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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · March 3, 1893 · Chapter 210

Chapter 210. making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 210.— An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for prior years, 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*,Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim: To pay amountsCharg’s d’affaires *ad interim.* found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries charges 647 d’affaires ad interim for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, thirteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars and fifteen cents. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To pay amounts foundContingent expenses, foreign missions. due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses, foreign missions for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-two thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
Salaries, consular officers not citizens: To pay amountsConsular officers not citizens. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries, consular officers not citizens, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, six thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries, consular officers not citizens, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To payContingent expenses, consulates. amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses, United States consulates, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seventy-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses United States consulates for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, seventy-six thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-two cents.
To pay bills on file in the Department of State for iron safes furnished to certain consulates, payable from the appropriation for contingent expenses United States consulates for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses, United States consulates, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-four cents.
To be paid to Mrs. Sarah O. Hanna, widow of Bayless W. Hanna,Bayless W. Hanna.Payment to widow. deceased, late minister resident and consul-general, and also Commissioned July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, for expenses and loss in bringing said Hanna from Buenos Ayres to the United States after he was attacked by a fatal disease while at his post, and in the discharge of his official duties, which said attack rendered him entirely helpless, and from which he died after reaching home, five thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Publication of Customs Tariffs: To meet the share of the UnitedPublication of customs tariffs. States in annual expense for the year ending April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of sustaining the Internal Bureau of Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. For Contingent Expenses: For care and subsistence of horsesContingent expenses. and repairs of wagons, carriage and harness, for rent of stable and wagon shed, for care of clocks telegraphic and electric apparatus and report to the same and for miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, nine hundred dollars.
Electoral vote of Montana: To pay the expenses of specialSpecial messenger to Montana for electoral vote. messenger sent to Montana for the electoral vote of that State, as authorized by section one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statues of the United States, as amended by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Bering Sea Arbitration: To enable the President to fulfill theBering Sea arbitration. stipulations contained in the treaties between the United States and 648 Great Britain, signed on the twenty-ninth day of February and the*Post*, pp. 941, 952. eighteenth day of April eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in relation to the tribunal of arbitration at Paris, fifty thousand dollars; and this sum. or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available and be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State with the approval of the President of the United States. treasury department.Treasury Department.
Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to useUse of unexpended balances. seven thousand five hundred dollars of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for his office to pay employees of the division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations of his office for extra labor performed by them prior to February first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to be paid in such sums as shall seem to him to be just and equitable, having reference to the value of the services rendered to the Government by each employee respectively. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
For salary of all necessary clerks and employees other than plateSalaries. printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirty-seven dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For repairs and maintenance of vessels, ten thousand dollars.Repairs, etc., of vessels.Office expenses. For office expenses, including fire extinguishing apparatus, pumps, new steam-heating boiler, and necessary repairs, three thousand dollars.
CUSTOMS SERVICE.Customs service. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, beingExpenses of collecting revenue. additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred thousand dollars. internal revenue.Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expensesAgents’ salaries. of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, two hundred thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, being a deficiency for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifteen thousand dollars. For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight and salary of Superintendent,Paper for stamps, etc. messengers, and watchmen, ten thousand dollars. life saving serviceLife-Saving Service. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the Life-Saving service,Pay of keepers and crews, etc.*Ante*, p. 257. made necessary by the act of July twenty-second eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An act to fix the compensation of keepers and crews of life-saving stations,” as follows:
For salaries of keepers of life saving and lifeboat stations, thirty-eight thousand and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents; For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, during the period of actual employment, and for carrying out Vol. 22, p. 57.the provisions of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars; in all, two hundred and 649 thirty-seven thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For balance of amount necessary for purchase of a site for the LongSite for Long Branch station. Branch life-saving service, four thousand and eighty-five dollars and forty-four cents: *Provided*, it shall be within the discretion of the*Proviso*.Title in whole or part. Secretary of the Treasury to obtain title to the whole or a part of the premises which have been condemned, as the needs of the service may seem to him to require, at aerate proportionate to the price fixed in the condemnation proceedings for the entire lot. under smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution.
National Museum: For expenses of heating the United StatesNational Museum.Heating. National Museum, two thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collectionPreserving collections, etc. from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, two thousand dollars. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges, etc. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, five thousand dollars.
FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. For the introduction by the United States Fish Commission into andMiscellaneous expenditures, etc. the increase in the waters of the United States of food-fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and tor such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten thousand dollars.
For the maintenance of the vessels and steam launches of the Commission.Maintenance of vessels, etc. and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, twenty-five thousand dollars. And the act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,Ten per cent available interchange. entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred*Ante*, p. 361. and ninety-three, and for other purposes,” providing for the available interchange of ten per centum of the appropriations made for the general expenses of the work of the United States Fish Commission shall also apply to the appropriations made for the general expenses ofApplicable to previous years. said Commission for the fiscal .years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, respectively:
Fish Hatchery, Texas: For the completion of the fish culturalFish-hatchery, Tex.*Ante*, p. 361. station in Texas, authorized by the act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five thousand dollars. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Assay office at New York: For wages of workmen, two thousandNow York, N. Y. five hundred dollars. Assay office at Boise: For incidental and contingent expenses,Boise, Idaho. including labor, one thousand dollars. Assay office at Charlotte:
For incidental and contingent expenses,Charlotte, N. C. including labor, five hundred dollars. 650 PUBLIC BUILDINGS.Public buildings. For payment to C. S. Waite for services as engineer in the UnitedC. S. Waite.Payment to. States courthouse and post-office building at Lincoln, Nebraska, during the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-five dollars. For payment to James Manning for services as fireman in the UnitedJames Manning.Payment to. States courthouse and post-office building at Lincoln, Nebraska, during the month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty-two dollars and sixty cents.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorizedJames B. Oliver.Payment to. and directed to pay to James B. Oliver, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, surety of the Pennsylvania Construction Company, the sum of eight thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents, as payment in full for extra work done at the instance of the Government superintendent of the Government public buildings in the erection of said buildings in the said city of Pittsburg. treasury miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
Contingent expenses: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationContingent expenses. for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, file-holders and cases,” two thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “contingent expenses. Treasury Department, stationery,” two thousand dollars. For the following appropriations for the contingent expenses of the Treasury 1 Department: Stationery, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, fifteen dollars; Binding, newspapers, and so forth, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred dollars;
Binding, newspapers, and so forth, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-nine dollars and forty-five cents; Freight, telegrams, and so forth, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, forty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents; Freight, telegrams, and so forth, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifty-two dollars and fifty cents; Furniture and so forth, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents; in all, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents; to enable the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department to adjust the accounts of certain engineer officers of the Army for amounts improperly paid from appropriations for the Light-House Establishment, the same not to involve the further expenditure of money from the Treasury.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsRepairs of furniture, etc. of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings, marine Hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, forty-five thousand dollars. Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirementsIndependent Treasury.Contingent expenses.[R. S. sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3653/p719). of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.
