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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · March 2, 1889 · Chapter 411

Chapter 411.

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CHAP. 411.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.March 2, 1889. *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 ninety, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. For court-house, post-office, and customhouse at Bay City.Bay City, Mich. Michigan: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Birmingham, Alabama: ForBirmingham, Ala. completion of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse at Chicago, Illinois: For placing clock dialsChicago. Ill. and apparatus in the walls, two thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of customhouse building at Chicago, Illinois, fifty thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Chattanooga, Tennessee: For Chattanooga, Tenncompletion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For continuationDenver, Colo. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Detroit, Michigan: For continuingDetroit. Mich. erection of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For court-house, customhouse, and post-office at Duluth, Minnesota:Duluth. Minn. For completion of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana: For completion ofEvansville, Ind. building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Fort Scott, Kansas; For completionFort Scott, Kans. of building, including suitable wainscoting and marble tiling in the principal rooms and corridors, eight thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Fort Smith, Arkansas: For iron Fort Smith. Ark. Fence, etc.fence and approaches, including stone flagging for sidewalks, fifteen thousand dollars. 940 For public building at Frankfort, Kentucky: To enable the SecretaryFrankfort, Ky. Workmen, etc. of the Treasury to pay to the persons named in House Executive Document Number Eighty-three, Fiftieth Congress, second session, the sums severally ascertained to be due them for labor and material supplied for the construction of the court-house and post-office at Frankfort, Kentucky, six thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and eighteen cents.
For court-house and post-office at Greenville, South Carolina: ForGreenville, S. C. completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Jackson, Michigan: For completion of building Jackson. Mich.under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Key West, Florida: For protectingKey West, Fla. the site, three thousand dollars. For post-office at Lincoln, Nebraska: For paving, curbing andLincoln. Nebr. grading within the limits of the site, and setting stone steps about the post office site and public grounds, and repairing the fountain and walks in said grounds, at Lincoln, Nebraska, five thousand dollars.
For court house and post-office at Louisville. Kentucky: For completionLouisville, Ky. of building under present limit, including heating apparatus and elevators, one hundred and thirty-one thousand and one dollar and seventy-five cents. For post-office at Lowell, Massachusetts: For completion of buildingLowell. Mass. under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For court house and post office at Oshkosh, Wisconsin: For an additionalOshkosh, Wis. amount in order to substitute oak finish for white pine finish in the building, one thousand six hundred dollars, to be immediately available.
For court house and post office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: ForPittsburgh, Pa. continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For court house and post office at Rochester, New York: For approachesRochester. N. Y. eleven thousand dollars. For court house and post office at Savannah, Georgia: For completionSavannah. Ga. of building under present limit, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office at Sedalia, Missouri: For purchase of site and completionSedalia, Mo. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
For court house and post office at Syracuse, New York: For constructingSyracuse. N. Y. an elevator in said building, three thousand dollar. For court house and post-office at Texarkana, Arkansas and Texas:Texarkana, Ark. and Tex. For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For court house and post office at Vicksburg, Mississippi: ForVicksburg. Miss. completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts:
For the Vineyard Haven, Mass.purchase of lands adjacent to the grounds of the hospital and for the uses of the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For post office at Worcester, Massachusetts: For completion of Worcester. Mass.building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For Treasury Building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForWashington. D. C. Treasury and Winder buildings. Repairs, etc. repairs to Treasury Building and Winder Building, eight thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs andRepairs and preservation. preservation of customhouses, court houses, post-offices, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, two hundred Report.thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall 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-nine, showing on what public buildings said appropriation was expended and the number of persons employed and paid salaries therefrom. 941 That hereafter no plan shall be approved by the Secretary of thePlans not to be approved till selection of sites.
Treasury for any public building authorized by Congress to be erected, until after the site therefor shall have been finally selected; and he shall not authorize or approve of any plan for any such building which shall involve a greater expenditure in the completion of such building, including heating apparatus, elevators, and approaches thereto, than the amount that shall remain of the sum specified in the law authorizing the erection of such building excluding cost of site.
That hereafter commissions shall not be paid for disbursements onNo commissions on purchase of sites. account of sites for public buildings; nor on account of construction of public buildings except for moneys actually handled and paid out by disbursing agents; and payments for sites for public buildingsMode of payment. under the control of the Treasury Department shall be made by the Treasury Department, at Washington, District of Columbia, by drafts or checks payable to the grantors of such sites or their legal representatives.
That hereafter all legal services connected with the procurementDistrict attorneys to render legal services. of titles to site for public buildings, other than for life saving stations and pier-head lights, shall be rendered by United States district attorneys: *Provided further*, That hereafter, in the procurement*Proviso*. of sites for such public buildings, it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General to require of the grantors in each case to furnish, free of all expenses to the Government, all requisite abstracts, officialAbstracts, etc. certifications, and evidences of title that the Attorney-General may deem necessary. light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.
Mount Desert Rock Fog-Signal. Maine: For establishing completeMount Desert, Me. a fog-signal upon Mount Desert Rock, off the coast of Maine, four thousand five Hundred dollars. Bear Island Light-Station, Maine: For building a new keeper’sBear Island, Me. dwelling at Bear Island Light-Station, Maine, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Great Duck Island Light-Station, Maine: For establishing a lightGreat Duck Island, Me. and fog-signal on Great Duck or Long Island, Maine, thirty thousand dollars.
Great Round Shoal Light-Ship. Massachusetts: For establishmentGreat Round Shoal, Mass. of a light-ship with a fog-signal to mark the channel through Great Round Shoal, near Nantucket, Massachusetts, sixty thousand dollars. Steam-tender for the second light-house district: For a new steamSteam tender, Second district. tender for service in the second light-house district, eighty thousand dollars; said amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That the construction of said tender*Proviso*.
Construction. shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement, and said tender shall be built in an American ship yard. Beaver Tail Fog-Signal, Rhode Island: For the purchase of landBeaver Tail, R. I. required for the Beaver Tail (Rhode Island) fog-signal station, and the payment of the necessary expenses incident to such purchase, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Castle Hill Light Station. Rhode Island: For the construction ofCastle Hill, R.
I. the light-house at Castle Hill, Rhode Island, five thousand dollars, additional to the sum already appropriated. Coney Island, New York: For establishing a light or lights, and aConey Island, N. Y. fog-signal on the western end of Coney Island, New York, twenty five thousand dollars. Sandy Hook Light-Ship. New Jersey: For the construction and establishmentCandy Hook, N. J. of a light-ship with a fog-signal, for the Sandy Hook station, entrance to New York Harbor, sixty thousand dollars. 942 Squan Inlet Light-Station, New Jersey:
For the establishment completeSquan Inlet, N. J of a light about midway between Barnegat and Navesink, New Jersey, twenty thousand dollars. Shark’s Fin Shoal Light-Station, Maryland: For establishing aShark’s Fin Shoal, Md. light on Shark’s Fin Shoal, Maryland, to take the place of Clay Island Light, twenty five thousand dollars. Greenbury Point Shoal Light-Station, Maryland: For establishingGreenbury Point, Md. a light on the shoal off Greenbury Point, Maryland, to Replace the one on the point, twenty five thousand dollars.
