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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · March 2, 1895 · Chapter 187

Chapter 187. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 187.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for prior years, and for other purposes.March 2, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and tor prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT.Department of State. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horsesContingent expenses. and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable and wagon shed, care of clocks, telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same, and for miscellaneous items not including the foregoing; six hundred and fifty dollars. And the Secretary of State be, and he herebyColumbian Museum.Transfer of exhibit in La Rabida, etc., World’s Fair. is, authorized to transfer to the trustees of the Columbian Museum of Chicago all of the exhibit of the Department of State at the World’s Columbian Exposition that was procured with funds appropriated for the support of the Board of Government, Management and Control and exhibited in the building known as the Convent of La Rabida and the east gallery of the United States Government building, except such articles as have been transferred to and are now in the National Museum or other Government establishments at Washington.
United States and Venezuela Claims Commission: For salariesVenezuela Claims Commission.*Ante*, p. 508. and expenses of the commission to arbitrate the claim of the Venezuela Transportation Company against Venezuela, under Act of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Bering Sea Arbitration: That the disbursements made to MembersBering Sea Arbitration.Allowance of disbursing officers’ payments. and attachés of the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris by Major Elijah W.
Halford and John W. Foster, disbursing officers of said Commission, under the authority and with the approval of the Secretary of State, out of moneys heretofore appropriated, shall be allowed by the Comptroller of the Treasury. That the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the Act“General Armstrong”Payment of claims of Sam C. Reid.Vol. 22. p.697. of the first of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, “for the relief of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the United States brig of war General Armstrong, their heirs, executors, administrators, agents, or assigns,” now under the control of the Department of State, shall be applied for the liquidation and settlement of the claims of Sam C.
Reid, according to the vouchers now on file in said Department. International Union of American Republics: For CommercialBureau of American Republics. Bureau of American Republics, eight thousand dollars. 844 Convention Between the United States and Ecuador: ToArbitration of Santos’s claim.*Post*, p. 1205. carry into effect the convention concluded at Quito, February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, between the United States and Ecuador, providing for a reference to arbitration of the claim of Julio R.
Santos against the Government of Ecuador, five thousand dollars. International Bureau at Brussels for repression of African slave trade: ToBureau for repressing African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African Continent of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety-three dollars and nine cents. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse.
Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim: To pay amountsChargés d’affaires ad interim. found due by the accounting officers on account of salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand nine hundred and ten dollars and seventy cents. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To pay amounts foundContingent expenses, missions. due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses, foreign missions, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, nineteen thousand and two dollars and seventy cents.
Clerk to legation in Spain: To pay amounts found due by theClerk to legation, Spain. accounting officers on account of the appropriation for salary of clerk to legation in Spain for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four dollars and sixty-seven cents. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To payContingent expenses, consulates. the Saint Louis Republic for publishing a death notice in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, being for the service, of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one dollar and forty cents.
To pay for expenses incurred by order of the Department of State,Expenses of cotton reports. at the request of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the United States Senate, in making investigation into the consumption and production of cotton in their respective consular districts, as follows: J. W. Pepper, United States consul at Milan, nine dollars and sixty-five cents; R. W.Hemick, United States consul at Geneva, twenty-four dollars and twelve cents; Alton Angier, United States consul at Rheims, thirty-eight dollars and seventy cents;
A. H. Lowrie, Commercial agent at Freiburg, ten dollars and seventy-five cents; A. J. Bensusau, vice-consul at Cadiz, five dollars; and to Thomas E. Heenan, consul at Odessa, for loss of salary occasioned by his absence, under orders of the State Department in investigating cotton culture in Asiatic Russia, his report thereon having been furnished by the said Department to said committee, five hundred and twenty-six dollars and ninety-six cents. Steam launch for legation at Constantinople:
To paySteam launch, Constantinople. amounts found due. by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for steam launch for legation at Constantinople for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three dollars and fifty-six cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedSalaries to be paid officers holding over. and directed to pay to all officers under the Treasury Department whose terms of office have expired or shall expire before the appointment and qualification of their successors, and who have been performing or shall perform the duties of their respective offices after the date of such expiration, the salary, compensation, fees, or emoluments authorized or provided by law in each case for the respective incumbents of the 845 offices: *Provided*, That no such payment shall be made for any services*Proviso*.Condition. rendered by any such officer wrongfully holding after the appointment and Qualification of his successor.
