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CHAP. 837.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes.August 30, 1890. *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-one, namely:

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury department. public buildings.Public buildings. For post-office at Alexandria, Louisiana: For purchase of site andAlexandria, La. commencement of building, twenty thousand dollars. For post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: For purchase of siteAllegheny, Pa. and commencement of building under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Ashland, Wisconsin: For purchase of site andAshland, Wis. commencement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.

For post-office at Atchison, Kansas: For purchase of site and commencementAtchison, Kans. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office at Aurora, Illinois: For purchase of site and commencementAurora, Ill. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Baltimore, Maryland: For completionBaltimore, Md. of building and approaches, twenty thousand dollars. For post-office at Baton Rouge, Louisiana: For purchase of siteBaton Rouge, La and commencement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. 372FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For post-office at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania: For purchase ofBeaver Falls, Pa. site and commencement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. For post-office at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For completion ofBridgeport, Conn. building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For customhouse, courthouse, and post-office at New Haven, Connecticut:New Haven, Conn. For purchase of additional land for same, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For post-office at Burlington, Iowa: For purchase of site and commencementBurlington, Iowa. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office at Canton, Ohio: For purchase of site and commencementCanton, Ohio of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For customhouse at Cairo, Illinois: For elevator, including power boiler and construction of shaft, elevator to run from basementCairo, Ill. to fourth floor, ten thousand dollars. For post-office at Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

For purchase of site andCedar Rapids, Iowa commencement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office at Chester, Pennsylvania: For purchase of site andChester, Pa. commencement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For customhouse and sub-treasury at Chicago, Illinois: For necessaryChicago, Ill. repairs, forty-five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For completion of approachesChicago, Ill. and breakwater, fifteen thousand dollars.

For customhouse wharf at Charleston, South Carolina: For completion,Charleston, S. C. ten thousand dollars. For Ellis Island, New York: For improvements upon the island for theEllis Island, N. V. business of the immigration service, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Fort Worth, Texas; For purchase of site and commencementFort Worth, Tex. of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For United States Government office building at Fremont, Nebraska: For purchase ofFremont, Nebr. site and commencement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For post-office at Galesburg, Illinois: For purchaseGalesburg, Ill. of site and commencement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at Houlton, Maine:Houlton, Me. For purchase of site and commencement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Keokuk, Iowa: For additions to tower andKeokuk, Iowa. for fence along line of the alley in rear of the building, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For post office at Lafayette, Indiana: For purchase of site and commencementLafayette, Ind. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Lynn, Massachusetts: For purchase of site andLynn, Mass. commencement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky; For heating apparatus,Louisville, Ky. approaches, and elevators, complete, ninety-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Martinsburgh, West Virginia:Martinsburgh, W.

Va. For purchase of site and commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office, courthouse, and customhouse at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered to pay into the United States circuit court for the eastern Payment condemnation awards for site.district of Wisconsin, for distribution in payment of the awards FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.373 hitherto made and confirmed upon the condemnation of a site for the erection of a post-office, courthouse, and customhouse in the city of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to chapter ninety-one of the laws of the United States, approved January twenty-first,Vol. 25, p. 652. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, so much of the sum appropriated by said chapter for the purchase of a site as shall be necessary to pay all of said awards, upon proof that all the awards, other than thatProof of acquiescence, etc.Esther E.

B. Crampton excepted. in favor of Esther E. B. Crampton, are acquiesced in and remain unappealed from, and upon the presentation to and acceptance by him of a bond, in such amount, and with such sureties, and in suchBond and condition of limitation. form as he may approve, conditioned that if hereafter the amount awarded said Crampton on the trial in the said United States circuit court, on appeal from the award of commissioners, shall be so increased as that the cost of the entire site shall thereby be made to exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, the obligors will pay into said court so much of said award as shall keep the total cost of said site, with the expenses of acquiring the same, within the limit fixed by said chapter ninety-one, and the limit of cost fixed by said chapter for the erection of said building is hereby increased four hundred thousand dollars.

For public building at New London, Connecticut: For purchase of site and commencement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For electric building and electric-light plant, three thousand dollars. For post-office, courthouse, and customhouse at New Berne, North Carolina: For purchase of site and commencement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Paris, Texas:

For purchase of site and commencement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Peoria, Illinois: For elevator ten thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For completion of building under present limit, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars. For customhouse at Rockland, Maine: For improvement of grounds, three thousand dollars For old customhouse at Saint Louis, Missouri: For heating apparatus, elevators, and completion of the work of enlarging and repairing the building, forty thousand dollars For post-office at Salina, Kansas:

For purchase of site and commencement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at San Francisco, California: For new ward building, ten thousand dollars. For post-office at Saint Joseph, Missouri: For completion of building and to furnish and put in place a clock in the tower of said building, three thousand six hundred dollars. For post-office at Scranton, Pennsylvania: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.

For office of Supervising Architect: For constructing a one-story building in the south court of the Treasury building of non-inflammable materials for the engineering and draughting division of the office of the Supervising Architect, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Syracuse, New York: For vaults under sidewalk and for necessary repairs and alteration of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and court house at Wichita, Kansas:

For completionWichita, Kans. of building, including heating apparatus and an elevator, eight thousand dollars. Limit of cost of building increased. New London, Conn. New Orleans, La. New Berne, N. C. Paris, Tex. Peoria, Ill. Pittsburgh, Pa. Rockland, Me. St. Louis, Mo. Salina, Kans. San Francisco, Cal. St. Joseph, Mo. Scranton, Pa. Washington, D. C. Treasury building. Office Supervising Architect. Syracuse, N. Y. 374FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For courthouse and post-office at Winona, Minnesota:

For completionWinona, Minn. of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For post-office at York, Pennsylvania: For purchase of site andYork, Pa. commencement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Jackson, Michigan: For additional appropriationJackson, Mich. to complete the Government building for post-office at that city, thirty-five thousand dollars. Building for Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For the erectionWashington, D.

C.Bureau Engraving and Printing. and completion of a wing it the west end of the building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including heating and ventilation, at a cost not exceeding eighty thousand dollars, the work to be performed under the direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, eighty thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForWashington, D. C.Treasury and Winder building: repairs. repairs to Treasury Building and Winder Building, eight thousand dollars.

For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs andRepairs and preservation. preservation of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, marine hospitals, and other public buildings under control of Treasury department, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and hereafter the Annual Report.Secretary of the Treasury shall annually report to Congress in the Book of estimates a statement of the expenditure of the appropriation for “repairs and preservation of public buildings” which shall show the amount expended on each public building and the number of persons employed and paid salaries from such appropriation. lighthouses, beacons, and fog-signals.Lighthouses, beacons, and fog-signals.

Lubec Narrows Light-Station, Maine: For additional amount forLubec Narrows, Me. completion of the light-house and fog-signal at Lubec Narrows, Maine, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. Cornfield Point Light-vessel, Connecticut: For construction andCornfield Point, Conn. establishment of a light-vessel with a steam fog-signal for the Cornfield Point Station, Long Island Sound, seventy thousand dollars. Statue of Liberty Light-Station, New York: For completing theStatue of Liberty, Bedloe’s Island, N.Y. electric-light plant for lighting the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World on Bedloe’s Island, in addition to the amount appropriatedVol. 24, p. 516. by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: and all balances of funds appropriated by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for lighting the Statue of Liberty in New Unexpended balances available.York Harbor, which may remain unexpended be, and the same are hereby, made available for completing the plant for lighting the station.

