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CHAP. 380.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes.August 5, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, namely:
UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT.Under State Department. To pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirementsPrinting certified copies of electoral vote. Vol. 24, p. 373. of the act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Binding manuscript papers: For completing the restoration, mounting.Binding manuscript papers. and binding of certain manuscript letters and papers of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and others, in the Department of State, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. International Monetary Conference: The President of theInternational monetary conference. Expenses of commissioners, etc. United States is hereby authorized to appoint five commissioners to an international conference, to be held at a place to be hereafter designated, with a view to secure, internationally, a fixity of relative value between gold and silver, as money, by means of a common ratio between those metals, with free mintage at such ratio, and for compensation of said commissioners, and for all reasonable expenses connected therewith, to be approved by the Secretary of State, including the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expenses of such conference, eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: To enable theMexican boundary survey. Vol. 22, p. 986. President to complete the execution of the engagements of the convention of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico, providing for an international boundary survey to relocate the existing frontier line between the two countries west of the Rio Grande, and the convention of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred andVol. 26, p. 1493. eighty-nine, between the.
United States of America and the United States of Mexico, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars appropriated by the act of MarchVol. 23, p. 478. third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the act of SeptemberVol. 26, p. 504. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and a detailed account of the expenditure of these appropriations shall be reported to Congress. For providing naval and coaling stations, two hundred and fiftyNaval and coaling stations. thousand dollars, to be expended under direction of the President. 350 Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid:
For expenses ofMadrid Exposition. *Ante*, p. 34. representation of the United States at said exposition, ten thousand dollars. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Under Treasury Department. Public Buildings.Public buildings. For public buildings, Alaska Territory: For the construction, repair,Alaska. and preservation of public buildings in said Territory, twenty-one Balances covered in.thousand dollars. And the balances of appropriations previously made for buildings at designated points in the Territory are hereby covered into the Treasury.
For post-office at Aurora, Illinois: For completion of building andAurora. III. approaches, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs, alterations, and improvements in the United StatesAtlanta. Ga. court house and post-office at Atlanta, Georgia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For post-office at Beatrice, Nebraska: For completion of building, fiveBeatrice, Nebr. thousand dollars. For post-office at Cedar Rapids, Iowa: For an additional story to theCedar Rapids. Iowa. building, thirty thousand dollars.
For custom house and post-office at Cincinnati. Ohio: For paintingCincinnati. Ohio. and repairs, twenty thousand dollars. For custom house and subtreasury at Chicago, Illinois: For generalChicago, III repairs and repairs consequent on settlement of foundation, and for mail lifts, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Clarksville, Tennessee: For purchase of site andClarksville. Tenn. commencement of building, ten thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Detroit, Michigan:
For an isolating ward, andDetroit, Mich. for enlargement of hospital space at the marine hospital at Detroit, Marine hospital.ten thousand dollars. For post-office at Lansing, Michigan: For an additional story to theLansing. Mich. Erie, Pa. building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post office at Erie, Pennsylvania: For completion of elevator, six thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky: For furnishingLouisville. Ky. and placing clock in the tower, additional partitions, cutting doors, and water supply cistern, six thousand dollars For purchase of a site for the public building heretofore authorizedAllegheny, Pa. at Allegheny,Site.
Pennsylvania, one hundred and thirty-five thousand *Proviso*.dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated: *Provided*, That Limit of cost.the limit heretofore fixed for the cost of said building and site shall not be hereby increased. For post-office at Minneapolis: For general repairs and painting, tenMinneapolis, Minn. thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at New York, New York: For elevator,New York. change of stairs, repairs, and renewal of heating apparatus, plumbing and painting and other necessary improvements, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For court house and post-office at Norfolk. Virginia: For continuationNorfolk. of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For new waterNew Orleans.Marine hospital. mains and cisterns, three thousand dollars. For customhouse at New Bedford, Massachusetts:New Bedford That the balances. Mass. Balances available. Vol. 23, p. 308. Vol. 24, p. 223. of the appropriations made by the acts approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the purchase of land, not to exceed seven thousand dollars, are hereby made available for the construction of the building.
For customhouse and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska: For continuationOmaha, Nebr. of building under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. 351 For United States mint building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Philadelphia, Pa. New mint. For purchase of site and commencement of building under present limit, six hundred and twenty thousand five hundred dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the act approvedVol. 25, p. 507. October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight for an additional story to and enlarging the building, including vault, alterations and other necessary work for the United States Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; which unexpended balance is hereby reappropriated for the object herein named.
For old custom house at Saint Paul, Minnesota: That balances ofSt. Paul. Minn. Balances covered in. the appropriations for additional land adjoining the old building made by the acts approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,Vol. 22, pp. 223, 511. and March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, amounting to sixty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents, be, and the same are hereby covered into the Treasury. For courthouse and post-office at Savannah.
Georgia: That the revenueSavannah, Ga. Receipts from old site. received from the sale of the abandoned site may be placed to the credit of the appropriation for said building, but this provision shall not be construed to increase the limit of cost of said building as now fixed by law. For marine hospital at San Francisco, California: For laundry andSan Francisco. Cal. Marine hospital. machinery, ten thousand dollars. For courthouse, post-office, and custom house at Sioux City, Iowa:Sioux City.
Iowa. For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Sioux Falls, South Dakota: ForSioux Falla, S. Dak. completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For post-office and court house at Troy, New York: For completionTroy. N. V. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Washington, District of Columbia: For continuationWashington. D. C. Post-office of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForRepairs to Treasury. etc. repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, marine-hospitals, quarantine stations and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, two hundred and forty thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used for the marine hospitals and quarantine stations: *Provided*, That of the sum*Proviso*.
Superintendents. hereby appropriated, not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury in the employment of superintendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding, for any one person, six dollars per day: nor shall there hereafter beLimit of pay. paid more than six dollars per day to any person employed outside of the District of Columbia, in any capacity whatever, whose compensation is paid from appropriations for public buildings in course of construction, but the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, authorize payment in cities of eighty thousand or more inhabitants of a sum not exceeding eight dollars per day for such purposes.
Light Houses, Beacons and Fog Signals.lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals. Buffalo Breakwater Fog Signal, Lake Erie. New York: For establishingBuffalo Breakwater X. V. a fog signal at Buffalo Breakwater, north end Lake Erie. New York, four thousand three hundred dollars. Cape Meares Light Station, Tillamook Bay. Oregon: For making aCape Meares, Oreg. Road. wagon road from Cape Meares Light Station to the Tillamook River, at an expense not to exceed five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That it*Proviso*. can be paid for from the appropriation for constructing a lighthouse at Cape Meares, Oregon, approved March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 24, p. 513. eighty-seven, which payment is hereby authorized. 352 Cape Mendocino Light Station, California:
For construction of aCape Mendocino. Cal. roadway from Cape Mendocino Light Station to the county road, five hundred dollars. Depot for the thirteenth lighthouse district: That the appropriationDepot Thirteenth district. Repair, etc. Vol. 26, p. 955. of fifteen thousand dollars, made by act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for removing the depot, is hereby authorized to be used in its repair and extension. Key West Light Station, Florida: For increasing the height of theKey West, Fla. tower of the Key West Light Station, Florida, or for removing obstructions to the present light, three thousand dollars.
Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses forOil houses. *Proviso*. Limit of cost. the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Range light near Port Penn, Delaware: For placing anew light northwardPort Penn, Del. of Reedy Island light in the vicinity of Port Penn wharf, the Reedy Island light to be made the front light of the range, and for cost of site, ten thousand dollars.