Bush’s Bluff Light-Ship. Virginia: For establishing a light-shipBush’s Bluff, Va. and fog-signal at or near Bush’s Bluff Shoal. Elizabeth River, near Norfolk Virginia, in addition to the balance remaining of the Vol. 23, p. 485.appropriation made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty five, for a light-house and a fog-bell on Bush’s Bluff, which is hereby made available for the same purpose, forty thousand dollars. Diamond Shoal Light-Station. North Carolina:
For the EstablishmentCape Hatteras, Diamond Shoal. N.C. of a light house on Outer Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, *Proviso*.North Carolina, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Contract.contract for the construction of the same may be let. for the entire structure at a total cost of not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars. in the discretion of the Light House Board, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Hog Island Wharf and Roadway. Virginia:
For establishing complete Hog Island. Va. a wharf and roadway to the light house at Hog Island, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Pamlico Light-Station. North Carolina: For establishing completePamlico. N.C. a light off Pamlico Point, North Carolina, to replace the one on the point, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gull Shoal Light Station, North Carolina: For establishing completeGull Shoal. N. C. a light and fog-signal on Gull Shoal, west side of Pamlico Sound. North Carolina, thirty thousand dollars.
Bull’s Bay Beacon, South Carolina: For establishing a small beacon-light at Bull’sBull’s Bay, S. C. Bay, South Carolina, sixty dollars. Fernandina Harbor Range-Lights. Florida: For the establishmentFernandina. Fla. Range lights. of one or more sets of range-lights to guide into the harbor of Fernandina Florida, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Pascagoula River Ranges. Mississippi: For establishing range-lights,Pascagoula River, Miss. Range lights to guide into the mouth of the Pascagoula River, Mississippi, one thousand dollars.
Pearl River Light-Station. Mississippi: For the establishmentPearl River, Miss. of a light on the east bank of Pearl River, opposite the draw in the railway bridge, two hundred and fifty dollars. Point Isabel Light Station, Texas: For reestablishing the light atPoint Isabel, Tex. Point Isabel, and the purchase of land therefor, entrance to Brazos Santiago, Texas, eight thousand dollars. Beaver Island Fog-Signal, Michigan: For establishing complete aBeaver Island. Mich. fog-signal at Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Manistee Fog-Signal, Michigan: For establishing complete a steamManistee, Mich. fog-signal at Manistee light station, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. For establishing complete a light-house and fog-signal on the easterlyChicago Breakwater. end of the outer breakwater at Chicago, Lake Michigan, Illinois. without regard to the completion of said breakwater, thirty-six thousand dollars. Twin River Point Fog-Signal. Wisconsin: For establishing completeTwin River Point, Wis. a steam fog-signal upon Twin River Point.
Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, five thousand five hundred dollars. Simmon’s Reef Light Station. Michigan: For establishing completeSimmon’s Reef, Mich. a light and fog-signal on Simmon’s Reef. Michigan, sixty thousand dollars. 943 Cleveland Breakwater Fog-Signal, Ohio: For establishing completeCleveland Breakwater. Ohio. a steam fog-signal on the breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio, five thousand two hundred dollars. Grosse Isle Ranges, Michigan: For the establishment of range-lightsGrosse Isle.
Michigan. Range lights. on Grosse Isle, Detroit River, Michigan, seven thousand dollars. Saint Clair River Ranges, Michigan: For establishing range lightsSaint Clair River, Mich. Range lights. to guide through Saint Clair River, Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars. Lake Saint Clair Ranges, Michigan: For establishing range andLake Saint Clair, Midi. Range lights. stake lights in Lake Saint Clair, from Grosse Point to the entrance of Detroit River. Michigan, three thousand dollars.
Presque Isle Fog-Signal. Michigan: For establishing complete aPresque Isle, Mich. steam fog-signal at Presque Isle, Lake Huron, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. Cheboygan Fog-Signal. Michigan: For establishing complete aCheboygan. Mich. steam fog-signal at Cheboygan, opposite Boise Blanc Island. Straits of Mackinac, Michigan, live thousand five hundred dollars. Old Mackinac Point Light-Station, Michigan: For establishingOld Mackinac Point. Mich. complete a fog-signal at Old Mackinac Point, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars Point Iroquois Fog-Signal.
Michigan: For establishing complete aPoint Iroquois, Mich. steam fog-signal at Point Iroquois, Lake Superior, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. La Pointe Fog-Signal, Michigan: For establishing complete a steamLa Pointe. Midi. fog-signal at La Pointe (Point Chequamegon). entrance to Ashland Harbor, Lake Superior. Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. Point Peninsula Light-Station, Michigan: For crib-work protectionPoint Peninsula. for boathouse and landing at Point Peninsula Mich.Light-Station, Michigan, two thousand dollars.
Steam-tender for the Great Lakes: For a steam-tender for serviceSteam-tender for Great Lakes. on the Northern Lakes, eighty-five thousand dollars; said amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That the construction of said tender shall be let to the*Proviso*. Construction. lowest responsible bidder after advertisement, and that said tender shall be built in an American ship yard. Devil’s Island Light-Station, Wisconsin: For establishing completeDevil’s Island.
Wis a light at Devil’s Island, Apostle Group, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. Two Harbors Fog Signal. Minnesota: For establishing complete aTwo Harbors, Minn. steam fog-signal at Two Harbors, Lake Superior, Minnesota, five thousand five hundred dollars. Columbia River Light-Ship, Oregon: For establishing a light-shipColumbia River, mouth of. with steam fog-signal to mark the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, sixty thousand dollars. For the purchase of a site and the construction of a first-orderHeceta Head.
Oreg. coast light-house at or near Heceta Head, at or near the mouth of the Siuslaw River, Oregon, eighty thousand dollars. For connecting the Tillamook Rock (Oregon) light-station by telegraphTillamook Rock, Oreg. Cable. cable, and a land telegraph line, with Fort Stevens (Point Adams) Oregon, six thousand dollars. Roe Island Light-Station, California: For establishing complete aIsland, Cal. light house and fog-signal on Roe Island, Suisun Bay, California, ten thousand dollars. life-saving service.Life-saving Service.
For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, asSuperintendents’ salaries. follows: 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: 944 For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and LongSuperintendents’ salaries—Continued. Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand dollars;
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 life-saving 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 life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington Territory, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of two hundred and thirty-seven keepers of life-savingKeepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews. Miscellaneous expenses. stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteers crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same: rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act Vol. 22, p. 57.approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draught annuals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, seven hundred and forty thousand seven hundred dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations onNew stations. the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries and expenses. lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; shipchandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of 945 cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Behring Sea and the other waters of Alaska and 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, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the establishment and maintenance of a refuge-station at orPoint Barrow. Alaska. Refuge station. near Point Barrow, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean, fifteen thousand dollars. 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 sixty-three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, that no portion of this sum shall.be expended*Proviso*.
Notes of large denomination. for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be 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, at not exceeding one centRoyalty for steam presses. per thousand impressions for use of steam plate-printing machines, four hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no*Provisos*.
Large notes. portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall beNo repairs to steam presses. used for the repair or reconstruction of steam plate printing presses: *Provided further*, That there shall not be an increase of the numberSteam presses not to be increased. of steam plate printing machines in the Engraving and Printing Bureau: *And provided further*, That hereafter the name of each personNames on portraits. whose portrait shall be placed upon any of the plates for bonds, securities, notes and silver certificates of the United States shall be inscribed below such portrait: *Provided*, That unless the patenteesPayments for royalties on steam presses. of said steam presses shall accept the five hundred dollars already paid as royalty on each press and the rate per thousand sheets herein provided the said presses shall not be used by the Government after the close of the present fiscal year.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. light-house establishment.Light-house Establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying light-houses, beacon-lights.Supplies. and fog-signals with illuminating, cleansing, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. light-houses, 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 and thirty-five thousand dollars. 946 Salaries of Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries, fuel,Keepers’ salaries, etc. rations, rent of quarters where necessary and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of Light-Vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs.Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of lightships, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of Buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of Fog-Signals: For establishing, replacing,Fog-signals. duplicating, and improving, fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand dollars.
