Chapter 72. to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 72.— An Act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes.May 13, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation for urgent deficiencies. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. For necessary expenses of two delegates to represent the UnitedDelegates to Red Cross Conference. States at the Fifth International Conference of the Red Cross to be held at Rome on April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety two, two 34 thousand dollars; and for contribution on the part of the United States towards the expenses of said conference, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars, said sum to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State.
Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid: For the expenseColumbian Historical Exposition, Mad rid. of representation of the United States at the Columbian Historical Exposition to be held in Madrid in eighteen hundred and ninety two in com memoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State: and the President is hereby authorized to appoint Commissioners.a commissioner-general and two assistant commissioners, who may, in Selection.his discretion, be selected from the active or retired list of the Army or Navy, and shall serve without other compensation than that to which they are now entitled by law, to represent the United States at said Exhibit.exposition; that it shall be the duty of such commissioners to select from the archives of the United States, from the National Museum, and from the various Executive Departments of the Government such pictures, books, papers, documents, and other articles as may relate to the discovery and early settlement of America and the aboriginal inhabitants thereof; and they shall be authorized to secure the loan of similar articles from other museums and private collections, and arrange, classify, and install them as the exhibit of the United States at the Detail of assistants.said exposition; that the President is authorized to cause the detail of officers from the active or retired list of the Army and Navy, to serve without compensation other than that to which they are now entitled by law, as assistants to said commissioners; and the said commissioners Clerks, etc.shall be authorized to employ such clerical and other assistance as may be necessary, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Territorial Governments: For salary of the additional associateArizona, associate justice. Vol. 26, p. 747. justice for the Territory of Arizona, authorized by the. act of February eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand dollars. For salaries of three mine inspectors, authorized by the act approvedMine inspectors. Vol. 26, p. 1104. March third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, one thousand five hundred dollars; for per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the.
Secretary of the Interior may Per diem, etc.prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, one thousand three hundred dollars: in all, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Payment to State of Montana: To reimburse the State of MontanaMontana. Reimbursement constitutional convention expenses. Vol. 25, p. 676. for moneys paid and expended in defraying so much of the expenses of the constitutional convention held therein in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, pursuant to an act entitled “An act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota.
Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to Such States,” approved February twenty second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as have not heretofore been paid by the United States, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and. nine cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Revenue Cutter Service.—To reimburse the appropriation for the“A1–K1.
” Charter of steamer Bering Sea fur-sea fisheries. *Post*, p. 980. Revenue-Cutter Service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the charter fee of the steamer Al-Ki in carrying out the agree merit dated June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for a modus vivendi between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States in relation to the fur-seal fisheries in Bering Sea, one 35 hundred and seventeen and three-fourths days, at three hundred dollars per day, thirty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For coal consumed by said vessel in performing such duty, fiveCoal thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars; For subsistence of crews taken from vessels seized, two hundred andSubsistence of crews of seised vessels. eighty-three dollars; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For fuel, supplies, and other necessary expenses of the United StatesSteamship Albatross. Supplies, etc. steamship Albatross, in the waters of Bering Sea and vicinity, for the protection of the seal islands and interests of the Government in Alaska, under orders of the Treasury Department, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.—For expenses of carrying on a preliminaryCoast and Geodetie Survey. Alaska survey. survey of the frontier line between Alaska and British Columbia and the Northwest Territory, in accordance with plans or projects approved by the Secretary of State, including expenses of drawing and publication of map or maps, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars, said sum to continue available for expenditure until the same is exhausted, said amount being necessary on account of unforeseen expenses of the expeditions to the Yukon and Porcupine rivers, in the execution of the boundary line survey, in addition to the sums hitherto appropriated in the sundry civil acts approved, respectivelyVol. 25, pp. 515. 949;
Vol. 26, pp. 380, 960., October second, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and the amount herein appropriated shall, upon a final adjustment satisfactory to the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, be considered as a payment in full of all claims for transportation and supplies furnished the Yukon River and Porcupine River parties of the Alaska Boundary Survey.
Toward the joint survey of the territory adjacent to the boundaryJoint survey of territory adjacent to Alaska boundary line. line of the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada between the Territory of Alaska and the Province of British Columbia, and the Northwest Territory of Canada, from the latitude of fifty-four degrees and forty minutes north, to the point where said boundary line encounters the one hundred and forty-first degree of west longitude, with a view to the ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to the permanent delimitation of said boundary line in accordance with the spirit and intent of the existing treaties in regard to it between Great Britain and Russia and between the United States and Russia, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be available until expended; and the whole expense of this survey on the part of the United States shall not exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
Collecting the Revenue from Customs: To defray the expensesCollecting revenue from customs. of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Recoinage of Silver Coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent fractionalRecoinage of 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, fifty thousand dollars.
Fish Hatchery, Northville, Michigan: The act approved AugustFish Hatchery, Northville, Mich. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled, “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes,” shall be construed as giving to the United States CommissionerVol. 26, p. 384 of Fish and Fisheries authority to expend the sum of five thousand dollars therein appropriated for the erection of new buildings atTransfer of appropriation.
Northville, Michigan, for such constructions as may be necessary for the. development of the work of the Fish Commission at that place, including the introduction of a water supply, the construction of ponds, and repairs to the present buildings. 36 WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Stationery: For stationery for the War Department (Record andStationery. Pension Division), ten thousand dollars. Artificial Limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limits, etc. commutation therefor, and transportation, two hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Office of Publication of Records of the Rebellion: ForRebellion Records Office. Preparation of index. the preparation of a general card index of the books, muster rolls, orders, and other official papers preserved in the Confederate archives office, and for the employment of such temporary expert services in connection therewith 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, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars, to continue available until expended.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Eleventh census: For salaries and necessary expenses for continuingEleventh Census. Compilation. the work of compiling the results of the Eleventh Census, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available until expended. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For covering alleyway adjoining Department of Justice building forAddition to Court of Claims. use of the Court of Claims, including flooring, glass, and metallic roof, front and rear walls, or sash, steam heat, party wall, painting, set of cases full length of the room, and cutting doorway, to be done under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, four thousand dollars.
United states courts: For fees of witnesses, one hundred andUnited States courts. fifty thousandWitnesses’ fees. dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Out of the Postal Revenues. For advertising, fifteen thousand dollars.Advertising. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.Senate and House of Representatives. For the expenses of the typhus fever and immigration investigationTyphus fever and immigration investigation. to be made by the Senate Committee on Immigration and the House Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization under concurrent resolution of the Senate and House, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; to be advanced or paid, in sums as needed by the Secretary of the Senate, on the joint orders of the chair men of said committees. senate.Senate.
For stationery and newspapers, five hundred dollars.Stationery, etc. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Investigations, etc. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, ten thousand dollars. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the heating apparatus,Fuel, etc. two thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars. 37 For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the heating apparatus,Fuel, etc. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, forty-three dollars and two cents.
For purchase of furniture, fourteen thousand seven hundred and fiftyFurniture. dollars: *Provided*, That the rooms in the Maltby building shall be*Proviso*. Assignment of rooms, Maltby building. hereafter controlled and from time to time assigned for public uses by the Committees on Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, threeRepairing, etc., fur nit tire. hundred dollars. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagonsHorses and wagons for carrying the mails, one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, eight thousand nineMiscellaneous. hundred dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. ten thousand dollars. Approved, May 13, 1892.