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, twenty-five thousand dollars. Light-Keeper’s Dwelling, Electric Buoy Station, New Jersey: ForElectric buoy station, Sandy Hook, N. J. erection of a dwelling for the keepers of the electric buoy station at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, three thousand five hundred dollars. Sandy Hook Light-Station, New Jersey:

For the erection of a newRandy Hook, N. J. fog-signal house, for removal of part of the old machinery, and for replacing what is needful at Sandy Hook Light-Station, New Jersey, eight thousand dollars. Elm Tree Light-Station, New York: For moving the Elm TreeElm Tree, Swash Channel, N. Y. light and placing it in range with the New Dorp light to make a Range Light.Fenwick’s Island Shoal, Md.range to guide through the Swash Channel, three thousand dollars. Fenwick’s Island Shoal Light-Vessel, Maryland:

For construction and establishment of a first-class light-vessel with a steam fog-signal FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.375 for Fenwick’s Island Shoal, seacoast of Maryland, seventy thousand dollars. Maryland Point Light-Station, Maryland: For establishment of aMaryland Point, Md. light house and fog-signal at or near Maryland Point, Potomac River, fifty thousand dollars. Chincoteague Buoy-Depot, Virginia: For purchase of additionalChincoteague Buoy, Va. land for site, and for repairs to the buoy-depot at Chincoteague Island, one thousand dollars.

Cape Charles Light-Station, Virginia: For establishing on a newCape Charles, Va. and secure site the Cape Charles Light-Station, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Frying Pan Shoals Light-Vessel, North Carolina: For constructionFrying Pan Shoals, N.C. and establishment of a lightship with a fog-signal for Frying Pan Shoals, coast of North Carolina, seventy thousand dollars. Hilton Head Range-Beacons, South Carolina: For purchase ofHilton Head, S. C.Range-beacons. additional land for the purpose of shifting the range-beacons at Hilton Head, entrance to Port Royal Harbor, South Carolina, one thousand dollars.

Martin’s Industry Light-Vessel, South Carolina: For constructionMartin’s Industry, S. C. and establishment of a light-vessel with a fog-signal for Martin’s Industry, coast of South Carolina, seventy thousand dollars. Cape Canaveral Light-Station, Florida: For removing the CapeCape Canaveral, Fla. Canaveral Light-Station to a more secure site, and for the purchase of the necessary land in case there is no public land available for the purpose, eighty thousand dollars. Cape San Blas Light-Station, Florida:

For re-establishment of theCape San Blas, Fla. San Blas Light-Station, Florida, on another and safer site, twenty thousand dollars. Eleven-Foot Shoal Light-Station, Michigan: For establishing aPoint Peninsula, Eleven-Foot Shoal, Mich. light-station on or near Eleven-Foot Shoal, off Point Peninsula, sixty thousand dollars. Sherwood Point, Green Bay, Light-Station, Wisconsin: For purchaseSherwood Point, Green Bay, Wis. of the necessary land upon which to build a suitable approach to the Sherwood Point, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Light-Station, one hundred dollars.

Chicago Breakwater Light-Station, Illinois: For completing theChicago breakwater, m. light-house and fog-signal on the easterly end of the outer breakwater at Chicago, Lake Michigan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Point Hueneme Light-Station, California: For purchase of a rightPoint Hueneme, Cal. of way from the light-station to the county road, two hundred and fifty dollars. Columbia River lightship, Oregon: For an additional amountColumbia River, Oreg. for establishing a lightship with steam-fog-signal to mark the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, ten thousand dollars.

Destruction Island Light-Station, Washington: For completingDestruction Island, Wash. the light-house and fog-signal at Destruction Island, Washington, ten thousand dollars. Oil-houses for light-stations: For establishing isolated oil-housesOil-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 dollars in cost. Tender for the First Light-House District:

For building a newTender for First light-house district. steam-tender for service in the First Light-House District, ninety-five thousand dollars. Tender for the Ninth and Eleventh Light-House Districts: ForTender for Ninth and Eleventh light-house districts. steam-tender to be used in the construction and repair of light and fog-signal stations on Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, seventy-five thousand dollars. Tender for the Thirteenth Light-House District: For new steam-tenderTender for Thirteenth light-house district. for construction and repair duty in the Thirteenth Light-House District, ninety-five thousand dollars. 376FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. life-saving service.Life-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 LIFESAVING 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 LIFESAVING and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the LIFESAVING and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the LIFESAVING and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the LIFESAVING and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the LIFESAVING and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars.

For salaries of two hundred and forty-seven keepers of life-savingKeepers. and lifeboat-stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the LIFESAVING and life-boatCrews.Miscellaneous expenses. stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for Vol. 22, p. 57.carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draught animals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of LIFESAVING stations on the coasts of the United States, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For establishing new LIFESAVING stations and lifeboat stations onNew stations. the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.377 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: ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the 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 anchorageVol. 25, p. 151. 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. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.

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 seventy thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.Notes of large denomination.Wages. 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 Secretary 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 twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this*Proviso*.Large notes. sum 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 seventy-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. light-house establishment.Light-house establishment. Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying lighthouses, beacon-lights,Supplies. and fog-signals with illuminating cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Repairs of lighthouses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. lighthouses and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pier-head 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 thousand dollars. Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries, fuel,Keepers’ salaries, etc. rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred and fifty lighthouses and fog-signal keepers, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 378FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of lightships, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and thirty-five 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, sixty-five thousand dollars.

Inspecting lights: For mileage or traveling expenses of membersInspection. of the Light-House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage light-house property, three thousand dollars. Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting of rivers. post-lights on the Hudson and East Rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey;

Connecticut River, Connecticut; the Elk River, Maryland; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia: Saint John’s and Indian Rivers, Florida; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha Rivers: on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oregon; Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California; and on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent ‘waters, Washington; 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 thousand dollars.

Survey of light-house 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. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of*Proviso*. 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 observation 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 oilier work relating to terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the fieldwork in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of 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*, That no Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific. and Alaska coasts, etc.

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.379 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 on the Saint Croix River, and to the International boundary monument, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For resurveys: For triangulation, topography, and hydrography in the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Nantucket Shoals and approaches, and including Vineyard Sound, offshore soundings in vicinity of Nausett Beach, Massachusetts, and Connecticut River to Hartford, Connecticut, and Hudson River to Troy, New York, and for current observations off Cape Cod, ten thousand dollars. To continue to date corrections of former surveys of the Delaware River for use on a new large-scale chart of the same in the vicinity of Philadelphia and up the Delaware River to Trenton, one thousand dollars.

To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile, three thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Cape Sable north to Cape Romano, and for hydrography off the same coast, being all new work, five thousand dollars. For the triangulation, topography, and hydrography of Perdido Bay, and its connections with the coast triangulation and for resurvey of Mobile Bay entrance, and, if completed, to take up the survey of Lake Pontchartrain, four thousand dollars For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta, and between Barataria Bay and Sabine Pass, six thousand five hundred dollars.

To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, eight thousand dollars. For hydrography, coast of California, including San Francisco Bay and Harbor, and necessary triangulation and topography, nine thousand dollars. For continuing the topographic survey of the coast of California, including necessary triangulation and astronomical work in connection therewith, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the primary triangulation of California and for connecting the same at Mount Conness with the transcontinental arc, thirteen thousand dollars.

For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including offshore hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette toward the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the survey or the coast of Washington, eight 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, six thousand dollars. For examination into reported dangers on the Eastern Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five hundred dollars. To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf slopes, seven hundred dollars. For continuing magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, and at San Antonio Magnetic Observatory, one thousand five hundred dollars. 380FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For continuing the line of exact levels from the vicinity of Jefferson City, Missouri, westward, and eastward from the vicinity of Memphis, four thousand dollars. For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, or at such other points as may be necessary, at Kadiak, in Alaska, and at Saucelito, San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and at Savannah, Georgia, two thousand one hundred dollars.

To continue gravity experiments, at a cost not exceeding five hundred dollars per station, except for special investigations and experiments authorized by the Superintendent at one or more stations, 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, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For determinations of geographical positions (longitude parties), three thousand dollars.