Fuel, lights, and water: For fuel, lights, water, electric-lightFuel, etc. 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, one hundred thousand dollars. 651 North American Commercial COMPANY:
To reimburse the NorthNorth American Commercial Company.Reimbursement for subsistence, etc., to shipwrecked whalers. American Commercial Company for amounts expended, as follows: For board, keeping, and supplies at Saint Paul Island, and transportation to Unalaska, for twenty-nine shipwrecked whalers from the whaling brig Alexander, wrecked on Saint Paul Island, Alaska, April twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents; For subsistence of twenty-five of the above persons at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for eleven days, two hundred and seventy-five dollars;
For transportation of twenty-four of the above persons from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to Port Townsend, Washington, seven hundred and twenty dollars: For addition and repairs to Government buildings on the Island ofRepairs, St. George Island. Saint George, Alaska, certified to as necessary by the Treasury agent in charge of Seal Islands, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-six cents; in all, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents. Estate of GustaveGustave Fryeburg.Payment to.
Freyburg: To pay to the estate of Gustave Freyburg, deceased, formerly seaman on the American bark Willard Mudgett. the sum of fifty-seven dollars and seventy cents, due said estate, and which has been erroneously covered into the Treasury. Pay of assistant custodians and JANITORS: For pay of assistantAssistant 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, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service.Maintenance, etc. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Cape Charles, South Atlantic (Sapelo Sound), Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, fifty thousand dollars. Payment to the Oregon Improvement Company: To pay toOregon improvement Company.Payment to. the Oregon Improvement Company the amount paid by the Oregon Improvement Company for the repair of damages to the company’s steamer Willamette, resulting from collision in San Francisco Harbor with the steamer General McDowell, in the service of the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States, January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, it being shown by report of United States steamboat inspectors at San Francisco that the responsibility for the collision rested entirely upon the Government tug, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifteen cents.
Collecting bank statistics: To pay Henry H. Smith for additionalHenry H. Smith.Payment to. services and as reimbursement for money expended in collecting statistical information under the resolution of the Senate of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Payment to George Q. Cannon: To enable the Secretary of theGeorge Q. Cannon.Payment to. Treasury to refund to George Q. Cannon, of Utah, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, amount paid by said Cannon on a forfeited bail bond given in February, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for his appearance in the United States district court at Salt Lake City, Utah, the payment of the said sum having been recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury, as set forth in Senate Executive Document Numbered Forty-three, second session Fifty-second Congress.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay William A. Richardson,William A.Richardson.Payment to.Ante, p. 477. when the work shall be completed, for preparing and editing a supplement to the Revised Statutes, under the act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three two thousand dollars. 652 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Colombia. Contingent expenses: For advertising notices of taxes in arrears:Contingent expenses.Advertising tax arrears. To pay the Evening Star Newspaper Company, one thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-two cents;
To pay The Washington Post Company, one thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-three cents; in all, three thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents. Sewers: To pay James McCandlish for work on sewer on I street,Sewers. between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets northwest, under contract numbered eight hundred and thirty-two (being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight), seventy-eight dollars and sixty-four cents.
Fire department: New engine house and lot; for electric appliancesFire department. for stalls, gongs, and so forth, four hundred dollars. Public schools: To pay janitor of Polk School, four dollars andPublic schools. seventy-four cents. To pay janitor of Wilson School, four dollars and seventy-four cents. To pay janitor of Taylor School, four dollars and seventy-four cents. To pay janitor of Logan School, four dollars and seventy-four cents; in all, eighteen dollars and ninety-six cents.
To pay janitors of M street High School, three hundred and twenty dollars; To pay janitor of Logan School, thirteen dollars and ninety-five cents; in all. three hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety-five cents; being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two. For fuel, four thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, forty-three dollars and twenty cents. For service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, forty-two dollars.
For the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-eight dollars and forty cents. For eight room building and site in fifth division, for heating and ventilating, two thousand and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents. Police court: For United States marshal’s fees, three hundred andPolice court. ninety-six dollars. To pay United States marshal for March, April, May, and June,United States marshal. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents.
Health department: For collection and removal of garbage andHealth department. dead animals: To pay M. V. Mason and George M. Slye, inspectors, sixty-six dollars each, and Henry Lacy, John H. Crawford, inspectors, sixty-two dollars each; in all, two hundred and fifty-six dollars. Deficiency in sale of bonds retained from contractors: ToContractors bonds. supply the deficiency in the amount realized from the sale of bonds in which the ten per centum retained from contractors was invested, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Judgments, District of Columbia: For payment of judgmentPayment of judgments. against the District of Columbia, namely, Ellen Costello, judgment seven thousand five hundred dollars, costs ninety-six dollars and ninety cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgment, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment, seven thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety cents. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia:
For salaries of theCourt of appeals.Salaries or justices, etc. chief justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia at the rate of six thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two associate justices at the rate of six thousand dollars each per annum, from April third to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety three, four thousand six hundred dollars. 653 For salary of clerk of said court, at the rate of three thousand dollarsClerk, etc. per annum, from April third to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred dollars; and for clerical assistance and necessary expenditures in the conduct of his office, three hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eight hundred and thirty dollars.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For additional amountSupreme Court, D. C.Salaries of justices.Additional.*Ante*, p.436. for salaries of the Chief Justice and five associate justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from April third to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as provided by the act approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two thousand dollars. To enable the coroner of the District of Columbia to employ an assistantCoroner’s assistant for the coming year and through the next fiscal year, six hundred dollars.
That one-half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies in theOne-half from District revenues. appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. To carry out the provisions of an act entitled “An act to provide aSystem of highways.*Ante*, p. 532. permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid entirely from the revenues of the District ofAll from District revenues.
Columbia. For opening, widening, and extending alleys in the District of Columbia,Opening, etc., alleys.*Ante*, p. 255. under the provisions of an act entitled “An act to provide for the opening of alleys in the District of Columbia,” approved July twenty second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the funds ofFrom District funds. the District of Columbia, the same to be refunded by the payment of assessments to be made under the provisions of said act.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department Office of the Inspector-General: The Secretary of War isInspector-General’s office.Clerical, etc., appointments. hereby authorized to appoint for the remainder of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three in the Office of the Inspector general the following clerks, namely, one clerk of class three, one clerk of class two, one clerk of class one, and one messenger; and the salaries of said clerks and messenger shall be paid from the unexpended balance of the appropriations for the salaries of the War Department for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and the Secretary of War shall hereafter exercise the same supervision over all receipts and disbursements on account of the volunteer soldiers’ homes as he is required by law to apply to the accounts of disbursing officers of the Army: *Provided*, That on and after March fifteenth, eighteen hundred*Proviso*.Record and Pension Office.Clerical reductions. and ninety-three, the existing clerical force of the Record and Pension office be, and the same is hereby, reduced as follows: one clerk of class one, and four clerks at one thousand dollars each. miscellaneousMiscellaneous.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three yearBack pay. volunteers that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and fifteen 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-three, one hundred and twenty-five 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 654 due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia:Care, etc., public grounds. D. C. For removal of snow and ice, five hundred 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 forty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, one thousand dollars. Fort Leavenworth military prison: For expenses of pursuingFort Leavenworth military prison. escaped prisoners and rewards for their capture, two hundred and eighty dollars.