Saint Simons Range Beacon, Georgia: For establishing a small lightSaint Simons, Ga. to make a range at Saint Simons Light Station, one thousand dollars. Saint Marys River Upper Range Lights, Michigan: For movingSaint Marys River ranges. Upper Saint Marys Ranges, five thousand dollars. Frankfort Pierhead Fog Bell, Michigan: For establishing a fog bellFrankfort, Midi. operated by machinery at the light station on the pierhead at Frank fort, Lake Michigan, one thousand dollars. Eleven-Foot Shoal Light Station, Lake Michigan, Michigan:
ThatEleven-Foot Shoal, Midi. the appropriation of sixty thousand dollars heretofore made in the act Amount to be used for light ships. Vol 26, p. 375.approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for establishing a light station on or near Eleven-Foot Shoal, off Point Peninsula, Michigan, be applied, under the direction of the lighthouse Board, for the construction or purchase and equipment of one or more lightships for service on the Great Lakes, and that said appropriation be immediately available for such ships.
Limekiln Crossing lightships Detroit River: For two light-shipsLimekiln Crossing, Mich. at the northwest and southwest corners of the Limekiln Crossing, one thousand dollars. Range Lights above Grassy Island, Detroit River: For range lightsGrassy Island, Mich. above Grassy Island, Detroit River, one thousand five hundred dollars. Detroit River, Light-Vessels: For the construction or purchase,Detroit River, Mich. Light-vessels. equipment, and maintenance of three small light-vessels for use in the Detroit River, Michigan, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
Range light on Mamajuda Island: For light to range with the presentMamajuda Island, Mich. light on Mamajuda Island to mark channel between Grassy and Mamajuda islands, one thousand five hundred dollars. Range lights on Grosse Isle, Detroit River, Michigan: For rangeGrosse Isle, Mich. lights to center the channel from the foot of Fighting Island to Mamajuda Light, two thousand five hundred dollars. Light ship at Bar Point, Lake Erie: For a light ship to take theBar Point, Lake Erie. place of the private light ship now maintained by private owners at Bar Point, Lake Erie, to be located in American waters at a point to be determined by the lighthouse Board, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Superior Bay Lights, Wisconsin: For establishing post lights fromSuperior Bay, Wis. Post lights. the entrance to Connor Point, in Superior Bay, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, one thousand two hundred dollars. Patrol steamer for Saint Mary’s River: For procuring a patrolSt. Marys River. Mich. Patrol steamer. steamer for use on Saint Mary’s River, Michigan, four thousand dollars. Staten Island lighthouse Depot, New York: For continuing the constructionStaten Island depot. of the sea wall at the general lighthouse depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Nantucket New South Shoal Light-Ship, Massachusetts: For constructing,Nantucket New South Shoal, Mass. equipping, and outfitting complete for service a first-class steam light-vessel with a steam fog signal, seventy thousand dollars. 353 Lighthouse Establishment.lighthouse Establishment. Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying fog signals, lighthouses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption: for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the lighthouse Board, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.
Illustrations. of this sum not exceeding two thousand dollars may be expended for photolithographs, charts of distribution, and necessary inexpensive illustrations for publications of the lighthouse Board. Repairs of lighthouses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. light houses and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pierhead and other beacon lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Salaries of Keepers of Light Houses: For salaries, fuel,Keepers salaries, etc. rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand two hundred and fifty light house and fog-signal keepers, and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Expenses of Light-Vessels: For seamen's wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light-vessels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Expenses of Buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacingBuoyage. and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Expenses of Fog Signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, seventy thousand dollars. Inspecting Lights: For mileage or traveling expenses of membersInspecting lights etc. of the lighthouse Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, three thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting of rivers. post lights on the Hudson and East rivers. New York: the Raritan River. New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Deleware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New .Jersey; the Elk River,-Maryland; Cape Fear River. North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana: on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers;
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters. Washington: and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior Bays at the head of Lake Superior; the lighthouse Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessaryLeases authorized. ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Survey of Light House Sites: For preliminary examinations,Survey of sites. surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. 354 Life Saving Service.life-saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:Superintendents. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand live hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island, and Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand live hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars: For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and fifty-two keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews, etc. Miscellaneous expenses. stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits tor same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions Vol. 22, p. 57.of sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, eight hundred and thirty-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theEstablishing new stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty-five *Proviso*. Conditions for erecting station for World's Columbian Exposition. Vol. 26, p. 65.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum or of the sums heretofore appropriated for establishing life-saving stations shall be used for erecting a life-saving station on the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Illinois, unless the right to use and occupy the site selected therefor so long as the Government may desire to maintain 355 a life-saving station thereon, shall first nave been donated to the United States, in which case so much of this appropriation or of the sums heretofore appropriated for establishing life-saving stations as may be necessary shall be available for the purpose, and such station shall take the place of the existing Chicago Station, the crew of which shall be transferred to the new station.
Revenue-Cutter Service.Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries and expenses. lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheriesSeal fisheries. in Bering Sea and other waters of Alaska and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; to carry into effect theNew York harbor.
Vol. 25, p. 151. provisions of “An act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York,” approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For maintenance of a refuge station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska,Point Barrow, Alaska, refuge station. on the Arctic Ocean, five thousand dollars.
For the construction of a new revenue steamer for duty in the watersNew steamer for Chesapeake Bay. of Chesapeake Bay to take the place of the revenue steamer Ewing, now unfit for service, the sum of twenty thousand dollars in addition to the amount appropriated March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,Vol. 26, p. 952. for rebuilding the Ewing, and so much of said act as provides forTo take the place of the “Ewing.” such rebuilding is hereby amended to authorize the construction of a new revenue steamer to take the place of the said revenue steamer Ewing.
For the construction of a steam vessel to be used for boarding vesselsBoarding steamer, Chicago, Ill. at the port of Chicago, Illinois, the sum of twelve thousand dollars in addition to the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars appropriatedVol. 26, p. 958. therefor by act approved March three, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Engraving and Printing.Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers assistant’s, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing*Proviso*.
Notes of large denomination. United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printer’s assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, four hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars, to be. expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be*Proviso*.
Notes of large denomination. expended for printing United States notes of a larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired. For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including not exceeding five 356 thousand dollars for preservation and repair of the buildings occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of theExpenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific, and Alaska coasts, etc. Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed *Proviso*.
Advances.by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties tinder this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. For party expenses: For triangulation, topography, hydrographyParty expenses. of the coast of Maine, and to the international boundary monument; the vicinity of the east end of Long Island, Nantucket Shoals and approaches, including Vineyard Sound; the coast of Massachusetts (including resurvey of Boston Harbor), and New Hampshire: the Connecticut River to Hartford, the Hudson River to Troy, and to continue to date corrections of former surveys of the Delaware River, from the vicinity of Philadelphia to Trenton, and for completing unfinished surveys of parts of the Atlantic coast from Maryland to Florida, and for necessary resurveys, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars:
To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery towards Mobile, and for triangulation, topography and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf Coast, including Lake Pontchartrain and the resurvey of Mobile Bay Entrance, eight thousand four hundred dollars; To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, and to transport the steamer Blake to Chicago, and keep her there during the Columbian Exposition, for the purpose of exhibiting the instruments and methods of deep-sea sounding, six thousand four hundred dollars;
For continuing the survey of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, including offshore hydrography, and to continue the survey of the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette towards the Cascades triangulation, topography, and hydrography, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars; For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical, longitude, and magnetic stations, eight thousand four hundred dollars. 357 For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating toParty expenses—Continued. harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for continuing tidal observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, eleven thousand three hundred dollars;
For examination into reported dangers on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; To continue magnetic observations, inclu the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels westward and southward from the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri, westward from Old Point comfort, Virginia, eastward from San Francisco, California, eastward from Vicksburg, Mississippi, between Fernandina and Cedar Keys, Florida, and from the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, to Lake Erie, four thousand two hundred dollars;
For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicablePoints to State surveys. in States where points have not been furnished, and for surveying and distinctly designating with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of California commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west of Greenwich, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars;
For determinations of geographical positions and to continue gravity determinations, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, and the necessary check bases twelve thousand six hundred dollars; For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the lighthouse Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the. Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations five thousand nine hundred dollars; For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for theInternational Geodetic Association. measurement of the Earth, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be*Proviso*.