For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, twenty thousand dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, 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, or so much thereof as may be necessary, four hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, or so much thereof as may be necessary, five hundred and fifty *Proviso*.Payment.dollars: *Provided*, That such contribution and expenses of 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-six thousand eight hundred dollars. Alaska boundary survey: For expenses of carrying on a preliminaryAlaska boundary survey. survey of the frontier line between Alaska and British 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, fifteen 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 field officers; superintendent. Assistants. For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant three thousand six hundred dollars; For one assistant three thousand two hundred dollars;FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.381 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 thousand two hundred dollars;Pay of office force. 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 the 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 colorist, 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: For three, at two thousand dollars each; 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;382FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. 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 watchman, 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: *Proviso*.Change in grade, etc.*Provided*, That in cases where by reason of change in grade or otherwise of the employees of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, by the provisions of this act, a new appointment or designation becomes Compensation.necessary, no additional oath of office shall be required, and compensation at the new rate shall begin with the date of approval of this act.

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, printers 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, fifteen thousand five hundred 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, tour thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office buildings:

For rent of buildings for offices,Rent. workrooms, and workshops in Washington, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of fireproof building number two hundred and three New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records, of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts, of instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars.

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 (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey; nor shall there hereafter be made any allowance for subsistence to officers of the Navy attached to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, except that when officers are detached to do work away from their vessels under circumstances involving them in extra expenditures, the superintendentExtra allowance. may allow to any such officer subsistence at a rate not exceeding one dollar per day for the period actually covered by such duty away from such vessel.

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.383 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, seventeen thousand dollars. North American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesNorth American etymology. among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars.

Repairs, Smithsonian Building: For fireproofing the so-calledRepairs. chapel of the west wing of the Smithsonian Building, and for repairing the roof of the main building and the ceiling and plastering of the main Hall of the building, twenty-five thousand dollars, said work to be done under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, with the approval of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and no portion of the appropriation to be used for skylights in the roof nor for well-hole in the floor of the main building under the secretary of the smithsonian institution as director of the national museum.National Museum.

Heating and lighting: For expense of heating, lighting, electrical,Heating, etc. telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. Preservation of collections of the National Museum:Preserving collections. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: ForFurniture, etc. cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty-five thousand dollars. Postage: For postage-stamps and foreign postal-cards for thePostage. National Museum, five hundred dollars. fish commission.Fish Commission. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: For compensationCommissioner. of the Commissioner, five thousand dollars.

Propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by 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 thousand dollars.

Distribution of food-fishes: For the distribution of the eggsDistribution of fish. and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad, carp, cod, lobster, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vesselsMaintenance of vessels. and steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with, the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.

Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For continuing the inquiryInvestigations. into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and 384 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interests of fish culture; for the study of the methods and relations of the fisheries, with a view to their improvement; for the exploration of the fishing-grounds of the South-Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources and to the development of the commercial fisheries, and for the preparation of reports relative to the inquiry, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of scientific assistants, fishery experts, and other necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars.

Statistical inquiry: For the 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 relative 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.

Indigenous Fishes of the Mississippi Valley: For the collectionIndigenous fishes of Mississippi Valley. and distribution of the indigenous fishes of the Mississippi Valley, fifteen thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery in Colorado: For the completion and equipmentFish-hatchery in Colorado. of the Government trout breeding and distributing station m Lake County, Colorado, authorized by the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery at Craig’s Brook and Green Lake, Maine:Fish-hatchery in Maine.

For the erection of buildings to be used by the Fish Commission in the prosecution of its work at Craig’s Brook and Green Lake, Maine, for establishing ponds and all other work and materials needed for such stations, including pay of necessary employees, fourteen thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery at Northville, Michigan: For the purchaseFish-hatchery in Michigan. of the grounds and buildings located at Northville, Michigan, now occupied by the United States Fish Commission, under lease, as a fish-hatching station, twelve thousand dollars; for the purchase of additional grounds adjacent to those now occupied and used as such fish-hatching station, three thousand dollars; for the erection of new .buildings, to be used by said Fish Commission in the prosecution of the work at Northville aforesaid, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars.

INTERSTATE-COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of Secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures to enable the Commission toExpenses.Vol. 24, p. 386. give effect to, and execute the provisions of, the said “Act to regulate commerce,” one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars; in all, two hundred thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department.Treasury department: miscellaneous objects.Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc.

Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight, and salary of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, forty-five thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.385 Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: ForPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. 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, forty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as toReports. 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.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silverTransportation, silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasuries or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requestedFree of charge.*Proviso*.Deposits.Report. to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.

And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this 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 two 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 two 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, four thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinage of gold andRecoinage gold and silver coins. silver coins in the treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars.

Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,Distinctive paper, expenses. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, fifty thousand dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materialsSealing and separating securities. needed to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm-oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Destruction of securities. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand fivePay of witness. hundred and sixty-five dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper:Machine for canceling securities, etc. For one thirty-six inch paper cutting machine required for cutting distinctive paper used in printing United States securities, estimated, as per catalogue price, seven hundred dollars.

For extra knives for cutting machine and sharpening same; andRepairs, etc. leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton-waste and other necessary articles required for use in canceling redeemed United States silver and gold certificates and national bank currency, two hundred dollars. 386FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. Custody of dies, rolls and plates: For pay of custodians ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates, Engraving and Printing Bureau. dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities namely:

One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantAssistant custodians and janitors, public buildings. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent, a deficiency therein.

Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for publicInspector of furniture, etc., public buildings. buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture:

For furniture andFurniture and repairs, public buildings. repairs of furniture and carpets for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not.

Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, and water, public buildings. lights, water, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for electric-light wiring and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal service, for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, six hundred and eighty-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 Gas-governors, etc.of any gas-governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury *Proviso*.Rental, limited.and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid for such rental or use of such gas governor, gas purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby.

Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting,Heating, etc., public buildings. and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under control of the Limitation.Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred 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, fifty thousand dollars. Plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials,Plans for public buildings. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars.

Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For the expensesDetecting and punishing counterfeiting, etc. of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment dealers FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.387 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 reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceasedBurial of deceased pensioners.[R.

S. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/s4718/p919). pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and five thousand dollars for the necessary investigation of violations of section fifty-two hundred and nine of theNational bank embezzlement.[R. S. 5209, p. 1007](/us/rs/s5209/p1007). Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-nine 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, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying theLocal appraisers’ meetings. necessary expenses of local appraisers at quarterly meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, two thousand five hundred dollars. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws:

For the enforcementReturn of laborers imported under contract.Vol. 22, p. 214; vol. 23, 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, seventy-five thousand dollars. Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act: To preventEnforcement of exclusion of Chinese. unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, andVol. 25, p. 504. for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully within the United States, fifty thousand dollars.

Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaska seal fisheries.Salaries, etc., agents. agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. quarantine service.Quarantine service.

For the maintenance of 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 Quarantine Station (Sapelo Sound) Key West, Gulf Quarantine Station, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, fifty thousand dollars. For fumigating steamer, San Francisco quarantine, thirty thousandFumigating steamer, at San Francisco. dollars. For disinfecting machinery at Key West quarantine, ten thousandDisinfecting machinery at Key West. dollars. prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemic diseases.

The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case ofUnexpended balances of appropriations, etc., may be used. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera or yellow fever, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and re-appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act approved March second,Vol 25, p. 954. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same. 388FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in the Territories. Territory of New Mexico: For salary of an additional associateSalary additional associate justice, supreme court, N. Mex.*Ante*, p. 226. justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico, provided for by the act of July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Binding Manuscript Papers: For completing the restoration,Binding, etc., manuscripts. mounting, and binding of certain manuscript letters and papers of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and others, in the Department of State, relating to the early history of the United States, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Purchase of Portraits: For the purchase of the portraits ofPurchase of portraits. Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, painted by Dalton E. Marchant, *Post*, p. 682.at a price not exceeding one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each, two thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of Buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs, Interior Department and Pension.Freight elevator.

Interior Department and Pension Buildings, eight thousand dollars. For freight elevator in Pension Building, three thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc.House wing, call bells. thereof and for placing electric call bells in the Committee rooms of the House wing of the building, including wages of mechanics, laborers, and fresco painter, thirty-one thousand dollars. To enable the Architect of the “Capitol to increase the steam plantSenate wing, steam plant. of the Senate wing by removing five old, condemned boilers, and replacing them with boilers of five hundred horsepower capacity, of the same type as the new ones now in use, fifteen thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary.

