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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · March 3, 1893 · Chapter 208

Chapter 208. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 208.— An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.March 3, 1893. *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-four, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Public Buildings.Public buildings. For post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: For continuation ofAllegheny. Pa.Limit of cost. building, fifteen thousand dollars. And the limit of cost of said building and site therefor is hereby fixed at four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For laundry machinery,Boston, Mass.Marine Hospital. one thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska:
For continuationOmaha, Nebr. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For United States mint building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: ForPhiladelphia, Pa.Mint. commencement of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Port Townsend, Washington: For new pavilionPort Town send, Wash.Marine Hospital.Savannah, Ga. hospital and approaches, thirty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Savannah, Georgia:
That the act Vol. 26, p. 726, modified.of Congress approved January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, authorizing sale of old site, is hereby so modified as to Sale of old site.authorize the sale of all the old site first acquired. For marine hospital at San Francisco, California:San Francisco. Cal.Marine hospital. For extension of wards, ten thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at San Francisco, California: ThatPost-office, etc.Limit of cost. the limit of cost of the public building at San Francisco, California, for post-office, courthouse and other offices exclusive of site, is hereby fixed at two million five hundred thousand dollars.
For courthouse and post-office at Sioux Falls, South Dakota: For completionSioux Falls, S. Dak under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the marine hospital at Detroit, Michigan, the amount already appropriatedDetroit. Mich.Marine Hospital. shall be used to construct and complete officers’ quarters on the grounds of the reservation, to enlarge the available wards’ space when such officers’ quarters shall have been built, and to construct an isolating ward. For post-office and court house at Troy, New York:
For completionTroy, X. Y. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Clarksville, Tennessee: For completion of buildingClarksville. Tenn. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. That the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundredBuffalo. N. Y.Vol. 26. p. 949. and ninety-one, chapter five hundred and forty-two, page nine hundred and forty-nine, volume twenty-six, United States Statutes at Large, amendatoryVol. 25. p. 81. of act of Congress approved April fifth, eighteen hundred 573 and eighty-eight, chapter sixty-four, page eighty-one, volume twenty-five, United States Statutes at Large, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to prescribe that the limit of cost of the site and building,Limit of coat increased. including heating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other Government offices and uses in the city of Buffalo and State of New York shall not exceed the sum of two million dollars, and so as to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury to be governed by the provisions of this act in the erection of said building.
For customhouse at New York, New York:New York. N. Y.Building commission abolished.Vol. 26, p. 851. That section three of an act entitled “An act for the erection of a new customhouse in the city of New York, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, is hereby repealed. That the further sum often thousand dollars, or so much thereof asJackson, Mich. may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the completion of a public building at Jackson.
Michigan. For post-office at Washington, District of Columbia:Washington, D. C. For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of site for and construction of the public buildingHoulton. Me. at Houlton, Maine, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, and the limit of the cost of theLimit of cost increased. said building is hereby increased to sixty-six thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia:
ForWashington.D.C.Repairs to Treasury buildings. repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. For Marine Hospital at Wilmington. North Carolina: For sewer connectionsWilmington. N. C.Marine hospital. and water tanks, two thousand dollars. For repairs of Custom House, Chicago, Illinois: For repairing ofChicago. Ill.Repairs. Custom House, Chicago, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. For customhouse and Sub-treasury at Chicago, Illinois: For extensionExtension. on Dearborn Street to afford additional floor space for the post-office, one hundred thousand dollars.
For completing the public building at Saint Albans, Vermont, twenty-fiveSaint Albans. Vt. thousand dollars. For public building at Portland. Oregon: That the limit of cost ofPortland, Oreg.Limit of cost. the public building at Portland, Oregon, for customhouse and other Government offices and site therefor is hereby fixed at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of an additional story to the public building atSheboygan, Wis. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, five thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: RepairsRepairs and preservation. and preservation of custom houses, court houses, post offices, marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, two hundred thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used for the marine hospitals and quarantine stations: *Provided*, That of the sum hereby*Proviso*.Superintendents. appropriated, not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment of super intendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding forLimit of pay. any one person, six dollars per day.
Heating apparatus for Public Buildings: For heating, hoisting,Heating, etc., Apparatus, etc. and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, and quarantine stations under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollarsLimit for casual repairs. may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only. 574 Vaults, Safes, and Locks for Public Buildings:
For vaults,Vaults, safes, locks, etc. 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, forty thousand dollars. Plans for Public Buildings: For books, photographic materials,Plans, etc. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. Light-houses, Beacons, and Fog Signals.Lighthouses, beacons, and fog-signals.
For Cedar Point Light-Station, Maryland: For establishing a lightCedar Point, Md. and fog signal on or near Cedar Point, mouth of Patuxent River, Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. Chicago Breakwater Light-Station, Illinois: For completing the constructionChicago Breakwater, Ill. of a light house and fog-signal on the easterly end of the outer breakwater at Chicago, Lake Michigan, Illinois, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. Chicago Fair Buoyage, Illinois: For establishing proper buoyage onChicago Fair, Ill. the water front of Chicago, Lake Michigan, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
Grays Harbor Light and Fog signal Station, Washington: For establishing a first order light and fog-signal station at GraysGrays Harbor Wash.Additional Harbor, Washington, in addition to the fifteen thousand five hundred dollars already appropriated, which amount may be used therefor, Limit of cost.Contract authorized.twenty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light and fog signal station, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.
For Hog Island Light-Station, Virginia: For establishing a first-orderHog Island, Va. light to take the place of the fourth-order light now at Hog Island, south side of Great Machipango Inlet, seacoast of Virginia, Limit of cost.Contract authorized.thirty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light-station, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Key West Light Station, Florida: For increasing the height of theKey West, Fla. tower of the Key West Light Station, Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Marrowstone Point Fog-signal. Washington: For establishing a fogMarrowstone Point, Wash. bell at Marrowstone Point. Puget Sound, Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses forOil houses for light stations.*Proviso*.Limitation. the storage of mineral oil, seven thousand five hundred dollars: *provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Rockland Lake Light Station, New York:
For establishment of aRockland Lake, N Y. light house and fog-signal at or near Oyster Bed Shoal, Hudson River, opposite Rockland Lake Dock, thirty-five thousand dollars. Saint Catharines Sound Light Station, Georgia: For establishmentSaint Catharines Sound. Ga. of a light station near the entrance to Saint Catharines Sound, Georgia, twenty thousand dollars. Staten Island Light-House Depot, New York: For continuing theStaten Island Depot, N.Y. construction of the sea wall, rebuilding the South wharf, and dredging the basin at the general light house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the establishment of a beacon light on the Government breakwaterBridgeport, Conn. at the entrance to the harbor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, two thousand dollars. For the reestablishment of the light-house at or near Solomons LumpSolomons Lump, Chesapeake Bay. Va. Light house site, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, recently carried away by ice, thirty thousand dollars. 575 For the reestablishment of the light-house at or near Wolf TrapWolf Trap Chesapeake Bay, Va. Light house site, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, recently carried away by ice, seventy thousand dollars.
