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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · March 3, 1891 · Chapter 542

Chapter 542.

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CHAP. 542.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other-purposes.March 3, 1891. *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-two, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. For post office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: For continuation ofAllegheny, Pa. building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. For post office at Ashland, Wisconsin: For completion of buildingAshland, Wis. under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For post office at Atchison. Kansas: For completion of buildingAtchison, Kans. under present limit seventy thousand dollars. For post office at Aurora.
Illinois: For completion of building under present limit,Aurora, Ill. forty five thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 542. 1891.949 For post office at Alexandria, Louisiana: For completion of buildingAlexandria, La. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For post office at Akron, Ohio; For purchase of site and constructionAkron, Ohio. of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post office at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.: For completion of buildingBaton Rouge, La. under present limit, seventy thousand dollars.
For post office at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania: For completion of buildingBeaver Falls, Pa. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Birmingham, Alabama: For the additionBirmingham, Ala. of a third story to the building, thirty-five thousand dollars. For post office at Burlington, Iowa: For completion of building Burlington, Iowa.ninety-five thousand dollars. For courthouse, customhouse, and post office at Brownsville, TexasBrownsville, Tex.:
For completion of the building in excess of limit, five thousand dollars.Excess of limit. For post office at Bloomington, Illinois: For purchase of site andBloomington, Ill. construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post office at Beatrice. Nebraska: For purchase of site and constructionBeatrice, Nebr. of building, sixty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For pest houseBoston, Mass. stable, and carriage house, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For post office at Buffalo, New York: For purchase of site and commencingBuffalo, N. Y. the erection of a public building for post office and other Government uses in Buff.do, New York, in addition to theAdditional. sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For post office at Camden, Arkansas; For purchase of site andCamden, Ark. construction of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post office at. Canton, Ohio:
For completion of building underCanton, Ohio. present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Carson City, Nevada: For completionCarson City, Nev. of building and approaches, including grading grounds and all other expenses, in Excess of limit.excess of limit, ten thousand dollars. For post office at Cedar Rapids, Iowa: For completion of buildingCedar Rapids, Iowa. under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For post office and courthouse at. Charleston, South Carolina;
ForCharleston, S. C. continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For post office at Chester, Pennsylvania: For completion of buildingChester, Pa. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse and subtreasury at Chicago,Chicago, Ill. Illinois: For repairs and preservation, fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For improvement ofChicago, Ill. grounds and completion of breakwater, twenty thousand dollars.
For post office at Columbus, Georgia: For purchase of site and constructionColumbus, Ga. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For World’s Columbian Exposition atChicago. Ill. Chicago, Illinois: For completion of building under present limit,World’s Columbian. three hundred thousandExposition. dollars. For post office at Davenport, Iowa: For purchase of site and constructionDavenport, Iowa. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For post office at Danville, Illinois:
For purchase of site and constructionDanville, Ill. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Denver, Colorado: For completion ofDenver, Cols. building present limit, one hundred and seven thousand dollars. For courthouse, customhouse, and post office at Duluth Minnesota: ForDuluth, Minn. completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For Ellis Island, New York: For completing the building andEllis Island, N.Y. other improvements on Ellis Island, and for procuring the necessary transportation facilities to and from said island, the sum of one hundredTransportation. facilities. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in 950addition to the head-money heretofore or hereafter applied to that purpose, he, and the same is hereby, appropriated and made immediatelyImmediately available. available, and the said sum shall be reimbursed, in installmentsReimbursement. of twenty five-thousand dollars per annum, from the head-money, license privileges, and rentals received at the port of New York.
For post office at Emporia, Kansas: For purchase of site for building.Emporia, Kans. ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For post office at Fort Worth, Texas: For completion of building underFort Worth, Tex. present limit, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For post office at Fremont, Nebraska: For completion of building underFremont, Nebr. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. For post office and courthouse at Fargo, North Dakota: For purchaseFargo, N.
Dak. of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For post office and courthouse at Fort Dodge. Iowa; For purchaseFort Dodge, Iowa. of site and construction of building, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office at Galesburgh, Illinois: For completion Galesburgh, Ill.of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For post office at Haverhill, Massachusetts: ForHaverhill Mass. purchase of site and construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post office at Houlton, Maine: For completion of building under present limit,Houlton, Me. thirty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Jefferson, Texas: For adjustingJefferson, Tex. outstanding contract liabilities, in excess of limit, three thousandExcess of limit. dollars. For post office and customhouse at Jacksonville, Florida: For completionJacksonville, Fla. of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
For post office and courthouse at Kansas City, Missouri: For purchase ofKansas City, Mo. site and commencement of building, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For isolation ward andKey West. Fla. wharf, three thousand dollars. For post office at La Fayette, Indiana: For completionLa Fayette, Ind. of building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. For post office at Lincoln, Nebraska: For improving the grounds, oneLincoln, Nebr. thousand dollars.
For marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky: For dead-house, oneLouisville, Ky. thousand two hundred dollars. For post office at Lynn, Massachusetts: For completion of building underLynn, Mass. present limit, ninety thousand dollars. For post office at Lewiston, Maine: ForLewiston, Me. purchase of site and construction of building, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office at Lima, Ohio: For purchase of site and construction ofLima, Ohio. building, sixty thousand dollars.
For post office at Madison, Indiana: For purchase of site and constructionMadison. Ind. of building, fifty thousand dollars. For post office at Mankato, Minnesota: For purchase of site and constructionMankato. Minn. of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For customhouse at Memphis. Tennessee: For completion of improvement of grounds,Memphis, Tenn one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, toImmediately available. be immediately available. For post office at Meridian.
Mississippi: For purchase of site and constructionMeridian, Miss. of building, fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama: For laundry machinery, Mobile, Ala.one thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post office at Macon, Georgia: For construction of sewer,Macon, Ga. eight thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Martinsburgh, West Virginia: ForMartinsburgh, W. Va. completion of building under present limit, forty five thousand dollars 951 For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana:
For new ward, New Orleans, La.ten thousand dollars. For post office, courthouse, andNew Berne, N. C. customhouse at New Berne. North Carolina: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Norfolk, Virginia: For purchase of siteNorfolk, Va. and commencement of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post office at Newburgh. New York: For purchase of site and constructionNewburgh. N. Y. of building, one hundred thousand dollars.
For customhouse and post office at New Haven, Connecticut: For the erectionNew Haven, Conn. of an extension to the building, forty thousand dollars. For post office and customhouse at New London. Connecticut: For completionNew London. Conn. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse and post office at Newark, New Jersey: For continuation ofNewark, N. J. building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Paris, Texas:
For completion of building underParis, Tex. present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Portland, Maine: For electric light plant, threePortland, Me. thousand dollars. For post office at Pawtucket, Rhode Island: For,Pawtucket, R. I. purchase of site and construction of building, seventy five thousand dollars. For customhouse at Portland, Oregon: For purchase of site and commencement ofPortland, Oreg. building, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For post office at Pueblo, Colorado:
For purchase of site and commencement ofPueblo, Colo. building, one hundred thousand dollars. The limit of cost of site andLimit of cost. the erection of a public building thereon at Pueblo, Colorado, to be three hundred thousand dollars. For post office, courthouse and customhouse at Reidsville, North Carolina:Reidsville. N. C. For purchase of site and construction of building, twenty five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Rochester, New York: For providing an additionalRochester, N.Y. mailing entrance, shelving for vaults, and completion of work in and around the building, two thousand dollars.
For post office at Rockford, Illinois: For purchase of site and construction ofRockford, Ill. building, one hundred thousand dollars. For post office at Rome, Georgia: For purchase of site and construction of building,Rome. Ga. fifty thousand dollars. For post office at Rock Island, Illinois: For purchaseRock Island, Ill. of site and construction of building seventy five thousand dollars. For customhouse and post office at Racine, Wisconsin:Racine, Wis. For purchase of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars.
For post office at Salina, Kansas: For completionSalina, Kans. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post office at Sacramento, California: For completion of building under presentSacramento, Cal. limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse at San Francisco, California: For construction of a oneSan Francisco, Cal. story extension for postal purposes fifteen thousand dollars, thousand dollars. In addition to the sum now authorized by law for the purchase ofAdditional tor site, etc. a site for a building for a post office, courthouse, and other offices by the United States Government, in San Francisco, California, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and any part of said amount which may remain after such purchase shall be used for commencing the construction of the building.