Rebuilding Lock on Green River. Kentucky: For rebuildingGreen River. Ky., rebuilding lock. lock numbered two on Green River, at Rumsey, in the State of Kentucky, sixty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For completing custom house at Chattanooga. Tennessee:Chattanooga, Tenn., customhouse. For building the platform around the apex of the customhouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. military establishment.Military establishment.
Pay of the Army: For mileage to officers when authorized by law,Mileage to officers. to be disbursed under the limitations prescribed for the appropriation for mileage to officers by the Army appropriation act approved July *Ante*, p. 177.sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-five thousand dollars may be used of the whole sum appropriated for pay of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three by the said act. Medical department: For the payment of accounts for medicalMedical department.Supplies accounts.*Ante*, p. 181. and hospital supplies purchased under formal written contracts and payable from the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand eight hundred dollars. military academy.Military Academy.
For the purchase of fuel, under the appropriation “Fuel and Apparatus,”Fuel, etc. two thousand dollars. arsenals.Arsenals. For care and preservation of the bridge and viaduct and expenseRock Island bridge. of maintaining and operating the draw of the Rock Island bridge, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay to the owners of Bellevue rifle range, Omaha, Nebraska, forBellevue rifle range, Omaha. Nebr. use and occupation thereof, five hundred dollars; the said sum to be in full for such use and occupation for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-three. state or territorial homes.State or Territorial soldiers’ homes.
For continuing the aid to State or Territorial homes for the supportContinuing aid to. of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the act approved Vol 25. p. 450.August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, thirty-two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents. navy department.Navy Department. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the owners of the schoonerSchooner “Kathleen”.Payment to owners.
Kathleen for damages sustained by the tender of said schooner in collision with the steam launch of the United States steamer Chicago in the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, the latter vessel being responsible therefor, ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents. 655 naval establishment.Naval establishment. For clothing bounty for apprentices who enlisted after March first,Clothing bounty for apprentices.Claims for. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and prior to August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the sum of eleven thousand six hundred and ten dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to enable the accounting officers to settle the claims of the apprentices who are entitled to receive the same.
To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the act ofAdvances.Vol. 20, p. 167. June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named, in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal years given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twentyPay, miscellaneous. thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents;
For contingent Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three thousandNavy, contingent. and fifty-two dollars and sixty-five cents; For pay of the Marine Corps, three, hundred and eight dollars;Marine Corps. For pay of the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, twenty-four dollars: For pay of the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-four dollars; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery.Contingent. and ninety-two, four hundred and ninety-four dollars and ten cents; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-seven cents.
Pay, miscellaneous: To pay amounts found due by the accountingPay, miscellaneous. officers, except for services over the Union Pacific Railroad, on account of freight and transportation of officers traveling under orders underTransportation, etc. the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous,” being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. To pay amounts found due to officers of the Navy on claims allowedTraveling expenses. by the accounting officers of the Treasury for moneys actually expended by such officers tn traveling under orders, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents.
To pay vouchers set forth in House Executive Document NumberedNaval prison, Boston. Seventy-two, second session Fifty-second Congress, for telephone service, transportation, advertising, stationery, and expenses at naval prison, Boston, one thousand and eighty-six dollars and eleven cents. bureau of Ordnance: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountBureau of Ordnance.Contingent. of freight, under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” except for services over the several Pacific Railroads, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one dollar and seventy-five cents.
Bureau of Navigation: To pay amounts found due by theBureau of Navigation.Transportation and recruiting. accounting officers on account of freight and transportation, under the appropriation “Transportation and recruiting. Navy, Bureau of navigation,” except for services over the Southern Pacific Railroad, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nine dollars and fifty cents. Bureau of Equipment: To pay bill of the New England and SavannahBureau of Equipment.Freight.
Steamship Company for transportation of freight on account of the Naval service, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nine dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofContingent. freight, under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-three cents. 656 Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:
To amounts found due,Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.Contingent. by the accounting officers on account of freight, under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, ’except for services over the Union Pacific Railroad, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand and sixty-three dollars and fifty-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing,” except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifteen cents.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: To pay amounts found due by theBureau of Medicine and Surgery.Contingent. accounting officers on account of freight, under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery” except for services of the several Pacific railroads, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one one hundred and thirty-five dollars marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountPay. of transportation, under the appropriation “Pay, Marine Corps,” being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and twelve cents.
Provisions: For amount due Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,Provisions. Navy Department, on account of rations stopped at naval hospitals from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-eight cents; For amount due on account of rations to retired men from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to reimburse paymaster United States Marine Corps, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-two cents.
Contingent: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officersContingent. on account of freight under the appropriation, “Contingent, Marine Corps,” being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hunt bed and ninety-two, seventy-nine dollars and twelve cents; To pay accounts on file for burial expenses, repairs to gas and water pipes, ranges, wagons, express charges, freight, cartage, advertising, gas, water, and so forth, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirteen cents;
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight under the appropriation, “Contingent Marine Corps,” except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nineteen dollars and sixty-eight cents; To reimburse appropriation contingent on account of amount paid for plumbing work at Marine Barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two hundred and six dollars and forty cents;
To reimburse appropriation contingent on account of amount paid for paints for barracks and fences at Sitka, Alaska, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. To reimburse Major Green Clay Goodloe, paymaster, United StatesGreen Clay Goodloe.Reimbursement for stolen money. Marine Corps, for money stolen by Benjamin A. Jones, alias Benjamin A. Jaeger, a clerk in his office, who committed suicide December twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and who was indicted by the courts of the District of Columbia for said theft, three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-one cents. 657 To reimburse John W.
Noble the sum paid by him as costs in theJohn W. Noble.Reimbursements of costs. suit brought by the Union River Logging Railroad Company against John W. Noble and others, to enjoin the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office from executing an order revoking the approval of a right of way over the public lands, said action having been taken by said John W. Noble, as Secretary of the Interior, upon the advice of the Attorney-General, one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty cents.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. Bureau of Education: For sixty dollars each to two laborers, toBureau of Education.Correction of error. correct accidental reduction from four hundred and eighty dollars to four hundred and twenty dollars each, due to error in engrossing the legislative, and so forth, bill for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and twenty dollars. Investigation of pension cases, Bureau of Pensions: For per diemBureau of Pensions.Investigating pension cases. when absent from home and traveling on duty, outside the District of Columbia for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of the Capitol: For work at the Capitol, and for generalCapitol.Repairs, etc. repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, ten thousand dollars. Electric lighting plant, House: For purchase of the electricHouse.Electric lighting, etc. lighting plant of the House wing, ten thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-three cents; For repairs and extension of the same to meet the present requirements of the service, five thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds:
For payment of balanceLighting Capitol and grounds. due Washington Gas Light Company for gas service for the month of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior: For repairsRepairs of building. of the Interior Department and Pension Buildings, three thousand dollars. Freight elevator, Pension Building: For additional amountFreight elevator, Pension building. required for constructing elevator for Pension office building, one thousand three hundred dollars. geological survey.Geological survey.