That the Auditor for the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby,Internal revenue.Payment for personal servicesVol. 26, p. 583. directed to allow the expenses for personal services of officers, clerks, and employees in the Executive Department of the Treasury, incident to the enforcement of the provisions of the Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, respecting bounty on sugar and to the collection of internal revenue, under the provisions of “An Act to provide*Ante*, p. 569. for the collection of internal revenue and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Office op Auditor for Post-Office Department: For temporaryAuditor for Post-Office Department.Temporary clerks. clerks in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department for the purpose of bringing up the work now in arrears in said office, eight thousand dollars, to be available from April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, until expended; said temporary clerks to be appointed from those now in the classified service of the Treasury Department. Contingent expenses:
For newspapers, law books,city directories,Contingent expenses. and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, and purchase of material for binding important records, one hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, nine hundred dollars. For purchase of ice, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Refund of fine, tug C. B. Strohn: To refund to the collector of“C. B. Strohn” Refund of fine. customs, Grand Haven, Michigan, for repayment by him to the person or persons entitled thereto, the sum of forty-five dollars, being that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed in the case of-the tug C. B. Strohn for a violation of section forty-three hundred and twenty-five,[R. S., sec. 4325, p. 836](/us/rs/t/s4325.p836). Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been paid and covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, forty-five dollars.
Payment to Donald Macmaster: To pay Donald Maemaster,Donald Macmaster.Services. attorney at law at Montreal, Canada, in full for services rendered in the trial of Deputy Collector of Customs E. H. Twohey, who was arrested at the instigation of persons engaged in smuggling and tried on the charge of conspiracy, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Payment to J. A. Belyea: To pay J. A. Belyea, attorney at law,J. A. Belyea.Services. at Saint Johns, Canada, in full for services rendered in defending Converse J.
Smith, a special agent of the Treasury, who was arrested in eighteen hundred and ninety-three in Saint Johns, at the instigation of persons engaged in smuggling and tried on the charge of trespass, one thousand five hundred dollars, and for additional expenses incurred by said Smith in the preparation of his case authority is hereby granted to pay the same, not exceeding three hundred and forty-two dollars and forty cents, out of the appropriation for the prevention and detection of frauds upon the customs revenue.
That the unexpended balance (eight thousand three hundred andCalifornia Indian war bonds.Payment of outstanding. sixty-two dollars and sixteen cents) of the California Indian war debt appropriation made by Congress under its Act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four (Tenth United States Statutes, page fiveVol. 10, p. 582. hundred and eighty-two), modified under its Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six (Eleventh United States Statutes,Vol. ll, p. 91. page ninety-one), and reappropriated under its Act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty (Twelfth United States Statutes, page oneVol. 12, p. 104. hundred and four), and of July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight (Fifteenth United States Statutes, page one hundred andVol. 15, p. 175. seventy-five), and of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one Twenty-first United States Statutes, page five hundred and ten), be,Vol. 21, p. 510. 846 and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Treasury (the authority to do which is hereby given him) to pay therefrom any outstanding unpaid Indian war bonds issued under the acts of the legislature of California approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty one, and May third, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, respectively, or any outstanding unpaid coupons pertaining to any bonds issued under said two acts representing interest thereon between January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and September first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six; and Payment of lost bonds, etc.if said Secretary shall be satisfied that any of said bonds or said coupons have been lost or destroyed and never paid by or presented to the United States for payment lie is hereby authorized to pay the owners thereof or their heirs, administrators, or legal representatives, out of said unexpended balance, upon their application made to him Indemnity bond.therefor, and thereafter delivering to said Secretary a bond sufficient, in his opinion, to indemnify the United States against all possible loss therein; and after such payment shall have been made by said Secretary he shall report bis action in the premises to the governor of the State of California.
Recoinage of silver coins: To reimburse the cash account ofRecoinage of silver coins. the Treasurer of the United States for loss on the recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coins at the United States Mint at Philadelphia in April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. To reimburse the cash account of the Treasurer of the United States for loss on the recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coins at the United States Mint at New Orleans during the first quarter of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two dollars and sixteen cents.
Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act: To preventChinese exclusion. unlawful 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 Vol. 27, p. 52.approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coining of Chinese persons into the United States,” *Post*, p. 1210.and the provisions of the treaty recently entered into between the United States and China, fifty thousand dollars.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of same 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, twenty 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.