For marine hospital at San Francisco, California: For heatingSan Francisco. Cal. apparatus, ten thousand dollars. For courthouse at Santa Fe, New Mexico: For adjustment of contractSanta Fe, N. Mex. Contract liabilities. liabilities, three hundred and twelve dollars and forty-two cents. 952 For courthouse and post office atSpringfield, Mo. Springfield, Missouri: For comfiction of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For post office at Scranton, Pennsylvania:
For completion of buildingScranton, Pa. under present limit, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Sioux Falls, South Dakota: For purchase Sioux Falls, S. Dak.of site and commencement of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. For customhouse and post office at Saint Albans, Vermont: Saint Albans, Vt.For purchase of site and construction of building, sixty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Saint Paul, Minnesota: For commencement of building,Saint Paul, Minn. four hundred thousand dollars.
For the completion of the fourth story and for construction of an. elevatorLeavenworth, Kans. in the public building at Leavenworth, Kansas, eight thousand dollars. For post office at Staunton, Virginia: For purchase of site and construction ofStaunton. Va. building, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office at Roanoke. Virginia: For purchase of site and construction ofRoanoke, Va. building, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office at South Bend, Indiana: For purchase of site and construction ofSouth Bend, Ind. building, seventy five thousand dollars.
For post office at Stockton, California: For purchase of site and construction of Stockton, Cal.building, seventy five thousand dollars. For courthouse, post office, and customhouse at Sioux City, Iowa: For purchaseSioux City. Iowa. of site and commencement of building, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. For customhouse and post office at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: For purchase of siteSheboygan, Wis. and construction of building, fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to cause to beMilwaukee, Wis. sold, at public or private sale, the buildings situated upon block twentySale of buddings, etc. three, in the city of Milwaukee.
Wisconsin, acquired by the Vol. 25, p. 652.United States under the provisions of chapter ninety-one of the laws of the United States approved January twenty first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for a site of a public building in said city, and Application of proceeds.to apply the proceeds of said sale, together with the proceeds of the sale of the present public building, and of the site thereof, in said city, to the erection of the building to be erected on said block twenty three, in addition to the limit of cost heretofore fixed for said site and building, and the Secretary may sell the present building and Limitation.site in said city at public or private sale, subject to the right of the United States Government to occupy the same, at a reasonable rental, not exceeding six per centum upon the sum for which the same is sold, until the completion of said new building.
For customhouse and post office at Troy, New York: For continuationTroy. N. Y. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For post office at Taunton, Massachusetts: For construction of Taunton, Mass.building, on site to be donated to the government, seventy-five-thousand dollars. For court house, post-office, and customhouse at Vicksburg. Mississippi:Vicksburg, Miss. For completion of building and approaches in excess of limit, seven thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Vineyard Haven.
Massachusetts: For necessaryVineyard Haven, Mass. alterations and improvements to the marine hospital and its approaches, twenty thousand dollars. For post office at Washington, District of Columbia: That theWashington, D. C. limit of cost of the Washington City post office building Limit of cost increased.exclusive of site is hereby increased to two million dollars, and the said building shall he constructed so as to be fireproof For courthouse and post office at Wilmington, Delaware:
For completionWilmington. Del. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. 953 For post office and customhouse at Winona, Minnesota: For completionWinona, Minn. of building and approaches in excess of limit, ten thousand dollars For post office at Worcester, Massachusetts: For continuation ofWorcester, Mass. building, fifty thousand dollars. For post office at York, Pennsylvania: For completion of buildingYork, Pa. under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For post office at Youngstown, Ohio: For purchase of site andYoungstown, Ohio. construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. Addition to site of Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For additionalWashington, D. C. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Addition to site. amount to complete the purchase of the addition to the site of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, authorized by the sundry civil appropriation act approved October eighth, eighteen hundred Vol. 25, p. 511.and eighty-eight, four thousand dollars.
For Treasury Building at Washington, District of Columbia:Treasury and Winder buildings; repair, etc. For repairs to Treasury Building and Winder Building ten thousand dollars. For new roof for Winder Building, four thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedBennington, Vt., battle monument. Stairway. and directed to pay to the-governor of the State of Vermont the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be by him transferred to the Bennington Battle Monument Association, to be expended by them in the erection of a suitable iron stairway for the monument erected to commemorate the Revolutionary battle of Bennington.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of customhouses, courthouses, post offices, marine hospitals, and other public buildings, under control of Treasury Department, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of land, and buildings thereon, being in lotsWashington, D. C. Purchase lots 11 and 12, sq. 689. Use of Treasury department. numbered eleven and twelve of the subdivision of square numbered six hundred and eighty-nine on the original plat of lands in the city of Washington, bounded north by South B street, east by New Jersey avenue, and west by South Capitol street, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available; said purchase to be made by theImmediately available.
Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of the Treasury Department. For the purchase, by the Secretary of the Treasury, of the landOf “Richards property.” Coast and Geodetic Survey. and buildings known as the Richards property, in the city of Washington. District of Columbia, now occupied by the Coast and Geodetic Survey for use of said Survey, one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediatelyImmediately available. available.
Purchase of the Maltby House: For the purchase, by theOf “Maltby House.” Use of Congress and Executive Departments. Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of Congress and the executive Departments, under the control of the Committee on Ruh’s of the Senate, of the premises known as the Maltby House, situated on the corner of New Jersey avenue and B street northwest, in the city of Washington. District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and forAdjacent lots. the purchase of the vacant lots on the west side thereof, thirteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all. one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars, to be immediately Immediately available.available. lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.Lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.
Cuckold’s Island Fog Signal, Maine: For establishing a fog signalCuckold’s Island, Me. at or near the Cuckold’s Island, Boothbay or Townsend Harbor, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Juniper Island Light Station, Vermont: For establishing a light-houseJuniper Island, Vt. and buoy depot at Juniper Island Light Station, Lake Champlain, Vermont, two thousand five hundred dollars. 954 Old Orchard Shoal Light Station, New York: For establishing aOld Orchard Shoal. N. Y. lighthouse and fog signal at or near Old Orchard Shoal, Princess Waackaack, N.
J.Bay, New York, and for building a new tower at Waackaack Light Station. New Jersey, sixty thousand dollars. Otto Creek Light Station, Vermont: For establishing a light at orOtter Creek, Lake Champlain, Vt. near the mouth of Otter Creek, Lake Champlain, one thousand dollars. Watch Point Light Station, New York: For reestablishing a lightWatch Point, N. Y. on Watch Point, Lake Champlain, Vermont, five hundred dollars. Staten Island Light-House Depot, New York: For continuing theTompkinsville, Staten Island, N.
Y. construction of the seawall at the general light house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, for the rebuilding of the wharf, and for the needed dredging, twenty-five thousand dollars. Braddock’s Point Light Station, New York: For establishing aBraddock’s Point, Lake Ontario, N. Y. third-order light station in the vicinity of Braddock’s Point, Lake Ontario, twenty thousand dollars. Genesee Fog Signal, New York: For establishing a steam fog signalGenesee, Lake Ontario, N. Y. at Genesee Light Station, mouth of the Genesee River, Lake Ontario.
New York, four thousand three hundred dollars. Ashtabula Harbor Light and Fog Signal Station, Ohio: For establishingAshtabula, Lake range lights and a steam fog signal at AshtabulaErie, Ohio. Harbor, Lake Erie. Ohio, four thousand seven hundred dollars. Simmon’s Reef, White Shoal, and Gray’s Reef, in Lake Michigan: That the appropriation of sixty thousand dollarsSimmon’s Reef, White Shoal and Gray’s Reef, Lake Michigan. Vol. 25, p. 943. heretofore made March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for a light house on Simmon’s Reef, be applied under the direction of the Light House Light ships.Board for the purchase and equipment of three light ships, to be located respectively on Simmon’s Reef, White Shoal, and Gray’s Immediately available.Reef, in Lake Michigan, and that said appropriation be immediately available for such light ships.