To enable the Architect of the Capitol to rearrange west elevator,West elevator, rearrangement. dropping the same down to a level of the terrace rooms, including the cost of cutting through walls, three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, including pay of landscape architect, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, twenty thousand dollars.

Capitol terraces: For paving terrace and completing the interiorCapitol terraces. of rooms and corridors, including steam heating, and for the payment of amounts retained on contracts, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting Capitol and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamp lighters, gas-fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty four Payment for use of electric-light plants in House and Senate ‘Wings.thousand dollars.

And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to pay, out of any balances on hand heretofore appropriated for lighting the Capitol building, a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars per month for the use of the electric-light plants in the House and Senate wings, from the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-first Congress to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and said Architect is also authorized to pay for use of these plants at the same rate when used during the fiscal year FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.389 ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, which payments shall be allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. 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, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Contingent Expenses of Land Offices: For clerk-hire, rent,Contingent expenses, land offices. and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Expenses of Depositing Public Moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber: To meet the expenses ofTimber depredations. protecting 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 hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, thirty thousand dollars. Settlement of claims for swampland and swampland indemnity:Swamp-land claims.

For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under*Proviso*.Per diem, etc., for agents. this and the appropriations for “Depredation on public timber” and “Protecting public lands” while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.

Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing worn plats, etc. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing transcriptsTranscripts from, records. of records and plats, and paying therefor, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.Survey of public lands. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred andExpenses. twenty-five thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending*Provisos*.Preference to settled townships, etc. this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the act approved February twenty second,Vol. 25, p. 676.*Ante*, pp. 215, 222. eighteen 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: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of the General LandRates for heavily timbered, etc., lands.

Office may allow, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, 390FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, or 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 In Oregon and Washington.township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, in the States of Oregon and Washington, rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines.

Resurveys, etc.And of the sum hereby appropriated, not exceeding forty thousand dollars, may be expended for the examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent; and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States.

For survey and appraisement with a view to sale under sectionTown site survey, etc.[R. S., sec. 2881, p. 430](/us/rs/s2881/p430).Port Angeles, Wash. twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of land for town site purposes at Port Angeles, Washington, five *Proviso*.Actual settlers, etc.*Post*, p. 879.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any person who actually settled, prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety, upon any regulation lot fifty by one hundred and forty feet and any additional lot upon which substantial improvements have been made shall be entitled to prove up and purchase same at the appraised value per lot at any time before the day of sale by the Government.

For surveying a tract of land in township eight south, range nineMay’s Gulf, Ala. east, Huntsville meridian, Alabama, designated on the official plat of survey as a perpendicular bluff from three to five hundred feet high and about eight hundred yards wide, situate and running along either side of Little River through the township, and further desigated and known as May’s Gulf, three hundred dollars. For expenses attending the survey and examination of privateArizona private land claims. land claims in Arizona, including the compensation of clerks and translators and the expense of investigating claimed titles and boundaries, five thousand dollars.

For survey of confirmed private land claims in California at theCalifornia private land claims. rates prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to service, two thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land claims in New Mexico, atNew Mexico private land claims. rates prescribed by law, three thousand dollars. 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.

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;

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.391 For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one chemist, two thousand dollars; For one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For three geographers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one general assistant, three thousand dollars; For three topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all sixty- seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For General, Expenses of the Geological Survey: For theExpenses. Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely:

For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, fifteen thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be expended west of the one hundredth meridian; and so much of the act of October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expensesVol. 25, p. 527, modified. of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes,” as provides for theReservation of arid lands from entry, etc., repealed.Existing *bona fide* entries, validated. withdrawal of the public lands from entry, occupation and settlement, is hereby repealed, and all entries made or claims initiated in good faith and valid but for said act, shall be recognized and may be perfected in the same manner as if said law had not been enacted, except that reservoir sites heretofore located or selected shall remain segregatedReservoir sites to be reserved. and reserved from entry or settlement as provided by said act, until otherwise provided bylaw, and reservoir sites hereafter located or selected on public lands shall in like manner be reserved from the date of the location or selection thereof.

No person who shall after the passage of this act, enter upon anyAcquirement of title under land laws Limited to 320 acres. of the public lands with a view to occupation, entry or settlement under any of the land laws shall be permitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty acres in the aggregate, under*Post*, p. 391. all of said laws, but this limitation shall not operate to curtailExceptions to limitation. the right of any person who has heretofore made entry or settlement on the public lands, or whose occupation, entry or settlement, is validated by this act: *Provided*, That in all patents for*Proviso*.Land patent to expressly reserve right of way for ditches, etc. lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act west of the one hundredth meridian, it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described, a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.

For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological survey’s. one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontologic researches. States, forty thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology ofChemical and physical researches. the United States, seventeen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the geological survey,Illustrations. sixteen thousand dollars;

For the preparation of the report on the mineral resources of theMineral resources, report. United States, ten thousand dollars; For engraving the geological maps of the United States, forty-fiveEngraving geological maps. thousand dollars; For additional engraving of maps and expenses connected therewith,Additional maps, etc. twenty-five thousand dollars; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia,Rent. three thousand two hundred dollars; 392FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred dollars; Miscellaneous Objects.Miscellaneous. 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 four hundred thousand dollars.

For continuing the printing, engraving, and binding of the EleventhPrinting, etc. Census, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; to continue available until exhausted, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. supreme court reports.Supreme Court Reports. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the Reporter of DecisionsPayment for increased number for distribution. of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies of volumes one hundred and thirty-two to one hundred and thirty-seven, inclusive of the Supreme Court Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section Vol. 25, p. 661.two of the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nine hundred and twelve 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 twenty-six thousand 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 infirmary wing, with connections, thirty-six thousand dollars. For extension of kitchen, and furnishing the same, five thousand dollars. For completing changes in heating apparatus, including new chimney and boiler-house, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of additional farm land, ten thousand dollars.Additional farm land. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.

Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for theExpenses. Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus and for general repairs and improvements, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That deaf-mutes, not exceeding sixty in number, admitted*Provisos*. to this institution from the several States and Territories [R. S., sec. 4865, p. 942](/us/rs/s4865/p942).under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-five of the Revised FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.393 Statutes, shall have the expenses of their instruction in the collegiateIndigent inmates from States, etc., may have support and instruction paid. department paid from this appropriation, together with so much of the expense of their support when indigent and while in the Institution as may be authorized by the board of trustees, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and hereafter there shall not be admitted to said institution under section forty-eight hundred and[R.S., sec. 4865, p. 942](/us/rs/s4865/p942).Admissions from States limited. sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, nor shall there be maintained after such admission, at any one time from any State or Territory exceeding three deaf mutes while there are applications pending from deaf-mutes, citizens of States or Territories having less than three pupils in said institution: *Provided further*, That hereafter thereReport as to employees. shall be included in the annual Book of Estimates a statement showing the number of persons employed each year in this institution and the compensation paid to each.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the educationEducating feeble-minded children, D.C of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 21, pp. 273, 276.One-half expenses from District revenues. and eighty, three thousand four hundred dollars. One-half of this sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States, and hereafter the estimates for this expense shall each year be submitted in the annual estimates for the expenses of the government of the DistrictAnnual estimates of D.C. of Columbia. howard university.Howard University.

For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance, etc. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty thousand three hundred dollars. For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, four thousand dollars. For purchase of books for library, one thousand dollars.