Payment. payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named”; and twenty per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; In all for party expenses, one hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Alaska boundary survey: Toward the joint survey of the territoryAlaska boundary survey. adjacent to the boundary line of the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada between the Territory of Alaska and the Province of British Columbia, and the Northwest Territory of Canada, from the latitude of fifty-four degrees and forty minutes north, to the point where said boundary line encounters the one hundred and forty-first degree of west longitude, with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delimitation of said boundary line in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and Russia and between the 358 United States and Russia, ten thousand dollars, to be available until expended; and the whole expense of this survey on the part of the United States shall not exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
Fob repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs andRepairs, etc., vessels. maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pay of Field Officers: For superintendent, six thousand dollars;Pay of field officers. For two assistants, at four thousand dollars, each; For one assistant, three thousand six hundred dollars: For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For four assistants, at three thousand dollars each;
For two assistants, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each: For two assistants, at two thousand six hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For seven assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For nine assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For five subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For two subassistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: For aids temporarily employed at a salary not greater than nine hundred dollars per annum each, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred dollars. Pay of Office Force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand twoPay of office force. hundred dollars; For one general office assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one clerk to the Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one clerk to the assistant in charge of the office and topography, one thousand dollars. For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, type writers, and copyists, namely:
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For ten, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each: For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; 359 For copperplate engravers, namely:Pay of office force—Continued.
For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand dollars; For additional engravers, at not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, janitor and other skilled laborers, namely:
For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, including a janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For ten, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For six, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each;
For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For three, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For four, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. That the positions of all persons employed as field officers or in theOffices not appropriated for to be vacated. office force of the Coast and Geodetic Survey herein provided for, whose services can be dispensed with because of the. reduction of appropriations herein made for said survey, shall be vacated and all such vacancies shall be reported to Congress at its next session in the annual book of estimates.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousandObservations. dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions, nine thousand dollars. For copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing, engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for extra engraving and drawing; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone, and copper for immediate use, twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice and washing, six thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, four thousand five hundred dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances.
Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law. 360 UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Under Smithsonian Institution. National Museum: For continuing the preservation, exhibition,National Museum. Preserving collections, etc. and increase of the collection from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and thirty-two thousand live hundred dollars.
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibitionCases, etc. and safe keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National Museum, eleven thousand dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,Postage stamps. five hundred dollars.
National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of National Zoological Park. Expenses.roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting, and repairing buildings and inclosures for animals: and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty thousand dollars, Half from District revenues.one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and a report in detail of the expenses on account of the National Zoological Park shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of astrophysicalAstrophysical observatory. observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, apparatus, and miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars. International Exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twelve thousand dollars.
North American Ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesNorth American ethnology. among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries: For compensationPay of Commissioner. of the Commissioner, five thousand dollars. Propagation of Food Fishes: For the introduction by the UnitedPropagation of food fishes.
States Fish Commission into and the increase in the waters of the United States of food fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Distribution of Food Fishes: For the distribution of the eggsDistribution. and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad, carp, cod, lobster, the fishes indigenous to the valley of the Mississippi River, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars.
Maintenance of Vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels andMaintenance of vessels. steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the 361 same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars. Inquiry Respecting Food Fishes: For continuing the inquiryInquiries, etc. into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interests of fish culture; for continuing the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the interest of the development of the commercial fisheries, and for the preparation of reports relative to the inquiry, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of expert assistants, and other necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in examining the Clark’s Fork of the Columbia River, with the view to ascertain the obstructions which prevent the ascent of salmon up said river to the Flathead Lake and adjacent waters.
Statistical Inquiry: For the study of the methods, relation and statisticsStatistical inquiry. of the fisheries, with a view to their improvement; for the study of the resources of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, and the determination of methods for the development of the same; tor the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries of all portions of the United States, including persons employed, capital invested, and the quantity and value of products; for the preparation of reports relating to the inquiry, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner may find necessary in the prosecution of this work, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of experts and other necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars.
And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the general expensesTen per cent interchangeable. of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named. Fish Hatchery, Northville, Michigan: For the completion ofFish hatcheries. Northville. Mich. the fish-cultural station at Northville, Michigan, three thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery, Vermont: For the completion of the fish-culturalVermont. Vol. 26, p 964. station in Vermont, authorized by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, including the erection of buildings, introduction of a water supply, construction of ponds, equipment, and such other expenditures as may be deemed by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries necessary to establish the station on an efficient basis, ten thousand dollars.
Fish Hatchery, Lake County, Colorado:Lake County. Colo. For the introduction of a water supply to the Station of the UnitedWater supply. States Fish Commission in Lake County, Colorado, including construction of dam across Rock Creek, the building of a reservoir, laying of pipe or other conduits, the purchase of necessary materials, and all other incidental expenses for the same, fifteen thousand dollars. AndPurchase of water rights, etc. the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby authorized and empowered, either by purchase for money not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or other consideration, to secure any land or rights, not now belonging to the United States, including rights of way and water rights, necessary to accomplish the object for which provision is hereby made: *Provided*, That the total expenditure for all purposes shall not*Proviso*.
Limit. exceed the sum hereby appropriated, and that any and all agreements looking to the acquisition of rights not now held by the Government shall be approved by the Attorney-General before such agreements shall be binding upon the United States. Fish Hatcheries in Montana and Texas: For the establishmentMontana and Texas. of fish-cultural stations in in the States of Montana and Texas, 362 at points to be selected by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, including the purchase of the necessary lands and water rights, the erection of buildings, and for such other constructions, equipment, and work necessary to place the stations on an efficient basis, as follows:
In Montana, ten thousand dollars; in Texas, ten thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars. Fish Hatcheries in the States of South Dakota, Iowa,South Dakota Nebraska. and Nebraska: For investigation and report respecting the advisability of establishing fish-hatching stations at suitable points in the States of South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Fish Hatchery in Tennessee: For investigation and report respectingTennessec. the advisability of establishing a fish hatching station at some suitable point in the State of Tennessee, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Fish Hatchery in the State of Washington: For investigationWashington. and report respecting the advisability of establishing a fish-hatching station at some suitable point in the State of Washington, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries shall embrace in theEstimates for all officers. etc., to be submitted. estimates of appropriations for the Fish Commission for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and each year thereafter estimates for all officers, clerks, and other employees whose services are permanent and continuous in their character and deemed to be necessary for an efficient and economical execution of the appropriations for the Fish Commission.
Interstate Commerce Commission.Interstate commerce. Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries. Vol. 24, p. 386. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: For salary of Secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures to enable the Commission toExpenses. give effect to, and execute the provisions of, the said “Act to regulate commerce,” one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars: in all, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous, Treasury Department. World’s Columbian Exposition.World's Columbian Exposition. Government Exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation,Government exhibit. transportation, installation, care and custody, and arrangement of such articles and materials as the heads of the several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution, and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may decide shall be embraced in the Government exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may designate for said Exposition, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants to the Board of Control and Management of the Government exhibit, appointed by the President, of which not exceeding five thousand dollars may be expended by said Board for clerical services, four hundred and eight thousand two hundred and *Proviso*.fifty dollars: *Provided* That all expenditures for the Approval of expenditures.purposes and from the appropriation specified herein shall be subject to the approval of the said Board of Control and Management and of the Secretary of the Treasury, as now provided by law.
World’s ColumbianWorld s Columbian Commission. Commission: For the World's Columbian Commission, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars of which sum one hundred and ten thousand dollars shall be used for the Board of 363 Lady Managers: *Provided*, That all expense of administration and installation*Provisos*. Woman's Building. in the Woman’s building shall be paid by the World’s Columbian Exposition: *Provided* That the salaries of the Director-generalSalaries of Director-General and Secretary. and Secretary of the Commission shall not exceed eight thousand dollars and three thousand dollars respectively per annum, and a sum not exceeding live thousand dollars may be used by the Director-general in his discretion for incidental and contingent expenses of his office, and there shall not be more than two meetings of the World'sMeetings.