For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, five Illustrations.thousand dollars. For engraving the Geological Maps of the United States, ten thousandEngraving maps. dollars army and navy pensions.Army and Navy pensions. Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives; survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and with Mexico: *Provided*, That the appropriation*Provisos*.Navy pensions. aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: *And provided further*, That the amount expended under eachAccounts. of the above items shall be accounted for separately, thirteen million eight hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, being a deficiency forExamining surgeons fees. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and thousand dollars 658 For rent of quarters for pension agency in Topeka, Kansas, fiscalAgency, Topeka, Kans.Rent. year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-cents. eleventh census.Eleventh Census. For salaries and necessary expenses for continuing the work of compilingCompiling results. the results of the Eleventh Census, to be immediately available and to continue available until exhausted, as hereinafter provided, eight hundred and forty-thousand dollars.
For salaries and necessary expenses for continuing the work of collectingDivision of farms, homes, and mortgages. and compiling statistics of farms, homes, and mortgages, to be immediately available and to continue available until exhausted, as hereinafter provided, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That the office of the Eleventh Census shall be abolished and theOffice of Eleventh Census abolished. terms of the office of Superintendent and of all employees appointed under the provisions of the act of March first, eighteen hundred and Vol. 25, p. 760.eighty-nine, entitled “An act to provide for taking the Eleventh and subsequent censuses,” or of any subsequent act relating to the Eleventh To terminate December 31, 1893.Census, shall cease and terminate after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety three; and thereafter no further expenditures, whether for salaries or expenses, shall be made on account of the Eleventh Census, except as hereinafter provided.
The Unpublished work.unpublished work of the Eleventh Census and of the division of farms, homes, and mortgages shall be completed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior to whom the records and other property of the Census Office shall be transferred; and the Secretary of the Transfer of records, etc.Interior is authorized to employ, from the date specified in this act, from the force of the Census Office then Secretary of Interior may appoint chief of division, special agents, clerks, etc.employed, a chief of division at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; three special agents, who shall be statistical experts, at a compensation of six dollars per day each, and a clerical force for duty in said division, which force shall consist of three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three, two of whom shall be practical printers; three clerks of class two, all of whom shall be experienced proofreaders; three clerks of class one, three clerks at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, and five computers, at seven Duration of employment.hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and such chief of division, special agents, clerks, and computers shall be discharged on December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or any of them sooner, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, their services can Rent.be dispensed with.
And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to rent necessary rooms in the city of Washington to carry Maximum.out the provisions of this paragraph at a cost not exceeding the rate of four thousand dollars per annum. And the Secretary of the Employees, division of farms etc.Interior is furthermore authorized to employ from among those engaged on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, in the division of farms, homes, and mortgages one expert special agent at six dollars per day and a sufficient number of clerks at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, and copyists and computers, Completion of investigation.to complete the said investigation by the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; and such special agent and all Duration of employment.such clerks, copyists, and computers shall be discharged on said date, or any of them sooner, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Application of unexpended balances.Interior, their services can be dispensed with.
Any unexpended balance of appropriations made for the Eleventh Census or for farms, homes, and mortgages which shall remain on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be applied to the liquidation of any liabilities incurred in each of these investigations, and there Control of remainder.remainder placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of preparing for the printer the unpublished work of the Eleventh Census and for the completion of the investigation relating to farms, homes, and mortgages, as hereinbefore authorized; but this 659 provision shall not apply to unexpended balances of the several appropriationsRestriction. for printing the final reports of the Eleventh Census, but such balances shall be applied as provided for in the several acts.
That the balance of the appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousandPrinting final Reports of Eleventh Census.Vol. 26, p. 888.Balance available. dollars made by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for printing the final reports of the Eleventh Census, be, and the same is hereby, made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the work already authorized under the limitations and conditions prescribed by said act. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department postal service.Postal service. out of the postal revenues.
For advertising, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal yearAdvertising. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-four cents. For advertising, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, twenty-one dollars and twelve cents. POSTAGE. STAMPS: For manufacture of adhesive postage and specialPostage stamps. delivery stamps, being deficiencies, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred and eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nine thousand and sixty-five dollars and six cents. Postal cards: For manufacture of postal cards, seventy-one thousandPostal cards. nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty cents. Wrapping TWINE: For wrapping twine, twenty-five thousand dollars.Wrapping twine. Mail transportation: For inland mail transportation by railroadMail transportation, railroad routes. routes, except for services over the several Pacific railroads, being deficiencies, as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-six cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-four cents. Mail depredations: For mail depredations and post-office inspectorsMail depredations, etc. and fees to the United States marshals, attorneys, and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, one thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, nine thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars Compensation of POSTMASTERS: For amounts to reimburse thePostmasters’ compensation. postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations for eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand and seventy-four dollars and fifty-three cents. For eighteen handled and ninety-one, fifteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-five cents.
To reimburse F. A. Cummings, late postmaster at Bangor, Maine,F. A. Cummings.Reimbursement. for expenses of watchman in post-office for the second and third quarters of eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred nine dollars and fifty cents. 660 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. For per diem, in lieu of subsistence of special agents and expertsPer diem special agents, etc. while traveling on duty away from home and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, thirteen thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Report on forestry: To reimburse B.F. Fuller, disbursing clerk,Report on forestry.R. F. Fuller.Reimbursement. for amount expended for Report on Forestry, in excess of appropriation in the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty-six dollars and eighty-five cents Experimental gardens and grounds: To pay amount due WilliamExperimental gardens. etc.William E. Clark & Co.Payment to. E. Clark and Company for tools, grass seeds, fertilizers, and so forth, for gardens and grounds during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-three cents.
Experiments in the manufacture of sugar: To pay amountsSugar making experiments. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, on account of experiments in the manufacture of sugar, being for the service of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as follows: To pay the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, thirty dollars and six cents; to pay the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company, seventeen dollars and ninety cents; in all, forty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: ToRent, etc., Alaska Territory. supply actual and estimated deficiencies in the appropriations for rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska, on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, six hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eighty-two dollars and fifty-cents. Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory:
ForUtah courts.Contingent expenses. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the. United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand six hundred and one dollars and seventy-nine cents. Defense in Indian Depredation claims: For salaries and expensesDefense in Indian depredation claims. in defense of the Indian depredation claims, ten thousand dollars. Defending suits in claims: To pay amounts found due by theDefending suits claims. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of defending suits in claims against the United States, being for the service of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and reported by the Attorney-General, one thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty cents. 661 For expenses of defending suits in claims against the United States being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five thousand dollars.
Suit against Benjamin Weil: For payment of counsel fees andSuit against Benjamin Well. expenses in the suit or suits directed to be brought by the Attorney General in the Court of Claims against Benjamin Weil, or his legal representatives, in the matter of the award made by the United States and Mexican Mixed Commission by the act approved December twenty-eighth,*Ante*, p. 410. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand five hundred dollars. Penitentiary building, Washington:
To carry into effect sectionPenitentiary building, Washington.Vol. 25, p. 680. fifteen of an act entitled “An act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota and South Dakota, Montana and Washington to form constitutions and State Governments and to be admitted into the Union and on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States:” For the purchase of grounds and the erection thereon of aPurchase of site.Building. penitentiary, in the State of Washington, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, and upon such tract or parcel of land in said State as shall be designated by said Secretary, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the money hereby appropriated*Proviso*.Limitation. shall be devoted exclusively to the purchase of the necessary grounds and to the erection of a penitentiary in said State; and the penitentiary of the State of Washington is hereby located at or nearLocation. the city of Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, in said State. expenses united states courts.United States courts.
