Chapter 18. to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two
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CHAP. 18.— An Act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.March 18, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent deficiency appropriations. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: public printing and binding.Public printing and binding.
For public printing and binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including the salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or 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, three hundred and fifty thousand *Proviso*.dollars: *Provided*, That from the appropriation hereby made printing and binding may be done as follows:
For the Treasury Department, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars.Allotment. For the War Department, not exceeding forty thousand dollars. For the Department of the Interior, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of State, not exceeding five thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, not exceeding three thousand dollars. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave of absence to the employees of the Government Printing Office, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars to pay, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, Pro rata leaves.pro rata leaves of absence to employees who resign or are discharged is hereby made available to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave of absence to the employees of the Government Printing Office during the current fiscal year.
To enable the Public Printer to continue operations under the jointStorage, etc. Vol. 22, p. 637. resolution approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the removal and storage of certain property of the Government mentioned therein, five thousand dollars. interior department.Interior Department. Annual repairs and improvements to United States Capitol: ForCapitol. Repairs, etc. work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics, laborers, and fresco painters, nine thousand dollars. 9 Government Hospital for the Insane, current expenses:
For support,Government Hospital for Insane. Current expenses. including clothing and treatment in the hospital, of the different classes who under the law are entitled to admission and care, twenty-two thousand dollars. Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies: To pay the expenseIndian Supplies. Purchasing, etc. of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, including rent of warehouse and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, five thousand dollars. treasury department.Treasury Department.
Paper for checks and drafts, Independent Treasury: For paper for Paper for checks, etc.interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and other cheeks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, seven thousand dollars. public buildings.Public buildings. For customhouse and post-office at Eastport, Maine: For completionEastport, Mo. of the building, nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy cents.
Washington City Post-Office: For equipments, fixtures, furniture,Washington City. and other articles necessary and convenient for the transactionExpenses, etc., temporary post-office. of the business of the Washington, District of Columbia, post-office, for expenses of moving the Washington, District of Columbia, post-office from the present quarters to the new (temporary) structure on G street between Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and for expenses of moving to said last-mentioned building any other branch or branches of the postal service or of the Post-Office Department, and for equipments, fixtures, furniture, and other articles necessary and convenient for the transaction of the business thereof, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. district of columbia.District of Columbia.
Expenses of assessing real property, District of Columbia: ForAssessing real property. books, stationery, and other necessary expenses, including labor and clerical services, from December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, required in the assessment of real property in the District of Columbia as provided for in the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and March third, eighteen hundredVol. 22, p. 568. Vol. 26, p. 1064. and ninety-one, six thousand dollars.
Health Department: For the collection and removal of garbage, sixteenHealth Department. Removing garbage. thousand dollars, of which sum not more than eight thousand dollars shall be expended in payment of expenses heretofore incurred, and the balance shall be expended for said work during the remainder of the fiscal year; and legal proceedings shall forthwith be instituted andProsecution of failing contractor. fully prosecuted against the old contractor and his bondsmen under the contract for said work.
For the Police Court: For one judge, three thousand dollars; onePolice court. deputy clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bailiff, at three dollars per day. nine hundred and forty-two dollars; one deputy marshal, at three dollars per day until and including March thirty-first next, and after said date all compensation for said deputy marshal shall be paid from fees received by the marshal; compensation of jury, eight thousand dollars; witness fees, four thousand dollars; in all eighteen thousand and seventy dollars, one-half of the foregoing sums for the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenue of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 10 war department.War Department.
Office of Quartermaster-General; For salary of one assistant draftsman,Quartermaster-general’s Office. one thousand six hundred dollars. department of justice.Department of Justice. Defending suits in claims against the United States; For defrayingDefending suits in claims. 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, five thousand dollars. department of agriculture.Department of Agriculture.
The balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars, appropriated by actIrrigation investigation. Vol. 26, p. 1052. of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish information as to the best methods of cultivating the soil by irrigation, remaining unexpended on January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby reappropriatedReappropriation. and made available for said purposes, until the fifteenth day of April next, and out of said amount the disbursing officer of the Department of Agriculture shall be reimbursed in the sum of nine hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents, by him paid out since January first, eighteen hundred and ninety two, as salaries and expenses of the division of said Department having charge of the irrigation inquiry, and from said amount there shall also be paid all unpaid balances of compensation due persons heretofore employed in said division for services rendered and not yet paid for, said report and all Completion.proceedings hereunder to be completed by the fifteenth day of April.
Approved, March 18, 1892.