Columbian Commission or of the Board of Lady Managers dining the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. And the sums herein appropriated for the World’s Columbian ExpositionIn full fur Government liability. shall be in full of the liability of the United States on account thereof: *Provided*, That the Government Exhibits at the World’s*Proviso*. To be closed Sundays. Detail of army officers. Columbian Exposition shall not be opened to the public on Sundays. That the Secretary of War be, and lie hereby is, authorized at his discretion to detail for special duty in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, such officers of the Army as may lie required, to report to the general commanding the Department of the Missouri, and the officers thus detailed shall not be subject to loss of pay or rank on account of such detail, nor shall any officer or employee of the UnitedNo officer or employee to receive additional compensation.
States receive additional pay or compensation because of service connected with said Exposition from the United States or from said Exposition. Paper and Stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight,Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc. and salary of superintendent, messengers and watchmen, fifty thousand dollars. Punishment for Violations of Internal Revenue Laws: ForPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal-Revenue shallStatements. make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act.
Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentExpenses of fiscal agents, etc. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection,R. S., sec. 3053, p. 710. safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, sixty thousand dollars. Transportation of Silver Coin: For transportation of silverTransporting silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub treasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or*Proviso*.
Deposits. currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.Report. Recoinage, Reissue, and Transportation of Minor Coins:Recoinage, etc. minor coins. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States Mint at Philadelphia, for cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in or which may be hereafter received at the subtreasury offices in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the expense of transportation for such reissue.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to recoin any and all the uncurrent minor coins now in the Treasury; and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to reimburse the Treasury for the loss on such recoinage; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars. 364 Recoinage of Silver Coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent fractionalRecoinage silver coins. silver coins abraded below the limit of tolerance in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars.
Distinctive Paper for United States Securities: For paper,United States securities. Paper, etc. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, fifty thousand dollars. Sealing and Separating United States Securities: ForScaling and separating. materials needed to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printers’ varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manilla paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses of National Currency : For paper, express charges,Paper, national currency. and other expenses, nine thousand three hundred dollars. Special Witness of Destruction of United States Securities:Witness destruction For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to of securities.witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand live hundred and sixty-five dollars. Canceling United States Securities and Cutting Distinctive Paper:Canceling, etc.
For extra knives for cutting machine and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of Dies, Rolls, and Plates: For pay of custodiansCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
Pay of Assistant Custodians and Janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings. Assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and Janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, five hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of Furniture and Other Furnishings for Public Buildings:Inspector of furniture, etc.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and Repairs of Furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of furniture and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used, as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not. Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, and water. lights, water, electric light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars'.
And the appropriation here in made for gas in any of the public buildings 365 in the District of Columbia, under the control of the Treasury Department, shall include the rental or use of any gas governor, gasGas governors, etc. purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas. when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid for such rental or use of*Proviso*. Limit. such gas governor, gas purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby.
Heating Apparatus For Public Buildings: For heating, hoisting,Heating, etc., apparatus. and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.
Vaults, Safes, and Locks, for Public Buildings: For vaults,Vaults, safes, and locks. safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, fifty thousand dollars. Plans For Public Buildings: For books, photographic materials,Plans. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars. Suppressing Counterfeiting and Other Crimes:
For the expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. of detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including four thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-sevenR.
S., sec. 4718, p. 919. hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and five thousand dollars for the necessary investigation of violations of section fifty-twoR. S., sec. 5209, p. l007. hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, seventy thousand dollars. Compensation In Lieu Of Moieties: For compensation in lieuCompensation in lieu of moieties. of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses Of Local Appraisers' Meetings:
For defraying theLocal appraisers' meetings. necessary expenses of local appraisers at semiannual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Enforcement Of Alien Contract-Labor Laws: For the enforcementAlien contract-labor laws. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Enforcement Of The Chinese Exclusion Act: To prevent unlawfulChinese exclusion. entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An act •*Ante* p. 25. to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” one hundred thousand dollars.
Alaskan Seal Fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaska seal fisheries. Agents' salaries, etc. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two 366 thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
That the act entitled “An act to enable the Secretary of the TreasuryInquiry respecting seals, etc., repealed. to gather full and authentic information as to the present condition and preservation of the fur seal interests of the Government in the region of Alaska, as compared with its condition in eighteen hundred and seventy; also full information as to the impending extinction Vol. 26, p. 46.of the sea otter industry, and kindred lines of inquiry, and so forth,” approved April fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be and the same is hereby repealed, said repeal to take effect July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the directionProtecting salmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars. For publishing the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheriesPublishing President's proclamation, etc. Vol. 25, p. 1009. of Bering Sea, and tor protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “To provide for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses of carrying out lease of and protecting seal life on Islands of Saint Paul and R.
S., secs. 1959, 1971. pp. 344, 346.Saint George, Alaska, under sections nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one, Revised Statutes, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, andFood, etc., to Alaskans. clothing, to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Metropolitan Police: To meet the expenses for maintainingPolice.
Extra force Grand Army encampment. public order in the District of Columbia on the occasion of the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to take place in said District in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, nine thousand *Proviso*. Limit.dollars: *Provided*, That policemen borne on the rolls of the police force of the cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore may be employed, and none other outside of the District of Columbia; For the payment to the inspector of plumbing of the District of ColumbiaInspector of plumbing. *Ante*, p. 21. for additional labor and expense imposed on him under the act entitled “An act to authorize the appointment of an inspector of plumbing in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five hundred dollars;
Police Court: For compensation of one deputy marshal, at threePolice court. dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; For furnishing the addition to the police court building, eight hundredAddition to building. dollars: one half of which sums for the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. That the President shall appoint a board of three members, residentsBoard to revise assessment of real estate. of the District of Columbia, who shall each receive a compensation of eight dollars per day and who shall act as a board of revision, equalization, and appeals, with power to revise and equalize the assessment of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and shall remain in session for a period of not less than ninety days nor more than six months, and their decision in all cases shall be final; and the Commissioners are hereby required to detail such clerical force as may be necessary to aid said board in *Proviso*.their duties: *Provided*, That the triennial assessment made in the yearAssessment of 1889 continued for fiscal year 1893.
Vol. 22, p. 568. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, pursuant to the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby continued in force for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and all taxes for said fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be levied and collected upon the basis of said assessment, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. 367 For compensation of the members of the board hereby created, fourCompensation of board. thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
That the circle at the intersection of Sixteenth street and NewHancock Circle transferred. Hampshire avenue, known as Hancock Circle, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to and located at or near, the intersection of Sixteenth street extended and Morris street; the location and dimensions of the said circle to be as shown on a map on tile in the office of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Quarantine Service.Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersMaintenance. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Cape-Charles, South Atlantic Station (Sapelo Sound), Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, fifty thousand dollars.
For completion of quarantine stations, as follows:Completion of stations. South Atlantic: For water main, sewer, closets, painting, and coal house, six thousand dollars; Gulf: For building for sheltering crew of vessel and coal shed, disinfecting machinery, repairs to steamer and floats, and for engine, seven thousand five hundred dollars; San Francisco: For completion of station, including laundry building, hospital, and adjunct buildings, and for machinery, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: in all, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Prevention of Epidemics.Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, or smallpox, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act approved March second,Vol. 25, p. 954. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and the additional sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the same purpose.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Under Interior Department. Public Buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of Buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs. Interior Department and Pension Buildings, five thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. Repairs. thereof, including wages of mechanics, laborers, and fresco painters, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to the steam heating and machineryHeating, etc., Senate. of the Senate wing of the Capitol, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, two thousand three hundred and seventy-live dollars.
For improving ventilation of the Senate Chamber and of SenateVentilation, drain age, etc. committee rooms, improving drainage of central portion of the. Capitol, and of the north and south wings, and making improvements and addition to kitchen of Senate restaurant, and to coal and fuel bins in Senate wing, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and six cents; said amount to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with the plans and specifications adopted by Colonel George E Waring, junior, and Doctor John S.