Southwest Pass, Louisiana, Light Station: For reimbursementSouthwest Pass Light Station. La.Payment of losses by fire. of the keeper and assistant keepers of the Southwest Pass, Louisiana, Light Station, for personal losses sustained at the time of the partial destruction of said station by fire, of such articles as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury were kept at the station from considerations of health, decency, and the nature of the service, seven hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into 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 847 States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Witnesses. no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation tor “fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Payment to Joseph Redfern and Eliza J. Redfern: To enableJoseph and Eliza J. Redfern. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Joseph Redfern and Eliza J. Redfern, of the District of Columbia, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty cents, being the amount stated to be due by the War Department for injuries to and rent ofInjuries to building. buildings numbered seventeen hundred and nineteen and seventeen hundred and twenty-one G street northwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses under the requirements Expenses of fiscal agents, etc.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3653/p719).of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States,for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars. public buildings.Public buildings. For post-office at Brooklyn.
New York: For outstanding liabilitiesBrooklyn, N. Y. for temporary heating of building, four hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents. For post-office at Haverhill, Massachusetts: For heating apparatusHaverhill, Mass. and completion of building, eight thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at New Haven, Connecticut: ForNew Haven, Conn. heating apparatus and completion of building, three thousand dollars. For customhouse at New York, New York: For expenditures forNew York, N.
Y.Old custom house. advertising sale of old customhouse, two thousand three hundred and eight dollars and five cents. For Courthouse and post office at Paris, Texas: For elevator, fourParis, Tex. thousand dollars. • For court house and post-office at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For balance duePittsburg, Pa. Nelson T. Reed and Company for advertising, one hundred and thirty dollars and ninety cents. For Courthouse and post-office at Springfield, Missouri: For elevator,Springfield, Mo. five thousand dollars.
For Courthouse and post-office at Tallahassee, Florida: For sewerTallahassee. Fla. and completion of heating apparatus, four thousand dollars. For post-office and Courthouse at Troy, New York: For elevator,Troy, N. Y. six thousand dollars. For Courthouse and post-office at Wilmington, Delaware: For completionWilmington, Del. of building, fifty thousand dollars. 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’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty-six thousand four hundred dollars. 848 For engravers, printers’, and other materials, except distinctive paper,Materials. and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For rental of the office now occupied by the agent of the Post-OfficeRent, office of stamp agent. Department to supervise distribution of stamps by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Mint at Denver, Colorado: For wages of workmen, eight hundredDenvers Colo. dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. Freight on bullion and coin: Freight on bullion and coin, byFreight on bullion and coin. registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, eighteen thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. That the Auditor for the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby,Payments to extra engravers, allowed. authorized and directed to allow and settle the accounts of the disbursing officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Treasury Department, for the payment and compensation to extra engravers employed *Ante*, p. 382.under the provisions of sundry civil appropriation Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for “extra engraving and drawing,” Coast and Geodetic Survey, to and including the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. customs service.
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, beingCollecting customs revenue. additional to the permanent appropriations for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five: *Proviso*.Counsel.*Provided*, That the Attorney-General may, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, employ counsel to protect the interests of the Treasury Department in cases before the Board of General Appraisers, such counsel to be compensated at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum out of the general appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, six hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. collecting internal revenue.Internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors andCollectors, etc. deputy collectors and clerks, including transportation of public funds and also including Vol. 24, pp. 209,218.expenses incident to enforcing the provisions of the Act of August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported, seventy-five thousand dollars. For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty ofPunishing violation of laws. violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
For amount to supply deficiency in the appropriation for “ExpensesExpenses. of Revenue-Cutter Service, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,” and to “Guthrie.”Repairs.meet bills for repairs upon the revenue steamer Guthrie, authorized by Department letter of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, but not yet completed, six thousand five hundred dollars. 849 life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boatCrows, etc. stations, including the old Chicago station, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, news-’ papers for statistical purposes, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, fifty-six thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars.
For reimbursement of the keeper and crew of the life-saving stationCahoons Hollow, Mass.Payment of losses by fire. at Cahoons Hollow, near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, for toss of their personal property at-the time of the burning of the station, February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty cents. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. That any unexpended balances of the appropriations made for theUse of unexpended balances. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three for the general expenses United States Fish Commission may be applied to the liquidation of outstanding liabilities on account of said appropriations for said fiscal year to an amount not exceeding twenty-four dollars and ninety-five cents.