Inspecting Lights: For mileage or traveling expenses of membersInspection. of the light-house Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage light-house property, three thousand dollars. Lighting of Rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting of rivers. post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers. New York: the Raritan River, New Jersey; 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 and Indian Rivers, 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 Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington Territory: the light-house 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 cannot be made permanent, two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.
Survey of light-house Sites: For preliminary examinations,Survey of sites. surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are made to Congress, one thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey ofExpenses of survey of Atlantic. Gulf, and Pacific, and Alaska coast, etc. 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 work 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 light-house Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officer 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 947 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*, That no*Proviso*.
Advances. 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: To complete the triangulation and topography of the coast ofParty expenses. Maine in Cobscook Bay and Saint Croix River, and to the International boundary monument (all new work), six 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, and for current observations off Cape Cod. seven thousand dollars. For continuation of the comparison of the surveys of the Delaware River and Bay below League Island, and for observing the movement, lodgment of, and obstructions by ice, and alterations in the channels and bars caused therey, two thousand dollars.
To continue to date corrections of 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. one thousand dollars. To continue physical research and observant ion of the erosion by the sea on the coast of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard, including reductions, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For a hydrographic examination of Charleston, South Carolina, entrance and bar, 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, being all new work, seven thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the tributaries of Pensacola Bay, or, if completed, to run a line of standard levels from the bench mark in Mobile to the bench marks along the Mobile River up to the vicinity of Mount Vernon Landing, 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, and, if completed, to take up the survey of Lake Pontchartrain. 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, including San Francisco Bay and Harbor, and necessary triangulation and topography, nine thousand dollars. For continuing the topographic survey of the coast of southern California, including necessary triangulation and astronomical work in connection therewith, ten 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, nine thousand five hundred dollars. 948 For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including offshoreParty expenses—Continued. hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, ten thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, five 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 and at San Antonio Magnetic Observatory, one thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing the exact line of levels from the point reached this year south of Cairo southward to Okolona, Mississippi, and if junction is made, to continue the transcontinental line beginning either in the vicinity of Kansas City or San Francisco, three thousand dollars.
For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, a Kadiak, in Alaska, and at Saucelito, near San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and at Savannah, Georgia, two thousand one 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 continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, twenty thousand dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, five thousand dollars.
For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty,Travelling expenses. Navy. and for any special surveys that may be required by the light-house Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent,Urgent objects. five thousand dollars. For contribution to the “International Geodetic Association forContribution to International Geodetic Association. the measurement of the earth”, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 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 *Proviso*.
Payment.hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named”, and after the adhesion by the Government of the *Post*, p. 1019.United States to the convention of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of the International Geodetic Association aforesaid. 949 And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; in all. for Interchange of amounts.party expenses, one hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred dollars.
Alaska Boundary Survey: For expenses in carrying on a preliminary Alaska 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 and Maintenance of Vessels: For repairs andRepairs, etc. vessels. maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Pay of Field OfficersPay of Held officers.: For Superintendent, to be appointed by the President, by and withSuperintendent. the advice and consent of the Senate, six thousand dollars. For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each, eight thousand Assistants.dollars. For one assistant, at three thousand six hundred dollars. For one assistant, at three thousand two hundred dollars. For two assistants, at three thousand dollars each six thousand dollars. For two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand six hundred dollars.
For four assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For three assistants, at two thousand three hundred dollars each, six thousand nine hundred dollars. For six assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. For six assistants, at two thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars. For ten assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. For nine assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For three sub-assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, four thousand two hundred dollars. For two sub-assistants, at one thousand three hundred dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars. For four sub-assistants, at one thousand one hundred dollars each, four thousand four hundred dollars. For three aids, at nine hundred dollars each, two thousand seven hundred dollars, Total pay in field, one hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred*Proviso*. Reduction of force. dollars: *Provided*, that no new appointments shall be made to the above force until the whole number of assistants, sub-assistants, and aids shall be reduced to fifty-two.
Pay of Office Force.Pay of office force. For two accountants at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. For one accountant, at one thousand four hundred dollars. For one general office assistant, at two thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand one hundred dollars. For two draughtsman, at two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars. 950 For three draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollarsPay of office force—continued. each, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For three draughtsman, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, 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 draughtsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand one hundred dollars. For additional draughtsman, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars. each per annum, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For one draughtsman, at nine hundred and forty dollars. For two computers, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For one tidal computer, at one thousand five hundred dollars. For one computer, at one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For one compiler, 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 electro typist and photographer, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one electro typist’s helper, five hundred dollars. For one apprentice to electro typist 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. For two plate-printers’ helpers, at seven hundred dollars each, one thousand four hundred dollars. For one chief mechanician, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. 951 For one mechanician, at one thousand five hundred and sixty-fivePay of office force—Continued. 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 one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars For one receiving and forwarding 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-two thousand seven 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, charts, and subscriptions, nine thousand dollars. 952 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 drawing: and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone for immediate use, twelve thousand dollars.
For stationery for the 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, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.
For Rent of Office Buildings: For rent of buildings for offices,Rent. workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars: For rent of fire proof building number two hundred and five New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records, of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts, of instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars.
Publishing Observations: For one computer, one thousand sixPublishing observations. hundred dollars; and three copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all. three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andSubsistence. 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; nor shall there hereafter be made any allowance for subsistence to officers of the Navy attached to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, except that when officers are detailed to do work away from their vessel under circumstances involving them in extra expenditure, the Superintendent may allow Extra allowance.to any such officer subsistence at a rate not exceeding one dollar per day for the period actually covered by such duty away from such vessel.
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 continuing North America 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 asNational Museum. Director of the National Museum. Heating and Lighting: For expense of heating, lighting, andHeating, etc. electrical and telephonic service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. Preservation of Collections of the National Museum:Preserving collections. For the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and 953 from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty 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, thirty thousand dollars. Postage: For postage-stamps and foreign postal-cards for thePostage. National Museum, one thousand dollars. Fish Commission.Fish Commission. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: For compensationCommissioner. of the Commissioner, five thousand dollars.
Propagation of Food-Fishes: For the introduction by thePropagation of food-fishes. United States Fish Commission into, and the increase in the waters of the United States of food-fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and for 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.
For altering and fitting up the Interior of the Armory Building,Armory building. Altering and repair. on the Mall, City of Washington, now occupied as a hatching station, for the accommodation of the offices of the United States Fish Commission, and for general repairs to said building, including the heating apparatus, and for repairing and extending the outbuildings, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol; and for the purpose above named the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby required to move from the second and third stories of this building all properties except such as are connected with the workshops hereinafter named, under his control; and the workshops now in the second story of said building shall be transferred to and provided for, in the third story thereof.
And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to examineBasement. and make report to Congress at its next regular session as to the practicability and cost of constructing a basement story under the National Museum Building. Distribution of Food-Fishes: For the distribution of the eggsDistribution of fish. 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-five thousand dollars.