For chemical apparatus, five hundred dollars. For improvement of grounds, one thousand dollars. For repairs of buildings, two thousand four hundred dollars. education in alaska.Education in Alaska. For the industrial and primary education of the children of school age in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, fifty thousand dollars. freedmen’s hospital and asylum.Freedmans’ Hospital and Asylum. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, DistrictExpenses, etc. of Columbia, as follows:

For subsistence, twenty-two thousand dollars; For salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fourteen thousand dollars. For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For erecting one frame building of four rooms, to provide for a class of patients not provided for in other institutions, to wit: those suffering with contagious diseases, such as measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and erysipelas, two thousand five hundred 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-four thousand and twenty-five dollars. 394FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenate. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill.

For shop K, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, ten thousand dollars. For completing storehouse K, fifteen thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and extension of the arsenal railway, seven thousand 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 protecting Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For replacing the present wooden upper or railway deck of bridgeRailway deck, and parts of spans. with iron, fifty thousand dollars, and for replacing parts of the east and west shore spans of the Rock Island bridge by stronger members of wrought iron, eighteen thousand two hundred and ten dollars; *Proviso*.Reimbursement of one-half from Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad Company.in all, sixty-eight thousand two hundred and ten dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall require of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company the reimbursement of one half of all the expenses incurred in said work as provided in their guaranty executed to the United States under the acts of Congress providing Sleepers and rails.for the construction of said bridge.

But the sleepers and rails are to be put down upon the bridge and kept in repair by the railroad company, without cost to the United States, as required by said guaranty. That the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars appropriated by theViaduct.Vol. 25, p. 963. sundry civil appropriation act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the construction of a viaduct from the south end of the wagon bridge between Rock Island and the city of Rock Island over the railroad tracks which adjoin the approach, to Re-appropriation to remain available.*Provisos*.No expenditure without execution of approved security bond.said bridge, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a bond with good and sufficient personal security shall have been executed to the United States and approved by the Secretary of War, securing the United States against all claims for damages rendered by any court of law or Court of Claims in favor of the adjacent property holders upon the erection of said viaduct and against, all expenses of every kind and nature incident to any Repeal of certain conditions.Vol. 25, p. 963.litigation that may arise: *Provided further*, That so much of the conditions attached to said appropriation in said sundry civil act as requires that the same shall not be available until all holders of property abutting on the same shall have executed release of all damages that might accrue to them by the construction and maintenance thereof, in such form as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and that the work shall not be commenced until the city of Rock ‘Island shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States one half of said appropriation towards reimbursing the United States for the expenditure be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

For the further development of the water-power pool at RockWater-power pool and Government dam. Island, as per plans and detailed estimates submitted in House Executive Document Numbered Three hundred and eighty-one, Fifty-first Congress, first session, one hundred and one thousand dollars, subject to all the provisions contained in the act of October FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.395 second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An act makingVol 25, p. 530. appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposes,” relating to the reconstruction of the Government dam at Rock Island Arsenal and the Moline Water Power Company.

Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield, Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings and machinery not Repairs, etc.used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. To commence the erection of a fireproof building for machineNew machine shop, etc. shop, finishing shops, and so forth, at the National Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, as provided for by the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred thousand*Ante*, p. 157. dollars.

Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: To lay four inch waterAugusta, Ga. main, with fire plugs and connections, over the post, three thousand dollars. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For grading aroundBenicia, Cal. reservoir, building road to reservoir, constructing close wooden fence and brick drains, and extending masonry upon embankment of reservoir, three thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For newFrankford, Pa. machinery, five thousand dollars.

For building new drain, one thousand dollars. Sandy Hook Proving-Ground, New Jersey: For cleaning,Sandy Hook proving-ground, N.J. grading, and building new roads, repairing old roads, and for general repairs, two thousand dollars. For building for office and ballistic instruments, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. Testing-machine Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materialWatertown, Mass. in caring for, preserving and operating the United States Testing-machine.testing-machine at Watertown Arsenal, ten thousand dollars.

Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For repairRepairs, etc. and alteration of smith-shop to carry off the gas and setting boilers on furnace to utilize the heat, and rearranging furnaces and hammers, five thousand five hundred dollars. For fitting up a chemical laboratory, procuring material, and employing a chemist, for making chemical analysis and investigation of qualities of materials tested, two thousand dollars. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For electric-lighting Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N.

Y.plant, four thousand four hundred dollars; For new water service system, five thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars; For new sewerage system, ten thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars; For drainage system, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars; For macadamized roads within the Arsenal grounds, ten thousand dollars; For one set of quarters for foreman of gun-shop, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

Repairs of arsenals: For repairs 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, fifty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around Washington.Buildings and grounds, Washington. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows:Improvement and care. For improvement of grounds north of Executive Mansion, one thousand dollars.396FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, five thousand dollars; and the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds may Temporary use of certain reservations for children’s playgrounds.authorize the temporary use of a portion of the Monument Grounds or grounds south of the Executive Mansion or other reservations, in the District of Columbia, fora children’s playground, under regulations to be prescribed by him.

For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeenReservation No. 17, etc.*Proviso*.Limitation. and site of old canal northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and 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, Temporary structures on reservations.twelve thousand dollars, and hereafter no temporary structure of any kind shall be erected upon any reservation, except when authorized by special act of Congress. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, eight thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, five thousand dollars.

That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall beConcrete, etc., pavements. made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of 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, twenty-fiveRepairs, refurnishing, fuel, etc. thousand dollars, to be expended by contractor otherwise, as the President may determine. For portrait, and frame for same, of Grover Cleveland, ex-President of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three-thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars.

Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lampposts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stables, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.397 watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen*Proviso*. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting,Maximum price per lamp. cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum: and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.

For introducing electric lamps and wires into the Executive MansionElectric lighting. and connecting the same by underground cable with the source of electricity, seven thousand seven hundred dollars; and the sum appropriated for the purchase of gas may be applied to the purchase of gas or electric light. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. Repair of water-pipes:

For repairing and extending water-pipes,Water-pipes, etc. purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsGovernment telegraph. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument.Care and maintenance. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; 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, two thousand six hundred dollars.

Building for the Library of Congress.Library Building. For continuing the construction of the building for the Library of Continuing construction.Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, eight hundred and fifty 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, six hundred and ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*, ‘that*Proviso*.Hospital, Columbus Barracks, Columbus, Ohio. the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to construct a Hospital at Columbus Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, at a cost not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, out of the appropriation for construction and repairs of hospitals heretofore made in the act approved*Ante*, p. 154.

June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. 398FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For completingYellowstone National Park.Completing, etc., roads, etc. the road from Upper Geyser Basin to and around Shoshone Lake; thence across the Continental Divide to Yellowstone Lake and River, and down the latter to the Grand Canyon; thence to Yancey’s, to intersect the road from Cook City to Mammoth Hot Springs; in completing the Gibbon and Madison Canyon roads; in improving and maintaining the old road from Lower Basin and Firehole to the Falls of the Yellowstone; in maintaining roads and bridges generally throughout the park, and in making some small *Proviso*.extensions to existing roads, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not less than fifty thousand dollars of this appropriation shall Work to be let lowest bidder, after advertisement.be expended for work to be let in sections, after advertisement, to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders therefor, to be executed under the supervision and inspection of an engineer officer of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War.

SIGNAL SERVICE.Signal service. observation and report of storms.Observation and report of storms. To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of theExpenses. meteorological observation and the report, by telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of the commerce and agriculture of the United States, as follows: For the manufacture, purchase, and repair and testing of meteorologicalInstruments, etc. instruments and instrument shelters, and other expenses in connection therewith, and the Secretary of War, as he may think proper, may cause to be issued such meteorological instruments (not exceeding one set valued at fifteen dollars to any one county) to voluntary unpaid observers, in order to secure meteorological data from such observers, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, eight thousand seven hundred dollars.

For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological informationTelegraphing. in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery,Contingent expenses outside of Washington. ice, stoves and fixtures, repairs, rent of telephones, including “exchange service,” textbooks, lumber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, cold-wave, and otherStorm signals, etc. signals on the sea, lake, and Gulf coasts of the United States, and in the interior, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, including the pay of observers, services of operators, lanterns, electric lights, and flags, eleven thousand dollars. For river and flood observations, and expenses in connection therewith,River and flood observations. thirteen thousand dollars. For observations, and expenses incidental thereto, announcing theCotton region Reports. probable approach and severity of frosts or rains, for the benefit of the cotton region of the United States, five thousand dollars.