Fees of marshals: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsMarshals’ fees. for fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and eighty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. Fees of witnesses: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsWitnesses’ fees. for fees of witnesses, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four hundred thousand dollars. Fees of District Attorneys: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsDistrict attorneys.Fees. for fees of district attorneys, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, seventy-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, thirty thousand dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for special compensationSpecial compensation. to district attorneys for the fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four thousand three hundred and seven dollars and ninety-five cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts, fiscalRegular assistant attorneys. year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-one thousand dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for pay of special assistantSpecial assistant Attorneys. attorneys, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eight thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-three cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. 662 For payment of certain legal counsel as set forth in House ExecutivePayment of certain counsel. Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-three, Fifty-second A. R. English, excepted.Congress, second session, except the claim of A.
R. English, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fees of clerks: To supply deficiencies in the appropriations forClerks’ fees. fees of clerks, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety-three thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty thousand dollars. Fees of Commissioners: To supply deficiencies in the appropriationsCommissioners’ fees. for fees of commissioners, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixty-five thousand dollars. Fees of Jurors: For fees of jurors, United States courts, fiscal yearJurors’ fees. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-five thousand dollars. Support of Prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,Support of 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, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen dollars and forty-seven cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighty-three dollars and fifty cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents.
For eighteen hundred and eighty-six, fifty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. Pay of Bailiffs: For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding threeBailiffs, criers,etc. bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts: of meals and lodging for jurors in United States eases when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal year as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, forty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous. expenses as may be authorized 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, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifty-five thousand dollars For eighteen hundred and seventy-six, forty-one dollars. For eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seven hundred and nine dollars. For eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty dollars. For eighteen hundred and seventy-two, forty-two dollars and fifty cents. For eighteen hundred and seventy-one, fourteen dollars and fifty cents. For eighteen hundred and seventy, forty-two dollars and fifty cents. 663 Rent of Court Rooms:
For rent of court rooms United StatesRent. courts, being for deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, thirty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixteen thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For public printing and binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including the salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, four hundred and seventy thou sand dollars; and from this sum printing and binding may be done as follows:
For the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars.Allotments. For the Department of the Interior, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, forty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Public Printer to continue operations under the jointStorage.Vol. 22, p. 637. resolution approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the removal and storage of certain property of the Government mentioned therein, five thousand dollars To make the daily wages of Stephen Caldwell, laborer, and SamuelStephen Caldwell, Samuel Robinson, and William Madden.
Robinson and William Madden, messengers on night duty, three dollars and sixty cents per day during the session of the Fifty-second Congress, two hundred and eighty dollars and eighty cents. SENATE.Senate. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inCompensation, officers. clerks, etc. the service of the Senate, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-three thousand and eighty dollars. For stationery and newspapers, one thousand five hundred dollars.Stationery, etc.Miscellaneous.Inquiries.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year eighteenMiscellaneous. hundred and ninety-two, ninety dollars and twenty-two cents. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eight hundred dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, ninety-two dollars and ninety-seven cents.
For miscellaneous items, Maltby building, one thousand dollars.Maltby building.Repairs.Horses and mail wagons. For repairs of Maltby building, eight hundred dollars. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. To pay Charles Hanback, as extra compensation for services renderedCharles Hanback.Extra compensation. as assistant clerk of the Senate Committee on Pensions during the Fifty-second Congress, five hundred dollars.
That John A. Hutchison, clerk to the late honorable John E. Kenna,John A. Hutchison.Continued on pay roll. deceased, a Senator from the State of West Virginia, be continued on the pay roll of the Senate from the tenth of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, during the residue of the second session of the Fifty-second Congress. To pay the widow of John G. Merritt, late messenger acting assistantJohn G. Merritt.Payment to widow of. doorkeeper of the Senate, one month’s pay, at the salary he was receiving when deceased, one hundred and fifty dollars. 664 To pay for a clerk for the Senator in charge of the conference roomClerk for Senator in charge of conference room. of the minority of the Senate which shall be in lien of any Senators or Committee clerk for such Senator and shall commence on March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. To pay to the widow of John G. Warwick, late a Representative inJohn G. Warwick.Pay to widow. Congress from the State of Ohio, for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-second Congress, two thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. To pay to the widow of Alexander K. Craig, late a Representative inAlexander K. Craig.Pay to widow. Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, tor the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-second Congress, two thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents.
To pay the widow of Edward F McDonald, late a Representative inEdward F. McDonald.Pay to widow. Congress from the State of New Jersey, for the unexpired term of his service as a member of the Fifty-second Congress, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. For stationery, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.Stationery.Senate and House officers etc., one month’s extra pay. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House, borne on the annual and session rolls on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the Capitol Police and official reporters of the Senate and House, for extra services during the Fifty-second Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the Immediately available.compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available.
To pay all session employees of the House of Representatives authorizedSession employees. by the act making appropriation for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending *Ante*, p. 187.June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes, approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to Pay extended one month.the end of the present session of Congress, and one month after its dose, ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-five cents.
To enable the Clerk of the House to pay D. E. Sackett, for servicesD. E. Sackett.Services. rendered in the enrolling room of the House, during January and February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-five cents. To pay E. L. Phillips for extra services rendered during the illnessE. L. Phillips.Extra services. of the department messenger, from July fifteenth to November thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and eighty dollars and ninety cents.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, including twenty-six dollarsFuel, etc. and sixty-four cents on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand dollars. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, fifty-two dollars and fifty cents. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees, auditedContested elections. and recommended by the Committee on Elections, for expenses incurred in contested election cases, namely:
John B. Reynolds, one thousand five hundred dollars;John B. Reynolds.George W. Shonk.Thomas H. Grevey.Edward Scull.Thomas E. Miller.William Elliott.Warren B. Hooker. George W. Shonk, one thousand five hundred dollars; Thomas H. Grevey, two thousand dollars; Edward Scull, two thousand dollars; Thomas E. Miller, one thousand five hundred dollars; William Elliott, one thousand five hundred dollars; Warren B. Hooker, five hundred dollars; In all, ten thousand five hundred dollars. 665 To pay Edward McPherson, Clerk of House of RepresentativesEdward McPherson.Indexing, etc., testimony in contested elections. of the Fifty-first Congress, for services in compiling and arranging for the printer and indexing testimony used in contested election cases as authorized by an act entitled “An act relating to contested elections,”Vol. 24. p. 445. approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of one thousand dollars, and an additional sum of one thousand five hundred dollars to such employees as were actually engaged in the work, designated by the said Edward McPherson, and in such proportion as he may deem just, for assistance rendered in the work; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay Eli Ranks and Charles Carter for services in caring for theEli Banks and Charles Carter.Services. subcommittee rooms of the Committee on Ways and Means and appropriations, sixty dollars each, one hundred and twenty dollars. To pay Joel Grayson for services rendered in the Document RoomJoel Grayson.Services. since May third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and to continue him in said service until and including December fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at seventy-five dollars per month, one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To pay John T. Waterman for services as clerk to the Committee onJohn T. Waterman.Services. Rules during the Fifty-second Congress, four hundred dollars. To pay John M. Carson, clerk of the Committee on Ways and MeansJohn M. Carson.Services. luring the fifty-first Congress, for preparing comparison of the tariff laws, five hundred dollars. To pay T. F. Dennis, as extra compensation for services rendered asT. F. Dennis.Services. assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions during the Fifty-second Congress, five hundred dollars.