Squaw Island Light Station, Michigan: For establishing a lightSquaw Island, Mich. and fog signal on Squaw Island, northern end of Lake Michigan, to mark the passage to the westward of Beaver Island, twenty-five thousand dollars. Old Mackinac Point Light Station, Michigan: For establishing aOld Mackinac Point, Mich. light station at Old Mackinac Point, Straits of Mackinac, twenty thousand dollars. Patrol Steamer for Saint Mary’s River: For procuring a patrolSaint Mary’s River, Mich.
Patrol steamer. steamer for use on Saint Mary’s River Michigan, four thousand dollars. Lighting Saint Mary’s River, Michigan: For establishing someLighting river. thirty-seven lights on Saint Mary’s River from Pipe Island to the Saulte, Michigan, thirty thousand dollars. Ahnapee Range or Pier Lights: For establishing range or pierAhnapee, Lake Michigan. Range or pier lights. lights at or near Ahnapee, Lake Michigan, two thousand five hundred dollars. Windmill Point Range Lights:
For establishing range lights atWindmill Point, Mich. Range lights. or near Windmill Point, Lake Saint Clair, Michigan, three thousand dollars. Gratiot Range Lights: For establishing range lights, foot of LakeGratiot, Mich. Range lights. Huron, Michigan, five hundred dollars. Point Betsey Light and Fog Signal: For establishing a light andPoint Betsey, Lake Michigan. fog signal at Point Betsey, Lake Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. Fairport Range Lights: For establishing range lights at or nearFairport, Ohio.
Range lights. Fairport, Ohio, Lake Erie, four hundred dollars. Black River Range Lights: For establishing range lights onBlack River, Lake Erie. Range lights. Devil’s Island, Wis. Black River (Lorain), Lake Erie, four hundred dollars. Devil’s Island Fog Signal Station, Wisconsin: For establishing a steam fog signal at Devil’s Island Light Station, Apostle Group, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, five thousand five hundred dollars. 955 Hog Island Light Station, Virginia: For the purchase of additionalHog Island, Va.
Additional land. land at Hog Island Light Station, seacoast of Virginia, one hundred dollars of the sum appropriated by the act of March second,Vol. 25, p. 942. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, or so much thereof as as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be used. Cape Charles City Lights, Virginia: For establishing range andCape Charles, Va. Range, etc., lights. harbor lights at and near the entrance of Cape Charles Harbor in Virginia, one thousand dollars. To establish a light station at or near Page’s Rock in York River,Page’s Rock, York River, Va.
Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Hawkin’s Point Light Station, Maryland: For legal services inHawkin’s Point, Md. condemning the easement between Hawkins’ Point Light and Leading Point. Light, Patapsco River, Maryland, one thousand dollars. North River Bar beacons. North Carolina; For establishment ofNorth River Bar, N. C. Guide beacons. lighted beacons to guide through the dredged channel at North River Bar, two thousand dollars. McWilliam’s Point Shoal Light Station, North Carolina:
For establishingMcWilliam’s Point, N. C. Guide light. a light on or near McWilliam’s Point Shoal, Pamlico River, to guide into the port of Washington, North Carolina, one hundred dollars. Portsmouth Lighthouse Depot Virginia: For purchase of additionalPortsmouth, Va. Additional land. land for the site of the lighthouse depot at Portsmouth, Virginia, including about ninety-six feet of water front, ten thousand dollars. Tender for the Fifth Lighthouse District: For building a newTender for Fifth Lighthouse District. steam tender for use in the Fifth Lighthouse District, ninety-five thousand dollars.
And the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington three draftsmen, to be paid atTemporary draftsmen at Washington. current rates, to prepare the plans for the lighthouse vessels, for which appropriation has been made or may be made during the Fifty-first Congress; such draftsmen to be paid from the appropriation for building said vessels; such employment to cease and determine on orLimitation. before the date when, the plans for such vessels being finished, proposals for building said vessels are invited by advertisement.
Depot for the Ninth Lighthouse District: For establishing a supplyDepot for Ninth Lighthouse District. and buoy depot for the Ninth Lighthouse District on a site to be donated to the Government in the town of Saint Joseph, Michigan. thirty-five thousand dollars. Depot for the Eleventh Lighthouse District, Detroit Michigan:Depot for Eleventh Lighthouse District. Forthe erection of a lamp shop in the Eleventh Lighthouse District Depot, at Detroit Michigan, two thousand dollars.
Northwest Seal-Rock Light Station, California: That the Light-HouseNorthwest Seal-Rock, Point Saint George, Cal. Board be authorized to expend five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of moneys already appropriated for continuing and completing the construction of a lighthouse on Northwest Seal Rock. Point Saint George, California, in the purchase and the installation of a steam fog signal at that lighthouse. Humbolt Light Station, California: For establishing the lightHumbolt, Cal. and fog signal at Humbolt, California, upon a more secure site, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Depot for the Thirteenth Lighthouse District: For removing theDepot for Thirteenth Lighthouse District. buoy and supply depot now at Tongue Point to Astoria, Oregon, and for the purchase of a site at the latter place and the construction thereon of a suitable wharf for the use of the Light-House Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of a site and the establishment of a proper lightMouth of Coquille River, Pacific Ocean. and fog signal at the mouth of the Coquille River, on the Pacific Ocean, the same to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifty thousand dollars.
Patos Island Light Station, Washington: For establishing a lightPatos Island, Washington. and fog-signal station on Patos Island, north entrance to the Canal de Haro, Washington, twelve thousand dollars. 956 Turn Point Light Station, Washington: Fot establishing a lightTurn Point, Washington. and fog-signal station at Turn Point, west end of Stuart Island, Canal de Haro, Washington, fifteen thousand dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses,Oil houses for light stations. *Proviso*.
Limitation. for the storage of mineral oil, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. light-house establishment.Light-house establishment. Supplies of lighthouses; For supplying fog signals, lighthouses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of lighthouses; For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. lighthouses and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pierhead and other beacon lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; and for incidental expenses relating to-these various objects, three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries, fuel, rations,Keepers salaries, etc. rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred and seventy-five thousand fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of light vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light vessels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys, spindles, and daybeacous, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Lighted buoys: For purchase of lighted gas buoys, at not exceedingLighted buoys. two thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars.
Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith. and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, seventy-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 lighthouse 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; Connecticut River. Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut, the Delaware River, bet ween Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s and Indian Rivers. Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to-mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River.
Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon: and on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; 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 can not be made permanent, two hundred, and eighty three thousand dollars. 957 Survey of lighthouse sites:
For preliminary examinations,Survey of sites. surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. life saving service.Lite-saving service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:Superintendents salaries. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand dollars; 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 five 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 coasts of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and fifty-two keepers of life-savingKeepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and sixty nine thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving Crews.and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensationMiscellaneous expenses. of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for 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 actVol. 22, p 57. approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draught animals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the 958 United States, eight hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy-five 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. That the Secretary of the Treasury may establish a life-savingBrant Rock, Mass. station at or near Brant Rock, on the coast of Massachusetts, at such a point as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend. Also, one at or near Port Orford, on the coast of Oregon.Port Orford, Oreg. For the purchase of a site for the Long Branch Life-Saving Station,Long Branch, N.
J. ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. 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; instructions of 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; to-carry into effect-the provisions of “An act relating to the anchorage Vol. 25, p. 15.of vessels in the port of New York,” approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding revenue steamer Ewing, eighty thousand dollars.Steamer “Ewing.” For two steam, launches for use in Pugets Sound, at a cost notSteam launches, Puget Sound. exceeding five thousand dollars each. For the construction and equipment of a steam vessel to be usedSteam vessel at Chicago, Ill. for the purpose of boarding vessels at the port of Chicago, Illinois, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For maintenance of a refuge station at or near Point Barrow,Point Barrow,Alaska, Refuge Station.
Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean, eight thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. engraving and printing.Engraving and print tag. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate-printers’ assistants, three hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended Large notes.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, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso*.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of portion of this sum Large notes.shall be expended for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials, etc. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and eighty-one- 959 thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For machinery, furniture, and fixtures for, and expenses of occupyingNew wing; machinery, furniture, etc. new wing authorized by act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to be expended under the*Ante*, p. 374. direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Alaska, coasts, 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 coast 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 field work, 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 officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriationAdvances. shall be made unless to a commissioned officer, or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. For party expenses:Party expenses. For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coast of Maine and to the International boundary monument, and including the Kennebec River to Augusta, three thousand dollars. For triangulation, topography and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island.