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for legislative expenses,Oklahoma.Legislative expenses. Territory of Oklahoma, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to pay the accounts set forth hereunder in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, of this session, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-one cents. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’s office: To pay Dr. Larkin W. Glazebrook, deputy coroner,Coroner’s office.Pay to deputy. for services from September eighth to September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, fifteen days, at five dollars per diem, seventy-five dollars.
Surveyor’s Office: For the salaries of the surveyor and assistantSurveyor’s office.Salaries.*Ante*, p. 689. surveyor of the District of Columbia and for such employees as may be required in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available from the passage of this Act, for the remainder of the present fiscal year.
For surveying instruments and implements for the surveyor’s office, drawing material, stationery, copying and binding plats and records, and necessary transportation, five hundred dollars. 850 To pay Doctor Edward M. Schaeffer for services as assistant toEdward M. SchaefferPayment to. the coroner, from March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety three, both inclusive, at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
Board of assistant assessors: To pay the accounts for expensesBoard of assistant assessors.Expenses. of the board of assistant assessors set forth in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty-five cents. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed toOutstanding certificates illegally issued.Vol. 27, p. 156. pay the outstanding certificates issued by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, under an Act of Congress approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the cost of improvements upon the street connecting Columbia road with Connecticut avenue extended, and thence along said avenue to the District line, which certiticates have been declared illegally issued by the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
That the sum of sixty-seven thousand two hundred and eight dollars and seventy-three cents is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the said certificates, with the interest thereon from the date of their issue, the same to be paid one-half out of the revenues of District of Columbia. And the Report.Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to report to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session the amount of each of such certificates and the property against which they were assessed, and a method of enforcing their payment against such property.
Emergency fund: To be expended only in case of emergency, suchEmergencies. as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all other cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, five thousand dollars. Health department: For collection and removal of garbage andRemoving garbage, etc. dead animals, required for the daily service for May and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand dollars. Board of children’s guardians:
For care of feeble-minded children;Board of children’s guardians. care of children under three years of age, white and colored; board and care of all children over three years of age, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, three thousand dollars. That the sum of thirty dollars paid William Forsyth for services inWilliam Forsyth.Surveying. preparing plats and surveying is hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of Commissioners J.
W, Ross, M. M. Parker, and Captain William T. Rossell, board numbered seven, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. That the sum of eighty dollars paid William Forsyth for services in preparing plats and surveying is hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of Commissioners J. W. Ross, M. M. Parker, and Captain Charles F. Powell, board numbered eight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Judicial expenses: To pay Albert A. Wilson, United States marshal,Judicial expenses. thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents; To pay Robert Willett, clerk court of appeals, District of Columbia, fifty-four dollars and eighty-five cents; To pay William Herbert Smith, services in reporting cases, two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-five cents, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys:Repairs of streets, etc.
To pay Thomas W. Smith, for wooden pegs, being for the service of the 851 fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents. Repairs county roads: To pay John W. Baker, blacksmithing,Repairs, county roads. being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, twelve dollars and twenty-five cents. Condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys: To pay JamesCondemning streets, etc. Gibbons for land taken for the extension of R street through the old St.
Patrick’s graveyard, as decreed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, being tor the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fire department: To pay R. J. Kennedy, for fuel, being for theFire department. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty-three dollars and eighty-one cents. Public schools: To pay Patrick Tracy, janitor of Pierce School,Public schools. July first to August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fifty dollars and sixty-eight cents.
To pay Samuel A. McKinney, janitor of Patterson School, July first to August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fifty dollars and sixty-eight cents. To pay Samuel A. McKinney, janitor of Patterson School, May twentieth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, forty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents. For rent of school buildings, one thousand dollars. For fuel, six thousand dollars. For furniture for building at Mount Pleasant, one thousand four hundred dollars.
To pay R. J. Kennedy for fuel, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-three cents. Courts: For repairs to police court building, one thousand dollars.Police court. For witness fees on account of fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand five hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five dollars.