For expenses (including paper, printing and lithographing supplies,Maps and bulletins. forms, hire of civilian printers and engravers) of preparing, printing, distributing, and displaying weather maps or weather bulletins, and for the maintenance of a printing office, under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, in the city of Washington, for the printing of the necessary orders circulars, maps, or bulletins, as may be necessary to carry into effect the appropriations made for the support of the Signal Service, fifteen thousand dollars.

For maintenance and repair of all telegraph lines, including rentTelegraph lines, etc. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.399 of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies and general repairs, twenty-five thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars. pay.Pay, etc., of officers and men. For pay of one brigadier-general, five thousand five hundredChief signal officer. dollars; For pay of fourteen second lieutenants, mounted, twenty-oneSecond lieutenants, mounted. thousand dollars;

For longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps, to be paid withLongevity pay. current monthly pay, five thousand four hundred dollars: For mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders, to beMileage. disbursed under the same limitations prescribed for payment of mileage to officers in the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen*Ante*, p. 151.*Proviso*.Limitation. hundred and ninety-one, two thousand seven hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the expense of travel performed on strictly military duty;

For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at placesCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; For forage and straw for horses actually kept by officers in theForage. public service, as allowed by paragraphs one thousand one hundred and forty-six and one thousand four hundred and forty-three, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army, approved FebruaryVol. 21, p. 347. twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars;

For sales of the regulation allowance of fuel to officers of theFuel. Signal Corps, as allowed by by section eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (twenty Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty), one thousandVol. 20, p. 150. two hundred and thirty-two dollars; For medical attendance and medicines and for interment of officersMedical attendance, etc. and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, two thousand six hundred dollars;

For pay (including interest on deposits, to be paid at discharge; Enlisted men.commutation of rations; commutation of quarters: commutation of fuel; pay for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay; retained pay, payable at discharge; pay for clothing not drawn, payable at discharge, and for travel allowances, payable at discharge), of not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five sergeants, twenty corporals, and one hundred and seventy-five privates of the Signal Corps, three hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred dollars: in all, for pay, three hundred and sixty-three thousand and one dollars. *Provided*, That no part of this money shall be used in payment of*Provisos*.Not to be used for clerks in Washington. enlisted men of the Signal Corps on clerical or messenger duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer: *Provided further*, That all appropriations made for the support of the Signal Service or Corps shall be disbursed under the direction ofDisbursements to be made by bonded disbursing officer. the Secretary of War, by the regularly bonded officer who is now and may be hereafter detailed by the Secretary of War for duty as disbursing officer of the Signal Service. *Provided further*, That all accounts of whatever nature, resultingAccounts. from the disbursement of any of the appropriations made for the Signal Service or Corps shall be audited and adjusted by the Third Auditor and Second Comptroller of the Treasury. *Provided further*, That any money deposited by an enlisted manDeposits of soldiers’ savings. of the Signal Corps, under the provisions of section thirteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall pass to the credit of the[R.

S., sec. 1305, p. 225](/us/rs/s1305/p225). 400FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. appropriation “Signal Service, pay, and so forth,” and when paid, including the interest thereon, shall be charged to that appropriation for the fiscal year in which the soldier is discharged. *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is authorized, in his Detail from Army.discretion, to detail for the service with the Signal Corps not to exceed five commissioned officers of the regular Army, to be exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps, authorized by law, and the regular Army officers herein authorized to be detailed for the Signal Corps, shall receive their pay and allowances from the appropriations for the support of the Army. *Provided further*, That no money herein appropriated shall be usedNumber of second lieutenants and enlisted men, limited. for pay and allowances of second lieutenants appointed or to be appointed from the sergeants of the Signal Corps, under the provisions Vol. 20, p. 219.of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in excess of the number of fourteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps. *Provided further*, That officers and enlisted men of the SignalSubsistence stores.

Corps may purchase subsistence stores under the same regulations as prescribed for officers and enlisted men of the Army, as authorized [R. S., sec. 1144, p. 207](/us/rs/s1144/p207).by section eleven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, and paragraph fourteen hundred and two of the Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. *Provided further*, That the pay of the enlisted men, including theEnlisted men to receive pay and commutations in one check, monthly. items of commutation of quarters, and commutation of fuel, shall be paid monthly to each enlisted man entitled thereto by one check upon one properly certified voucher. transportation.Transportation.

For transportation of officers of the Signal Corps (including their baggage) when traveling on duty under orders, to be in lieu of actual cost of transportation; for transportation of the enlisted men of the Signal Corps or civilian employees (including their baggage) when traveling on duty under orders; transportation of materials, animals, and funds for freight, wharfages, tolls, and ferriages, drayages, and cartages, and for the purchase of special-delivery and registering stamps; for purchase of necessary harness and other articles, and for expenses of repairs to means of transportation, seventeen thousand dollars.

For forage and straw for seven public animals (not exceeding four to be horses), one thousand dollars. For horse and mule shoes, nails, and expenses for shoeing once each month for seven public animals, fifty dollars. For veterinary supplies, twenty-five dollars. For blacksmith’s supplies, tools, lathes, and materials, one hundred dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance, etc. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars.

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, 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.Vol. 20, p. 281.States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, ten thousand dollars.

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.401 Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been 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 by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars forLimitation. such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, one thousand dollars; and the appropriation made by the sundry civil appropriation acts approved October second, eighteen hundred andVol. 25, p. 538.Vol. 25, p. 969.Former appropriations made available. eighty-eight, and March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the expenses of burying indigent ex-Union soldiers, is hereby made available alike for all survivors of the Union Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-five, dying in the District of Columbia in indigent circumstances.

National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia: For the purchaseHampton, Va.Enlargement of cemetery. of eight acres of land other than land belonging to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute adjoining or as near as practicable to the national cemetery at Hampton, Virginia, required for*Post*, p. 973. enlargement of the same, ten thousand dollars. That no part of the sum of two thousand dollars appropriated by Roadway.Vol. 25, p. 970, modified.the sundry civil appropriation act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for repairing and draining roadway to the National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia, shall be expended until the title to and jurisdiction over said roadway shall be vested in theTitle and jurisdiction.

United States. National cemetery near Fredericksburgh, Virginia: ForFredericksburgh, Va.Public road. macadamizing and permanently improving the public road leading from the railroad depots in the city of Fredericksburgh, Virginia, to the national cemetery near said city, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limitation. That no part of said sum shall be expended unless the entire improvement can be made and completed for the amount herein appropriated. Road from Marietta to the national cemetery, Georgia:

Marietta, Ga.Roadway.For completion of roadway from Marietta, Georgia, to the national cemetery near that place, eight thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents. Approaches to national cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia: ForCulpeper, Va.Right of way, etc. purchase of right of way and the improvement of the means of approach to the Culpeper, Virginia, National Cemetery, four thousand five hundred dollars. National Cemetery, Antietam, Maryland: For completingAntietam, Md. the road in front of east half of cemetery, additional drainage works constructing stone curbing and grading walks along road, and forRoad, etc engineering and contingencies five thousand dollars.

For the purpose of surveying, locating, and preserving the linesPreserving, etc., lines of battle, etc. of battle of the Army of the Potomac and of the Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam, and for marking the same, and for locating and marking the position of each of the forty-three different commands of the Regular Army engaged in the battle of Antietam, and for the purchase of sites for tablets for the marking of such positions,Sites for tablets.Supervision of lands acquired. fifteen thousand dollars.

And all lands acquired by the United States for this purpose, whether by purchase, gift, or otherwise, shall be under the care and supervision of the Secretary of War. Levee at Brownsville National Cemetery, Texas: For constructionBrownsville, Tex.Levee. of a levee for the protection of the Brownsville, Texas, National Cemetery from overflow of the Rio Grande, three thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars. 402FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. Miscellaneous Objects.Miscellaneous.