Maintenance of Vessels: For the maintenance of the vesselsMaintenance of vessels. and steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and the 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 inquiryInvestigations, etc. 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 commercial fisheries, and for the preparation of reports relating to the. inquiry including salaries or compensation and field expenses of scientific assistants, fishery experts, and other necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars.
Statistical Inquiry: For the collection and compilation of theStatistics statistics of the fisheries of all portions of the United States, including persons employed, capital invested, and the quantity and value 954 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. That the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated by the act approvedNeosho.
Mo. Hatchery. *Ante*, p. 521. October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for the maintenance of the fish-cultural station at Neosho, Missouri, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety. Fish-Hatchery in Lake County, Colorado: For the constructionLake County, Colo. of a government trout-breeding and distributing station in Lake County, Colorado, fifteen thousand dollars. Fish-Hatchery, Maine: For the purchase of ground, constructionHatchery.
Maine. of buildings and ponds, and purchase of equipment of fish-hatchery and rearing stations near Craig’s Brook, Reed’s Pond, and Branch Pond, Maine, eleven thousand dollars. Fish-Hatchery on Lake Erie: For the purpose of establishingLake Erie. and equipping a station at some convenient point on Lake Erie, to be designated by the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, for taking spawn and the propagation of whitefish, twenty thousand dollars. Quarantine Service.Quarantine service.
For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersExpenses of stations. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Cape Charles. South Atlantic Quarantine Station (Sapelo Sound), Key West, Gulf Quarantine Station, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, fifty thousand dollars. Prevention of Epidemics.Preventing, etc., epidemic diseases. *Ante*. pp. 630, 631. 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 by the joint resolutions approved September twenty-sixth and October twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and one hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same.
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 fifty-nine thousand dollars; in all, two *Proviso*.
Accounts.hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, that hereafter expenses of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be audited by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury. Miscellaneous Objects under the Treasury Department.Treasury, miscellaneous. Paper and Stamps. For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight,Internal revenue stamp paper, etc. and salaries of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, fifty thousand dollars. Punishment for Violations of Internal-Revenue Laws:
ForPunishing violations of internal-re venue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including 955 payments for information and detection of such violations, twenty-live thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act.
Prevention of Manufacture and Sale of AdulteratedPreventing stile, etc., of adulterated food, etc., District of Columbia. *Ante*, p. 549. Food or Drugs in the District of Columbia: For expenses incident to enforcing the provisions of the act of October twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled ‘An act for the prevention of the manufacture or sale of adulterated foods or drugs in the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars; one-half of this sum to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Contingent Expenses Independent Treasury: For contingentExpenses of fiscal agents. R. S., sec. 8653, p. 719. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection. safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy thousand dollars. Office of Assistant Treasurer, New York: For additionalAssistant treasurer, New York.
Additional clerks. clerical force for the assistant treasurer at New York, three thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Vaults for Storage of Silver: For the construction of vaultsVaults for silver. San Francisco. New Orleans. for the storage of silver at the mints in San Francisco, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana, sixty thousand dollars. That hereafter it shall not be lawful to use any portion of the so-called “silver-profit fund” or of the appropriation for “storage of silver-transportation” for the purpose of paying the expenses of the transportation of standard silver dollars from the mints or the sub-treasuries to the Treasury at Washington.
District of Columbia. Recoinage, Reissue, and Transportation of Minor Coins: TheRecoinage, etc. minor coins. 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 sub-treasury 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. Recoinage of Gold and Silver Coins: For recoinage of goldRecoinage of gold and silver coins. and silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirty thousand dollars.
Distinctive Paper for United States Securities: For paper,Distinctive paper, expenses. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen. one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, forty thousand dollars. Sealing and Separating United States Securities: For materialsSealing and separating. securities. needed to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, 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. dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing 956 for the printing of Government securities, namely:
One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two sub custodians, 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 assistant Assistant 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, five hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Inspector of Furniture and other Furnishings for publicInspector of furniture. etc., public buildings. 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, and carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas-fixtures for new buildings. exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, 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 and Water for Public Buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, and water, public buildings. 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, marine hospitals, included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia under the control of the Treasury Department shall include the rental or use of any Gas-governors, etc.gas-governor, gas purifier or other device for reducing the expenses of gas. when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and *Proviso*. Rental.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 Apparatus for Public Buildings: For heating, hoisting,Heating, etc., public buildings. 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, one hundred thousand dollars. Vaults, Safes, and Locks for Public Buildings, includingVaults, safes, and locks, public buildings. 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: For books, photographic materials.Plans for public buildings. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars. Suppressing Counterfeiting and other Crimes: For the expensesDetecting and punishing counterfeiting, etc. of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and 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 957 to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensionersBurial of deceased pensioners.
R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919 under section forty seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes. and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-four thousand dollars. Lands and other Property of the United States: For custody,Care of lands, etc. care, and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, five hundred dollars. Compensation in lieu of Moieties: For compensation in lieuCompensation in lieu of moieties. of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, thirty thousand dollars.
Expenses of Local Appraisers’ Meetings: For defraying theLocal appraisers’ meetings. 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. Enforcement of Alien Contract-Labor Laws: For the purposeReturn of laborers imported under tract. Vol. 28, 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 acts approved February twenty third, eighteen hundred and eighty seven and October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and to defray the expenses which the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to incur by the provisions*Ante*, p. 566.
Vol. 22, p. 114. of the 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, entitled “An act to regulate immigration.” Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act: That for theEnforcement of exclusion of Chinese. *Ante*, p. 504. purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the act approved October first, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, entitled “An act a supplement to and act entitled ‘An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese,’” approved the sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty two. and to defray the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of said act by the Secretary of the Treasury, thirty thousand dollars.
Alaskan Seal-Fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses of Alaska seal fisheriesagents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent,Salaries, etc., agents 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.
Under the Department of State.Department of State. Binding Manuscript Papers: For the restoration, mounting,Binding, etc., manuscripts. and binding of certain, manuscript letters and papers of Washington. Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and others, in the Department of State, relating to the early history of the United States, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. International Bureau for Publication of Custom Tariffs:International Tariffs Bureau.
To meet the share of the United States in annual expense of sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels, for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, two thousand dollars. International Conference of American Nations: For an additionalInternational Conference of American Nations. amount to pay the expenses of the conference between the United States of America and the Republics of Mexico, Central and South America. Haiti. San Domingo, and the Empire of Brazil, provided for by the act approved May twenty-fourth, eighteen*Ante*, p. 155. hundred and eighty-eight, to be disbursed under direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State, fifty thousand dollars. 958 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department.
Public Buildings. Repairs of Buildings: For repairs of Interior Department andRepairs. Pension buildings, eight thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. Repairs, etc. thereof, including wages of mechanics, laborers, and fresco-painter, thirty nine thousand dollars. To improve the ventilation of the room occupied by the SupremeVentilating Supreme Court room. Court according to plans adopted by the court, the work to be done under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing and regilding the frames of the large historical Regilding frames, rotunda.paintings in the several panels of the rotunda of the Capitol, eight in number, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including pay of landscape architect, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics. gardeners, and laborers, twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs to and rebuilding the north roadway in the CapitolRoadways. Grounds, leading from Pennsylvania avenue to the eastern front of the Capitol, and for repairs to roadways in the Capitol Grounds, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the Architect of the Capitol. 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, fourteen thousand dollars.
Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting Capitol and grounds. and grounds about 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. Ventilation. Senate wing of Capitol: For constructing towerVentilating tower, Senate. and large air-duct leading from same to Senate wing for supplying fresh air to the Senate Chamber from western grounds, similar to that already constructed for the same purpose for the House of Representatives, eight thousand dollars.
Senate Stable and Engine-House: For constructing wagon-shedsStables. Senate. and fence, and for filling and grading lot north of the Senate stable, and for connecting the same with the Senate stable, six hundred dollars. Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from Sales of Public Lands.Sales of public lands. Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers: ForSalaries, registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of laud offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent Expenses of Land Offices: For clerk hire. rent, andContingent expenses land offices. other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of Depositing Public Moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars. Depredations on Public Timber: To meet the expenses of protectingTimber depredations. timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Protecting Public Lands: For the protection of public landsProtecting from illegal entries. from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, one hundred thousand dollars. 959 Expenses of Hearings in Land Entries: For expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, thirty thousand dollars. Settlement of Claims for Swamp-Land and Swamp-Land Indemnity:Swamp-land claims.
For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and for indemnity for swamp-lands, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under*Proviso*. Per diem for agents. this and the appropriations for “depredation 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 CommissionerReproducing worn plats, etc. of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on tile, 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, including ten thousandExpenses. dollars for surveys of lands opened to settlement in the Territory of Montana under the act approved May first, eighteen hundred andLaws, 1st sess. 50th Cong., p. 133. eighty-eight, and including five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the survey of the west boundary line of the White Mountains or San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona, two hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall*Provisos*.
Preference to settled townships. 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: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, or if in eases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, the work cannot be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines.
And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceedingResurveys, etc. twenty thousand dollars may be expended for the examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent; and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States.
For survey of confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, atNew Mexico private land claims. rates 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 hundredVol. 28, p. 103. and eighty-four, two thousand dollars. 960 United States Geological SurveyGeological Survey.
For Salaries of the Scientific Assistants of the GeologicalPay of scientific assistants. 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. For General Expenses of the Geological Survey: For theExpenses. 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; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. 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, two hundred thousand dollars; For geological surveys in the various portions of the UnitedGeological surveys. 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 thousand dollars;
For palaeontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontological researches. 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; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology ofChemical and physical researches. 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;
For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. including the pay of temporary employees, the cost of apparatus, instruments, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, sixteen thousand dollars. 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. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; in all four hundred and three thousand dollars.
For engraving the geological maps of the United States, forty-fiveEngraving geological maps. thousand dollars. Irrigation Survey: For the purpose of investigating the extentIrrigation of and region. Expenses of survey, etc. to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation and the segregation of irrigable lands in such arid region, 961 and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and for ascertaining the cost thereof, 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available; and the 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 money has been expended, the amount used for actual survey and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoirs, and an itemized account of the expenditures under this and any future appropriation.
Repair of the Ruin of Casa Grande, Arizona: To enable theCasa Grande, Ariz. Preservation of the ruin. Secretary of the Interior to repair and protect the ruin of Cash Grande, situate in Pinal County, near Florence, Arizona, two thousand dollars; and the President is authorized to reserve from settlement and sale the land on which said ruin is situated and so much of the public land adjacent thereto as in his judgment may be necessary for the protection of said ruin and of the ancient city of which it is a part.
Miscellaneous Objects.Miscellaneous. Government Hospital for the InsaneGovernment 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, inmates of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, 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 seventeen thousand five hundred 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 theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twelve thousand dollars. For special improvements, as follows: For alterations at stable, including poultry-house one thousand three hundred dollars. For renewing heating apparatus, west wing and lodges, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For renewing boiler at engine-house, eight hundred dollars. For steam fire-engine and house, five thousand two hundred dollars.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Current Expenses of the Columbia Institution for theExpenses. Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the above sum no more shall be expended*Provisos*. Limit of wages. for salaries and wages in this Institution during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, than shall with the payments from other sources make a total for such salaries and wages for said year 962 of twenty-eight thousand dollars in all: *Provided further*, ThatOne-half of expenses of persons admitted trim District of Columbia to be borne from District revenues. one half of all expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to said institution from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States, and hereafter estimates for such expenses shall each year be submitted in the regular estimates for the expenses of the government of the District Inmates from States, etc., to have only instruction paid.
R. S., sec. 4865, p. 942.of Columbia: *And provided further*, Those deaf-mutes, not exceeding sixty in number, admitted to this institution from the several States and Territories, as provided in section forty-eight hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, shall only have the expenses of their instruction in the collegiate department, exclusive of support, paid from appropriations made for the support of the institution. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the educationEducating feeble-minded children.
Vol. 21, p. 273. of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand five Half from District revenues.hundred dollars; one half of this sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States. Howard University.Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance. of part of the salaries of the officers and 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, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington. DistrictExpenses. 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, teatasters, 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 the erection of fire-escapes and standpipes, one thousand dollars; For building one brick building to be used as a stable, storehouse, and dead house, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand and twenty-five 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, fifty thousand dollars. 963 UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Armories and Arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal. Rock Island. Illinois, as follows:Rock Island. For completing storehouse K, thirty 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 and sewers, and grading grounds, fifteen thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs of the Arsenal Railroad, seven thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge as follows:Bridge expenses. For care, preservation, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For protecting Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer-booms, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs to draw-pier of the Rock Island Bridge, and for replacing the cement in the joints of the stones forming the piers ofDraw-pier. the Rock Island Railroad and wagon bridges, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and eight dollars; and the Secretary of War shall require of the Chicago.
Rock Island and Pacific RailroadReimbursement from Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Company the reimbursement of one-half of all the expenses incurred in the repairs of said draw-pier under this and the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars made for this object in the sundry civil appropriation act for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as provided in their guaranty executed to the United States under the acts of Congress providing for the construction of said bridge.
For the construction of a viaduct from the south end of the wagonViaduct. bridge between Rock Island and the city of Rock Island, over the railroad tracks which adjoin the approach to said bridge, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be*Provisos*. available until the city of Rock Island shall, by proper instrument, have conveyed to the United States title, authority, and control overConveyance of title. the premises to be used for the construction and maintenance of said viaduct, nor until all holders of property abutting on the same shall have executed release of all damages that might accrue to them by the construction and maintenance thereof, in such form as the Secretary of War may prescribe: *Provided further*, That the work shall not be commenced until the city of Rock Island shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States one-half of this amount towards ReimbursingRock Island to pay half. the United States for this expenditure.
Kennebec Arsenal, Augusta, Maine: For water and light supply,Kennebec Arsenal. Me. one thousand two hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield. Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield. Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania; For oneFrankford. Pa. screw-cutting and milling-machine, complete, largest size, one thousand six hundred dollars. Picatinny Powder-Depot, Dover, New Jersey:
For finishingPicatinny powder-depot, Dover. N. J. magazine number five, thirty-five thousand dollars, and the number of magazines at the powder depot at Dover, New Jersey, shall not exceed five. San Antonia Arsenal, San Antonia, Texas: For the constructionSan Antonio. Tex. of a new fence in front of the arsenal grounds, four thousand five hundred dollars. Sandy Hook Proving-Ground. New Jersey: For cleaning,Sandy Hook proving-ground, N. J. leveling, and grading grounds, building and repairing roads, two thousand dollars. 964 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 direct sewerageWatervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y. to river, two thousand five hundred dollars. For general repairs to buildings, bridges, inclosing walls, fences, roads, grounds, and so forth, five thousand dollars. 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. For building one brick hospital building, uniform in architectureAugusta Ga. Hospital building. with the other buildings on the post at the United States Arsenal at *Proviso*. Contract.Augusta. Georgia, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, that no part of this appropriation shall be expended until a contract is made for finishing said building complete including heating apparatus and approaches within the limit of this appropriation.