To pay D. 8. Porter, as extra compensation for services rendered asD. S. Porter.Services. assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions during the Fifty-second Congress, two hundred dollars. To pay Frank F. Doyle for stenographic services before committeesFrank F. Doyle.Services. while the official stenographers were actually engaged before other committees of the House, forty-six dollars and sixty-two cents. To pay the following amounts, which have been audited and recommended by the, Committee on Accounts, namely:
To pay George Jenison and E. L. Currier, special messengers underGeorge Jenison. E. L. Currier, and Bert W. Kennedy.Pay. resolution of the House, their salaries at the rate of one hundred dollars per month, and Bert W Kennedy, special messenger under resolution of the House, his salary at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum from March fourth to December fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, inclusive, two thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and twelve cents. To pay W.
J. Houghtaling for services as reading clerk from JanuaryW. J. Houghtaling.Services. ninth to January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, inclusive, one hundred and forty dollars. To pay George L. Browning and Alphonso Gibbs for extra servicesGeorge L. Browning and Alphonso Gibbs.Extra services. rendered in the folding from, three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars. To reimburse Spencer Greene for expenses incurred from JanuarySpencer Greene.Reimbursement. first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three for assistant as laborer in caring for building rented for use of the folding room, House of Representatives, one hundred and eighty dollars.
To pay Jesse F. Murphy, the difference between the pay of a laborer,Jesse F. Murphy.Pay. at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, and that of a messenger. at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day. from January third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, both days inclusive, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and thirty-six cents. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay PeterPeter J. McDonald.Pay.
J. McDonald the difference between his salary as folder, at nine hundred dollars per annum, and that of acting assistant foreman of the folding room, at twelve hundred dollars per annum, from January 666 twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to January twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the sum of three hundred dollars. To pay J. H. Van Buren, assistant index clerk of the House of Representatives,J. H. Van Buren.Pay. his salary from October fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to November sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one hundred and ninety-two dollars.
To pay Alfred N. Murray for extra services in the folding room,Alfred N. Murray.Extra services. two hundred dollars. To pay Robert B. Palmer for twenty-nine days services as assistantRobert B. Palmer.Services. clerk to the House Committee on Military Affairs, one hundred and seventy-four dollars. Judgments, United States Courts.Judgements, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits which have been rendered under the provisions of the act of Vol. 24, p. 505.March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-six, except for judgment in favor of John J.
Allen, named therein, six thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for, shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims as follows:Payment of judgements, Court of Claims.
To Edward Kurtz, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty cents; to Lewis Tillman, seventy-one dollars; to Charles P. Birkett, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars and four cents; to Orville D. Laird, four hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty seven cents; to G. L. Ogden, two hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty cents; to William E. Robertson, administrator of Henry L. Jeffers, three hundred and eighty-four dollars and ten cents; to Alfred C. Lewis, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-five cents; to John L.
Thornley. two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and ninety cents; to Anson C. Merrick, seventy dollars; to W. F. Watkins, one hundred and five dollars and eighty five cents; to Rufus H. Baker, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents; to James S. Groves, three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty cents; to Frank S. Bentley, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty cents; to Isaac C. Fowler, two hundred and six dollars and forty cents: to Richard H.
Earle, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty cents; to Charles L. Adams, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars; to Thomas R. Purnell, one hundred and nine dollars and thirty-eight cents; to Margaret J. C. Arrick, executrix of William T. Arrick, one thousand one hundred and nine dollars and seventy cents; to John L. Smith Meyer and Paul J. Peltz, forty-eight thousand dollars; to Charles B. Germain, two thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; to Gilbert H.
Ferris, six thousand five hundred and ten dollars; to Alabama Great Southern Railroad, four hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-four cents; to Ward P. Winchell, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars and nineteen cents; to Edmund S. Ogden, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; to Stout, Hall, and Bangs, sixty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-five cents; to Bushrod W. Bell, eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents; to Lenoir M.
Erwin, four hundred and four dollars and ninety cents; to Howard D. Spencer, two hundred and nine dollars and thirty 667 cents; to Gustave Hahn, two hunched and five dollars and eighty-five cents; to William W. Gilbert, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty cents; to Samuel M. Tinsley, one hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-five cents; to William W. White, ninety-four dollars and twenty-six cents; to John N. Snowdon, surviving partner of the firm of Snowdon and Mason, one hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents; to Alfred T.
Dillard, one hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents; to John M. Parry, sixty-seven dollars and seventy cents; to John C. Quiggle, four hundred and eighteen dollars; to William W. Gilbert, five hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-five cents; to Brewster Cameron, one thousand and two dollars and eighty cents; to Edward H Owen, one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents; to Eugene W Hoge, eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty cents; to Joseph C.
Finnell, three hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty cents; to Daniel N. Cooper, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety cents; to Charles A. Powell, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty cents; to George C. Rives, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifteen cents; to Frank M. Hunter, seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-five cents; to Benjamin C. Tunison, seventy-eight dollars and forty cents; to Ernst F. Cochran, three hundred and thirty eight dollars and thirty-five cents; to Samuel G.
Hilborn, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty cents; to Madison J Julian, four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and five cents; to Henry O. Ewing, one hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifteen cents; to John T. Green, one thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety five cents; to William L. Goodwin, three hundred and fifty-three dollars; to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, sixty eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-two cents; in all, three hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-six cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided*Proviso*.Limitation. for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement: For payment of theFox aim Wisconsin rivers improvement.Payment of flowage damages.Vol. 18, p. 506 judgments and awards rendered against the United States for flowage damages caused by the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as reported to Congress by the Attorney General, and fully set forth in Senate Executive Document Numbered Ninety, second session of the Fifty-second Congress, including commissioners’ accounts as therein set forth, thirty thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty cents.
The appropriation of one hundred and nine thousand and twenty-twoG. C. Griffith judgement dollars and thirty three cents made by the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety two, for payment of the judgments and*Ante*, p. 309. awards rendered against the United States for flowage damages caused by the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, in the State of Wisconsin, is hereby made applicable to the payment of the judgmentAppropriation made applicable. of G.
C. Griffith in the sum of one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars, the same having been inadvertently omitted in the report of the Attorney-General of such judgments, but included in the total sum appropriated. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under Section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-one, Fifty-second Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: 668 AUDITED CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by First Comptroller. state department.State Department.
