Chapter 63. to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 63.— An Act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.April 4, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent deficiencies appropriations for 1890. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and prior years, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. International Marine Conference.Necessary expenses.Vol. 25, p. 243.International Marine Conference: For an additional amount to pay the necessary expenses of the international marine conference authorized by the act approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to be disbursed as provided by said act, thirty-five thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 63. 1890.35 TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. coast and geodetic survey.Const and Geodetic Survey.
Office Expenses: For copper-plates, chart-paper, printers’ ink,Office expenses. copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; forEngraving, printing. and other supplies. extra engraving and drawing, and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone or copper for immediate use, six thousand dollars. For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation ofStationary, fuel, etc. instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice, and washing, one thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture,Miscellaneous expenses, etc. 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, one thousand dollars. Party Expenses: For traveling expenses of officers and men ofParty expenses in traveling, etc. the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board, or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, one thousand dollars.
Repairs of Vessels: For necessary repairs to the Coast andRepairs to “Gedney.” Geodetic Survey steamer Gedney, three thousand dollars. revenue cutter service.Revenue-cutter service. For additional amount for maintenance of a refuge-station at orRefuge-station, Point Barron, Alaska. near Point Barrow, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean, eight thousand dollars, to be available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. Propagation of Food-Fishes:
For the introduction by thePropagation of food-fishes. United States Fish Commission into, and the increase in the waters pf the United States of food-fishes and other used products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shell fish, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars. For general and miscellaneous expenses incurred during the fiscalGeneral and miscellaneous expenses. year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in connection with the„propagation and distribution of food-fishes and maintenance of vessels, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
Maintenance of Vessels: For the maintenance of the vesselsMaintenance of vessels, etc. and steam-launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, and machinery required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, ten thousand dollars. PUBLIC BUILDINGS.Public Buildings. Treasury Building, Washington, District of ColumbiaTreasury, District of Columbia.Repairs.: For plumbing, painting, plastering, carpentering, and general repairs to the Treasury and Winder Buildings, three thousand dollars.
To complete the work of replacing the disintegrated slate roof of the Treasury Building with a copper roof, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. 36 Fort Smith, Ark., jail.For United States Jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas: For necessary repairs to the old Courthouse in order that the same may be fitted up for jail purposes, five thousand dollars. Court-house, etc.For Courthouse and Post-Office at Fort Smith, Arkansas: To finish the three fireproof vaults, and place fireproof doors for same, furnishing ash-pit doors, iron grating in opening of inspector’s lookout in the post-office, and for the improvement of the approaches, one thousand dollars.
Leavenworth, Kans.For Courthouse and Post-Office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For completion of building and payment of outstanding liabilities, seven thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-two cents. Manchester, N. H.For Courthouse and Post-office at Manchester, New Hampshire: For finishing the second-story of the building in white oak instead of the white pine ca.led for by the contract under which the building is being finished, five thousand dollars. Oshkosh, Wis.For Courthouse and Post-office at Oshkosh, Wisconsin:
For furnishing and placing four vault doors, eight hundred dollars. Ottumwa, Iowa.For Post-Office at Ottumwa, Iowa: For approaches, two thousand five hundred dollars. San Antonio, Tex.For Courthouse and Post-Office at San Antonio, Texas: For completion of building including heating apparatus, ten thousand dollars. San Francisco, Cal.For Post-Office and Courthouse at San Francisco, California: For purchase of site under present limit, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. INTERNAL REVENUE.Internal revenue.
Salaries of agents, etc.For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and miscellaneous expenses, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.Light-house establishment. Keeper’ salaries, etc.For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred light-house and fog-signal keepers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, TREASURY.Miscellaneous.
Contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: For rent of additional room required by the Bureau of Statistics for months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety, at sixty dollars per month, one hundred and eighty dollars. Sixth Auditor.Rent.Sixth Auditor: For rental of a suitable building to meet the requirements of the office of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury for the remainder of the current fiscal year, five hundred dollars. Collecting customs levenue.Collecting Revenue from Customs:
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. 37 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Police Court: For books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, and otherPolice court. necessary items, six hundred dollars. For witness fees, one thousand dollars.Witnesses. Deficiency in Sale of Bonds Retained from Contractors:Contractors’ ten per cent.