Nantucket Shoals and approaches, and including Vineyard Sound, the coast of Massachusetts, the Connecticut River to Hartford, Connecticut, and Hudson River to Troy, New York and to continue to date corrections of former surveys of the Delaware River, from the vicinity of Philadelphia to Trenton, fifteen thousand dollars; To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile, three thousand five hundred dollars; For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, including Lake Pouchartrain and the resurvey of Mobile Bay entrance, fifteen thousand dollars.
To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the topographic survey of the coast of California, including necessary triangulation and astronomical work in connection therewith, five thousand dollars; For continuing the triangulation west of the one hundred and tenth meridian and connecting the same with the transcontinental arc, ten thousand dollars. 960 For continuing the survey of the coasts of Oregon and Washington,Party expenses—continued. including offshore hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, twenty-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, eight thousand dollars; For examination into reported dangers on the Eastern Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five hundred dollars;
To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and at San Antonio Magnetic Observatory, two thousand five hundred dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels westward from the vicinity of Jefferson City, Missouri, eastward from the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee; westward from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, and eastward from San Francisco. California, five thousand dollars; For continuing tidal observations on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, five thousand dollars;
To continue gravity experiments, at a cost not exceeding five hundred dollars per station, except for special investigations and experiments authorized by the Superintendent at one or more stations, two thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, ten thousand dollars; For determination 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, and check bases in Ohio and Indiana, twenty-two thousand dollars;
To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, four thousand five hundred dollars; For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty,Traveling expenses. 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 five hundred dollars; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent,Urgent “objects not hereinbefore named.” including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, seven thousand dollars;
For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for theContribution to International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth. Measurement of the Earth, four hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 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 there if as may be necessary, five hundred and *Proviso*.fifty dollars: *Provided*, That such contribution and expenses of Payment.attendance shall be payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named;
” And twenty per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be availableInterchangeable expenditures. interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. Alaska boundary survey: For expenses of carrying on a preliminaryAlaska boundary survey. survey of the frontier line between Alaska and British 961 Columbia and the Northwest Territory, in accordance with plans or projects approved by the Secretary of State, including expenses of drawing and publication of map or maps, ten 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 officers: For superintendent, six thousand dollars;Pay of Held officers. Superintendent. For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each;Assistants. For one assistant, three thousand six hundred dollars; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For four assistants, at three thousand dollars each;
For two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two assistants, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For seven assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For nine assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For five subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For two subassistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For aids temporarily employed at a salary not greater than nineTemporary aids. hundred dollars per annum each, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousandPay of office force. two hundred dollars; For one general office assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one clerk to superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one clerk to the assistant in charge of the office and topography, one thousand dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters and copyists, namely:
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For ten, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draughtsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: 962 For three, at two thousand dollars each;Pay of office force—continued.
For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand dollars; For additional engravers, at not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, janitor, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, including a janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight, at one thousand dollars.each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For four, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For six, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For three, at six hundred and forty dollars each;
For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For four, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and thirty dollars. For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousandPublication, etc., of observations. dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books maps, charts, and subscriptions, nine thousand dollars.
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, and copper for immediate use, twenty 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, four thousand five hundred 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 at Washington Extra allowance.(except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or *Ante*, p. 382.to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law.
To provide additional facilities for chart printing, rendered necessaryAdditional chart printing. Plant. by increased demand for charts: For increasing plant, including two new presses, gas engines, with the necessary shafting, belting, and so forth, seven thousand four hundred dollars. For increased force: Two copperplate printers, at one thousandForce. dollars each, two thousand dollars; three copperplate printers’ helpers, at seven hundred dollars each, two thousand one hundred dollars; one bookkeeper and clerk, one thousand dollars; two messengers at seven hundred dollars each, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars. 963 UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution.
National Museum: For continuing the preservation, exhibition,National Museum. and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditionsPreserving collections. of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty five thousand dollars. For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibitionFurniture, etc. and safe keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty five thousand dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic; and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. For removing old boilers under Museum hall in SmithsonianBoilers. Building, replacing them with new ones, and for necessary alterations, and connections of steam heating apparatus and for covering pipes with fire proof material, three thousand dollars. For removing the decayed wooden floors in the Museum building,Flooring. substituting granolithic or artificial stone therefor, and for slate for covering trenches containing heating and electric apparatus, including all necessary material and labor, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of “the Capron collection of Japanese works ofPurchase of Capron collection. art,” now on temporary deposit in the National Museum at Washington, District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,Postage. five hundred dollars. For payment to the daughters of the late Joseph Henry, SecretaryJoseph Henry’s daughters. of the Smithsonian Institution, for valuable public services rendered by him, ten thousand dollars.
National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage, and for grading, planting and otherwise improving the grounds of the National Zoological Park, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars. For erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures for animals,Buildings, inclosures, etc. and for administrative purposes, in the National Zoological Park, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, eighteen thousand dollars;
For care, subsistence, and transportation of animals for the NationalCare, etc., of animals, etc. Zoological Park, and for the purpose of rare specimens not otherwise obtainable, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand five hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenuesOne-half from district revenues. of the District of Columbia, and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Astro-physical Observatory; For maintenance of astro-physicalAstrophysical Observatory. observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants and the purchase of additional apparatus, ten thousand dollars. 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, seventeen thousand dollars.
North American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesNorth American ethnology. among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifty thousand dollars. 964 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 the UnitedPropagation of food fishes, etc.
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 fifty five thousand dollars. Distribution of food fishes: For the distribution of the eggsDistribution of fish. and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad, carp, lobster, the fishes indigenous to the valley of the Mississippi River, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifty 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 other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees forty-five thousand dollars. For repairs to vessels Albatross, Fish Hawk, and Grampus, tenRepairs to vessels. thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For continuing the inquiryInvestigations. 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 continuing the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources in the interest of the development of the commercial fisheries, and for the preparation of reports relative to the inquiry, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of expert assistants, and other necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars.
Statistical inquiry: For the study of the methods, relations,Statistical Inquiries, etc. and statistics of the fisheries, with a view to their improvement; for the study of the resources of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and the determination of methods for the development of the same; for the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries of all portions of the United States, including persons employed, capital invested, and the quantity and value of products; for the preparation of reports relating to the inquiry, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner may find necessary in the prosecution of this work, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of experts and other necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars.
Fish Hatchery. Craig’s Brook and Green Lake Maine: ForFish hatchery Maine. completion of construction and equipment at Green Lake, Maine, including all buildings, ponds, flumes, dams, pipes, wharf and boats, roads, grading, engineering, and repairs fifteen thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and ten cents, of which the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be immediately available Fish Hatchery in Vermont: For purchase of site and establishingFish hatchery in Vermont. a fish hatchery at a suitable place in the State of Vermont, five thousand dollars.
Fish Hatchery in New York: For purchase of site and establishing Fish hatchery in New York.a fish hatchery at a suitable place in the State of New York, on or near the Saint Lawrence River, five thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery, Neosho, Missouri: For the completion and equipment of buildingFish hatchery in Missouri., for the construction of outbuildings, roads 965 and inclosures to grounds, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Fish Hatchery in the Rocky Mountain .Region and GulfFish hatcheries in Rocky Mountain and Gulf States.
States: For investigation respecting the advisability of establishing a fish hatching station in the Rocky Mountain region in the State of Montana or Wyoming and also a station in the Gulf States, one thousand dollars, each; in all, two thousand dollars. For the purchase of the lands on “Shad Battery” or Edmonson’s“Shad Battery,” Edmonson’s Island, Chesapeake Bay, Md. Purchase of lands on. Island, in the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland, not now owned by the United States, together with all buildings, wharves and improvements thereon, and fishing rights appurtenant thereto, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the payment of said sum shall be in*Proviso*. complete satisfaction and extinguishment of all claims of the owner of said island for rent, or use and occupation thereof, and mesneTitle. profits and damages in respect thereof, and that a perfect title in the premises, and deed sufficient in law, conveying the same to the United States, both to be approved by the Attorney General, be given by the owner thereof.