For Foreign Intercourse, as follows: For contingent expenses, foreign missions, forty-four dollars andContingent expenses missions. forty-eight cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, sixty dollars and seventy-threeLoss by exchange, diplomatic service. cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, six hundred andRelief, etc., seamen. forty-seven dollars and seventeen cents. treasury department.Treasury Department. Internal Revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors of internalInternal Revenue.Collectors’ salaries. revenue, six dollars and ninety cents.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, seven thousand five hundredRefunding taxes. and one dollar and twenty-five cents. For drawback on stills exported, act March first, eighteen hundredDrawback on stills.Vol. 20, p. 342. and seventy-nine, sixty dollars. Under Smithsonian Institution: For preservation of collections,National Museum. National Museum, one dollar and thirty-seven cents. Miscellaneous: For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: freight,Contingent expenses. telegrams, and so forth, thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents.
For furniture, and repairs of same, tor public buildings, twenty-fourPublic buildings.Furniture, etc. dollars. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, twenty-sevenFuel, etc. dollars and seventy cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, three dollars andHeating apparatus. twenty-four cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, one hundred andRepairs, etc. seventy dollars and eighteen cents. For court house, post office, &c. Lynchburg, Virginia, two dollars.Lynchburg, Va.Suppressing counterfeiting.
For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, sixty-five cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, fifty dollars.Contingent expenses. Public Land Service: For surveying the public lands, two thousandPublic lands.Surveying. four hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixteen cents. For five per cent, fund of the net proceeds of sales of public landsFive per cent fund, net proceeds of sales. in States, seventy-nine thousand five hundred and seven dollars and twenty-seven cents.
For three per cent, fund of the net proceeds of sales of public landsThree percent fund, net proceeds, etc. in States, one hundred and twelve dollars and eleven cents. For two per cent, fund of the net proceeds of sales of public landsTwo per cent fund, net proceeds, etc. in States, seventy-four dollars and seventy-four cents. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. For collecting agricultural statistics, five dollars.Collecting agricultural statistics. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
For special compensation of district attorneys, United States courtsDistrict attorneys.Special compensation.Special assistant Attorneys., fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys. United States courts, seven hundred dollars. For fees of clerks United States courts, twenty-nine dollars andClerks. thirty cents. 669 For fees of commissioners United States courts, two thousand fiveCommissioners. hundred and nineteen dollars and ten cents. For fees of witnesses United States courts, seven hundred andWitnesses. forty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For support of prisoners United States courts, one thousand fiveSupport of prisoners. hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-six cents. For rent of court rooms United States courts, one hundredRent. dollars. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, one thousandBailiffs. etc. seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and nine cents. For miscellaneous expenses United States courts, one thousandMiscellaneous. two hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-six cents. For expenses of United States courts, eighteen hundred and seventy-nineCourts. and prior years, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and two cents.
For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, three thousand sevenUtah courts. hundred and seventy-four dollars and eight cents. For fees of supervisors of elections, twelve thousand six hundredSupervisors of elections. and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR AND COM MISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.Claims allowed by First Auditor and Commissioner of customs. Customs revenue. For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, except for services over Pacific railroads one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars and ten cents.
For protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, forty-four dollars andAlaska salmon fisheries. sixty-three cents. For Life Saving Service, one thousand three hundred and fifty-sevenLife-saving service. dollars and twenty-one cents. For salaries of keepers of Lighthouses, four dollars and thirty-fiveLight-house keepers. cents. For expenses of fog-signals, twelve dollars and ninety-nine cents.Fog signals. For lighting of rivers, one dollar and twenty-five cents.Lighting of rivers. For lighting and buoyage of rivers, twenty-five dollars and twenty cents.Lighting and buoy-age.
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims. Second Auditor and Comptroller. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, five thousand one hundred andArmy pays. twenty-three dollars and forty-two cents. For Medical and Hospital department, sixty dollars.Medical department For contingencies of the Army, except for services over Pacific railroads,Contingencies. fifty-two dollars and seventy-four cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada Volunteers, seventyCalifornia and Nevada volunteers. dollars and thirty-six cents.
For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, sixty dollars and one cent.Mexican War volunteers. For Secret Service, one hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty-eightSecret service. cents. INDIAN CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Indian claims. second Auditor and Comptroller. interior department.Interior Department. For support of Poncas, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five hundredSupport of Poncas. and forty-six dollars and eight cents. For incidentals in North Dakota, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,Incidentals.
North Dakota. eight dollars and ninety cents. For Indian School, Carson City, Nevada; support, eighteen hundredIndian School, Carson. Nev. and ninety-one, fifteen dollars. 670 For telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies, eighteen hundredSupplies, purchasing, etc. and ninety-one, thirteen dollars and sixty cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, four hundred and eighty-nineTransportation. dollars and three cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. war department.War Department.
For subsistence of the Army twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.Army subsistence.Quartermaster’s department. supplies. For regular supplies Quartermaster’s Department, four thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department except forIncidental expenses. services over Pacific railroads three hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, except for servicesTransportation. over the Pacific railroads, thirteen thousand one hundred and forty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents.
For fifty per centum of arrears of army transportation due certainFifty per cent arrears. land-grant railroads, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-one cent. For horses for cavalry and artillery, forty dollars.Horses.Observation of storms.Signal Service. For observation and report of storms, three dollars and ninety cents. For Signal Service; transportation, nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For contingencies of fortifications, forty-five dollars and fifty-two cents.Fortifications.
For improving harbor at San Francisco, California, except for serviceSan Francisco harbor. Cal. over Pacific railroads, thirty-five cents. For improving Little River. Missouri and Arkansas, eighty cents.Little River, Mo. and Ark.Twenty percent. For twenty per centum additional compensation, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and six cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, four thousandHorses, etc., claims. six hundred and seventy-three dollars and twelve cents.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENTInterior Department. For Army pensions, twenty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents.Army pensions. For fees for examining surgeons, Army pensions, nine dollarsExamining surgeons’ fees. navy department claims allowed by the fourth auditor and second comptroller.Navy claims, Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of the Navy, fifteen thousand and forty-six dollars and fifty-sevenPay, Navy. cents. For pay, miscellaneous, twelve dollars and thirty-two cents.Miscellaneous.Marine Corps.
For pay, Marine Corps, seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-two cents. For torpedo corps and war college, Bureau of Ordnance twenty-three dollars and fifty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, one hundredBureau of Equipment and Recruiting. and ninety-one dollars and ninety-three cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, seven dollarsBureau of Provisions and Clothing. and twenty cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, two thousand and eighty-threeEnlistment bounties. dollars and fifty cents.
For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, two hundred andBounty destruction, enemies’ vessels. eight dollars and sixty-three cents. For gratuity to seamen, three hundred dollars.Gratuity to seamen.Lost clothing. For indemnity for lost clothing, two hundred and ninety dollars. 671 For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, sixteenDestroyed clothing. dollars and twenty-three cents. Mileage, Navy, (Graham decision): For the payment of claims forMileage, Navy. difference between actual expenses and mileage, allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham, thirteenGraham decision. thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents.