To supply the deficiency in the amount realized from the sale of bonds in which the ten per centum retained from contractors was invested, three thousand five hundred dollars. Militia of District of Columbia: For rent, fuel, light, andMilitia.Rent, etc. care of armories and storerooms, five thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars. For lockers, gun-racks, and furniture for armories, printing, parades,Current expenses. and other current expenses, eight hundred dollars. For cost of annual encampment, for clearing grounds, lumber,Annual encamp, ment. transportation, camp-supplies, subsistence, horses, band, and drum corps, six thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-one cents: in all, twelve thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents.
Public Schools: To pay the salaries of janitors of new schoolPublic schools.Janitors. buildings, including one thousand and thirty-three dollars and twenty cents on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty cents. Payment of Judgments: For the payment of judgments againstPayment of judgments, etc. the District of Columbia, as follows: To Clinton H. Emerson, five thousand dollars together with sixty-sixClinton H, Emerson. dollars and five cents costs;
To Lawrence E. Gannon, five thousand dollars together with forty-fiveLawrence E. Gannon. dollars and forty cents costs; To George W. Armor, one thousand dollars together with thirty-nineGeorge W. Armor. dollars and seventy cents costs; To Abner T. H. Gooding, one hundred dollars together with thirtyAbner T. H. Gooding. dollars costs; To the United States ex relatione James Pilling, twenty-oneJames Pilling. dollars costs; To Hannah Henderson, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollarsHannah Henderson. together with sixty-five dollars and ninety-five cents costs:
To Lewis Johnson and Company, four hundred and seventy-fiveLewis Johnson & Co. dollars and seventy-six cents together with thirty-five dollars and forty-five cents costs; To Samuel B. Wilson, seven dollars and sixty-three cents;Samuel B. Wilson.Walter Hawks. To Walter Hawks, five hundred dollars together with thirty-three dollars and forty-five cents costs: In the case of the District of Columbia versus McBlair, one thousandIn District of Columbia to, McBlair. eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents; in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-nine cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments as provided by law from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
For amount required to pay the interest as provided by law, onInterest on prior judgments. certain judgments heretofore appropriated for. from the day of expiration of right of appeal to the date on which the judgments were paid, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents. For printing and publishing list of overdue taxes on real estate with notice of sale in pamphlet form, and for printing and publishing other notices and advertisements required in and about the sale of such real estateTax lists, etc. for such overdue taxes, to be reimbursed by the charge of twenty cents for each lot so advertised, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
That one half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies in theTo be paid from District revenues and Treasury. appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, shall be paid 38 from the revenue of the District of Columbia, and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. territorial governments.Territorial. Utah.Industrial Christian Home.Industrial Home in Utah Territory: To aid the Industrial Christian Home Association, Utah Territory, in carrying on the work of said association, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. War maps.Chickamauga.War Maps: For completing, printing, and binding one thousand five hundred maps of the battlefield of Chickamauga, two thousand five hundred dollars. Secretary’s office.Salary of Assistant Secretary.*Ante*, p. 17.Office of the Secretary: To pay the salary of an Assistant Secretary of War, provided by the act of March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the months of April, May, and June, current fiscal year, at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Record and Pension Division.Two firemen.Record and Pension Division: For two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each from March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred and eighty dollars; Skilled mechanic.For one skilled mechanic, at one thousand dollars, from March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents; in all eight hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents.
Stationery for Department. etc.Stationery: For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus (except Signal Office), five thousand dollars. Artificial limbs, etc.Artificial Limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, sixty thousand dollars. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military establishment. quartermaster’s department.Quartermast er’s Department. Post bakeries, schools, etc., may be furnished, etc., from the regular Army supplies for 1890.That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, authorize from the appropriation for regular supplies of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety expenditures for the necessary equipments of the bake-house to carry on post bakeries; also the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipments of the post-schools; the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess-halls, garden utensils, agricultural implements, and seeds for post gardens, each and all for use of the enlisted men of the Army. engineer department.Engineer Department.