INTERSTATE-COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate-commerce commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries. commerce”, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of Secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate Commerce”, three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures to enable the Commission toExpenses. give effect to, and execute the provisions of, the said “Act to regulateVol. 24, p. 386. commerce,” one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous objects under the Treasury Department. world’s columbian exposition.World’s Columbian Exposition. Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation,Government exhibit. and arrangement of such articles and materials as the heads of the several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may decide shall be embraced in the Government exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may designate for said Exposition, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants to the Board of Control and Management of the Government exhibit, appointed by the President, of which not exceeding five thousand dollars may be expended by the said Board for clerical services the stun of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,Existing appropriations. eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and any moneys heretofore appropriated in aid of said Government exhibit may be used in like manner and for like purposes: *Provided*, That all expenditures made for the*Proviso*. purposes and from the appropriation specified herein shall be subject Expenditures subject to approval.to the approval of the said Board or Control and Management, and of the Secretary of the Treasury, as now provided by law.
World’s Columbian Commission: For the World’s Columbian Commission,World’s Columbian Commission. ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum thirty-six thousand dollars shall be used for the Board of Lady Managers.Board of Lady Managers. For expenses connected with the admission of foreign goods to theAdmission of foreign goods. Exposition, as set forth in section twelve of the act creating the Commission. approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety,*Ante*, p. 64. twenty thousand dollars; 966 For contingent expenses of the World’s Congress Auxiliary of theWorld’s Congress Auxiliary.
World’s Columbian Exposition, two thousand five hundred dollars. And the several sums herein appropriated for the World’s ColumbianContingent expenses. Exposition shall be deemed a part of the sum of Appropriations a part of limit of liability of the United States.one million five hundred thousand dollars, the limit of liability of the United States on account thereof fixed by the act of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing said Exposition. Paper and stamps:
For paper for internal-revenue stamps,Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc. freight, and salary of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, fifty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal revenue laws:Punishing violations of Internal-revenue laws. For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, fifty thousand dollars and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue Reports.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.
Contingent expenses independent treasury: For contingentExpenses of fiscal agents. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719.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. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silverTransportation, silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and Free of charge.directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of *Proviso*.charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal Deposits.amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Report.Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under the appropriation. Recoinage, reissue and transportation of minor coins:Recoinage, etc., minor coins. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States Mint at Philadelphia, for cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in or which may be hereafter received at the subtreasury offices in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of one 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 one 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, two thousand dollars. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent Recoinage, silver coins.fractional silver coins abraded below the limit of tolerance in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Treasury, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, as soon as practicable, coin into Trade-dollars, etc., into standard.
Charges.standard silver dollars the trade-dollar bullion and trade dollars now in the Treasury, the expense thereof to be charged to the silver profit fund. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paperDistinctive 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, 967 manila paper, thin muslin, hen zine, gutta-percha, belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses of national currency: For paper, express charges,National currency expenses. and other expenses, nine thousand three hundred dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Destruction of securities. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities,Pay of witness. at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctiveCanceling securities, etc. paper:
For extra knives for cutting machine and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repair to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. Engraving and Printing Bureau. dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely:
One custodian two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; distributer 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, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings:Inspector of furniture, public buildings. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture:
For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs, public buildings. of furniture and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, 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, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia, under the control of the Treasury Department, shall include the rental or use of any gas governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing theGas governors. expenses of gas, when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid*Proviso*. for such rental or use of such gas governor, gas purifier, or deviceRental limited. 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, and quarantine stations 968 under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and Limitation.twenty-five thousand dollars, but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults,Vaults, safes, and locks, public buildings. 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, sixty 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, five thousand dollars.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For the expenseDetecting 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 to make the necessary investigation of claims for Burial of deceased pensioners.reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the R.
S., sec. 4718, p. 919. National bank embezzlement. R. S.,sec. 5209, p. 1007.Revised Statutes, and five thousand dollars for the necessary investigation of violations of section fifty-two hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, seventy-five 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, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying theLocal appraisers meetings. necessary expenses of local appraiser’s 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. And the number and compensation of special agents to be appointedSpecial agents. under section twenty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised R.
S., sec. 2649, p. 593.Statutes of the United States shall be hereafter as follows: One supervising special agent, who shall receive in addition to theClassification and pay. necessary travelling expenses actually incurred by him, a compensation of ten dollars per day. Eighteen special agents, who shall each receive in addition to the necessary travelling expenses actually incurred by him, a compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed eight dollars per day; and Nine special agents, who shall each receive in addition to the necessary travelling expenses actually incurred by him, a compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury not to exceed six dollars per day.
Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcementReturn of laborers imported under contract. Vol. 22, p. 214; vol. 28, p. 332; vol. 24, p. 415; vol. 25, p. 566. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, and also to Investigation.investigate the immigration of such persons from Asiatic and European Immediately available.countries, ninety thousand dollars; said sum to be immediately available.
Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act: To prevent unlawfulEnforcement Chinese exclusion act. entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of Vol. 25, p. 504.suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, sixty thousand dollars. 969 Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and travelling expenses ofAlaska seal fisheries. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows:
For one agent threeSalaries, etc., agents. 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 travel-ling 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. For publishing the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheriesPublishing President’s warning proclamation.
Vol. 35, p. 1009. of Behring Sea, and for protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty nine. To provide for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska, and for expenses in carrying out lease of and protecting seal life on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sections nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one.R. S., sec. 1050, p. 344. Revised Statutes, two thousand five hundred dollars.R.
S., sec. 1071, p. 346. Supplement to the Revised Statutes: To enable the SecretaryEditing Supplement to Revised statutes. William A. Richardson. of the Treasury to pay William A. Richardson, when the work shall have been completed, for preparing and editing a supplement to the Revised Statutes, under act approved April ninth, eighteen*Ante*, p. 50. hundred and ninety, six thousand dollars. Portrait of John C. Spencer: For payment to Mrs. ImogenePurchase of portrait. Robinson Morrell for painting the portrait of John C.
Spencer, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred dollars. quarantine service.Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersOrdinary expenses at stations, including pay of officers. etc. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Cape Charles, South Atlantic Station, (Sapelo Sound), Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, fifty thousand dollars. For completion of quarantine stations as follows:Completion of stations.
South Atlantic Station. South Atlantic; For completion of wharf, buildings and disinfecting machinery, twenty thousand dollars; Gulf: For warehouse and disinfecting machinery, thirteen thousandGulf Station. dollars: in all, thirty-three thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to assign to the Secretary of the Treasury so much space on the Lewes iron pier as mayLewes iron pier. be necessary to enable the Marine Hospital Service to establish and conduct thereon such disinfection machinery as may be required forAssignment of space for disinfection machinery. the proper disinfection of the cargoes of vessels detained at the quarantine, and when the breakwater shall have been completed then the said pier shall be permanently assigned to the Treasury Department: *Provided*, That such occupation and use of the pier by the*Proviso*.
Marine Hospital Service does not interfere with the engineering operations of the War Department in the completion of the breakwater improvement. prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized in caseUnexpended balances of appropriations, etc., may be used. of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera yellow fever or smallpox, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, or so much thereof as mayVol. 25, pp. 630, 631, 954. be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same. 970 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Under the Department of the Interior. 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. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of Buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs, Interior department and Pension. Interior Department and Pension Buildings, including two thousand dollars for roof, skylights, and board walks on roof of Pension building, ten thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. thereof, including wages of mechanics, laborers, and fresco painters, thirty thousand dollars.
Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for the care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars. Capitol terraces: For bridge, marble steps, and for completionCapitol terraces. of balustrade at the main entrance, west front; for lamp posts and railing to main stairway, and for general work on terraces, fourteen thousand dollars. Pavement, Capitol Grounds:
For taking up and resurfacingPavement, Capitol grounds. the asphaltic concrete pavement at the eastern front of the Capitol, forty thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting Capitol and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Electric light plants, Senate and House wings.Senate and House stables: for gas and electric lighting: for use of electric lighting plants in Senate and House wings, at not exceeding two hundred dollars per month during the sessions of Congress; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Sales of public lands.
Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers: ForSalaries, etc., registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, six hundred thousand dollars. Contingent Expenses of Land Offices: For clerk hire, rent,Contingent expenses, land offices. and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, two hundred 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, one hundred thousand dollars. Protecting public lands: For the protection of public landsProtection from illegal entries. from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of hearings in land entries:
For expenses of hearings Hearings in land entriesheld 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, twenty-five thousand dollars. Settlement of claims for swamp land and swampland indemnity:swampland claims. For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, twenty 971 thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under*Proviso*. this and the appropriations for “Depredation on the public timber”Per diem, etc., for agents. and “Protecting public lands” while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing worn platy, etc. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, five thousand 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, four hundred thousandExpenses. 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*Provisos*. preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, inPreference to settled townships, etc. whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the act approved February twenty-second, eighteenVol. 25, p. 676. hundred and eighty-nine, and the acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except that the Commissioner*Ante*, pp. 215, 222. of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of landsRates for heavily timbered, etc., 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, and if in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, the work can not 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: *Provided further*, That in the States of Washington and Oregon thereIn Washington and Oregon. may be allowed, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines; and said rates, in contracts hereafter made, shall apply to the unexpended balancesTo apply to unexpended balances. assigned to said States of the appropriation for the current fiscal year.
And of the sum hereby appropriated, not exceeding fortyResurveys, etc. 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, and out of the sum herein appropriated for surveying the public lands the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may assign a sum sufficient to complete the survey ofCompleting survey of Public Land Strip.
Boundary between it and Texas, and between Texas and New Mexico, confirmed. Vol. 11, p. 310. the Public Land Strip—otherwise known as No Man’s Land—and the boundary line between said Public Land Strip and Texas, and between Texas and New Mexico, established underact of June fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, is hereby confirmed. 972 For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale, and pay ofAbandoned military reservations. custodians of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Vol. 23, p. 103.act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eight thousand dollars.
Improvement of Hot Springs Reservation: For constructionHot Springs reservation. of roads in said reservation, five thousand dollars. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the GeologicalPay of scientific assistants, etc. 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, fifteenTopographic surveys. thousand dollars: For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be expended west of the one hundredth meridian: For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Paléontologie researches. one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For paléontologie researches relating to the geologyChemical and physical researches. of the United States, forty thousand dollars:
For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the UnitedIllustrations. States, seventeen thousand dollars; For the preparations of the illustrations ofMineral Resources, report. the geological survey, sixteen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the Report on the Mineral Resources of the United States ten thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For engraving the geological maps of the United States, sixtyEngraving geological maps. thousand dollars. For rent of office rooms in Washington. District of Columbia, threeRent. thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.Miscellaneous objects. expenses of eleventh census.Expenses, Eleventh Census. For salaries and necessary expenses for taking and compiling theSalaries, etc. results of the Eleventh Census, one million dollars. 973 supreme court reports.Supreme Court reports.
To pay the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the Payment for increased number for distribution.United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes of one hundred and thirty-eight to one hundred and forty, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the act of February twelfth, eighteenVol. 25, p. 661. hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and fifty-six dollars. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane.
For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy. Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, 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 thirty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty 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 forBuildings and grounds. the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twelve thousand dollars. For special improvements, as follows: For additional accommodations for the insane, namely, extensionAdditional accommodations. etc. . of Howard Hall, including furnishing and heating apparatus, fifty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. For two additional reservoirs for protection against fire, five thousand dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.
Expenses. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus amt for general repairs and improvements fifty thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand dollars of which to be expended in the employment Instructors of articulation.of instructors of articulation. howard university.Howard University. For the maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance, etc. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty-four thousand three hundred dollars.
And the proper officers of said university shall report annually to the Secretary of the Interior how the appropriation is expended. For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, four thousand dollars. For books for library, book cases, shelving, and fixtures, one thousand dollars. For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history, and laboratory, five hundred dollars. For improvement of grounds, one thousand dollars.
For repairs of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum.Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, DistrictExpenses, etc. of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-three thousand dollars; 974 For salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fourteen thousand dollars;
For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines, and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For reading matter for patients, twenty-five dollars; In all, fifty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Under the War department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill.
For machinery and shop fixtures, five thousand dollars.Machinery, etc. For general care, preservation, and improvements; 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, grading grounds, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the Rock Island bridge as follows:Bridge expenses. For care, preservation, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, twelve thousand dollars.
For repairs of the draw span and machinery for operating the same, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and forty-eight cents. For protecting Rock Island bridge by means of sheer booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield, Mass. Repairs, etc. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. To complete the erection of a fireproof building for machine shop,New machine shop. finishing shops, and so forth, at National Armory at Springfield, *Ante*, p. 895.Massachusetts, as provided for by the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents.
Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For quarters for enlistedAugusta, Ga. Quarters. men and hospital steward, three thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy cents, or so much thereof as may be Unexpended balances available. Vol. 25, p. 954.necessary in addition to the unexpended balances remaining of the appropriation for hospital in the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, which is hereby made available for this purpose. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
For newFrankford, Pa. machinery, five thousand dollars. Indianapolis Arsenal, Indianapolis, Indiana; For repairs ofIndianapolis, Ind. Repairs, etc. main storehouse, twenty thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars; For iron fence on Michigan street front, one thousand two hundred and twenty-four feet, six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; For removing present wooden fence to east boundary line and repairing same, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs and extension of main and branch sewers north of magazine, one thousand six hundred dollars: in all thirty thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
Sandy Hook Proving-Ground, New Jersey: For building andSandy Hook Proving-Ground, N. J. Repairs, etc. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops and storehouses and quarters, three thousand dollars. For erecting a barrack building for enlisted men and employees,Barrack. sixteen thousand dollars. 975 Testing machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materialWatertown, Mass. Testing machine. in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including now tools and appliances, ten thousand dollars.
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For pavingWatervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y. roads in Arsenal grounds with granite blocks, five thousand dollars Repairs of arsenals: For the repair of smaller arsenals and toRepairs, smaller arsenals, etc. meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty-five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, Washington, D.
C. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: For improvement of grounds north of Executive Mansion, one thousand 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 granite curbing about Lafayette square, five thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of Monument grounds, five thousandImprovement and care. dollars; For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen Reservation No, 17, etc.and site of old canal northwest of same, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property*Proviso*. Limit. 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 lamp posts, 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, caskets, 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 Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, five thousand dollars.
For replacing the old flagging pavement of the sidewalk on Pennsylvania avenue in front of the Executive Mansion by a grandolithic pavement, seven thousand five hundred dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall beConcrete, etc., pavements. made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty-fiveLimit of cost. 976 cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the district of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen and eighty-six, and with a base not less than six inches in thickness.
For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows:Executive mansion. For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, thirty-fiveRepairs, refurnishing, etc. thousand dollars, to be expended by contractor otherwise as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable,Fuel. 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 lamp lighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp posts; 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 *Provisos*.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more Maximum price per lamp.than twenty-one dollars and fifty cents 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 three thousand 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 Gas consumption.appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided*, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour.
For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-six nights fromElectric lights. seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-four dollars and eighty cents. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending waterWater pipes, etc. pipes, purchase of apparatus, for cleaning 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, 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 attendent on floor, at sixty dollars her month; one attendent on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. 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 keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars.
For an extra set of cables for elevator, one thousand three hundredExtra cables. dollars. 977 egnineer department.Engineer Department. For improving harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: ContinuingRivers and harbors. Continuing improvements, harbor at Philadelphia, Pa. improvement; removal of Smith’s Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty’s Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the plan for the improvement*Provisos*. may be modified by changing the line limiting the excavationModification of plan. on Betty’s Island to such position as the Secretary of War may consider desirable, and the material to be removed from said islands and shoals under this appropriation and appropriations heretofore madeDeposit of material on League Island. shall be deposited and spread on League Island and to the extent of the cost of such deposit and spreading the said appropriations areAvailable appropriations.