For Navy pensions, ten dollars.Navy pensions. claims allowed by the sixth auditor.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenue, except for services over theDeficiency, postal revenues. several Pacific Railroads eighteen hundred and ninety, and prior years, twenty-three thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-three cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in Senate Executive Document Numbered Ninety-eight, Fifty-second Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: treasury department.Treasury Department.
Internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors of internalInternal revenue.Collectors’ salaries. revenue, six dollars and seventy-nine cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalAgents’ salaries, etc. revenue, except for services over the several Pacific railroads, fifty dollars. For refunding taxes illegally collected, four thousand four hundredRefunding taxes. and thirty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents. Miscellaneous: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, thirteenPublic buildings.Assistant custodians, etc.Furniture, etc. dollars.
Furniture and repairs of same for public building nine dollars and fifty cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, one thousand fiveFuel, etc. hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-five cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, one dollar and fifty-sixHeating apparatus. cents. interior department.Interior Department.Public lands.Land offices, contingent. Public Lands service: For contingent expenses of land offices except for services over the several Pacific railroads, eighteen dollars and sixteen cents.
For protecting the public lands, except for services over the severalProtecting lands. Pacific railroads, nine dollars and eight cents. For surveying the public lands, except for services over the severalSurveying. Pacific railroads, two thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-six cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. For fees of clerks United States courts, ninety dollars and sixty-fiveClerks. cents. For fees of commissioners United States courts, three hundred andCommissioners. ninety-five dollars and thirty cents.
For fees of witnesses United States courts, fifty-six dollars andWitnesses. ninety cents. For miscellaneous expenses United States courts, one thousand sixMiscellaneous. hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty cents. 672 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR AND Commissioner OF CUSTOMS.Claims allowed by First Auditor and Commissioner of customs. For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, four hundredCustoms revenue. and thirty-two dollars and twenty-five cents. For Life-Saving Service, eight dollars and fifty-nine cents.Life-saving service.Marine hospitals.Repayments to importers.
For Marine-Hospital Service, eleven dollars and fifty-seven cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims. Second Auditor and Comptroller. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand eight hundredArmy pays, etc. and eighteen dollars and thirty-nine cents. For medical and hospital department, fifty-four dollars.Medical Department.Army contingences.Signal Service.California and Nevada Volunteers.
For contingencies of the Army, sixteen dollars and eighty-six cents. For Signal Service, pay, sixteen dollars. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada Volunteers, forty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents. For draft and substitute fund, three hundred dollars.Draft, etc fund.Escort to Mexican Boundary Commission. For extra pay to officers and men composing the escort to the Mexican Boundary Commission, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-three cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and Second Comptroller. war department.War Department.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, fifty-seven dollars.Quartermaster’s supplies.Incidental expenses. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, except for services over Pacific railroads, one thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty-seven cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, except for servicesTransportation. over the Pacific railroads, three hundred and twenty-two dollars and five cents. For contingencies of fortifications, thirty-one dollars and fifty cents.Fortifications.Horses, etc., claims.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, four hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-three cents. For allowance for reduction of wages under the eight-hour law,Eight-hour law allowance. twenty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents. interior department.Interior Department. For army pensions, one hundred and fourteen dollars.Army pensions. NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Navy claims, Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller.
For pay of the Navy, two thousand two hundred and forty-eightPay, Navy. dollars and eighteen cents. For pay, miscellaneous, eight hundred and six dollars and one cent.Miscellaneous.Marine Corps.Contingent. For pay, Marine Corps, twenty dollars and eighty-six cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, except for services over theBureau of Navigation.Contingent. several Pacific railroads, one hundred and two dollars and twenty-six cents. 673 For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, ninety-eight dollars and elevenBureau of Ordnance cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, four hundredBureau Equipment and Recruiting. and thirty dollars and ninety-five cents. For maintenance of yards and docks, Bureau of Yards and Docks,Bureau Yards and Docks. except for services over the several Pacific railroads, one hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-three cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, forty-five dollarsBureau of Medicine. and forty-seven cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, fifty dollarsBureau of Provisions and Clothing. and five cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, two hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-four cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. except for services over the several Pacific railroads, six hundred dollars and forty-six cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, except for servicesBureau of Steam Engineering. over the several Pacific railroads, two hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-one cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and four dollarsEnlistment bounties, seamen. and fifty cents. For bounty for the destruction of enemies’ vessels, forty-six dollarsDestruction of enemies’ vessels. and fifty-eight cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifty-oneDestroyed clothing. dollars. For extra pay to officers and men who served on the Pacific coast,Pacific coast, extra pay. two hundred and eighty-six dollars. Mileage, Navy (Graham decision):
For the payment of claims for differenceMileage, Navy. bet ween actual expenses and mileage, allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham, four thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and ninety-eight cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenue, eighteen hundred and ninety andPostal revenues. prior years, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-four cents.
Claim allowed by the First Auditor and First Comptroller, for theHorace Capron. amount due the estate of Horace Capron, deceased, formerly Commissioner of Agriculture, three hundred and thirty-two dollars. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 251. as fully set forth in Senate Executive Document Numbered One hundred and One, Fifty-second Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:
WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS CERTIFIED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.War Department claims, Second Auditor and Comptroller. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two hundred and twenty-threeArmy pays. dollars and sixty-four cents. 674 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THIRD AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Claims allowed by Third Auditor and second Comptroller. war department.War Department. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundredQuartermaster’s department. and twenty-one dollars and forty-three cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, nineteenArmy transportation. dollars and thirty-three cents For observation and report of storms four thousand sevenObservations, etc., of storms. hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-six cents. For maintenance and repair of military telegraph linesMilitary telegraph lines. ninety-nine dollars and sixty-four cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, five hundredHorses, etc., claims. and seventy-five dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE FOURTH AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER.Navy claims, Fourth Auditor and Second Comptroller. For pay of the Navy, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-sevenNavy pays. cents. For pay miscellaneous, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-two Miscellaneous.cents. For transportation and recruiting Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.one dollar and fifteen cents, For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and fifty dollars.Enlistment bounties.Lost clothing.Mileage.
Navy.Graham decision. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars. Mileage, Navy, Graham decision: For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses and mileage, allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the ease of Graham, five hundred and seven dollars and thirty-four cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SIXTH AUDITOR.Claims allowed by Sixth Auditor. For deficiency in the postal revenue, eighteen hundred and ninetyPostal revenues. and prior years, one thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-six cents.
That the clause reading as follows: “William Milligan, administratorFrench spoliation claims of George Wattles, deceased, twenty-one twenty one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars, in the act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” passed March third, eighteen hundred and Vol. 26, p. 904, amended.ninety-one (page nine hundred and four of volume twenty-six, United States Statutes at Large), be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “William Mulligan, administrator of George Wattles, deceased,William Mulligan, administrator of George Wattles.Award not to paid until certified by Court of Claims. twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars; and the award in this case shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the personal representative on whose behalf the award is made represents the next of kin, or in the event the court shall find there were no next of kin and that there is a widow, then that such widow is so represented.” ending June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” to be paid to the person or persons entitled to recover and receive the same, to be ascertained by the Court of Claims upon sufficient evidence and certified to the Secretary of the Treasury.
" Approved, March 3, 1893.
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