Billings, as set forth by the reports made by them under the Senate 368 resolution of April twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, ordering an investigation and report by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the sanitary condition of the Senate Chamber and other parts of the Capitol. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, fifteen thousand dollars.
Capitol Terraces: For extending heating apparatus and for generalTerraces. work in completing terraces, eight thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting Capitol and grounds and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House Stables; for gas and electric lighting; for use of electric lighting plants in Senate and House wings at not exceeding two hundred dollars per month during the sessions of Congress; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas-titters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Engine House and Senate and House Stables: For repairs toEngine house and stables. engine House and Senate and House Stables, five hundred dollars. That no employe of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similarEmployment of Pinkerton, etc., detectives forbidden agency, shall be employed in any Government service or by any officer of the District of Columbia. Expenses of the collection of Revenue from sales of Public Lands.Sales of public lands. Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers:
ForSalaries, registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand Consolidations.dollars each, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to consolidate the district land offices where practicable and consistent with the public interests. Contingent Expenses of Land Offices: For clerk hire, rentContingent expenses land offices. and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, six thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands,Timber depredations, protecting Public lauds, and SWAMPLAND claims. and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swampland indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lauds from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, one hundred and twenty *Provisos*.
Agents’ per diem.thousand dollars: *Prodded*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation, shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual Detail from Land Office.necessary expenses for transportation: *Provided further*, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to detail from time to time clerks in his office for protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting Public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands and indemnity for swamp lands, and per diem subject to such rules and restrictions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence of clerks so detailed, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary 369 expenses for transportation, shall be paid from the foregoing appropriation; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall submit in his annual report a detailed statement of the expenditure under thisStatement. proviso.
That, instead of the provision contained in the sundry civil act ofPort Angeles, Wash. Purchase of additional lots allowed. Vol. 26. pp. 390, 679. August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, any person who shall have, at the date of the final approval of the appraisement, actually established a residence in the town of Fort Angeles, in the State of Washington, upon any one regulation lot fifty by one hundred and forty feet, and shall have made valuable improvements upon one such additional lot prior to the date of the approval of the appraisement thereof, and shall have maintained such residence and improvements up to the date of his application to purchase, shall, upon presenting satisfactory proof of such residence and improvements to the register and receiver, or other officer authorized to take proofs in homestead cases, after the usual notice of intention by publication, be entitled to purchase said lot or lots at their appraised value at any time prior to the date of public sale.
Expenses of hearings in Land Entries: For expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, twenty thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing plats of surveys. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand dollars.
Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing transcriptsTranscripts of records and plats. of records and plats, and paying therefor, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands three hundred and seventy-fiveSurveys and resurveys. thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile tor standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation*Provisos*.
Preferences. preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p. 676. Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. and eighty-nine, and the acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, and lines of reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth,Extra rates for heavily timbered, etc., lands. rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in eases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, when the work cannot be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further*, That in the States of Montana.
Washington, Idaho, and Oregon,Lands in Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. there may be allowed, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines, and for the extension of the seventh standard parallel north, in the State of Montana, from its present western terminus as provided for in surveying contract numbered twoExtra rate Montana. 370 hundred and fifty-six, being the southwest corner of township twenty-nine north, range twenty-seven west, westward to the western boundary of said State, the Secretary of the Interior may allow a rate not Resurveys.exceeding forty dollars per linear mile.
And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars may be expended for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or Inspecting mineral deposits, etc.fraudulent; and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit proceeding in behalf of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding five thousand dollars may be expended for the Coal lands.
Arizona.survey of the coal lands in the White Mountain or San Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona. For the survey of the public lands lying within the limits of landSurvey of land grants to railroads. grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and the selection therein of such lands as are granted therefor, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of section one Vol. 24, p. 556.of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes,” being chapter three hundred and seventy-six of volume twenty-four of the Statutes at Large, page five hundred and fifty-six, one *Provisos*.
Reimbursement.hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any portion of said sum expended for surveying such lands shall be reimbursed by the respective companies or parties in interest for whose benefit the lands are granted, according to the provisions of Vol. 16, p. 305.the act of July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter two hundred and ninety two, volume sixteen, pages three hundred and Vol. 19, p. 121.five and three hundred and six, and act of July thirty first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter two hundred and forty-six of volume nineteen, page one hundred and twenty-one, of the Statutes at Large, requiring “that before any lands granted to any railroad company shall be conveyed to such company or any persons entitled thereto under any of the acts incorporating or relating to said company, unless said company is excepted by law from the payment of such cost, there shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying, selecting, and conveying the same, by the said company or persons Not to be used in Florida.in interest:” *Provided*, That no part of this sum of money shall be used for any land embraced in any grant to the State of Florida.
For necessary expenses of surveys, appraisal, and sale, and pay ofAbandoned military reservations. custodians, of abandoned military reservations transferred to the Vol. 23, p. 103.control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, includingCasa Grande. a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be surveyed andBoundary Nebraska and South Dakota. distinctly marked by suitable monuments that portion of the boundary line between the State of Nebraska and the State of South Dakota which lies west of the Missouri River, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
United States Geological Survey.Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the GeologicalScientific assistants. Survey: For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, at three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; 371 For one geographer, at two thousand five hundred dollars;
For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For theExpenses. Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely:
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, tenLaborers, etc. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. two hundred and forty thousand dollars; sixty thousand dollars of which shall be expended west of the ninety-seventh meridian in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and the Territory of Oklahoma, and at least one-half of the remainder shall be expended west of the one hundred and third meridian.
For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. fifty thousand dollars; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontologic researches. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical researches. United States, five thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, fiveIllustrations. thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report on the mineral resources of theMineral resources report.
United States, ten thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public, documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; For engraving the geological maps of the United States, ten thousandMaps. dollars; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, fourKent. thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, three hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.Miscellaneous. Eleventh Census.Eleventh Census. That the appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,Amount for printing available. Vol. 26, p. 888. 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-three, under the limitations and conditions prescribed by said act, and for the printing, not to exceed the usual number, of any additional reports the copy of which may be ready for the Public Printer before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Supreme Court Reports.Supreme Court reports. To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and forty-one to one hundred and forty-nine, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p.661. and eighty-nine, one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. 372 Government Hospital for the Insane.Government Hospital for Insane.
For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Current expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been a United to the hospital, and who are indigent, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand three hundred dollars: and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, sixteen thousand dollars. For special improvements, as follows: For electric plant, for incandescent lights, and ventilating fans,Electric plant. twenty thousand dollars. For inclosing new farm and refitting buildings thereon for hospital use. five thousand dollars. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.
Current Expenses of the Columbia Institution for theCurrent expenses. Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for genera] repairs and improvements, fifty thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand dollars of which to be expended in the employment of instructors of articulation. For buildings and grounds, as follows:Buildings and grounds. For inclosure, care, and improvement of grounds, and for repairs of buildings, including repairs of heating apparatus, plumbing, and sewerage, two thousand dollars.
Howard University.Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. And the proper officers of said university shall report annually to the Secretary of the Interior how the appropriation is expended; and the Secretary of the Interior shall estimate in detail for the next fiscal year the items of expenditure provided for in this paragraph;
For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars. For books for library, bookcases, shelving and fixtures, live hundred dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical and natural history, and laboratory, five hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; For repairs of buildings, one thousand five hundred dollars; In all, thirty thousand dollars. Education in Alaska.Education in Alaska.
For the industrial and primary education of the children of school age in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, forty thousand dollars. 373 Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. Washington, District of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;Maintenance. For salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, and matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fifteen thousand dollars;
For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For reading matter for patients, twenty-five dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand and twenty-five dollars, one half of which sum shall be paidHalf from District revenues. out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia; and hereafter the estimates forEstimates. the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum shall, each year, be submitted in the annual estimates for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia.