Title. hereby made available: *Provided further*, That the title to any additional lands acquired for this purpose shall be vested in the United States without charge to the latter. For improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Continuing improvement,Harbor at Baltimore, Md. one hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing improvement Harbor at Galveston, Tex.to entrance to harbor, six hundred thousand dollars. For improving Saint Mary’s River, Michigan:
Continuing improvementSaint Mary’s River. Mich. to Saint Mary’s Falls, six hundred thousand dollars. For improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Mary’s River, Michigan:Hay Lake Channel, Mich. Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. 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, seven hundred and forty five thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Provito*.That the total cost of Fort Bliss shall not exceed three hundred thousandLimit of cost:
Fort Bliss, Fort Brady, Fort Omaha. dollars, and that of Fort Brady two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and that of Fort Omaha five hundred thousand dollars; andName of Fort Omaha changed to Fort Crook. Eagle Pass, Tex. Purchase of site at. the name of the latter post is hereby changed to Fort Crook. To enable the Secretary of War in his discretion to purchase a site for a military post at Eagle Pass, Texas, twenty thousand dollars. Yellowstone National Park: For the improvement of theYellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, seventy-five thousand dollars, the same, together with the unexpended balance of appropriations alreadyAvailable balances. made, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War. For the repair, maintenance, relocation, and completion of roads,Repair, etc., roads, etc. bridges, and paths already in use and necessary to reach objects of natural interest in the Park; For the construction of a road from Grand Canon to YellowstoneRoad from Grand Canon to Fountain Geyser.
Additional roads. Lake outlet, thence to the thumb of the Yellowstone Lake, thence by the shortest practicable route to Fountain Geyser; any unexpended balance to be applied to the construction of additional roads, bridges, footways, and bridle paths, as the public service may require, in the discretion of the Secretary of War. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance, etc. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries. pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars.
For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-fourSuperintendents. 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, 978 sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United Vol. 17, p. 545.States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, Vol. 20, p. 281.eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, ten thousand dollars.
Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoadways. roadways to national cemeteries constructed by special authority of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers. Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed Limit.by the Secretary of War, at at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, one thousand five hundred dollars.
National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia: In lieu of tire landHampton, Va. authorized to be purchased by act *Ante*, p. 401.approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized Enlargement of cemetery.to acquire by purchase eight acres of land adjoining or as near as practicable to the National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia, required for enlargement of the same, and the sum of two thousand dollars is Additional appropriation.hereby appropriated for this purpose, in addition to the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated by the said act.
National Cemetery near Mound City, Illinois; For constructingMound City, Ill. and completing a gravel road and the necessary bridges Gravel road and bridges.from the national cemetery near Mound City Illinois, to Mounds Junction on the Illinois Central Railroad, in Pulaski County. Illinois, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for such purpose, said sum to be expended and the work performed Limitation.under the direction of the Secretary of War, but no part of this sum Contract.shall be expended until a contract for the completion of the work within this appropriation shall be made by the Secretary of War.
National Cemetery. Presidio of San Francisco, California:Presidio of San Francisco. Roads, walks, etc. For continuing the work of 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 reservations 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 sands, ten thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous objects.
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, ten 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. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park:
To enableChickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. the Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park according to the terms of *Ante*, p. 883.the act entitled “An act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Chickamauga,” approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two *Proviso*.hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War. upon the recommendation of the Reduced area.Chickamauga Park Commissioners, may confine the limits of the park to such reduced area, within the bounds fixed by the said act, as may be sufficient for the purposes of the said act, and the acquisition of Title.title for the United States to such reduced area shall be held to be a 979 compliance with the terms of said act. and such title shall be procured by the Secretary of War and under his direction in accordance with the method’s prescribed in sections four, five, and six ofVol. 14, pp. 400, 401. the act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An act to establish and protect national cemeteries,” which procurement of title shall be held to be a compliance with the act establishing the said Park, and the Secretary of War shall proceed with the establishment of the park as rapidly as jurisdictionEstablishment, jurisdiction, etc. over the roads of the park and its approaches and title to the separate parcels of land which compose it may be obtained for the United States.
Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus,Artificial limbs, etc. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and hereafter in case of commutationCommutation. the money shall be paid directly to the soldier, sailor, or marine, and no fee or compensation shall be allowed or paid to anyNo fee to agent. agent or attorney. Appliances for disabled soldiers:
For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers, etc. 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:Support, etc., of destitute patients. For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the SurgeonProvidence Hospital.
General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable itGarfield Memorial Hospital. to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, fifteen thousand 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, five thousand dollars. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion:Official Recon Is War of the Rebellion.
Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, War of the Rebellion, including the atlas of maps and plans, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the board ofCompensation civilian members of board. Vol. 25, p. 970. publication, appointed in accordance with the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publicationCompensation temporary experts. and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War. such experts to be selected and appointedAppointment of experts. by the Secretary of War. from time to time, as the necessity therefor arises, and for the purchase of stationery, and for additional rentStationery and rent. not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provideArtillery School, Fortress Monroe, Va. for means of instruction, such as text books, instruments, 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. Infantry and cavalry school, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas:Infantry and Cavalry-School. Fort Leavenworth. Kans. For text-books, maps, books of reference, instruments, and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City:Injurious deposits. 980 For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesPay of inspectors, etc. of office, fifteen thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousandSteamer “Argus,” pay of crew, etc. dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, ten thousandSteamer “Nimrod;” pay of crew, etc. dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand dollars.
Pedestals and Statues of Generals Philip H Sheridan,Pedestals and statues of Generals Philip H. Sheridan, John A. Logan, and Winfield S. Hancock. John A. Logan, and WinfieldS Hancock: For the completion of the pedestals and statues thereon in honor of the late General Philip H Sheridan and the late General John A Logan and the late General Winfield Scott Hancock, ten thousand dollars for each Additional for statues. Vol. 25, pp. 971, 972.commemorative statue, thirty thousand dollars, in addition to the sums appropriated to these objects by the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and ninety,” to be expended under the direction as provided for in regard to the appropriations made by said act.
And such part of the Unexpended balance also available for statues.appropriations made by said act for the preparation of sites and pedestals in each case as may not be needed for that separate purpose, may be used and expended in the completion of the statues respectively to be placed on said pedestals in addition to the sums hereby appropriated thereto. Thirty thousand dollars, to be expended on the Trenton battleTrenton, N. J., battle monument. monument, Trenton, New Jersey, under the direction of the Secretary of War, when he is satisfied that a similar amount has been provided by the State of New Jersey and the Trenton Battle Monument Association. united states military prison at fort leavenworth.Military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Expenses. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows; For subsistence of prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen; and for prisoners en route to insane asylum. Washington, District of Columbia, twenty-four thousand dollars. For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, three hundred dollars. For forage and bedding for public animals used exclusively at the prison, and hay for prisoners’ bedding, three thousand dollars. For stationery, blank books, typewriting supplies, for use in prison offices, mémorandum books, and pencils for use of guard when on duty, stationery for use in prisoners’ school, postage stamps, envelopes, and letter paper for issue to prisoners, one thousand dollars;
For fuel for generating steam for running engines, heating buildings, and use in cooking: materials for extention and repair of steam-heating apparatus. and water circulation; hose, belting, machinery castings, horse and mule shoes and nails, articles for repairing harness and wagons, horses and mules, stoves and stovepipe, lime, cement, fire clay, bricks, and fire bricks, iron. tin. solder, blacksmiths’ coal, charcoal, glass, putty, nails, paint and whitewash brushes, and painting materials, disinfectants, axes, shovels, spades, wheelbarrows, and other articles required for proper police of buildings and grounds, horse medicines and dressings, tools and miscellaneous supplies for use in shops, laundry, and barber shop, bath rooms, stables, printing office and photograph gallery; furniture for use in offices; electric-light supplies and oil for illuminating buildings and grounds; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty thousand dollars;
For materials, machinery, and tools for manufacture of prisoners’ clothing; for purchase of such clothing as can not be made at the 981 irison for prisoners’ wear at prison and issue to prisoners when re-eased from confinement at prison and at military posts; for donations of five dollars each to prisoners on release from confinement at prison and at military posts; for blankets, bed sacks, and bunks for prisoners’ 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 pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one thousand eightChilian 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; duty-extra pay for prison guard, two thousand three hundred 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 night watchmen 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 dollars;
For construction and repair of officers’ quarters, prison buildings,Repairs, etc. the hospital, the chapel, stables, and all other buildings on prison grounds, including plumbing and all other work thereon which can not be done by prisoners’ labor, five thousand dollars; In all, eighty-three thousand two hundred 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. namely: Pay of officers and non-commissioned officers of thePay of officers, etc. Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instructions, 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-three thousand and thirty six dollars and eighty 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: of all articles of food, their freight, preparation, and serving: of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair, not done by the Home, three hundred and thirty five thousand one hundred and sixty-five 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, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; 982 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 thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollar’s and sixty-four cents;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital expenses. hospital stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers. hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, grave diggers, 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 rat ion; for bedsteads, bedding, and materials and all other articles necessary for the wards; kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, carriage hearse, stretchers, coffins, and materials; for tools of grave diggers, and for all repairs not done by the Home, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and five cents:
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, three thousand dollars; For construction, namely; Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Construction. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters, stone masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, seventy-three thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-three cents;
For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Form expenses. farm hand, 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 and seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals and fowls purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn and park: and for repairs not done by the Home, twenty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-four cents;
In all. seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixteen cents. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. For current expenses, including the same objects specified underCurrent expenses. this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand and twenty-nine dollars and five cents;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, fifty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-five cents; if or transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.