Survey of northern an 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. 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, four hundred Commutation.No fee to agent, etc.thousand dollars; and in cases of commutation the money shall be paid directly to the soldier, sailor, or marine, and no fee or compensation shall be allowed or paid to any agent or attorney. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars.

Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: ForSupport, etc., of destitute patients. the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute in the city of Washington, under a Providence Hospital.contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-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 the United States military convicts confined in them, five thousand dollars. Publication of Official Records of the War of theOfficial Records War of the Rebellion. Rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate Armies: For Continuing publication.continuing the publication of the Official Records of the 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 Compensation civilian members of board.hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordance with the act of Vol. 25, p. 970.Compensation temporary experts.March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication, and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, such experts to be Appointment of experts.selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, from time to time, as the necessity therefor arises, and for the purchase of stationery Stationery and rent.and for additional 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 textbooks, 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 textbooks, books of reference, instruments, and materials for use in the theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor.Injurious, etc., deposits. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousand dollars;Steamer Argus; pay of crew, etc. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.403 For pay of crew and maintenance of new vessels to be purchasedNew vessels; pay of crew, etc. or constructed, ten thousand dollars; For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesPay of inspectors, etc. of office, fifteen thousand dollars: in all, thirty-three thousand dollars.

Ordnance Stores for Washington and Maine: To enable theWashington and Maine.Issue of ordnance stores to. Secretary of War to carry into effect the provisions of “An act to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the State of ‘Washington in payment for ordnance and ordnance stores borrowed by the State of Oregon of said State whilst a Territory during the Nez Perce Indian war of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,*Ante*, p. 180. and “An act for the issue of ordnance stores and supplies to the State of Maine to replace similar stores destroyed by fire,” approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen thousand*Ante*, p. 110.*Proviso*. nine hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War in the expenditure of this sum may purchase stores of the value of those loaned or destroyed without reference to old and obsolete patterns.Patterns of purchases. 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, memorandum 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 extension 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, cement, fire-clay, bricks, and firebricks, iron, tin, solder, blacksmith’s 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, tools and miscellaneous supplies for use in shops, laundry, and barbershop, bathrooms, stables, printing-office and photograph gallery; furniture for use in offices; electric-light 3dies and oil for illuminating buildings and grounds; and for other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty thousand dollars;

For materials, machinery, and tools for manufacture of prisoner’s clothing; for purchase of such clothing as can not be made at the Prison for prisoner’s wear at prison and issue to prisoners when released 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;404FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For expenses of pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars; For the transportation of prisoners, on their discharge from military prison, to their homes or elsewhere, as they may elect, provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment, seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one thousand eightCivilian employees. hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; extra-duty pay for prison guard, two thousand four hundred 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 and eighty dollars;

For construction of necessary buildings (such as out houses, andRepairs, etc. repair of officers’ quarters, prisoners’ buildings, the hospital, the chapel, stables, and all other buildings on prison grounds, including plumbing and all other civilian labor thereon which can not be done by prison labor, five thousand dollars; in all, ninety thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:

At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses,Dayton, Ohio.Pay of officers, etc. namely: Pay of officers and non-commissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, book binders, 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 fifty eight dollars;

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 fifty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy 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 four hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty-four cents; 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, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.405 and privy-watchmen, and for all machines, tools, materials, and appliances purchased for use under this head, and for their repair, unless the repairs are made by the home; also for all labor and material for upholstery shops, broom and soap shops, one hundred and seven thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital expenses. hospital stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, reader’s, 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 ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and materials and all other articles necessary for the wards; kitchen and dining room furniture and appliances, carriage, hearse, stretcher’s, coffins, and materials; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs not done by the Home, fifty-five thousand two hundred and five dollars and fifty-eight cents;

For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, five thousand dollars; For construction, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Construction and repairs. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters, stonemasons, quarrymen, white washers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents;

For reconstructing and enlarging present sewer line from Central Reconstructing sewer line.Branch Home to Miami River, twenty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents; For farm, namely: Pay of farmers, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm expenses. farmhands, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, hog-feeders, and laborers, and for all machines, implements, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing 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 eighty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-one cents. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred and two dollars and fifty cents;

For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, thirty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-two cents;

For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand nineTransportation. hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-six cents; For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For laundry, seven thousand five hundred dollars;Laundry. For water supply, fifteen thousand dollars;Water supply. 406FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents;

In all, three hundred and seven thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-two 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-two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and four cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and nine thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-seven cents;

For clothing, including the same objects specified under thisClothing. head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-one cents; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and two cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under thisHospital. head for the Central Branch, nineteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and ten cents;

For transportation of members of the Home, two thousandTransportation. five hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents; For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-five cents: For an addition to hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars;Hospital addition.Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and four cents;

In fill, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-three cents. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentHampton, Va.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and one dollars and thirty cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, two hundred and eight thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents;

For clothing, including the same objects specified under thisClothing. head for the Central Branch, forty thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-nine cents; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under thisHospital. head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents:

For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand twoTransportation. hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-four cents; 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 breakwater, twenty-one thousand and seventy-six dollars;Breakwater.Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty cents;

In all, four hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-three cents. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: ForLeavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.407 head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and sixty-six cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars;

For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, forty thousand and eighteen dollars and forty-six cents: For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and nine cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-two cents;

For transportation of members of the Home, nine thousand dollars:Transportation. For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand and fifty-six dollars and eighty-three cents; In all, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-six cents. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica California:

ForSanta Monica, Cal.Maintenance. maintenance of six hundred members, one hundred thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars: For hospital, fifty thousand dollars;Hospital. For mess-hall and kitchen, twenty thousand dollars;Mess-hall, etc. For extension of waterworks, twenty thousand dollars;Water works extension.Additional barrack.Headquarters and library.Laundry. For one additional barrack, twenty-five thousand dollars;

F or headquarters and library, ten thousand dollars; For laundry, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For maintenanceMarion, Ind.Maintenance. of eight hundred members, one hundred thousand dollars; For hospital, thirty thousand dollars;Hospital. For mess-hall and kitchen, fifteen thousand dollars;Mess-hall, etc. For company and quartermaster’s storerooms, ten thousand dollars;Store-rooms.

For laundry, seven thousand five hundred dollars;Laundry For two additional barracks, forty-six thousand dollars;Additional barracks. For pumping station, four thousand dollars; in all, two hundredPumping station. and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, thirty-twoOut-door relief, etc. thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two million six hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-five cents. 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, four hundred thousand dollars. Back pay and Bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofBack Pay and Bounty.Arrears of pay due to two and three year volunteers. pay of two and three year volunteers that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated.

For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and theirBounty due to volunteers, their heirs, etc. widows and legal heirs that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen 408FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. hundred and ninety-one, 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, p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 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-one, so much therefor as may be necessary is hereby appropriated. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-House, Washington, District of Columbia:

For annualCourt-House, Washington, D. C. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. Utah penitentiary: For repairs and support of roof to insureUtah penitentiary. safety of building, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending 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 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.

Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts.District of Columbia. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-one One-half out of district revenues.thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Future estimates.Treasury of the United States: and hereafter the estimates for this expense shall each year be submitted in the annual estimates for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia.

Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecuting crimes against United States. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment: for the Investigations.investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and 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-two 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, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.409 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. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecutionProsecuting and collecting claims. and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actualTraveling expenses, Alaska. and 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: ForRent, 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 theExpenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of 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 of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of theR.

S., Title XXVI. Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of the fees and expenses of the United States marshalsMarshals, etc. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars of*Proviso*.Advances. this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals inAccounts.[R.

S., sec. 856, p. 161](/us/rs/s856/p161). the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same beingDistrict attorneys.Fees. for payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. For payment of district attorneys the same being for payment of such special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-GeneralSpecial compensation. for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars.