Hot Springs Reservation: For the improvement, in the discretionHot Springs, Ark. Improvement. of the Secretary of the Interior, according to suitable plans and estimates to be prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, of the Government reserve bordering upon Whittington avenue, on the west branch of Hot Springs Creek, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and to have said improvement completed to make said reserve available in part as a reservoir to retain and retard the flood waters of said creek, and to put said reserve in a suitable state of improvement, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same toPayable from sales of lands. be paid out of any money that may now or hereafter be available from the proceeds of the sales of public lands within the Hot Springs, Arkansas, reservation, and that is required, by existing law, to be held as a special fund for such improvements as may be provided for on Government reservations at said Hot Springs by Congress.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Under War Department. Armories and Arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars.Machinery, etc. For general care, preservation and improvements; for care and preservationCare. etc. of the water power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences and sewers, and grading grounds, six thousand dollars.
For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:Bridge expenses. For care, preservation and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, ten thousand dollars. For protecting Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. For overhauling and reconstructing the floor systems and substitutingNew doorway. metal for wooden joists in the roadways of the bridges connecting the Rock Island Arsenal and the cities of Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall require the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company*Proviso*.
One-half payable by Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. to reimburse to the United States one half of the expenses incurred in said work, for which that company is liable under its guaranty executed to the United States under the acts of Congress providing for the construction of said bridge, but the United States shall pay the whole expense of flooring the wagon roadway. 374 Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For purchase and erectionBenicia Arsenal, Cal. of one gas machine, two thousand dollars;
For purchase and erection of one smokestack, for use of steam pump, for pumping water from well to reservoir, fifty dollars; in all, two thousand and fifty dollars. Columbia Arsenal, Columbia, Tennessee: For constructingColumbia, Tenn. and completing fence around arsenal grounds, and for front gate, ten thousand dollars, and one thousand five hundred dollars for improving grounds; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For machinesFrankford Arsenal, Pa. for manufacture of field artillery ammunition, five thousand dollars,—.
Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For repairs to wharfProving Ground, Sandy Hook., N. J. and crane on same, four thousand dollars; For one steam capstan, five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairsSpringfield. Mass. and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. Testing machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materialTesting machine, Watertown. in caring for. preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including new tools and appliances, ten thousand dollars.
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For paving roadsWatervliet Arsenal. N. Y. in arsenal grounds with granite blocks, five thousand dollars; For new iron wagon bridge, five thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. Repairs of Arsenals: To meet such unforeseen expenditures atRepairs. arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, fifty thousand dollars. Buildings and Grounds in and around Washington.Buildings and Grounds. D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows:Improvement and care.
For improvement of grounds north of Executive Mansion, one thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and *Proviso*.
Condition.site of old canal northwest of same, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand dollars. For manure and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flowerpots, twine, caskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. 375 For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twelve thousand dollars.
For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, five thousand dollars. For improvement, care and maintenance of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, three thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be madeLimit for concrete pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.
For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows:Executive Mansion. For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twentyRepairs, fuel. etc. thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. For renewing the superstructures of two greenhouses connected with the Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars.
Lighting the Executive Mansion and Public Grounds: ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamp lighters, gas fitters and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lampposts, purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for each six foot burner not connected with a*Provisos*. meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-one Maximum per lamp.dollars and fifty cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided*, That before any expenditures are made from theBurners. appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour.
For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from sevenElectric lights. posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars. Repair of Water Pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes,Repair of water pipes, etc. purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsTelegraph, Capitol, Departments, and Government Printing Office. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred Care and maintenance.dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month: one conductor of elevator car. at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attend ant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month: three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all. eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. 376 For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars.
Fish-ways at Great Falls: To complete the erection of fish-waysFishways, Great Falls. at the Great Falls of the Potomac, fifteen thousand dollars. Military Posts.Military posts. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of suchConstruction, etc. military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be *Provisos*. Little Rock.necessary, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That sixty thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated may be used, in case the Secretary of War shall regard it necessary for the public interest, to commence the erection of buildings including hospital at the military post near Little Rock, Arkansas, when the conditions of the act *Ante*, p. 20.approved April twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to establish said post shall have been complied with: *Provided further*, That not exceeding fifty thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated Fort McKinney, Wyo.may be used for reconstructing Fort McKinney, Wyoming: *Provided, further*, That the one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by act approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety two, for the Helena, Mont.Establishment of a military post at Helena, Montana, may be used, when *Ante*, p. 33.title to the land shall have been acquired, not only for locating the Sewerage, etc.post and the construction of buildings, but also in providing Post on northern frontier.proper sewerage and an adequate water supply.
And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to establish a military post at a point near the northern frontier, where he may, in his judgment, deem it for the public good: Site to be donated.*Provided*, That suitable land for the purpose is donated free of cost to the United States, and that the title shall be declared valid by the Attorney-General. Army and Naval Hospital: For improvement and maintenanceHot Springs, Ark. Hospital. of grounds about the Army and Naval Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and sixty cents.
Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For theYellowstone National Park. Improvement, etc. improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, forty-five thousand dollars; the same to be expended by, and under the direction of the *Proviso*. Road to Snake River.Secretary of War: *Provided*, That fifteen thousand dollars of this amount, or so much thereof as may be. necessary may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the construction of a road from the Upper Geyser Basin to a point on Snake River where it crosses the. southern boundary of the park.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: To enableChickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. the Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park according to the terms of existing laws, including surveys, maps, models in relief, the purchase of Orchard Knob and Sherman’s Earthworks, and for observation towers and the purchase of sites for two of them, one *Proviso*. Lease of lands.hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may lease the lands of the park at his discretion, either to former owners or other persons, for agricultural purposes, the proceeds to be applied by the Secretary of War to the repairs of roads and the care Disbursements.of the park; and from this appropriation the Secretary of War is authorized to pay the disbursing officer of the War Department the. sum of five hundred dollars for disbursing this and former appropriations for said Park.
That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are herebyDonation of condemned cannon, etc. authorized to deliver to the Commissioners of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, at the park, such number of 377 condemned cannon and cannon balls as their judgment may approve, for the purpose of their work of indication and marking locations on the battlefields of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. Engineer Department.Engineer Department.
For continuing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Harbors. Philadelphia, Pa. Continuing improvement removal of Smith’s Island and Wind mill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty’s Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, forty-one thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Completing improvement,Baltimore, Md. two hundred and eight thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing improvementGalveston, Tex. to entrance to harbor, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Mary’s River, Michigan:Hay Lake Channel, Saint Marys River. Mich. Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. National Cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance, etc. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries:
For pay of seventy-fiveSuperintendents. superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the workHeadstones for soldiers graves. of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,Vol. 17, p. 545.
Vol. 20, p. 281. and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, ten thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, ten thousand dollars. Burial of Indigent Soldiers: For expenses of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers. Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Road to National Cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco,Road to Presidio, Cal. California: For continuing the work of improving the reservation at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, by developing and perfecting the water supply, the reclaiming of sand dunes, the planting of trees and shrubs, and construction of new roads, the erection of a permanent fence or wall on the south and east lines of the reservation, the erection of permanent gateways, the reclamation of the marsh and other general and much needed improvements, ten thousand dollars Battle Field of Antietam:
For the purpose of surveying, locating,Antietam battlefield. and preserving the lines of battle of the Army of the Potomac and of the Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam, and for marking the same, and for locating and marking the positions of each of the forty-three different commands of the regular Army engaged in the battle of Antietam, and for the purchase of sites for tablets for the marking of such position, as follows: For cost of one hundred and fourteen tablets, transporting and settingTablets, etc. up of same, purchase of one hundred and fourteen sites for tablets, salaries of board, including office rent, hire of vehicles, mileage, and 378 for condemnation of land and acquiring title for same, in all, sixteen *Proviso*.