Buildings and Grounds in and around Washington.Buildings and grounds, Washington, D.C. Improvement and care. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: For improvement of grounds north of Executive Mansion, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars.
For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, five 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. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, and constructing stone coping 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, and lampposts, 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, labels, 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, 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, eight thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, five thousand dollars.
That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall beConcrete pavements. made for making or renaming concrete or asphalt pavements in 965 Washington City at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base. Executive Mansion.Executive Mansion. For care, repair, repainting, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion.Repairs, fuel, etc. sixteen thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise. as the President may determine.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stables, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. 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, fourteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected*Proviso*.
Maximum price per lamp 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.
For erecting seven iron posts, each twenty-five feet high, and connectingElectric lighting. them with underground wires for electric lights, one thousand dollars. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights, from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. Repair of Water-Pipes: For repairing and extending water-pipes,Water-pipes, etc. purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsGovernment telegraph. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument. Care and maintenance. Washington Monument and 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 elevator car. at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at forty-five dollars per month; one attendant at top, at forty-five dollars per month: three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; in all, eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For fuel, lights, oil. waste, packing, tools, matches, paints,Expenses. brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for maintaining the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric light plant in good order, two thousand three hundred and forty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. 966 Building for Army Medical Museum and Library:
For layingMedical Museum. Pavement. asphalt pavement between the center building and wings of the Army Medical Museum and Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, corner of Seventh and B streets southwest, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Building for the Library of Congress.Library Building. For the building for the Library of Congress, as authorized by theExpenses of building. *Ante*, p. 523. sundry civil appropriation act approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, except as herein modified, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, live hundred thousand dollars.
Plans adopted.And said building shall be constructed in accordance with the plans marked “D,” submitted by the Chief of Engineers with his annual report to Congress, being Miscellaneous Document Number Twelve, Limit of cost.Fiftieth Congress, second session, and at a total cost therefor not exceeding five million five hundred thousand dollars exclusive of appropriations heretofore made, and no changes or modifications shall be made that will increase the cost above the limitation herein *Proviso*.
Stone contracts.prescribed: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into for all the stone required for the exterior walls of said building to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law. Military Posts.Military posts. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of suchConstruction, etc. military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, four hundred thousand dollars. Cavalry and artillery school, Fort Riley, Kansas:
For continuingFort Riley. the work of buildings for the cavalry and artillery school, one hundred thousand dollars. Infantry and cavalry school. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For textbooks,Fort Leavenworth. books of reference, instruments, and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars. Military post at Fort Robinson. Nebraska: The appropriation ofFort Robinson. thirty thousand dollars for completing the work of constructing *Ante*, p. *584*.necessary buildings at the military post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, made by the sundry civil appropriation act approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, may be expended for continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings at said post.
Military post at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska: The appropriation ofFort Niobrara. *Ante*, p. 534. thirty thousand dollars for completing the work of constructing necessary buildings at the military post at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, made by the sundry civil appropriation act approved October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, may be expended for continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings at said post. Fort Monroe. Virginia: For construction complete of a sewerageFortress Monroe. system, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Road through military reservation at Plattsburgh, New York:Plattsburgh. N. Y. Roadway. For constructing a macadamized road leading from the village of Plattsburgh, New York, through and along the military reservation in said village, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Military post at the presidio of San Francisco: For continuing thePresidio San Francisco. Roads, etc. construction and repair of the roads and walks leading to the United States national cemetery on the reservation of the presidio of San Francisco, planting trees and shrubs, and for the protection and fencing of said roads and reservation in which the cemetery is situated. and also, for the preservation of the same and its springs of water used for irrigating the post and cemetery from drifting sand, and for the construction of a roadway connecting the Fort Mason 967 reservation with said reservation and cemetery, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
Protection and improvement of the Yellowstone NationalYellowstone Park. 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, fifty thousand dollars. Signal Service.Signal Service. observation and report of storms. To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of the meteorologicalObservation and report of storms. observation and the report, by telegraph, signal or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of the commerce and the agriculture of the United States, as follows:
For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological instrumentsInstruments. and instrument shelters, and expenses in connection therewith; and the Secretary of War, as he may think proper, may cause to be issued such meteorological instruments (not exceeding one set valued at fifteen dollars to any one county) to voluntary unpaid observers, in order to secure meteorological data from such observers, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, nine thousand dollars.
For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological informationTelegraphing. in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery,Contingent expanses outride 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 four thousand dollars.
For expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, cold wave and other Storm signalssignals 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 river and flood observations, and expenses in connection therewith,River and flood observations. nine 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 expenses (including paper, forms, printing and lithographing Maps and bulletins.supplies, hire of civilian printers and engravers) of preparing, Printing. distributing, and displaying weather maps or weather bulletins, and 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 fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For maintenance and repair of all telegraph lines, including rentTelegraph lines. of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies, and general repairs, twenty three thousand dollars. Pay.Pay. etc., of officers and men. For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants, mounted, twenty six thousand five hundred dollars; for longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps, to be paid with current monthly pay five thousand one hundred dollars; for pay of not exceeding one hundred and twenty five sergeants, twenty corporals, and one hundred 968 and seventy five privates, including payment due on discharge, one hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars*Provisos*.
Not to be used for clerks in Washington. and sixty 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 Mileage.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: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the expense of travel Military duty.performed on strictly military duty; 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 sixty thousand four hundred and forty seven dollars and Detail from Army.sixty cents.
And the 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 appropriatedNumber of second lieutenants limited.
Vol. 20, p. 219. shall be used for pay and allowances of second lieutenants appointed or to be appointed from the sergeants of the Signal Corps, under the provisions of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, in excess of the number of fourteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps. Forage: For forage and straw for thirteen horses actually keptForage. by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraphs one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and two thousand three hundred and eighty five, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty one, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army, Vol. 21, p. 347.approved February twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty one, for forage for fourteen public animals (four to be horses), as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and eighty-six of the Army regulations; straw for fourteen public animals, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two thousand two hundred dollars. Fuel: For fuel for the various offices on the United States telegraphFuel. lines, and at stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia (for fires the year round when needed) and for sales of the regular allowance of fuel to officers of the Signal Corps, as allowedVol. 20, p. 150. by section eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight (twenty Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty) seven thousand dollars.
For commutation of fuel for not exceeding three hundred andCommutation. twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars and fifty cents per month per man, thirty-two thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. Medical Department. For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted menMedical attendance. of the Signal Corps, two thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all medical accounts of the Signal Service shall go for examination and audit to the same Auditor and Comptroller by whom the other accounts of the Signal Service are examined and audited.
For interment of officers and men, twenty five dollars. Subsistence: For commutation of rations of not exceeding threeSubsistence. hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men of said Corps, as 969 authorized by section eleven hundred and forty four of the Revised R. S., sec. 1144, p. 207.Statutes and paragraph twenty one hundred and ninety nine of the Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty one, one hundred and three thousand four hundred and seventy seven dollars and fifty cents.