Waackaack Light Station, New Jersey: For finishing WaackaackWaackaack. N. J. Light Station, New Jersey, three thousand two hundred dollars. For Brazos River Light Station, Texas: For alight-house, fog signal,Brazos River, Tex. and range lights at such point as the Light House Board may determine, fifty thousand dollars. Grassy Point range lights. Ohio: For moving range lights. MaumeeGrassy Point, Ohio River, Ohio, so as to properly light the new channel, eight thousand dollars. .
Fourteen Mile Point light and fog signal. Michigan: For establishingFourteen Mile Point, Mich. a light and fog signal at or near Fourteen Mile Point, Lake Superior, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Seul Choix Point fog signal, Michigan: For completion of a fog signalSeul Choix Point, Mich. at Seul Choix Point. Lake Michigan, Michigan, three thousand three hundred dollars. light-house establishment.Light-house estabment. Supplies of Lighthouses: For supplying fog signals, lightSupplies. houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption: for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Lenses to be import, ed free of duty. lenses and lens glass for the use of the Light-House Establishment may, be imported free of duty.
Repairs of Lighthouses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. Lighthouses and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pierhead and other beacon lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For special and extraordinary repairs of Lighthouses, one hundred 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 two hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers, and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Expenses of Light Vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light vessels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Expenses of Buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Expenses of Fog-Signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs anti incidental expenses of the same, seventy thousand dollars. Inspecting Lights: For actual traveling expenses of members ofInspecting lights, etc. the Light-House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage light-house property, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Lighting of Rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting of rivers. post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York: the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River. Maryland; 576 Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida: at Chicott Pass, and to marke navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois. and Great Kanawa rivers;
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior Bays at the head of Lake superior;Leases authorized. the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence cannot be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of Light-House Sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys,Survey of sites. and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Life-Saving Service.Life-saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:Superintendents. 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 live 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 two hundred 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 life-saving and life boat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and life boat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life saving and life boat stations on the coasts of” Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and life boat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and life boat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all. twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and fifty-four keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boatCrews, etc.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 577 under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth,Vol. 22, p. 57. eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million eighty eight thousand and forty seven dollars and fifty cents.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theEstablishing new stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty thousand dollars. Revenue Cutter Service.Revenue cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries and expenses lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same: *Provided*, That collectors*Proviso*.Verified accounts, etc.Collectors may administer oaths.[R.
S., sec. 1790. p. 317, and sec. 2693. p. 529](/us/rs/t/s1790/p317/s2693/p529). of customs or their special deputies shall be competent to administer the oaths to officers of the Revenue-Marine Service required under section seventeen hundred and ninety and twenty six hundred and ninety-three, Revised Statutes; 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 Bering Sea and theSeal fisheries. other waters of Alaska and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; to carry into effect the provisions of “An act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York,” approvedNew York harbor.Vol. 25, p. 151.
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 twenty-five thousand dollars. For maintenance of a refuge station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska,Point Barrow, Alaska, refuge station. on the Arctic Ocean, four thousand dollars. Engraving and Printing.Engraving Printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing:
For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers’ assistants, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, thatand no portion*Proviso*. of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.Notes of large denominations. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, four hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be*Proviso*.Notes of large denomination. expended for printing United States notes of a larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For a new boiler plant, twenty-five thousand dollars. 578 Coast And Geodetic Survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of theExpenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific, and Alaska coasts, etc.
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 tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparations of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed *Proviso*.Advances.by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
For Party Expenses: For survey of unfinished portions of theParty expenses. Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, including the eastern boundary of Maine to the International Boundary Monument; coast of New Brunswick eastward to point Lepreau; Grand Manan Island. Portsmouth Harbor, and Piscataqua River; Newburyport Harbor and Merrimac River to Haverhill; Connecticut River to Hartford; Hudson River to Troy; Delaware River from Philadelphia to Trenton; Bogue Inlet and interior waters along the coast of North Carolina, and Cooper and Ashley rivers, South Carolina, and necessary resurveys, including Boston Harbor, Buzzards Bay, Nantucket Sound, Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, coast of New Jersey from Sandy Hook to cape May, Saint Johns River to Jacksonville and Fort George Inlet, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars.
To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery towards Mobile; and for triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, including Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas and the resurvey of Pensacola Bay, eight thousand four hundred dollars; To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, and for the maintenance of the steamer Blake at Chicago, during the continuance of the Columbian Exposition, and her transportation to New York, six thousand four hundred dollars;
For continuing the survey of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, including offshore hydrography, and the survey of the Columbia River to the Cascades, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, eighteen thousand six hundred 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, eight thousand four hundred dollars; For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to 579 harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for continuingParty expenses—Continued tidal observations on the Atlantic Gulf, and Pacific coasts, eleven thousand three hundred dollars;
For examination of reported dangers on the Atlantic Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; To continue magnetic observations, including the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels westward and southward from the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri, westward from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, eastward from San Francisco, California, eastward from Vicksburg, Mississippi, between Jacksonville and Cedar Keys, Florida, and from the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, to Lake Erie, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicablePoints to State Surveys. in States where points have not been furnished; and for surveying and distinctly designating with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of California commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west of Greenwich, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars;
For determinations of geographical positions, and to continue gravity observations, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, and the necessary check bases, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, 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, five thousand nine hundred dollars; For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for theInternational Geodetic Association. Measurement of the Earth, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, that such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be*Proviso*.Payment.Interchangeable expenditures. payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named;” and twenty per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named;
In all, for party expenses, one hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars. Alaska Boundary Survey: to complete the joint survey of theAlaska boundary survey. territory adjacent to the boundary line of the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada between the Territory of Alaska and the Province of British Columbia, and the Northwest Territory of Canada, from the latitude of fifty-four degrees and forty minutes north to the point where said boundary line encounters the one hundred and forty-first degree of west longitude, with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delimitation of said boundary line in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and Russia and between the United States and Russia, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be available until 580 expended; and the whole expense of this survey on the part of theLimit.
United States shall not exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars. For Repairs and Maintenance of Vessels; For repairs andRepairs, etc., of 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. For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand six hundred dollars; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars;
For four assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two assistants, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For seven assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For nine assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
For five subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For two subassistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For aids temporarily employed at a salary not greater than nine 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 three at one thousand dollars each;
For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely: For two at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three at nine hundred dollars each; For one at eight hundred dollars; For ten at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, 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; 581 For copperplate engravers, namely:Office force—Continued. 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; For two at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, including a janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For ten at one thousand dollars each; For two at nine hundred dollars each; For seven at seven hundred dollars each: For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For six at eight hundred and twenty dollars each;
For two at seven hundred 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 forty-three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall examine and report to theReport on reduction of employees and salaries. next Congress, at its first session what reduction can be made in the number and salaries of the employees of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousandPublication of observations. dollars. Office Expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions, nine thousand dollars. For copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies, for extra engraving and drawing; and tor photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice, and washing, six thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, four thousand five hundred dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances.
Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as herein-before 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, except as now provided by law. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Under Smithsonian Institution. National Museum: For continuing the preservation, exhibition,National Museum.Preserving collections. and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries 582 or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibitionFurniture. and safe keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten thousand dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National Museum, eleven thousand dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,Postage. five hundred dollars. National Zoological Park:
For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting, and repairing buildings and enclosures for animals; and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty thousand dollars; One-half from tract revenues.one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States;
Report.a report in detail of the expenses on account of the National Zoological Park shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of astrophysicalAstrophysical observatory. observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian institution, including salaries of assistants, apparatus, and miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand dollars. International Exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
North American Ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesNorth American Ethnology. among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for rent of building. Smithsonian Building: For completing the repairs upon theRepairs to Smithsonian building. Smithsonian building, and for such other work as is needed to protect the building from further deterioration, and to place it in proper sanitary condition, any unexpended balance remaining to the credit of the appropriation for fireproofing, and so forth, shall be available for the purposes above stated; this work to be done under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, and in accordance with the approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Fish Commission.Fish Commission. Salaries, United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: For compensationSalaries.Commissioner. of the Commissioner, Five thousand dollars; For the following persons now authorized to be employed and paidPay of office force. from general appropriations for the Fish Commission, namely: For chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer to Commission, one thousand eight hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk at one thousand dollars; two clerks at nine hundred dollars each: one clerk, six hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three tiremen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. 583 Office of accounts:
Disbursing agent, two thousand four hundredOffice of accounts. dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand and eighty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousandOffice of architect and engineer. two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand dollars; one draftsman, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: in all, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture: Office—Assistant in charge, two thousandDivision of fish culture. seven hundred dollars: superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; two clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture, station employees: Central station, Washington, District of Columbia:
Superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one fish culturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars. Aquaria, Central station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixtyAquaria, Central station. dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds. Washington, District of Columbia:
Superintendent, oneFish Ponds, Washington, D. C thousand eight hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. • Green Lake (Maine) station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredGreen Lake station. Me. dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Craigs Brook (Maine) station: Superintendent, two thousand dollars;Craigs Brook station, Me. foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, at five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Gloucester (Massachusetts) station: Custodian and fish culturist,Gloucester station, Mass. nine hundred dollars. Woods Holl (Massachusetts) station: Superintendent, one thousandWood’s Holl station, Mass. five hundred dollars: machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, six thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Battery Island (Maryland) station: Custodian, three hundred andBattery Island station, Md. sixty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) station: Custodian, three hundred and sixtyBryans Point station, Md. dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) station: Superintendent, one thousand twoWytheville station, Va. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three, thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
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(Ohio)station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredPut-in-Bay station, Ohio. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; fish culturist, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand and sixty dollars. Northville (Michigan) station: Superintendent, two thousand dollars;Northville station, Mich. foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, six hundred dollars; four laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) station: Foreman, one thousand two hundredAlpena station, Mich. dollars; fish culturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. 584 Duluth (Minnesota) station: Superintendent, one thousand eightDuluth station Minn. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars: machinist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) station: Superintendent, one thousand eight hundredNeosho station, Mo. dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) station: Superintendent, one thousand eightLeadville station, Colo. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars: in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: Superintendent,Baird and Fort Gas-ton stations. Cal. two thousand dollars: foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredClackamas station, Oregon. dollars; one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—employees at large: Two field-station superintendents,Division of fish culture. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; one coxswain, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one coxswain, at five hundred and forty dollars; on clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Three car captains, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; two assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant car messenger, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three cars cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand and eighty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, twoDivision of inquiry respecting food fishes. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk, class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant inDivision of statistics and methods of the fisheries. charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; one clerk, class four; one clerk, class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, at twelve hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousandVessel service.Steamer Albatross. eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars.Steamer Fish Hawk.Schooner Grampus. Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. 585 Expenses of administration: For the contingent expenses of the officeAdministration expenses. of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to, and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, nine thousand dollars. Propagation of food fishes: For the maintenance, equipment, andPropagation of food fishes. operation of the fish cultural station of the Commission, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for necessary employees for the conduct of the fish cultural stations in Texas, Vermont, Montana, and New York, authorized by acts of Congress and now being located, ninety-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels andMaintenance of vessels, etc. launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery and other facilities required for use with the same, and contingent expenses, thirty thousand five hundred dollars. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For field and contingent expenses ofFood-fishes investigation. the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish culture; for the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, including the expenses of necessary travel, preparation of reports, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. And the Commissioner of Fisheries is authorized and required to investigate,Investigation as to seal life on Pribilof Island. under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and when so requested and report annually to him regarding the conditions of seal life upon the rookeries of the Pribilof Island; and he is also directed toFur seals of Bering Sea. continue the inquiries relative to the life history and migrations of the fur seals frequenting the waters of Bering Sea. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesStatistical inquiry. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, five thousand four hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchange of expenditures. expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named. Interstate Commerce Commission.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries.Vol. 24, p. 380. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of Secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures to enable the Commission toExpenses. give effect to, and execute the provisions of, the said “Act to regulate commerce,” one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous Objects Under the Treasury Department.Miscellaneous Treasury Department. World’s Columbian Exposition.World’s Columbian Exposition. Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation,Government exhibit. transportation, installation, care and custody, and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may decide shall be embraced in the Government exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may designate for said Exposition, and for the employment of proper persons as 586 officers and assistants to the Board of Control and Management of theLimit for clerical services. Government exhibit, appointed by the President, of which not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended by said Board for clerical services one hundred and fifty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;Immediately available.*Proviso*.Articles loaned by land grant colleges. of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That the sum of eight thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended under the supervision of the board of Control of the United States Government exhibit in the collection, preparation, packing, transportation, installation, and care while exhibited of articles loaned or donated by the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts in the several States for the display in the agricultural building of the Exposition, of the means and methods of giving instruction in the so-called land-grant college of the United States, and for re packing and returning this property at the close of the Exposition, the same to be taken from the sum apportioned to the Additional for naval exhibit.Agricultural Department; and ten thousand dollars additional for special expenses attending the naval exhibit of the model of a battle ship. World’s ColumbianWorld’s Columbian Commission. Commission: For the World’s Columbian Commission, two hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and seventy-fiveBoard of Lady Managers. dollars, of which sum ninety-three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars shall be used for the Board of Lady Managers; and Immediately available.twenty-five thousand dollars of the last sum is hereby made immediately available; and ten thousand dollars of the appropriation for the Souvenir 25 cent coins to be issued.Board of Lady Managers shall be paid in souvenir coins of the denomination of twenty-five cents, and for that purpose there shall be coined at the mints of the United States silver quarter dollars of the legal weight and fineness, not to exceed forty thousand pieces, the devices and designs upon which shall be prescribed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and said silver coins shall be manufactured from uncurrent subsidiary silver coins now in the Treasury; and all provisions of law relative to the Legal tender.coinage, legal-tender quality, and redemption of the present subsidiary silver coins shall be applicable to the coins herein authorized to be issued;Contingent expenses of Director-General. and a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars may be used by the Director-General in his discretion for incidental and contingent expenses of his office. To enable said Commission and the Board of Lady Managers to giveCommittees, judges, and examiners. effect to and execute the provisions of section six of the act of Congress Vol. 26, p. 63.approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing the World’s Columbian Exposition, and appropriating money therefor, relating to committees, judges, and examiners for the Exposition, and the granting of awards, five hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as in the judgment of the Lady Managers Immediately available.