Sites.thousand three hundred and ten dollars: *Provided*, That in acquiring land for the sites for tablets on the battle field, the Secretary of War Vol. 26, p. 978.is authorized to proceed in accordance with act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one making appropriations for Sundry Civil expenses under title “Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park.” Survey of northern and north western lakes: For printingSurvey, northern and northwestern lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dollars.
For surveys, additions to and correcting engraved plates, five thousand dollars. Transportation of Reports and Maps to Foreign Countries:Transporting maps, etc. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs, etc. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, two thousand dollars. Support and Medical Treatment of Destitute Patients: ForProvidence Hospital. D. C. Support of destitute patients. the support and medical treatment, of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars.
Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it toGarfield Memorial Hospital. Maintenance. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay there for, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of Military convicts: For payment of costs andMilitary convicts. charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, five thousand dollars. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion:Official records, War of the Rebellion.
Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, including the atlas of maps and plans, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War, Sets for Fifty-second Congress.August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, the printing and binding of five hundred copies thereof for the use of Senators, Members, and Delegates of the Fifty-second Congress, to be printed and bound under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, and for the Civilian board.
Vol. 25, p. 970.compensation of the civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordance with the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, such experts to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, from time to time, as the necessity therefor arises, and for the purchase of stationery and for additional rent, not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
The Secretary of War is hereby directed to ascertain what numberReprint of first five volumes to complete sets. of copies of the first five volumes of the Rebellion Record is required to complete sets of this series in the possession of libraries or persons supplied with subsequent volumes under existing provisions of law, whether such distribution has been through the War Department or otherwise; and the Public Printer is authorized and directed to furnish upon the requisition of the Secretary of War, the number of copies of each volume required for this purpose, which shall be used exclusively *Proviso*.
No increase of appropriation.by the Secretary of War for completing such sets: *Provided*, the same can be done without any increase of appropriations. 379 Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia: To provide forArtillery school. Fort Monroe, Va. means of instruction, such as textbooks, instruments, drawing materials, and stationery, required in the course of artillery, engineering, law. and the art and science of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars.
Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas:Infantry.etc.,school Fort Leavenworth, Kans. For text books, books of reference, instruments, and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousHarbor of New York. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesInspectors, etc. of office, fifteen thousand dollars;
For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousandMaintenance of steamers. dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, ten thousand dollars; m all, thirty-three thousand dollars. For the construction, under the direction of the Secretary of War, ofOmaha. Nebr. suitable buildings for a military store house and offices at the militaryMilitary depot. depot at Omaha, Nebraska, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso* Limit of cost. That the total cost shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
United States Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth.Military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,Support. as follows: For subsistence of prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen; andExpenses. for prisoners en route to insane asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars; For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, three hundred dollars; For forage and bedding for public animals used exclusively at the prison, and hay for prisoners’ bedding, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For stationery, blank books, typewriting supplies, for use in prison offices, memorandum books and pencils for use of guard when on duty, stationery for use in prisoners’ school, postage stamps, envelopes, and letter paper tor issue to prisoners, one thousand dollars; For fuel for generating steam for running engines, heating buildings and cooking purposes; materials for extension and repair of steam-heating apparatus, and water circulation; hose, belting, machinery, castings, horses and mules, horse and mule shoes, and nails, articles for repairing harness and wagons, stoves and stovepipe, lime, cement, fire clay, fire bricks, iron, tin, solder, and blacksmiths’ coal, charcoal, putty, nails, whitewash brushes, painting materials, disinfectants, axes, shovels, spades, wheelbarrows, and all articles required for proper police of buildings and grounds, horse medicines and dressings, tools and miscellaneous articles for use in shops, laundry, barber shop, bathrooms, stables, printing office, and photograph gallery; furniture for use in offices; oil and electric-light supplies, blankets, bedsacks, and bunks for prisoners’ use, and miscellaneous articles which cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty thousand dollars;
For materials for manufacture of clothing, and to purchase articles of clothing that cannot be made at the prison, all for prisoners’ wear at prison and issue to prisoners at release from confinement at prison and at military posts; for donation of five dollars each to prisoners on release from confinement at prison and at military posts, eight thousand dollars; For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, dressings, and for all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; 380 hospital furniture and supplies; heating appliances, and for expense ofMilitary prison—continued. interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For advertising for proposals for supplies, two hundred dollars; For expenses of pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, five hundred dollars; For the transportation of prisoners, on their discharge from the prison, to their homes, (or elsewhere, as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment, five thousand dollars; For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, one thousand eight hundredCivilian employees. dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; extra-duty pay for prison guard, two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; five foremen of mechanics and one engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; one forage and wagon master, at sixty dollars per month; one teamster at forty dollars per month; two night watchmen and four teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each: and one fireman at sixty dollars per month, to take charge at night of the heating apparatus and electric-light; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars;
For construction and repairs of officers’ quarters, prison buildings,Quarters, repairs, etc. the hospital, the chapel, stables, and all other buildings on prison grounds, including plumbing, four thousand dollars; In all, seventy-nine thousand eight hundred dollars. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Support. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer soldiers as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio:
For current expenses,Dayton, Ohio. namely: Pay of officers and noncommissionedCurrent expenses. officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, telegraph, and telephone operators, guard, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, librarians and musicians, and for repairs not done by the home; also for stationery, advertising, legal advice, and postage, and for such other expenditures as cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, sixty-seven thousand five hundred and one dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissarySubsistence. clerks, porters, laborers, and orderlies employed in the subsistence Department; bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, bread-cutters and butchers; the cost of all animals, fowls, and fish purchased for provisions; of all articles of food, their freight, preparation and serving; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair, not done by the home, three hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For clothing, namely: Expenditures, for clothing, underclothing,Clothing. boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed in the tailor shop, knitting shop and shoe shop, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made, seventy-six thousand eight hundred dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’Household expenses quarters; for bedsteads, bedding and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the home; for coal and firewood; for engineers and firemen; bathhouse keepers, hall-cleaners, laundrymen, gas-makers, and privy watchmen, and for all machines, tools, materials, and appliances purchased for use under this head; and for their repair, unless the repairs 381 are made by the home; also for all labor and material for upholstery shops, broom and soap shops, eighty-seven thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-nine cents;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital expenses. hospital stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage-drivers, hearse-drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such labor as may be necessary; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding and materials and all other articles necessary for the wards; kitchen and dining room furniture, and appliances, carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins, and materials; for tools of grave diggers, and for all repairs not done by the home, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and five cents;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. home, two thousand five hundred dollars; For construction, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Construction. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters; stone masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, seventy-three thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-three cents;
For one gasholder, sixteen thousand and forty dollars. For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm expenses. farm hand, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, hog-feeders, and laborers, and for all machines, implements, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing and seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and Other conveyances; for all animals and fowls purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower-garden, lawn and park: and for repairs not done by the home, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, seven hundred and thirty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and five cents. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin :Milwaukee, Wis. Current expenses. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head forClothing. the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-five cents; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.
For construction, including the same objects specified under thisConstruction. head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand four hundred dollars: For extension of hospital, twenty thousand dollars; For extension of water supply, one thousand five hundred dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-five cents;
At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Togus, Me. Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-one cents: 382 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head forClothing. the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand two hundred dollars;
For household, including the same objects specified under this head forHousehold. the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. Construction. For construction, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and Farm.seventeen dollars and ten cents;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-two cents; For the construction of a sewer from the Eastern Branch to the KennebecSewer. River, twenty-five thousand dollars; To all, three hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-three cents. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentHampton. Va. Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and thirty cents.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Brandi, forty-four thousand eight handled dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-five cents;
For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For construction, including the same objects specified under this headConstruction. for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; For brick barrack, thirty-one thousand dollars; For wharf, six thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this headBarrack. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and twenty nine thousand five hundred and seventy four dollars and sixty-five cents.
At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For currentFarm. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisLeaven worth, Kans. Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and ten dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this head forSubsistence. the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars;
For household, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, sixty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-five cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighteen cents; For transportation of members of the Home, five thousand dollars;Hospital. For construction, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation.