For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and fifteen 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 thousand dollars. To enable the Attorney-General to employ special counsel to assistSpecial counsel, etc., in Greer County controversy. 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 410FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. Territory, and for other purposes,” passed May second, eighteen*Ante*, p.92. hundred and ninety, and for taking testimony, stenographers fees, and other expenses necessary to be incurred in the preparation and trial of such suit, ten thousand dollars. For salaries of the district judges, district attorneys, and districtSalaries District court judges, etc., in Idaho and Wyoming. marshals for the States of Idaho and Wyoming, from the date each qualifies to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety one, so much therefor as may be necessary.

For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerk’s fees.Fees of U. S. commissioners, etc. For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand Limitation.dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any fees to United States commissioners, marshals, clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal revenue laws, unless the prosecution has Sworn complaint to be made.been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant, or upon sworn complaint by a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon information and belief and approved either before or after such arrest by a circuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed or the indictment is found.

For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Jurors fees.Witnesses fees.Support of prisoners. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoner 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 courtrooms, fifty thousand dollars.Rent.Bailiffs, criers, etc. For pay of bailiffs and criers not exceeding three bailiffs and one 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 maybe authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and ‘forty thousand dollars. 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.

To enable the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, underPortrait of Chief-Justice Marshall. the direction of the court, to obtain the oil portrait of Chief-Justice Marshall, to be hung in the robing-room with those of the other deceased Chief Justices already there, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation under theStatements of appropriations, etc., to be prepared by Appropriation committees. direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.411 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 first session of the Fifty-first Congress, as required by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand twoVol. 25, p.587. hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.

New Edition of Tariff Compilation: For preparation underNew edition, tariff compilation of 1884, etc. the direction of the Senate Committee on Finance of a new edition of the tariff compilation of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any other tariff law that may pass within the current year, together with tables of prices of commodities, and such other statistics as the committee shall deem useful, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairman of said committee to do said work.

Botanic Garden: For reconstructing propagating houses, extensionBotanic garden. and repairs to heating apparatus, and general repairs to Repairs, etc.buildings and walks, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, 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 may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million and thirteenAmount. thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby; appropriated Printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:

For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriations for Congress, the Executive departments, etc. and debates, eight hundred and eight 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 the fiscal year for which this Appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps,Exclusion of unnecessary, etc., matter. 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 forty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office) and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service;412FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890. For the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office; For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks for the use of the National Museum and for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings “of the National Museum, ten thousand dollars;

For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, eight thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-five thousand dollars; For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty-five thousand dollars; For the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars; For the Agricultural Department, forty thousand dollars;

For the Department of Labor, four thousand dollars; For the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars: For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; For the Court of Claims, 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 herebyLimited periods for expenditure of allotments. appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition Unexpended balances.thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.

For purchase of new type, one hundred thousand dollars.New type. For purchase of new printing-presses, twenty thousand dollars;New printing-presses. To enable the public printer to comply with the provisions of theAnnual leaves of absence 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 pro rata leaves of absence to employees who resign or arePro-rata leaves upon resignation, etc. discharged (decision of the First Comptroller), fifteen thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. That to provide accommodation for the Government PrintingEnlargement of Government Printing Office.*Post*, p. 989. Office, and the construction of the needed storage and distributing warehouses in connection therewith, the Secretary of the Secretary of Treasury, Public Printer, and Architect of Capitol, acting as a Board, to purchase or condemn necessary land.Cost of site.Treasury, the Public Printer, and the Architect of the Capitol, acting as a board, be, and they are hereby, empowered and instructed to acquire, either by purchase or by condemnation proceedings, as hereinafter provided, the land necessary, in their opinion, for the purposes aforesaid, and for the purposes stated, the sum of two Kindred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 3. That in the event it shall be necessary, in order to carryBoard to purchase at fair relative price within sixty days, or proceed to condemn. out the purpose of the foregoing section, for the board, as above constituted, to acquire land, said board is empowered and directed to acquire the same by negotiation, where any such land may and can be so acquired and title secured at a price not above a fair relative value as to other lands which have been sold in the immediate vicinity; or if the said board hereby created shall be unable to purchase said land by agreement with any one or more of the respective owners at a reasonable price within sixty days after the passage of this FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 837. 1890.413 act they are authorized and directed to make application to the supremeCondemnation proceedings. court of the District of Columbia, at any general or special term thereof, by petition for the condemnation of such land not so purchased, and for the ascertainment of its value. Such petition shallPetition to Supreme Court, D. C. contain a particular description of the property not so purchased, and selected for the purpose aforesaid, with the name of the owner or owners thereof and their residences, so far as the same may be ascertained, together with a plan of the land proposed to be taken; and thereupon , the said court is authorized and required to cite all such owners andCitaton of owners, etc., to answer. all other persons interested to appear in said court at a time to be fixed by such court, on reasonable notice, to answer the said petition; and if it shall appear to the court that there are any owners or otherPersons under disability. persons interested who are under disability the court shall give public notice of the time at which the said court will proceed with thePublic notice of proceeding. matter of condemnation; and at such time if it shall appear that there are any persons under disability either who have appeared or who have not appeared, the court shall appoint guardians ad litemAppointment of guardians *ad litem*. for each such persons, and the court shall thereupon proceed to appoint three capable and disinterested commissioners to appraiseAppraisement commission. the value of the respective interests of all persons concerned in such lands, under such regulations as to notice and hearing as to the court shall seem meet.

Such commissioners shall thereupon, afterDuty of Commissioners. being duly sworn for the proper performance of their duties, examine the premises and hear the persons in interest who may appear before them, and return their appraisement of the value of the interestsReport of appraisement. of all persons, respectively, in such land; and when such report shall have been confirmed by the court the President of the UnitedConfirmation by court. States shall, if he think the public interest requires it, cause payment to be made to the respective persons entitled according to the judgmentPayment. of the court, and in case any of such persons are under disability, or can not be found, or neglect to receive payment, the money to be paid to any of them shall be deposited in the Treasury to their credit, unless there shall be some person lawfully authorized to receive the same under the direction of the court, and when such payments are so made, or the amounts belonging to persons to whom payment shall not be made are so deposited, the said lands shall beUpon payment, etc., condemnation complete. deemed to be condemned and taken by the United States for the public use.

And hereafter, in all cases of the taking of property in the District of Columbia for public use, whether herein, heretofore, or hereafter authorized, the foregoing provisions, as it respects the applicationAll future proceedings for condemnation in the District to be governed by these provisions. by the proper officer to the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the proceedings therein shall be as in the foregoing provisions declared. Sec. 4. That hereafter all disbursing officers of the United StatesAccounts of U.

S. disbursing officers to to be rendered quarterly, or oftener. shall render their accounts quarterly; and the Secretary of the Senate shall render his accounts as heretofore; but the Secretary of the Treasury may direct any or all such accounts to be rendered more frequently when in his judgment the public interests may require. Sec. 5. That section two of an act approved June twenty-fifth,Washington City post-office site.*Ante*, p. 174, amended. eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act to authorize the acquisition of certain parcels of real estate embraced in square numbered three hundred and twenty-three of the city of Washington to provide an eligible site for a city post office,” is hereby amended byCondemnation of lands in Sq. 323, if price asked is excessive or above fair market value. inserting after the word “offer” where the same last appears in said section, the following:

“or whenever the Secretary of the Treasury is satisfied that the price demanded for any of the lots or parts of lots described or referred to in this section is excessive, or above their fair market value.” That the building authorized by the said act approved June*Ante*, p. 174. twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be constructed in a fireproof manner, with not less than eight stories, and at a total cost,Building.Construction and maximum cost. including approaches and heating apparatus, not exceeding one 414FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Chs. 837–830. 1890. million nine hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.May be contracted for in whole, or in part, subject to appropriations.Appropriation toward construction. of the Treasury may authorize a contract or contracts to be entered into for the construction of any portion or the whole of said building, subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress. Toward the construction of said building, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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