Pier in Delaware Bay.Constructing Pier in Delaware Bay, Near Lewes, Delaware: For repairs, ten thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service. Contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses: For improving the water closets, enlarging the beating facilities, increasing the drainage, painting the roofs, and making such other absolutely pressing repairs required to preserve the main and annex buildings of the Signal Service, situated on the corner of Twenty-fourth and M streets northwest.
Washington, District of Columbia, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Storm reports.Military telegraph Unes.Observation and Report of Storms: For maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, as follows: For completing and maintaining the connection between the United States military tele- 39graph lines at Fort Point and Point Reyes, by way of Tiburon, California, to include the rental of a core of the Western Union’s cable across the “Golden Gate” at fifty dollars per month, and the construction of twelve miles of land line at one hundred and twenty dollars per mile, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Disabled volunteer soldiers. National Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: For theSupport of National Home. support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers as follows: At the Southern Branch at Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence,Hampton, Va.Subsistence.Vol. 25, p. 973. including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil act for eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty cents.
For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold.Vol. 25, p. 973. head in the sundry civil act for eighteen hundred and ninety, and including water supply, gasoline, and coal, twelve thousand dollars. For transportation, one thousand dollars.Transportation.Leavenworth, Kans.Household.Vol. 25. p. 973, At the Western Branch At Leavenworth, Kansas: For household, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil act for eighteen and ninety, and including coal, gas, and water supply, six thousand dollars.
For aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabledState and Territorial homes.Support of.Vol. 25, p. 450. Volunteer Soldiers in conformity with the act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty-four thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars and thirty-nine cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Printing and Binding: For printing and binding for the NavyPrinting and binding.
Department and its several bureaus and offices, fifteen thousand dollars. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval establishment. Coaling Station, Samoa: That the expenses incurred in theCoaling station at Pago Pago, Tutuila, Samoa. purchases, shipment, and discharge of coal tor the naval station at Pago Pago, Island of Tutuila, Samoa, amounting to the sum of thirty-six thousand and forty-one dollars and eighty-seven cents, shall be paid from the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of permanently establishing a station for coal and other supplies for the naval and commercial marine of the United States made by the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.Vol. 25, p. 814.
Naval Training Station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, RhodeNaval Training Station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, R. I.Typhoid fever on “New Hampshire.” Island: To meet extra expenditures on account of the breaking out of typhoid fever on the “New Hampshire,” and the transfer of her crew and apprentices to quarters on shore, six thousand dollars. Bureau of Construction and Repair: For boats, blocks, furniture,Bureau of construction and Repair.Stores, etc., for new cruisers. and cooperage, and for purchase of stores for the new cruisers San Francisco and Philadelphia and the new gunboats Concord and Bennington, fifty thousand dollars.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. Official Gazette, Patent Office: For photographing or otherwisePatent Office.Official Gazette. producing plat es for the Official Gazette, fifteen thousand dollars. Photolithographing,Photolithographing, etc. Patent Office: For photolithographing or otherwise producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of 40 patents, for producing copies of designs, trade marks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies, fifteen thousand dollars. public lands service.Public lands service.
Contingent expenses laud offices.Contingent Expenses of Land Offices: For clerk-hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Timber depredations.Depredations on Public Timber: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on public lands, seventeen thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifteen cents. Protecting public lauds.Protecting Public Lands: For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Surveys, etc.Surveying the Public Lands: For the examination of surveys in the field to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, ten thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Feeble-minded children in District of Columbia.Feeble-Minded Children of District of Columbia: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the education of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, five hundred To be paid from District revenues and the Treasury.dollars, one-half of this sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
Hot Springs, Ark.Improvement of, etc.Protection and Improvement of Hot Springs, Arkansas: For completing improvement of free bathhouse and bathing-pools, three thousand two hundred dollars. indian affairs.Indian affairs. Purchase of Indian Supplies, etc.Telegraphing and Purchase of Indian Supplies: To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, including rent of warehouses and pay of necessary employees; advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, five thousand dollars.