Construction. head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; 383 For addition to hospital, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ten cents; In all, three hundred and fifty-three thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents. At the Pacific Branch at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this headCurrent expenses. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars; For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand and forty-two dollars and sixty cents: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;
For transportation of members of the home, three thousand two hundred dollars;Transportation. For construction, including the same objects specified under this headConstruction. for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents; For one barrack, twenty-five thousand dollars;Barrack. For completing hospital, twenty-three thousand dollars;Hospital. For extension of water supply, twenty thousand dollars;Water supply. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm.
Central Branch, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents; In all, two hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and two cents. At the Marion Branch at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses,Marion. Ind. including the same objects specified under this head for theCurrent expenses. Central Branch, twenty-one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty cents; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, sixty-four thousand two hundred and forty dollars;
For clothing, including the same objects specified under this headClothing. for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirteen cents; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, fourteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-five cents;
For transportation, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Branch, one thousand dollars; For construction including the same objects specified under this headConstruction. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand two hundred sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents; For addition to hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars;Hospital. Commissary’s and quartermaster’s quarters, five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, five thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-five cents;
In all, one hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-eight cents. For outdoor relief and incidental expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars;Outdoor relief. 384 In all, two million six hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred*Proviso*. and forty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents: *Provided*, That Estimates to show salaries, etc.hereafter the statement of expenses of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall each year be submitted in the annual book of estimates and shall be made to show the amount of salary or compensation paid to each of the officers and employees of said Board, and there shall also be submitted therewith a statement showing the number of officers appointed at each of the R.
S., sec. 4829, p. 937.Branch Homes under Section four thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes, the amount of salary or compensation paid to each, and the amount of allowance to each, if any, for contingent or other expenses. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing the aid to StateAid to State or Territorial homes. or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in Vol. 25, p. 450.conformity with the act approved August twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes Deductions for pensions retained.on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
Back pay and Bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofBack pay and bounty. pay of two and three year volunteers that may Arrears of pay.be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four hundred and thirty-live 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For payment of amounts for bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth,Additional bounty. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that may be certified to be due by Vol. 14, p. 322.the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, thirty-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation of rations. war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, thirty thousand dollars.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Under Department of Justice. Court House,Washington, District of Columbia: For annualcourthouse, District of Columbia. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. Utah Penitentiary: For shops, one thousand five hundred dollars.Utah penitentiary. MISCELLANEOUS.Miscellaneous. Defending Suits in Claims against the United States: ForDefending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United French spoliation claims.States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Punishing Violations of the Intercourse Acts and Frauds:Indian service. Punishing violations. intercourse acts. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars. 385 Prosecution of Crimes:
For the detection and prosecution ofProsecution of crimes. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigations of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, of the United States courts, and United States Commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of Territorial Courts in Utah Territory: For defrayingUtah courts. the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per 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.
Industrial Home, Utah Territory: For aid to the IndustrialIndustrial Home, Utah. Christian Home Association in Utah Territory, four thousand dollars. Prosecution and Collection of Claims: For the prosecutionProsecuting and collecting claims. and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Traveling Expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actualAlaska. Traveling expenses. and necessary expenses of the judge, marshal and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars.
Rent and Incidental Expenses, Territory of Alaska: ForRent, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Defence in Indian Depredation Claims: For salaries and expensesDefense, Indian depredation claims. in defense of the Indian depredation claims, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. JUDICIAL.Judicial. United States Courts.United States courts. Expenses of the United States Courts:
For defraying theExpenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the court in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the court of private land claims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States, and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States; and of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of the RevisedR.
S., Title XXVI, pp. 352–357. Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of the fees and expenses of the United States marshalsMarshals' fees. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in sectionAccounts.
R. S., sec. 856, p. 151, eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being forDistrict attorneys. Fees. payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the United States*Proviso*. district attorney shall be allowed one fee and one mileage actuallyMileage, etc. 386 traveled to and from the place of hearing for his attendance in person or by his assistant before a United States commissioner or other committing magistrate in each ease and no more.
For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment ofSpecial compensation. such special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employedSpecial assistants. by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty thousand dollars.
For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerks' fees. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners' fees, etc. acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any fees to the United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under Sworn complaints required.the internal revenue laws, unless the prosecution has been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant or upon sworn complaint by a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon information and belief and approved either before or after such arrest by a circuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed or the indictment is found.
For fees of jurors, six hundred thousand dollars.Jurors' fees. For fees of witnesses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Witnesses’ fees. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners. and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, three hundred thousand dollars.
For rent of United States court rooms, fifty thousand dollars.Rent. For pay of bailiffs, not exceeding three in each court, except in theBailiffs, etc. Southern District of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers: of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of Appropriations:
For preparation, under the directionStatement of appropriations. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first session of the Fifty-second Vol. 25, p. 587.Congress, as required by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.
Senate: For materials for folding, six thousand dollars.Senate. Folding materials. 387 Building for the Library of Congress: For continuing the Library of Congress. Continuing construction.construction of the building for the library of Congress and for each and every purpose connected with the same, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be. entered into for the*Provisos*. Contracts. ironwork of stairs, roof and dome, and marble finish for halls, corridors, and rotunda, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time beGen.
T. L. Casey to continue in charge. made by law: *Provided*, That Brigadier-General Thomas Lincoln Casey, now in charge of the construction of said building, shall continue in said charge until its completion whether on the active or retired list of the Army. Botanic Garden: For reconstructing with iron frame three plantBotanic Garden. houses; repairs to heating apparatus, painting large conservatory inside and out; and for general repairs to the various buildings connected with this garden, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand dollars.
Conveying Votes of Electors: For payment of the messengersElectoral vote. Payment to messengers. of the respective States for conveying to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President, and Vice President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual road traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for the one distance only, twelve thousand and seventy seven dollars.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding, paper, etc. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million three hundred and twenty thousandAmount. dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
For printing and binding for congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, one million ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of Public business;
For the State Department, eighteen thousand dollars; For the Treasury Department, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey; For the War Department, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office: 388 For the Navy Department, seventy thousand dollars, including notPublic printing and binding—continued. exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office;
For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office; For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks and for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars; For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, eight thousand dollars;
For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, fifteen thousand dollars; For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty-five thousand dollars; For the Department of Justice, nine thousand dollars; For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars; For the Department of Agriculture, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, seventy-five thousand dollars; For the Department of Labor, seven thousand dollars: For the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand dollars;
For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars; For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars; For the Library of Congress, twelve thousand dollars; For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars; And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriatedDivision of appropriation. shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves of absence. law granting thirty days annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. No printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer for theNo printing, etc., in excess of allotments. several Executive and Judicial Departments of the Government in any fiscal year in excess of the amount of the allotment tor such Departments,Requisitions. and none shall be done without a special requisition, signed by Special appropriations.the chief of the Department and filed with the Public Printer; but this restriction shall not be so construed as to prevent the Public Printer from executing printing and binding authorized by special appropriations for any of said Departments.
Heads of executive departments shall direct whether reports madeReports of bureau chiefs, etc. to them by bureau chiefs and chiefs of divisions shall be printed or not. No report, document, or publication of any kind distributed by, orDocuments not to contain “the compliments” of any officer. from an Executive Department or Bureau of the Government shall contain any notice that same is sent with “the compliments” of an officer of the Government: Sec. 2. And it is hereby declared that all appropriations herein madeWorld’s Columbian Exposition. for, or pertaining to, the World's Columbian Exposition are made upon Not to be opened Sundays.the condition that the said Exposition shall not be opened to the public on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday; and if the said Rules, etc., to require closing.appropriations be accepted by the corporation of the State of Illinois, known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, upon that condition, it shall be, and it is hereby, made the duty of the World’s Columbian Vol. 26, p. 62.Commission, created by act of Congress of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to make such rules or modification of the rules of said corporation as shall require the closing of the Exposition on the said first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.
Approved, August 5, 1892.