Barracks and quarters: For commutation of quarters for not Barracks and quarters. Commutation.exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, fifty eight thousand five hundred dollars. That the appropriations herein made for the pay proper of enlistedEnlisted men to receive pay and commutations in one check. men for commutation of rations, for commutation of fuel, and for commutation of quarters, shall be paid monthly to each enlisted man entitled thereto, by one check, upon one properly certified voucher, and for that purpose the several appropriations shall constitute one fund.
Incidental expenses: For horse and mule shoes, nails and expensesIncidental 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), one hundred and sixty two dollars. For veterinary supplies, thirty dollars. For blacksmiths’ supplies, tools, lates and materials, one hundred 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 materials, animals, and funds, as per paragraphs seventeen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and fifty eight Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty one; for freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages, drayage and cartages; for purchase of necessary harness and other articles and expenses of repairs to means of transportation, and for the purchase of special-delivery and registering stamps, nineteen thousand dollars.
National Cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving NationaMaintenance.l cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of Superintendents.seventy four superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers:
For continuing the workHeadstones. of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places under the acts of March third, eighteenVol. 17, p. 578. Vol. 20, p. 281. hundred and seventy three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, sixty thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers.
Arlington National Cemetery, or in the 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. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars. 970 For repairing and draining roadway to the national cemetery atHampton.
Va. Hampton. Virginia, two thousand dollars. National cemetery near Beverly. New Jersey: For theBeverly, N.J. construction of a foot pavement and for repairs of the roadway to the national cemetery near Beverly, New Jersey, two thousand three hundred and six dollars and seventy cents. National cemetery near Danville, Virginia: For completingDanville, Va. the roadway to the national cemetery near Danville, Virginia, five thousand dollars. Monuments or tablets at Gettysburg: That the appropriationMonuments, etc.
Gettysburg. of fifteen thousand dollars, made by the act approved Vol. 24, p. 535.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,Purchase of land. made available for the purchase of land upon which to erect the monuments and tablets, for the purchase of land for driveways to connect the monuments, and for the construction and repair of the same.
Miscellaneous Objects.Miscellaneous. War maps: For reprinting war maps, five thousand dollars.War maps. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printingSurvey, lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators, and electrotyping plates for chart-printing, two thousand dollars. For surveys, additions to and correcting engraved plates, five thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting reports. etc. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars.
Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus,Artificial limbs. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients:
ForSupport of destitute patients. the support and medical treatment of eighty five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the District of Columbia, under a Providence Hospital.contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, seventeen thousand dollars. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable itGarfield Hospital. to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs andMilitary convicts. charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Publication of the Official Records of the War of theOfficial records, War of the Rebellion. Rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate Armies, as follows:Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, of a compilation of the official records.
Union and Confederate, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal year, to be distributed as required by act of Vol. 23, p. 508.March third, eighteen hundred and eighty five, one hundred thousand e dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. Board to p and publish. hereafter the preparation and publication of said records shall be conducted, under the Secretary of War. by a board of three persons. one of whom shall be an officer of the Army, to be selected by the Secretary of War, and two civilian experts, to 971 be appointed by the Secretary of War, the compensation for said civilian experts to be fixed by the Secretary of War and to be paid from this appropriation; and the whole work of preparation andTo be completed in five years. publication shall be completed within five years.
And from and after the passage of this act the records which have been, or which may hereafter be, selected for publication shall be accessible to theAccessible to the public. public, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but in no case shall such regulations permit the removal of the original records from the Department building. Artillery School at Fortress Monroe. Virginia: To provideArtillery school. for means of instruction, such as textbooks, instruments, Fortress Monroe.
Va.drawing materials, and stationery, required in the courses of artillery, engineering, law, and the art and science of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For expenses in preventing obstructiveNew York Harbor. Preventing obstructions. etc. and injurious deposits in the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, including sixty thousand dollars for the purchase or construction of a vessel, ninety four thousand and seventy dollars.
For the construction of an iron bridge over Mill Creek, betweenFortress Monroe. Bridge across Mill Creek. the military reservation of Fortress Monroe and Elizabeth City County, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. Surveys for Deep-Water Harbor, Gulf of Mexico: TheGulf of Mexico. Survey for a deep-water harbor. Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a board of three engineer officers of the United States Army, whose duty it shall be to make a careful and critical examination of the northwest coast of the Gulf of Mexico, west of ninety three degrees and thirty minutes west longitude, and report as to the most eligible point or points for a deep harbor, to be of ample depth, width, and capacity to accommodate the largest oceangoing vessels and the commercial and naval necessities of the country, which can be secured and maintained in the shortest time and at the least cost: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Other work not to cease.That this action shall not be construed to imply a cessation of work on other points on the Gulf coast, the improvement of which is deemed necessary for commercial or naval purposes. And the board of engineers shall report the result of its investigations to the Secretary of War as soon as practicable. To pay the expenses of said board, two thousand dollars, or soExpenses. much thereof as may be necessary. Washington Aqueduct Tunnel: For expenses incurred and toAqueduct tunnel investigation.
Expenses. be incurred by the Joint Select Committee of the two Houses of Congress upon the subject of the Washington aqueduct tunnel and the water supply of Washington, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be paid on vouchers approved by the chairman of said committee, and to be immediately available: *Provided*, That one half of said sum shall be paid out of*Proviso*. Half from District revenues. the revenues of the District of Columbia, and one half out of the Treasury of the United States.
Site and Pedestal for Statue of General Philip. H. Sheridan:Sites and pedestals for statues. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of the late General Philip. H. Sheridan in the city of Washington, forty thousand dollars; said site to be selected by, and said pedestal to be erected under the supervision of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and the chairman of the Sheridan Equestrian Statue Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland.
Site and pedestal for Statue of General John A. Logan:Gen. John A. Logan. For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of the late General John. A. Logan, in the city of Washington, forty thousand dollar’s; said site to be selected by, and said pedestal to be erected under the supervision of the Secretary of War. the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and the chairman 972 of the Logan Statue Committee of the Society of the Army of the Tennessec.
Site and Pedestal for Statue of General Winfield Scott Hancock:Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. For the preparation of a pedestal for a statue of General Winfield Scott Hancock, in the city of Washington, forty thousand dollars: said site to be selected by, and said pedestal to be erected under, the supervision of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and such other person as the President of the United States may appoint. United States Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth:Military prison.
For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth,Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Expenses. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters and two watchmen; commutation for prisoners en route to insane asylum, twenty five 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, seven hundred dollars; For forage and bedding for public animals used exclusively at the prison, and hay for prisoner’s 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 fire bricks, iron, tin. 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, and for all necessary expenses in connection with electric lighting of the prison, twenty thousand dollars.
For materials for manufacture of clothing; hats and socks and other articles of clothing not made at the prison but required for the prisoner’s wear at the prison and on release from confinement, and tor 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 prisoner’s use, nine 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; heating appliances, and for expense of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; For advertising for proposals for supplies, two hundred dollars; For expenses of pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars; For the transportation of prisoners, on their discharge from the prison, to their homes or elsewhere, as they may elect, provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment, seven thousand five hundred dollars:
For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one thousand eightCivilian employees. hundred dollars per annum: one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; extra-duty pays for prison guard, two thousand four 973hundred and twenty dollars; five foremen of mechanics and one engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; one forage and wagon-master, at sixty dollars per month; one teamster, at forty dollars per month; two nightwatchmen and four teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each; and one fireman, at sixty dollars per month, to take charge at night of the heating apparatus and electric light; in all. eighteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For repair of officer’s and noncommissioned officers’ quarters, theRepairs. hospital, the chapel, the offices, and all prison buildings and shops, including civilian labor thereon which cannot be done by prisoners, five thousand dollars; in all. ninety two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer soldiers as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio:
For current expenses,Dayton. Ohio. Pay of officers, etc. namely: Pay of officers and non-commissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, 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, sixty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty-five cents.
