffs, Iowa;
Dallas. Texas; Erie, Pennsylvania; Hannibal, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri; Leavenworth, Kansas; Lynchburg, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; New Albany, Indiana; Pensacola, Florida; Peoria. Illinois; Quincy. Illinois; Shreveport, Louisiana; Syracuse, New York; Terre Haute, Indiana; Toledo, Ohio; Tyler, Texas; and Waco, Texas; shall continue available to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fulfill contracts entered into therefor prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 373, 374. 1888.177 senate.Senate. For contingent expenses, for fiscal year eighteen hundred andContingent expenses. eighty-eight, namely: For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate, twenty-five dollars. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, one thousand dollars. For materials for folding, two thousand dollars. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, four thousand dollars.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for heating apparatus, three thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture, three thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, six thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, nine hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-seven cents. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For contingent expenses, for fiscal year eighteen hundred andContingent expenses. eighty-eight, namely:
For materials for folding, five thousand dollars. expenses of united states courts.United States courts. Fees of Jurors: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for theJurors’ fees. fees of jurors United States courts, on account of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, fifty thousand dollars. Fees of Witnesses: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation forWitnesses’ fees. fees of witnesses. United States courts, on account of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, sixty thousand dollars. government hospital for the insane.Insane Asylum.
For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Current 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, eleven thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seven cents, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Approved, June 8, 1888.