Turtle Mountain band of Chippewas.Devil s Lake Agency.*Ante*, p. 15.Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians: That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use the sum of five thousand dollars of the amount appropriated by the act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the relief of the Sioux Indians at Devil’s Lake Agency, for the purchase of Subsistence and clothing.subsistence and clothing and other necessary articles to relieve the wants of the Chippewas of the Turtle Mountain band under the charge of the Devil’s Lake Agency. army and navy pensions.Army and Navy pensions.
Invalids, etc., pensions.For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives; survivors, and widows of the wars of eighteen hundred and twelve and with Mexico, twenty one million five hundred and ninetveight thousand eight hundred *Provisos*.Navy pensions.and thirty-four dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may Tie sufficient for that purpose:
Separate itemized account.*Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately: *And provided further*, That Commissioner of Pensions in annual reports to classify pensioners of each war, etc.hereafter the Commissioner of Pensions shall, so far as may be practicable, in his annual reports state the amount paid for pensions during the fiscal year for which the report is made, in such manner as will indicate, separately, the number of pensioners and the aggre- 41gate payments for pensions on account of each of the wars for which pension’s have been authorized, and on account of military and naval services since the close of the late war.
For clerk hire and expenses of the several pension agencies, asPension agencies. follows: For clerk hire, seven thousand two hundred dollars;Clerk hire.Roll-books For making new roll-books, six thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. judicial.Judicial. District Judges: To pay the Salaries of the district judges forDistrict judges’ salaries.North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington. the States of North Dakota.’South Dakota, Montana, and Washington from the date each qualifies to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary, to be paid as the salaries of other United States district judges are paid.
District Attorneys: To pay the salary of the district attorneyDistrict attorneys’ salaries.Indian Territory. for the Indian Territory from April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the date of his qualification, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and fifty dollars. To pay the salaries of the district attorneys for the States of NorthNorth and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington. Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington from the date each qualifies to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary.
District Marshals: To pay the salary of the district marshal forDistrict marshals.Indian Territory. the Indian Territory from April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the date of his qualification, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and fifty dollars. To pay the salaries of the district marshals for the States of NorthNorth and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington. Dakota, South Dakota. Montana, and Washington from the date each qualifies to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary. united states courts.United States courts For fees of witnesses, two hundred thousand dollars.Fees of witnesses.John Carroll.Credit In accounts of.
Support of Prisoners: The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of John Carroll, late marshal of the United States for the Western district of Arkansas, for two thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty five cents, the amount paid by him, as directed by the Attorney-General under dates of November twenty-eighth and December sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for cots, mattresses, blankets, and so forth, for use in the jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas, out of the appropriation for support of prisoners for theVol. 24, p. 541.No payment from Treasury. fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the same not to involve the payment of any money from the Treasury.
That the United States jail recently constructed at Fort Smith,Jail, etc., at Fort Smith, Ark. Arkansas, and the grounds adjacent thereto and within the walls of the old military fort, including thirty feet around the walls now reserved and owned by the United States, together with such buildings as stand thereon, are hereby placed under the care and custody of the United States marshal for the western district of Arkansas;Under care, etc., of United States marshal. and the Attorney-General of the United States shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the Government of such jail andRules, etc. the care of said grounds, and the marshal having charge thereof shall cause them to be duly and faithfully executed and obeyed. 42 department of agriculture.Department of Agriculture.
Furniture, cases, and repairs.Furniture, Cases, and Repairs: For repairing buildings, heating apparatus, furniture, carpeting, matting, water and gas pipes, new furniture, and all necessary material and labor for the same, including lumber, hardware, glass, and paints, two thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses: For stationery, freight, express charges, fuel, lights, subsistence and care of horses, repairs of harness, for paper, twine, and gum for folding-room, advertising, telegraphing, dry-goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, purchasing supplies, washing towels, actual traveling expenses while on the business of the Department, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for. and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, five thousand dollars.