*Provisos*.Judges, etc., appointed by Board of Lady Managers. may be necessary, of which sum twenty-five thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided*, that of this hundred thousand dollars shall be devoted to the payment of judges, examiners, and members of committees to be appointed by the Board of Lady Managers, as authorized by said section. *And Provided further*, Repayment.That said sum of live hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars shall be a charge against the World’s Columbian Exposition, and that of the moneys appropriated for the benefit of the World’s Columbian Exposition, amounting to two million five hundred thousand *Ante*, p. 389.dollars, under the act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars shall be retained by the Secretary of the Treasury until said Worlds Columbian Exposition shall have furnished to the satisfaction of the To be withheld until security for repayment given.Secretary of the Treasury, full and adequate security for the return and repayment, by said Worlds Columbian Exposition to the Treasury, of the sum of five hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, on or before October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and until such security shall have have been furnished by said Worlds 587 Columbian Exposition, this appropriation, or any portion thereof, shall not be available. That section three of the act in aid of the Columbian Exposition,*Ante*, p. 389. approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 3. That not to exceed fifty thousand bronze medals and theBronze medals to be prepared. necessary dies therefor, with appropriate devices, emblems and inscriptions commemorative of the said Exposition celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, shall be prepared under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prepare plates and make therefrom not to exceed fifty thousand impressions for diplomas at aDiplomas. total cost not to exceed one hundred and three thousand dollars. Said medals and diplomas shall be delivered to the Worlds Columbian Commission, to be awarded to exhibitors in accordance with the provisionsTo be awarded to exhibitors.Vol. 26, pp. 62–66. of said act of Congress approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and there is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenditures authorized by this section” " And every person who within the United States or any TerritoryPenalty for counterfeiting medals and diplomas, etc. thereof, without lawful authority, makes, or willingly aids or assists in making, or causes or procures to be made, any dies, hub, plate, or mold, either in steel or of plaster, or any other substance whatsoever, in the likeness or similitude as to the design, or inscription thereon, of any die, hub, plate, or mold, designated for the striking of the medals and diplomas of award for the World’s Columbian Exposition, as provided in section three of the act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred*Ante*, p. 389. and ninety-two, or conceals or shall have in his possession, any such die, hub, plate, or mold hereinbefore mentioned, with intent to fraudulently or unlawfully use the same for counterfeiting the medals and diplomas hereinbefore mentioned, or who shall fraudulently or unlawfully have in his possession or cause to be circulated any duplicate or counterfeit medal or diploma not authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at hard labor not more than ten years or both, at the discretion of the court. Paper and Stamps: For paper for internal revenue stamps, freight,Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc. and salary of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, sixty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal revenue laws: ForPunishing viola lions 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, twenty-five thousand dollars: and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how heStatements. 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, etc. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the[R. S., sec. 3053, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3053/719). 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 silver coin: For transportation of silverTransporting silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasurys authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub-treasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Deposits. That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited 588 in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. Report.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 suit treasury offices, in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of five hundred 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 five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to reimburse the Treasury for the loss of such recoinage; in all, one thousand dollars. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrentRecoinage silver coins. fractional silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight goldRecoinage gold coins. coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,United States securities.Paper, etc. 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. required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printers’ varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, expressPaper, national currency. charges, and other expenses, nine thousand three hundred dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Witness, 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 five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper:Canceling, etc. For extra knives for cutting machine and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodians ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. 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 sub custodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. 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 eighty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings:Inspector of furniture, etc. 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 589 necessary expenses, not exceeding one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of furniture and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and eighty 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, lights,Fuel, lights, and water. water, electric light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, eight hundred thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia, under the control of the Treasury Department, shall include the rental or use of any gas governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in waiting: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Gas governors, etc. 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. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments 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 deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and[R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/t/s4718/p919). eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and five thousand dollars for the necessary investigation of violations of section fifty-two hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty[R. S., sec. 5209, p. 1007](/us/rs/t/s5209/p1007). thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in*Proviso*.Restriction. defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. 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 semiannual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcementAlien contract-labor laws. 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 prevent unlawfulChinese exclusion. entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the 590 United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the act approved May fifth, *Ante*, p. 25eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” fifty thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this object for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaskan seal fisheries.Agents salaries. 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 five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Alaskan fisheries: For publishing the President’s proclamationPublishing Presidents proclamation. concerning seal fisheries of Bering Sea, and for protecting salmon fisheriesVol. 25, p. 1009. of Alaska, as required by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “To provide for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses of carrying out lease of and protecting seal life on islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sections [R. S., secs. 1952, 1971, pp. 344, 346](/us/rs/t/s1952/1971/pp344/346).nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one, Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the directionProtecting salmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, four thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, andFood, etc., to Alaskans. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. To be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior,Introduction of reindeer. for the purpose of introducing and maintaining in the Territory of Alaska, reindeer for domestic purposes, the sum of six thousand dollars;Immediately available. the same to be immediately available. quarantine service.Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersMaintenance. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Cape Charles, South Atlantic station (Sapelo Sound,) Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of a site for a quarantine station in ChesapeakeSite Chesapeake Bay station. Bay, seven thousand dollars. prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, or smallpox, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriatedVol. 25, p. 954. by the sundry civil appropriation act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, 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; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then Additional.Immediately available.in force, and the, additional sum of nine hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the same purpose to be immediately available. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. To enable the President to defray the United States’ share of the expensesMexican water boundary, joint Commission. and salaries of a joint Commission to determine all questions affecting the water boundary between the United States and Mexico, Vol. 26, p. 1512.as provided for by the treaty of March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. 591 For the United States moiety of the cost of marking the boundaryCanadian boundary. line between the United States and Canada in Passamaquoddy Bay opposite and adjacent to Eastport, Maine, and for the compensationSalary, etc., of Commissioner. and expenses of a commissioner on the part of the United States, as provided for by the convention of July twenty second, eighteen hundred*Post*, p. 956. and ninety-two, with Great Britain, five thousand dollars. To meet the share of the United States in annual expenses for theInternational customs tariffs bureau at Brussels. year ending April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents. Pan American Medical Congress: To meet the expenses of entertainingPan American Medical Congress. the foreign delegates who have been invited to attend said Congress in pursuance of the joint resolution of Congress of July eighteenth,*Ante*, p. 398. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifteen thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORUnder Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs. Interior Department and Pension Buildings, five thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs. thereof, including wages of mechanics, laborers, and fresco painters, twenty thousand dollars. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, twelve thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting Capitol and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; for use of electric lighting plants in Senate and House wings at not exceeding two hundred dollars per month during the sessions of Congress; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars. That hereafter no employee of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, orEmployment of Pinkerton, etc., detectives forbidden. similar agency, shall be employed in any Government service or by any officer of the District of Columbia. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Sales of public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForSalaries, registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and twenty thousand dollars. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to consolidateConsolidations. the district land offices so as to bring their total compensation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four within this appropriation. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expenses, land offices. other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, five thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands,Timber depredations, protecting PUBLIC lands, and swampland claims. and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swamp land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating 592 to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Agents’ per diem.That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation. Expenses of Hearings in Land Entries: For expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, ten thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing plats of surveys. the General Land office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on tile and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local laud offices with the same, two thousand dollars. Transcripts of Records and Plats: For furnishing transcriptsTranscripts of records and plats. of records and plats, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, two hundred thousandSurveys and resurveys. dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for *Provisos*.Preferences.section lines: *Provided*, That in expending 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 Vol. 25, p. 676.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.act approved February twenty-second, 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, except that the Commissioner Extra rates for heavily timbered, etc., lands.of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of lauds heavily timbered, mountainous or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, when the work cannot be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lint’s, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines:Lands in Montana, Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada, Wyoming, and Oregon. *provided further*, that in the States of Montana, Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada, Wyoming and Oregon, there may be allowed with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for Township, Resurveys.and twenty dollars for section lines. And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be expended for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of the 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 Inspecting mineral deposits, etc.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; Selections by North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington.*Provided further*, That the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington shall have a preference right over any person or corporation to select lands subject to entry by said States 593 granted to said States by the act of Congress approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for a period of sixtyVol. 25. p. 681. days after lands have been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States: *And Provided further*, That such preference right shall notNot to accrue against certain settlers, etc. accrue against bona fide homestead or preemption settlers on any of said lands at the date of tiling of the plat of survey of any township in any local land office, of said States. And that all that portion of the Fort Randall military reservation which lies within the state ofSelection of Fort Randall military reservation by South Dakota. South Dakota may be selected, at any time within one year after the passage of this act, or the approval of the survey of said reservation by the Secretary of the Interior, by the State of South Dakota as a part of the lands granted to the State under the provisions of an act to provide for the admission of South Dakota into the Union, approvedVol. 25, p. 681. February twenty-second, eighteen hundred eighty-nine; and when said lands are selected as herein provided the Secretary of the Interior shallPatents to issue. cause patents to be issued to the State of South Dakota: *Provided*, That if the State of South Dakota shall select said lands such selection shall embrace all the lands in said reservation in said State ofLimit of selection. South Dakota not exceeding the amount of land granted said State by the enabling act. That section one of an act entitled “An act to repeal timber cultureTimber culture entries.Vol. 26, p. 1096, amended. laws and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be. and hereby is amended by adding the following words to the fourth proviso thereof: “*And provided further*, ThatFinal proof on eight years bona fide cultivation. if trees, seeds, or cuttings were in good faith planted as provided by law and the same and the land upon which so planted were thereafter in good faith cultivated as provided by law for at least eight years by a person qualified to make entry and who has a subsisting entry under the timber culture laws, final proof may be made without regard to the number of trees that may have been then growing on the land.” *And provided further*, That where soldier’s additional homesteadPerfecting titles under soldiers’ additional homestead entries. entries have been made or initiated upon certificate of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the right to make such entry, and there is no adverse claimant, and such certificate is found erroneous or invalid for any cause, the purchaser thereunder, on making proof of such purchase, may perfect his title by payment of the Government price for the land; but no person shall be permitted to acquire more than one hundred and sixty acres of public land through the locationMaximum. of any such certificate. That the mayors of the cities of Richfield and Morgan, in the TerritoryMayors of Rich field and Morgan. Utah Ter., may enter lands for town site purposes. of Utah be, and are hereby, authorized to enter in trust for the benefit of the inhabitants of said cities, respectively, for town-site purposes, the school lands situated within the corporate limits of said cities, not exceeding one section in Richfield and one-quarter section in Morgan, subject to the provisions of the Statutes of the United States, relating to town sites and that the Territory of Utah, through itsIndemnity lieu lands to Utah. proper officers, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to select lien lands as indemnity and in full satisfaction for the school lands thus diverted. 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 act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four includingVol. 23, p. 103.Casa Grande. a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, five thousand dollars; *Provided*, That the President is hereby authorized by proclamation to*Proviso*.Grants to municipal corporations. withhold from sale and grant for public use to the municipal corporation in which the same is situated all or any portion of any abandoned military reservation not exceeding twenty acres in one place. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada,Survey of private land claims. and Wyoming, and in the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, confirmed under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled 594 “An act to establish a court of private land claims, and to provide Vol. 26. p. 854.for the settlement of private land claims, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as maybe necessary,” twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain what personsDes Moines River land grant, Iowa. made entry of lands, within the limits of the so-called Des Moines Investigation of entries, etc.River land grant for the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines River in Iowa, the date of such entry and the respective amounts paid to the United States and the date of such payments; also, the names of persons who received certificates of entry or patents from the United States and the date of such certificates or patents; also, the sum or sums paid by the holders of such certificates or patents, their heirs or assigns, to purchase the paramount title as settled by the decisions of the courts, and also the value of such paramount title in cases where such purchase has not been made by any of the holders of such certificates or patents, and to ascertain such other facts as in his judgment are necessary to enable the United States to properly and equitably adjust the claims of persons who entered upon such lands, receiving from the proper officers written evidence of entry or settlement upon any of said lands, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof Immediately available.Report.as may be necessary, to be immediately available and the said Secretary shall make report thereon at the first session of the Fifty-third Congress. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the GeologicalScientific assistants. Survey: For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, at three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, at two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine 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, thirteenLaborers, etc. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, twoTopographic surveys. hundred thousand dollars; sixty thousand dollars of which shall be expended west of the ninety-seventh meridian in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska. Kansas, Texas, and the Territory of Oklahoma, and at least one-half of the remainder shall be expended west of the one hundred and third meridian; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. seventy thousand dollars; For palaeontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPalaeontologic re - States,searches. ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical researches. United States, five thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. thirteen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report on the mineral resources of theMineral resources report. United States, twelve thousand dollars; 595 For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. of the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States,Maps. fifty-five thousand dollars; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, fourRent. thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, four hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred dollars; That the unexpended balances of appropriations made for the fiscalUnexpended balance year eighteen hundred and ninety-one for the Geological Survey may be applied to the liquidation of outstanding liabilities on account of any of said appropriations for said fiscal year. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTSMiscellaneous. supreme court reports.Supreme Court Reports. To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty-four inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions or section two of the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred andVol. 25, p. 661. eighty-nine, seven hundred and sixty dollars. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Current expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, thirteen thousand dollars. For special improvements as follows: For pavilions complete for the epileptic insane, sixty-two thousandPavilions for epileptic, insane. five hundred dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.Current expenses. Current Expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand dollars of which to be expended in the employment of instructors of articulation. For completion of inclosure of grounds, one thousand dollars. howard university.Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University to be used in payment ofMaintenance. part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from 596 donations and other sources, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Annual report.And the proper officers of said university shall report annually to the Secretary of the Interior how this appropriation is expended. For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars. For books for library, book eases, shelving and fixtures, three hundred dollars. For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history, and laboratory, five hundred dollars. For improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars. For repairs of buildings, one thousand dollars. In all, twenty-eight thousand eight 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, thirty thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Under War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island. Ill.Machinery, etc.Care, etc. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, and shores of the island; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:Bridge expenses. For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaducts, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For protecting Rock Island bridge by means of sheer booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, CALIFORNIA: For repairs of wharf andBenicia Arsenal, California. dredging around same, two thousand dollars. Columbia Arsenal, Columbia, Tennessee: For construction ofColumbia, Tenn. a cistern of about one hundred and twenty thousand gallons capacity, two thousand five hundred dollars. For boiler, iron tanks, steam pump, pipes, valves, and couplings, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For machinesFrankford Arsenal, Pennsylvania. for manufacture of artillery ammunition, five thousand dollars. Indianapolis Arsenal, Indianapolis, Indiana: For constructionIndianapolis. Ind. of a general workshop, with boiler, engine, shafting and fittings, eleven thousand dollars. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building andProving ground. repairingSandy Hook. N.J. roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops and storehouses and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, MASSACHUSETTS: For repairsSpringfield. Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. Testing machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor, and materialTesting machine, Watertown. in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, ten thousand dollars. Repairs of Arsenals: To meet such unforeseen expenditures atRepairs. arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty-five thousand dollars. 597 buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows:Improvement and care. For improvement of grounds north and south of the Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars; For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument grounds, two thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Condition. 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 dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, five hundred 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, two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improvement, care and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, three thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall beLimit for concrete 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 tor 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.Repairs, fuel, etc. For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, eighteen thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For renewing the superstructures of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion, one thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, one thousand dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamplighters, gas titters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars:*Provisos*. *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-one dollarsMaximum per lamp. and fifty cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided 598 for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand. hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Burners.*Provided*, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from sevenElectric lights. posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending waterRepair of water pipes, etc. pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsTelegraph, Capitol, Departments, and Government Printing Office. 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 ear, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per mouth; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per mouth each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator ear and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Military Posts: For the construction of buildings at and the enlargementMilitary posts.Construction. of such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. *Provided further*, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars,*Provisos*.Helena. Mont.*Ante*, p. 33. appropriated by act approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the establishment of a military post at Helena, Montana, may be used for beginning the construction of the necessary barracks, quarters, hospitals, kitchens, mess halls, stables, storehouses, magazines, defenses, and other necessary improvements and buildings provided Limit of cost.for in said act: *Provided*, That the cost of such improvements and buildings shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For theYellowstone National Park. improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: To enableChickamauga Chattanooga Na Park. the Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, according to the terms of existing laws, including the construction of roads, surveys, maps, iron gun carriages, administration building, the purchase of land within the legal area of the park and the north point of Lookout Mountain, and for widening roads, for bronze historical tablets, repairs to bridges, one observation tower on Orchard Knob, compensation of the 599 park commissioners and their historical assistant, continuing the restoration of the field, labor, clerical assistance, and office expenses; in all. one hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States donationsDonations of land. of land for road purposes. 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-fiveSuperintendents. superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the workHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundredVol. 17. p. 545.Vol 20. p. 281. and seventy-three and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoad ways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, eight 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 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, one thousand five hundred dollars. Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California:Road to Presidio, Cal. For continuing the work of improving the reservation at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, by developing and perfecting the water supply, the reclaiming of sand dunes, the planting of trees and shrubs, and construction of new roads, the erection of a permanent fence or wall on the south and east lines of the reservation, the erection of permanent gateways, the reclamation of the marsh, and other general and much needed improvements, ten thousand dollars. Battle Lines and Sites for Tablets at Antietam: For continuingAntietam battlefield. the work of surveying, locating, and preserving lines of battle of the Army of the Potomac and of the Army of Northern Virginia, at Antietam, and for locating and marking the positions of the forty-three different commands of the regular Army engaged in the battle of Antietam, and for purchase of sites for tablets for marking the same, and for the purchase of roadway to tablets as follows: For the purchase ofAdditional tablets, etc. fifty additional tablets, and transporting and setting up same; purchase of fifty additional sites for tablets; salaries of board, including office rent, hire of vehicles, and mileage, and for the condemnation of the land and acquiring title of the same, and for the purchase of landRoadway purchase, etc. for roadway from a point on the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown turnpike to a point on the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro turnpike (said land is known as the Bloody Lane or Sunken Road), and for repairing and fencing in said roadway; fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Cannon, etc., for marking positions. Secretary of War is authorized to supply at Antietam such number of cannon and cannon balls as his judgment may approve, and which can be spared, for the purpose of marking the positions of the different commands engaged in the battle of Antietam. Monuments and tablets at Gettysburg: For the purpose ofMonuments and tablets at Gettysburg, Pa. preserving the lines of battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and for properly marking with tablets the positions occupied by the various 600 commands of the armies of the Potomac and of Northern Virginia onAvenues, etc. that Held, and for opening and improving avenues along the positions occupied by troops upon those lines, and for fencing the same, and for determining the leading tactical positions of batteries, regiments, brigades, divisions, corps, and other organizations with reference to the study and correct understanding of the battle, and to mark the same with suitable tablets, each bearing a brief historical legend, compiled without praise and without censure, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous objects. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printingSurvey, northern and northwestern 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, twenty-five thousand dollars. Transportation of Reports and Maps to Foreign Countries:Transporting maps, 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 orArtificial limbs, etc. commutation therefor and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, six hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Appliances for Disabled Soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesAppliances for Disabled soldiers. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and Medical Treatment of Destitute Patients: ForProvidence Hospital. D. C.Support 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 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 it toGarfield Memorial Hospital.Maintenance. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Expenses of Military Convicts: For payment of costs andMilitary convicts. charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, three thousand dollars. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion:Official records, War of the Rebellion.Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate armies, including the atlas of maps and plans, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War, August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of Civilian board.Vol. 25, p. 970.the civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordance with the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication, and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, and for the purchase of stationery and for additional rent, not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Index of Confederate Records: For the preparation of a generalIndex of Confederate records. card index of the books, muster rolls, orders, and other official papers preserved in the Confederate archives office, and for the employment of such temporary expert services in connection therewith in Exports placed in classified service.as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, all such experts in the office of publication of the Records of the Rebellion to be placed under the same rules, regulations, and orders, in regard to employment, promotion, and discharge, as are applied to other employees in 601 the classified service of the War Department, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars, to continue available until expended. Artillery School at Fort Monroe. Virginia: To provide forArtillery school, Fort Monroe, Va. means of instruction, such as text books, instruments, drawing materials, and stationery, required in the courses of artillery, engineering, law, and the art and science of war. and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas:Infantry, etc., school Fort Leavenworth. Kans. For textbooks, books of reference, instruments and materials, for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousHarbor of New York. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesInspectors, etc. of office, fifteen thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousandMaintenance of steamers. dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, eight thousand dollars: In all. thirty-one thousand dollars. For completing, under the direction of the Secretary of War, a suitableOmaha, Nebr.Military depot. building for a military storehouse and offices at the military depot at Omaha, Nebraska, thirty thousand dollars. united states military prison at fort leavenworth.Military prison, Fort Leaven worth, Kans.Support. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence of prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen; andExpenses. for prisoners enroute to insane asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, eighteen 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, two 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 cooking purposes: materials for extension and repair of steam heating apparatus, and water circulation; hose, belting, machinery, castings, horses and mules, horse and mule shoes, and nails, articles for repairing harness and wagons, stoves and stovepipe, lime, cement, fire clay, fire brick, iron, tin, solder and blacksmiths’ coal, charcoal, putty, nails, whitewash brushes, painting materials, disinfectants, axes, shovels, spades, wheelbarrows, and all articles required for proper police of buildings and grounds, horse medicines and dressings, tools and miscellaneous articles for use in shops, laundry, barber shop, bathrooms, stables, printing office, and photograph gallery; furniture for use in offices; oil and electric-light supplies, blankets, bed sacks, and bunk for prisoners’ use, and miscellaneous articles which cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty thousand dollars; For materials for manufacture of clothing, and to purchase articles of clothing that cannot be made at the prison, all for prisoners’ wear at prison and issue to prisoners at release from confinement at prison and at military posts; for donation of five dollars each to prisoners on release from confinement at prison and at military posts, eight thousand dollars: For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, dressings, and for all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; 602 hospital furniture and supplies, heating appliances, and for expense of interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand five hundred dollars; For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred dollars; For expenses of pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars; For the transportation of prisoners, on their discharge from the prison, to their homes (or elsewhere, as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment, five thousand dollars; For pay of civilian employees; One clerk, at one thousand eight hundredCivilian employees. dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars, extra duty pay for prison guard, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; five foremen of mechanics and one engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; 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, sixteen thousand and forty dollars. For construction of buildings and repairs of all buildings on prisonQuarters, repairs, etc. grounds, including plumbing and all other civilian labor which cannot be done by prison labor, four thousand dollars. In all, seventy-six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department.River and harbor improvements.Philadelphia, Pa. For continuing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement removal of Smiths Island and Windmill Island, Removal of islands.Pennsylvania, and Pettys Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, five hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston. Texas: Continuing improvementGalveston Harbor. to entrance to harbor, one million dollars. For improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Mary’s River, Michigan:Hay Lake Channel, St. Marys River, Mich. Continuing improvement, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement,Hudson River. N.Y. five hundred thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend,Oswego. N. Y.Unexpended balance may be expended*Ante*, p. 90. under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, so much of the unexpended balance remaining from the appropriation of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety two, for improving harbor at Oswego, New York, and now available, as may be necessary and he may approve to remove a rocky ledge and other substances, and to deepen said harbor within the lines thereof to a uniform depth. For improving Great Kanawha River, West Virginia: ContinuingGreat Kanawha River. W. Va. improvement, five hundred thousand dollars. For improving Saint Johns River. Florida: Continuing improvementSaint Johns River, Fla. of channel over bar at the mouth, two hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars. For improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio RiverMississippi River, from mouth of Ohio River to landing, Minneapolis, Minn. “ to the landing on the west bank below the Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and fifty eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; continuing improvement from the month of the Missouri River to Minneapolis, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; in all, one million five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving Saint Mary’s River at the Falls, Michigan: ContinuingSaint Marys River at Falls. Mich. improvement, one million two hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.*Provided*, that of the amount hereby appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be “ Channel at “elbow” of Lake George.expended in widening the present channel at “the elbow” at the lower end of Lake George, in Saint Mary’s River, Michigan. 603 For improving channel connecting the waters of the Great LakesChannel, Chicago, Duluth, to Buffalo. between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For improving canal at the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon:Cascades of Columbia River. Oregon. Continuing improvement, one million two hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement,Harbor of refuge, Point Judith, R. I. one hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, including SullivanCharleston, S. C.Sullivan Island and Mount Pleasant Shore. Island and Mount Pleasant Shore: Continuing improvement, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Continuing improvement,Savannah, Ga. one million dollars. For improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement,Mobile, Ala. five hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: ContinuingHumboldt, Cal. improvement, five hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. Under Mississippi River Commission: For improving MississippiMississippi River Commission.Head of the passes to mouth of OhioSalaries, etc River from head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Under Missouri River Commission: For improving Missouri River. Missouri River Commission.Salaries, etc.from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks and gauges, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars of which may be used for removal of snags and other like obstructions in the Missouri River above Sioux City, Iowa; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Profiled*, That not more than three-fourths of the foregoing*Proviso*. appropriationsLimit of expenditures. under head of “Engineer Department.” for rivers and harbors, shall be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; but this proviso shall notExceptions. apply to the appropriations herein made for the improvements of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and of Hay Lake Channel. And hereafter the Secretary of War shall furnish to the SecretarySecretary of War to furnish annual estimates on or before October 1. of the Treasury, on or before the first day of October of each year, estimates of all appropriations required for river and harbor improvements for the next fiscal year to be included in the Book of Estimates prepared by law under his direction. And the Secretary of War is hereby instructed to cause a preliminaryCincinnati, Ohio.Survey for ice harbor. examination and survey to be made at the mouth of the Crawfish Creek, in the first ward, and the mouth of Mill Creek, in the twenty-first ward of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, as to availability of either or both said locations for an ice harbor. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Support. 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.Current expenses. namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and tire 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 cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, sixty-seven thousand five hundred and one dollars and fifty-eight cents; 604 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 seventeen thousand dollars; For clothing, namely: Expenditures for clothing, under-clothing,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, seventy-four thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters;Household expenses. for bedsteads, bedding, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the home: for coal and firewood; for engineers and firemen; bathhouse keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, aim 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, eighty-seven thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty nine cents; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital expenses. hospital stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage-drivers, hearse drivers, grave diggers, funeral escort, and for such labor as may be necessary; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, 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, stretchers, coffins, and materials; for tools of grave diggers, and for all repairs not done by the home, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and five cents; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. home, two thousand five hundred dollars; For construction and repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders,Construction. blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters; stone masons, quarry-men, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, seventy-three thousand three hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm expenses. farm hand, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, hog-feeders, and laborers, and for all machines, implements, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing and seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals and fowls purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for repairs not done by the Home, nineteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents; In all. six hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and three 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-seven thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; 605 For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-five cents; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand four hundred dollars. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and twelve thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-five 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-four thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-one cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and eight thousand four hundred and five dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand two hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head forHousehold. the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars and ten cents: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eleven thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-two cents; In all, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-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-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and thirty cents: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-five cents; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars:Transportation.Construction. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-five cents. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: ForLeavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; 606 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and ten dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighteen cents: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm. Central Branch, eleven thousand dollars: In all, three hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty-six dollars and eighteen cents; At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, seventy-six thousand dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents; In all, one hundred and eighty-six thousand six hundred and three dollars and forty-seven cents. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses,Marion, Ind.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, seventy-one thousand two hundred and forty dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirteen cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, fourteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-five cents; For transportation, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Branch, one thousand four hundred dollars; For construction and repairs, including the same objects specifiedConstruction. under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, five thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-five cents; In all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-eight cents: 607 For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, thirty thousand dollars;Outdoor relief, etc. In all, two million three hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-nine cents. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State orAid to State or Territorial homes. Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in conformity with the act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p. 450. and eighty-eight, live hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, that one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes on*Proviso*.Deductions for pensions retained. account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of payBack pay and bounty.Arrears of 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-four, four hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widowsBounty. and legal heirs that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 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-four, thirty-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation of rations. 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-four, thirty thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Under Department of Justice. Court house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourthouse, District of Columbia. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States:Defending suits in claims. For 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 expendedFrench spoliation claims. under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds:Indian service.Punishing violations, intercourse acts. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecution of crimes. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the 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-five thousand dollars. Expenses of Territorial Courts in Utah Territory: For defrayingUtah courts. the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees, and per 608 diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-five thousand dollars. Prosecution and Collection of claims: For the prosecution andProsecuting and collecting claims. 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 actualAlaska.Traveling expenses. and necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: ForRent, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expensesDefense, Indian depredation claims. in defense of the Indian depredation claims, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses of the United States Courts: For defraying the expensesExpenses. of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the court in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of 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 [R. S., Title XXVI, pp. 352–357](/us/rs/tXXVI/s/pp352–357).United States; and of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of the 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’ fees, etc.*Provisos*.Accounts. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, that not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all only in the [R. S., sec. 856, p. 151](/us/rs/t/s856/p151).payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six. Revised Statutes: *Provided further*, That Limit of mileage.hereafter no marshal or deputy marshal shall be allowed more than one mileage for each mile actually and necessarily traveled, irrespective of the number of writs he may execute in making such travel; nor shall any marshal or deputy marshal be allowed any additional mileage incident to the execution or return of any writ of arrest, commitment, or removal other than the ten cents a mile now allowed by law for each deputy, prisoner, and guard; and no mileage shall be allowed upon any writ not executed. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being inDistrict attorneys.Fees. payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment ofSpecial compensate. such special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred thousand dollars. 609 For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employedSpecial assistants. by the Attorney General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners fees, etc. acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. And hereafter no part of any money appropriated to pay any fees toWarrants under internal revenue laws. the United States Commissioners, marshals, or clerks shall be used for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal revenue laws, unless said fees have been taxed against and collected from the defendant, or unless the prosecution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting theSworn complaints required. offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant, or upon a sworn complaint by a United States district attorney 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: *Provided*, It shall be the*Proviso*.Arrests, etc. duty of the marshal, his deputy, or other officer who may arrest a person charged with any crime or offense, to take the defendant before the commissioner or the nearest judicial officer having jurisdiction under existing laws for a hearing, commitment or taking bail for trial, and the officer or magistrate issuing the warrant shall attach thereto a certified copy of the complaint; and upon the arrest of the accused, the return of the warrant, with a copy of the complaint attached, shall confer jurisdiction upon such officer as fully as if the complaint hadJurisdiction, etc. originally been made before him, and no mileage shall be allowed any officer violating the provisions hereof. For fees of jurors, six hundred thousand dollars.Jurors’ fees.Witnesses’ fees.Support of prisoners. For fees of witnesses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, three hundred thousand dollars. For rent of United States court rooms, fifty thousand dollars.Rent.Bailiffs, 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 and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. 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 seventy thousand dollars. And hereafter the general term of the supreme court of the DistrictSupreme court, D. C.Terms of criminal court, etc. of Columbia may order two terms of the criminal court to be held at the same time, whenever in their judgment business requires it; and they shall designate the time and place of holding the same, and the justices by whom such terms shall respectively be held, and shall make orders for a division of the criminal docket between the judges holdingDivision of criminal docket.Juries. such terms. And hereafter petit jurors shall be drawn for such criminal terms in the same manner and at the same times as prescribed by the act entitled “An act to amend the laws relating to the selection andVol. 25, p. 749. service of jurors in the supreme court of the District of Columbia” passed March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. 610 UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatement of appropriations. of the Committees on appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the, regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Vol. 25, p. 587.Fifty-second Congress, as required by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairman of said committees to do said work. Senate: To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Annie B.Senate.Annie B. Kenna. Kenna, widow of the honorable John E. Kenna, deceased, late a Senator from the State of West Virginia, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the executors of theExecutors of Hon. Randall L. Gibson. honorable Randall L. Gibson, deceased, late a Senator from the State of Louisiana, live thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Index of private claims: To enable the Secretary of the SenateIndex of private claims.Compensation. to pay the persons who performed the work of arranging and preparing the index of private claims introduced in the Senate during the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty ninth. Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, under Senate resolution of September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, ten thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States, to be immediately available. Index to Congressional documents: To pay for the work doneIndex to Congressional documents. in preparing and completing the document index of the Fifty first Congress, by Alonzo W. Church, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Expenses of inaugural ceremonies: To enable the SecretaryExpenses of inaugural ceremonies. of the Senate to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, incurred by order of the Senate, including pay for extra Capitol police for three days, at three dollars per day each, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be Immediately available.necessary, to be immediately available. Building for the Library of Congress.Library of Congress. For continuing the construction of the building for the Library ofContinuing construction. Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, *Proviso*.Compensation of disbursing officer.nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. *Provided*, That the officer disbursing appropriations for the construction of the Congressional Library building shall receive as compensation for such services one-quarter of one per centum on the amount of all disbursements made and to be made by him for such building. Botanic Garden: For repairs to buildings at Botanic Garden, includingBotanic Garden. new boiler for main conservatory, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase six hundredHeyl’s “United States Duties on Imports.”Purchase of copies. copies of Lewis Heyl’s work entitled “United States Duties on Imports” (edition of eighteen hundred and ninety-one) one thousand eight hundred dollars, viz, one copy for each Senator, Representative, and Distribution.Delegate; one hundred copies for the use of the Treasury Department; and the residue for the use of the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. 611 PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, 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 three hundred and seventeenAmount. thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be. done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, one million ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business; For the State Department, eighteen 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, including twelve thousand dollars for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s office, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For the Navy Department, seventy thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office; For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks and for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars; For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, five thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins ten thousand dollars: For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty thousand dollars; For the Department of Justice, nine thousand dollars; For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars; For the Department of Agriculture, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, eighty-five thousand dollars; For the Department of Labor, seven thousand dollars; For the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand dollars; For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars; 612 For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars; For the Library of Congress, twelve thousand dollars; For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars; And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriatedDivision of appropriation. shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. No report, document, or publication of any kind distributed by, orDocuments not to contain “the compliments” of any officer. from an Executive Department or bureau of the Government shall hereafter contain any notice that same is sent with “the compliments” of an officer of the Government or with any special notice that it is so sent. The Public Printer shall on the first day of each session, or as soonReports of Public Printer. thereafter as may be practicable, report to Congress the exact condition and the amount and cost of public printing, binding, lithographing, and engraving, the amount and cost of all paper purchased for the same; a detailed statement of all proposals made and contracts entered into for the purchase of paper and other materials, and for lithographing and engraving; of all payments made during the preceding year under his direction; of the amount of work ordered and done with a general classification thereof for each department and a detailed statement of each account with the departments or public officers; a detailed statement of the number of hands employed in the establishment and the time each has been employed. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, March 3, 1893.
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