For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary-sergeants, commissarySubsistence. clerks, porters, laborers, and orderlies employed in the subsistence department; bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, bread-cutters, and butchers; the cost of all animals, fowls, and fish purchased for provisions; and 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 tool sand appliances, and their repair, if not done by the Home, three hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred and ninety dollars and ten cents.
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 expenses. 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-two thousand and fifty-nine dollars and forty cents;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital expenses. hospital-stewards, ward-masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers. For 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; 974 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, forty-thousand dollars;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, five thousand dollars; For construction, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Construction and carpenters, cabinetmakers, cooper, painters, gas-litters,pairs. plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters, stonemasons, quarry-men, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, sixty-five thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars;
For one brick barrack, to replace old frame barrack, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm expenses. farmhands, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, hog-feeders, and laborers, and for all machines, implements, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work; for grain, hay. and straw, dressing arid 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 four hundred and three dollars and seventy-five cents; in all, seven hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and six dollars and fifty cents.
At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. For current expenses, including the same objectsCurrent expenses. specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;
For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, nineteen thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand fiveTransportation. hundred dollars; For construction, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand four hundred dollars;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eight thousand seven hundred dollars; in all hundred and fifty-eight thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses.Togus. Me. including the same objects specified under this head for Current expenses.the Central Branch, eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety-two cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified underSubsistence. this head for the Central Branch, eighty-six thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-eight cents;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under thisClothing. head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under thisHospital. head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-two-cents; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand nineTransportation. hundred and seventy-five dollars; 975 For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Construction.the Central Branch, twelve thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars, and forty cents; in all two hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-two cents. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentFarm. expenses, including the same objects specified under this headHampton, Va. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisCurrent expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-one thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety cents;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisClothing. head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, twenty-one thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Hospital. For construction, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For one additional dining hall, nine thousand dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forConstruction. the Central Branch, seventeen thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars; in all. three hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and seven dollars and ninety cents. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth. Kansas: ForFarm. current expenses, including the same objects specified under thisLeavenworth. Kans. head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headCurrent expenses. for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; For Clothing, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, fifty thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For transportation of members of the Home, five thousand dollars:Hospital. For construction including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forConstruction. the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For Farm.maintenance of six hundred members, at one hundred and fifty dollarsSanta Monica, Cal. per annum each, ninety thousand dollars;
For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, thirty-one thousandMaintenance. five hundred and fifteen dollars; in all. one million nine hundred and ninety-five thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-two cents. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing the aid to Stateoutdoor relief, etc. or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteenState and Territorial homes. Assistance to. *Ante*, p. 450. hundred and eighty-eight, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by said act, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter no State under this appropriation*Proviso*.
States to pay half. shall be paid a sum exceeding one-half the cost of maintenance of each soldier or sailor by such State. 976 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. Court-House, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt-house, Washington. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. Utah Penitentiary:
For completing additional wing to prison,Utah penitentiary. 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: and for wall with sentry-boxes to inclose about two acres of land, forty-five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending suite in claims against United States. 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
Defense in French spoliation claims: To enable the attorney-GeneralFrench spoliation claims. to make proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended in his discretion, five thousand six hundred dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds:Indian service. Punishing violations of intercourse acts, etc. 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.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts, District of Columbia. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of. the Attorney-General eighteen thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecuting crimes against United States. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment: for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the Investigations, etc.courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States Commissioners. under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty thousand dollars.
Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: ForTerritorial courts, Utah. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, and 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, forty thousand dollars.
Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecutionProsecuting and collecting claims. and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. 977 Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and Travelling expenses, Alaska.necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, office of marshal.
TerritoryRent, etc., Alaska. of Alaska: For rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Opinions of the Attorneys-General: To enable the Attorney-GeneralOpinions of Attorneys General. Editing, etc., vote. 17, 18, and 19. to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the nineteenth volume of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General, five hundred dollars; and the Attorney-General is hereby authorized to expend that sum. and also the one thousand dollars appropriated by the act of March third,Vol. 23, p. 511. eighteen hundred and eighty-five, chapter three hundred and sixty, to enable him to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the seventeenth andExtra compensation. eighteenth volumes of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General in such manner, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the act of JuneR.
S. sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109. twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight, as will in his judgment best accomplish the work of editing and preparing for publication and superintending the printing of the three volumes of opinions above mentioned. JUDICIAL.Judicial. United States Courts.United States courts Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying theExpenses. 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 suits and preparation for suits in which the United States is interested; of 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 title twenty-six of the RevisedR.
S., Title XXVI. 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 four 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. 101. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same beingDistrict attorneys. for payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment ofSpecial compensation. 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. 978 For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peaceCommissioners, etc. 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 Sworn complaints to be made.been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of 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 indictment is found.
For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Jurors. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars.Witnesses. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners.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 and fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of United States courtrooms, sixty-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 payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and 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. Expenses of Inaugural Ceremonies: To enable the Secretary ofInaugural ceremonies.
Expenses. the Senate to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States, March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, incurred by order of the Senate, including pay for forty extra Capitol police for three days, at three dollars per day each, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatements of appropriations to be prepared by appropriations Committees. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the *Ante*, p. 587.Fiftieth Congress, as required by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.
Botanic GARDEN: For painting and reglazing various hothouses,Botanic Garden. general repairs to buildings, and heating apparatus, for laying and repairs to concrete walks, painting and repairs to fence around gardens, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars. 979 PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding and for paper forPublic printing and binding, paper, etc. 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 thirteenAmount. 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; 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 for the use of the National Museum 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 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; 980 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; And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum herebyDivision of appropriation. appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employes 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. Sec. 4. That in order that the centennial anniversary of the inaugurationCentennial anniversary of inauguration of the first President.
April 30, 1889 to be a national holiday.Centennial anniversary of inauguration of the first President. April 30, 1889 to be a national holiday. of the first President of the United States. George Washington, may be duly commemorated, Tuesday, the thirtieth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby declared to be a national holiday throughout the United States. And in further commemoration of this historic event, the two Houses of Congress shall assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the second Wednesday of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred Ceremonies in Fifty-first Congress.and eighty-nine, when suitable ceremonies shall be had under the direction of a joint committee composed of five Senators and five Representatives, members of the Fifty-first Congress, who shall be appointed by the presiding officers Joint committee.of the respective Houses.
And said joint committee shall have power to sit during the recess of Congress; and it shall be its duty to make arrangements for the celebration in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the second Wednesday of December next, and may invite to be present thereat such officers of the United States and of the respective States of the Union, and (through the Secretary of State) representatives of foreign governments. The committee shall invite the Chief-Justice of the Address.United States to deliver a suitable address on the occasion.
Expenses.And for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said joint committee and of carrying out the arrangements which it may make,. three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, March 2, 1889.
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