Experimental stations.Experimental Stations: To provide for the expenses of agricultural experiment stations organized during the current fiscal year Arizona, Nw Mexico, and Utah.Vol. 24, p. 440.in the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, under the act of March second eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirty thousand dollars. Rhode Island.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the State of Rhode Island the sum which said State would have been entitled to receive Vol. 23, p. 32.under the provisions of an act entitled “An act making an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eightvseven,” and so forth, approved February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, if the agricultural experiment station in said state had been organized within the time Vol. 24, p. 440.required by said act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fifteen thousand dollars.
Location for artesian wells.Preliminary investigation.Location For Artesian Wells: To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make such preliminary investigation of an engineering and other character as will, so far as practicable, determine the proper location for artesian wells for irrigation purposes within the area west of the ninety-seventh meridian and east of the foothills Report.of the Rocky Mountains, twenty thousand dollars; and a report of all operations and expenditures hereunder shall be made to Congress immediately after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety: *Proviso*.Expenditures limited.Provided, That no part of said amount shall be expended in sinking wells or the construction of irrigation works, and the work done under this appropriation shall be completed and a report of the same Government not committed to any plan.made within the appropriation, and nothing herein shall commit the Government, to any plan of irrigation or the construction of works therefor.
SENATESenate. Salaries and mileage.Salaries of officers, clerks, etc.For salaries and mileage of Senators, seventeen thousand dollars. For salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, nine thousand dollars. Stationery and newspapers.Horses and wagons.For stationery and newspapers, six hundred dollars. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail-wagons, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel, etc.For fuel, oil, and cotton-waste, and advertising for heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, two thousand live hundred dollars.
Furniture.Folding speeches, etc.For purchase of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, nine thousand dollars. Packing boxes.Miscellaneous items.For packing boxes, one hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, thirty thousand dollars. Investigations, etc.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, thirty thousand dollars. 43 For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eight thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the expenses of theImmigration investigation. investigation concerning immigration ordered by concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, dated March twelfth, eighteenConcurrent resolution, March 12, 1890.*Post*, p. 530.Vouchers. hundred and ninety, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration and the chairman of House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESHouse of Representatives. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, one thousand five hundredFuel, etc. and ninety-two dollars and forty eight cents. For packing boxes, live hundred and eighty-two dollars.Packing boxes.Stationery.Miscellaneous items. For stationery, one thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, twenty thousand dollars. For plastering and finishing committee rooms on the House side ofFinishing committee rooms. the Capitol Terrace, including Steam heating of said rooms, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. To supply in part and up to April first, eighteen hundred andPrinting, binding, engraving, etc. ninety, a deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including salaries or compensationSalaries. of all necessary clerks or employees for labor (by the day, piece, or contract.) and for all the necessary materials which may be neededMaterials. in the prosecution of the work for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the Department of Agriculture, sevenAgricultural Department thousand dollars. To enable the Public Printer to continue the operations under jointStorage, etc. resolution approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for removal and storage of certain property of the Government mentioned therein, four thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That for payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two andPay arrearages of two and three year volunteers. three year volunteers, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, as set forth in House executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, two hundred and eighty-four thousand and ninety dollars and twenty five cents, and for the payment of such amounts additional thereto as mayAdditional amounts be certified to be due by said accounting officers on this account during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widowsBounty to volunteers, etc. and legal heirs, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, as set forth in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four. Fifty-first. Congress, first session, two hundred and forty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and eleven cents, and for the payment of such amounts additionalAdditional amounts. thereto as may be certified to be due by said accounting officers on this account during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
For payment of amounts for bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth,Additional bounty.Vol. 14, pp. 322, 323. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, certified to be due by the ac- 44FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 63, 64. 1890. counting officers of the Treasury, as set forth in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four. Fifty-first Congress. first, session, thirty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-seven cents, and for the payment of such Additional amounts.amounts additional thereto as may be certified to be due by said accounting officers on this account during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
Commutation of rations to prisoners of wars etc.For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, as set forth in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, thirty one thousand and twenty-three Additional amounts.dollars and eleven cents, and for the payment of such amounts additional thereto as may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on this account during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, so much therefor as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
Horse claims, etc.For payment of amounts for horses and other property lost in the military service by officers and enlisted men during the late war, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury as set forth in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-first Congress, first session, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and six dollars and fifty-one cents. Approved, April 4, 1890.