For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents; 983 In all, three hundred and seventeen thousand and fifty dollars and seventy-one cents. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Togus, Me. Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and forty-seven cents;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents; 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 headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty three thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and two cents;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents: For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty cents; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, thirteen thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-two cents.
In all, two hundred and ninety thousand and forty-two dollars and forty-three cents. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentHampton, Va. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for theCurrent expenses. Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and thirty cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred dollars:
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation.
For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand three hundred and ten dollars and forty-eight cents; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-five cents; In all. three hundred and eighty-one thousand and eleven dollars and thirteen cents. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas:
For currentLeavenworth, Kans. expenses, including the same objects specified under this headCurrent expenses. for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty cents: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars: For-clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars;
For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, sixty-six thousand dollars; 984 For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand three hundred and one dollars and sixty cents; For transportation of members of the Home, five thousand dollars;Transportation. For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;
For bake house, three thousand dollars;Bake house. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ten cents; In all, three hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty cents. At the Pacific Branch at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal. current expenses including the same objects specified under this Current expenses.head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand and twenty dollars and thirty cents; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars: For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand and forty-two dollars and sixty cents: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;
For transportation of the members of the Home, three thousandTransportation. two hundred dollars; For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents; In all, one hundred and sixty-three thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-two cents:
At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For maintenanceMarion. Ind. of one thousand members, at one hundred and fifty dollars Maintenance.per annum each, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, thirty-five thousandOutdoor relief, etc. dollars: In all, two million four hundred and forty-seven thousand and *Proviso*.ninety-three dollars and nine-five cents: *Provided*, That the accounts Report of accounts.relating to the expenditure of said sums, as also all receipts by said Home from whatever source, shall, in addition to the supervision now provided for, be reported to and supervised by the Secretary of War.
State or Territorial Homes: For continuing the aid to StateState or Territorial Homes. Assistance, to. Vol. 25, p. 450. or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred thousand dollars. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofBack pay and bounty. pay of two and three year volunteers that may be Arrears of pay due to two and three year volunteers.certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, so much therefor as may be necessary is hereby appropriated;
For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widowsBounty due to volunteers, their heirs, etc. and legal heirs that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, so much therefor as may be necessary is hereby appropriated; 985 For payment of amounts for bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth,Additional bounty. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal yearVol. 14, p. 322. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, so much therefor as may be necessary is hereby appropriated;
For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisonersCommutation of rations due to prisoners of war in rebel States and soldiers on furlough. of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, so much therefor as may be necessary is hereby appropriated. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Under the Department of Justice. Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia:
For annualCourthouse, Washington. D. C. Repairs. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. For the remodeling and repair of the apparatus for the heating,Heating, etc. ventilation, and plumbing of the United States courthouse in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending suits 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, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand 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.
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 theInvestigations. courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, Attorneys, clerks of the United States court, 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-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: ForTerritorial courts, Utah. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and 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.
Industrial Home, Utah Territory: For aid to the IndustrialIndustrial Home, Utah. Christian Home Association in Utah Territory, four thousand dollars. 986 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, rive hundred dollars. Traveling expenses. Territory of Alaska: For the actual andTraveling 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. Territory of Alaska: ForBent, etc., Alaska. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Judicial.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expensesExpenses. 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 the court in the Indian Territory; of suits and preparation for suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States and R.
S., Title XXVI.of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; specially the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of the fees and expenses of the United States marshalsMarshals, etc. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of this Advances.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 Accounts.at all. only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the R.
S., sec. 856, p. 161.manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same beingDistrict attorneys. for payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, Fees.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 regularly assistants to United States district Attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and twenty-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, thirty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Attorney-General to employ special counsel to assistSpecial counsel, etc., in Greer County controversy. *Ante*, p. 92. in bringing the suit in equity in the Supreme Court of the United States provided by section twenty-five of the act entitled “An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” passed May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for taking testimony, stenographer’s fees, and other expenses necessary to be incurred in the preparation and trial of such suit, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Attorney-General to employ special counsel to assistSpecial counsel in United States vs. the Des Moines Navigation Railway Company. Immediately available. in the argument before the Supreme Court of the United States of the suit. United States versus the Des Moines Navigation Railway Company, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees. For fees of the United States commissioners, and justices of theFees of U.
S. Commissioners. peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand Limitation.dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall 987 be used to pay any fees to the United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal revenue laws, unless the prosecution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the factsSworn complaint to be made. 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 fees. For fees of witnesses, one million dollars.Witnesses fees. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport 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 seventy-five thousand dollars.
For rent of United States court rooms, fifty 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, anti 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 fifty thousand dollars. For actual expenses of transportation and subsistence of jurorsTransportation, etc., of jurors, etc., court in Alaska. and witnesses summoned to attend the United States district court in Alaska in United States cases, in addition to their mileage and per diems, one thousand dollars.
UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Under Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatements of appropriations, etc., to be prepared by appropriation 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 Fifty-first Congress, as required by the act approved OctoberVol. 25, p. 687. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be. paid to the persons designated by the chairman of said committees to do said work.
Index to Congressional Documents: To pay for the work doneIndex to Congressional documents. in preparing and completing the document index of the Fiftieth Congress by Alonzo W. Church, one thousand dollars.Alonzo W. Church. BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Building for Library of Congress. For continuing the construction of the building for the LibraryContinuing construction. of Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, six hundred thousand dollars.
Botanic Garden: For reconstructing propagating houses, extensionBotanic Garden. and repairs to heating apparatus, and general repairs to build- 988 ings and walks, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, three thousand dollars. Purchase of Portrait of John Paul Jones: For the purchasePortrait of John Paul Jones. by the Joint Committee, on the Library of the portrait of John Paul Jones, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Purchase of Portrait of General Winfield Scott:
For thePortrait of General Winfield Scott. purchase by the Joint Committee on the Library of the equestrian portrait of General Winfield Scott, painted by E. Troy e, three thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper forPrinting, 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 Amount.may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million three hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred 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 for Congress, the executive Departments, etc. and debates, one million and ninety-nine 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 Exclusion of unnecessary , etc., matter.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 thirty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office); For the Navy Department, seventy 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 Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks and for the ‘Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, fifteen 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 thousand dollars; FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 542, 543. 1891.989 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, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, seventy-five thousand dollars; For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars;
For the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand dollars; For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five thousand dollars; For the Court of Claims, twelve 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 hereby appropriatedLimited periods tor expenditure of allotments. 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 additionUnexpended balances. thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.
For purchase of new printing presses, one hundred thousand dollars;New printing presses. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theAnnual leaves to employees of Government Printing Office. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; To pay prorata leaves of absence to employees who resign or areProrata leaves upon resignation, etc. discharged (decision of the First Comptroller), fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation made in the sundry civil appropriation*Proviso*.
Purchase, etc., of land for new Government Printing Office, suspended. *Ante*, pp. 412, 413. act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, “to provide accommodations for the Government Printing Office.” and the authority for the expenditure of the same, therein conferred, be and the same are hereby suspended. Approved, March 3, 1891.
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