Support of convicts: To pay the Albany County Penitentiary,Support of convicts. Albany, New York, balance found due and unpaid on account of support of convicts, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fourteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirteen cents. Court of appeals: To pay the salary of the crier of the court ofCourt of Appeals.Crier.Vol. 27, p. 435. appeals, District of Columbia, authorized to be appointed by section five of the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at one hundred dollars per month, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Supreme court, District of Columbia: To pay the chief justiceSupreme Court.Pay of judges. and five associate justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia the difference between the rate of compensation received by them and five thousand dollars per annum for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four thousand one hundred and fifty-five, dollars and forty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Reform School: For the following, from March fourth, eighteenReform School. hundred and ninety-five, for new family building, namely:
For two teachers, at the rate of six hundred and thirty dollars each per annum; one watchman, at the rate of two hundred and seventy dollars per annum; and one matron of family, at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum; in all, five hundred and fifty-three dollars. For support of inmates, five hundred dollars. Washington Asylum: To pay the accounts set forth for contingentWashington Asylum. expenses in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight of this session, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, forty-three dollars and seventy-two cents. 852 To pay John B.
Lord for sand, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five dollars and twenty-five cents. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: To pay the accounts set forthFreedmen’s Hospital for subsistence in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight of this session, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents. Judgments: For payment of judgments against the District ofPayment of judgments.
Columbia, as follows: To Mary 11. Wilcox, administratrix of Cadmus M. Wilcox, five thousand dollars, together with one hundred and seven dollars and sixty-five cents costs; To David E. Haller, three thousand dollars, together with one hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five cents costs; To George W. Bolling, seven hundred dollars, together with ninety dollars and eighty cents costs; To Caroline H. Bolling and George W. Bolling, two thousand dollars, together with forty-one dollars and fifty-five cents costs;
To Columbus Alexander, five hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, together with twenty dollars and thirty-five cents costs; To Washington Dannenhower, eight hundred dollars, together with eighteen dollars and seventy cents costs; To John Kaedy, use of F. E. Alexander, forty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents costs; . To Henrietta L. King, one thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents, together with eighteen dollars and twenty cents costs; in all, fourteen thousand and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment: *Provided*, That the Act of August twenty-third, eighteen hundred*Provisos*.Payment to administrator of David Patterson to be from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 433. and ninety-four, directing the payment of judgment in favor of Charles Cowles Tucker, administrator of David Patterson, out of police relief fund, be, and is hereby, amended so as to make said judgment payable out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *And provided further*, Repayment to police fund.That the said Charles Cowles Tucker shall, within six months after the passage of this Act, settle his account as administrator of David Patterson, and pay over to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, for the benefit of the police relief fund, any balance that may be due from him as administrator aforesaid.
Payments to William Forsyth: To pay William Forsyth asWilliam Forsyth.Surveying. follows: For services in making plats in duplicate of block forty-three, Holmead Manor, showing the lines of proposed alley therein, and computing areas to be taken from the different lots bordering on the lines thereof, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten dollars. For services in surveying the lines of South Capitol street and south S street, twenty dollars;
For services in surveying and ascertaining lines and areas of property claimed as right of way by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in square north of square nine hundred and thirty-one, ten dollars; in all, thirty dollars; being for the services of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. That one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.
Water department: For the following, to be paid wholly fromWater department. the revenues of the water department, namely: For four hours per diem additional pay of steam engineers from July first to July ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at the rate of 853 one thousand one hundred dollars per annum each, namely: James R. Nash, James T. Greaves, M, F, Boyle, Dennis Brane, Andrew J. Johnson, and Henry Speake, thirteen dollars and forty-five cents each, eighty dollars and seventy cents.
For contingent expenses: Being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred anti ninety-four, five dollars and forty-one cents. For four hours per diem additional pay of steam engineers from August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at the rate of one thousand one hundred dollars per annum each, namely: M. F. Boyle and Dennis Brane, four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents each; James R. Nash and James T.
Greaves, three hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-four cents each; Andrew J. Johnson, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-five cents; Henry Speake, fifty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. That the sum of forty dollars paid William Forsyth for services inWilliam Forsyth. surveying is hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of Commissioners J.
W. Ross, M. M. Parker, and Captain William T. Rossell, board numbered seven, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. That in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated the sum ofIndian River Inlet. fifteen thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for dredgingDredging channel.*Ante*, p. 351. the channel at the Indian River Inlet, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, Official Records of the War of the Rebellion:
For continuingRebellion Records.Completing Series I. the publication of the Official Records of the Rebellion, and to enable volumes forty-eight, forty-nine, and fifty, the last volumes of Series I, to be put in type before June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twelve thousand dollars. Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For theMilitary Prison.Transporting prisoners discharged. 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, two thousand live hundred dollars.
Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofArrears of pay. pay of two and three year volunteers that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred thousand dollars. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State orState or Territorial homes.Vol. 25, p. 450. Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Deduction.
That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shal’. be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Improvement and care of public grounds: For removing snowRemoving snow, etc. and ice, five hundred dollars. military establishment.Army. For purchase of subsistence supplies for issue as rations to troops,Subsistence, supplies. civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), estimated for the fiscal year on the basis of nine million eight 854 hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-five rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issues of candles; for matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; for salt and vinegar for public animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for cooked rations for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, for the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations; to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; for flour used for paste in target practice; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. naval establishment.Naval establishment. To reimburse “general account of advances,” created by the Act ofAdvancesVol. 20, p. 167. June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal years given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, as follows: For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, sixteenPay. thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and sixty-two cents;
For provisions, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, nineMarine Corps. hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen cents; For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred andBureau of Navigation. ninety-four, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventeen cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,Bureau of Ordnance. five dollars and thirty-six cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundredBureau of Equipment. and ninety-four, nineteen thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-six cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, ninety-one dollars and one cent; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery. and ninety-four, four hundred anti eighty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteenBureau of Supplies and Accounts. hundred and ninety-four, seven thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-four cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five hundred and sixty-two dollars and fourteen cents; 855 For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteen hundredBureau of Steam Engineering. and ninety-four, three thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and ten cents; in all, fifty thousand one hundred and five dollars and thirty-one cents.
Pay, miscellaneous: To reimburse amount due for the rent of thePay, miscellaneous.Rent. offices occupied by the purchasing pay officer, New York, Stewart building, two hundred and eighty Broadway, for the months of May and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, being the sum paid by Pay Inspector L, G. Billings, United States Navy, out of pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and suspended by the Auditor in the settlement of his accounts, five hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Provisions: For amount due Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NavyProvisions. Department, on account of commuted rations stopped from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, on account of sick in hospitals, to be transferred to naval hospital fund, three thousand and thirty dollars and forty-three cents; To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractors, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fourteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-seven cents; in all, seventeen thousand eight hundred and seventeen dollars and forty cents.
Transportation and recruiting: To pay accounts for transportationTransportation and recruiting. under fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For this amount required to complete payments for approved bill chargeable to tins appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, vouchers in favor of Paul St. C. Murphy, ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents. Forage: To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractorsForage. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seven cents.
Contingent: To pay accounts on file for freight, straw, gas, water,Contingent. express charges, forage, and advertising, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-three cents. naval academy.Naval Academy. To pay the accounts for heating and lighting for the fiscal year eighteenHeating and lighting. hundred and ninety-four, which are set forth in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight of this session, one thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and ninety-five cents. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent serviceContingent. of the Bureau of Ordnance for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred dollars. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels: To pay the accounts which are set forth inEquipment of vessels. House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, of this session, and to meet other outstanding obligations on account of equipment of vessels for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents. 856 Contingent expenses:
To pay the accounts which are set forth inContingent House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, of this session, on account of contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety-two cents. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam engineering. To pay bill of Bridgeport Brass Company of seventeen thousand oneMachinery. hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-three cents, and other outstanding bills and obligations incurred prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, but for which bills did not come up for payment until after the appropriation, “Steam machinery,eighteen hundred and ninety-four,” had become exhausted by transfers in adjustment of appropriations by the Treasury Department in repayment to general account of advances for necessary expenditures abroad upon machinery and supplies for ships in commission, such expenditures being greatly and unusually in excess of what was carefully estimated as being required for balance of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
For payment of voucher in favor of the Portsmouth, Virginia, telephoneContingent Exchange, for rental of one telephone at naval hospital, Norfolk, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, forty dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For the payment of approved bills on file properly authorized by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five hundred dollars. navy, miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
Payment to Great Falls Ice Company: To compensate theGreat Falls loo Company, D. C.Injury to wharf. Great Falls lee Company for damages sustained by that company’s wharf, at the foot of Third street east, Washington, District of Columbia, in consequence of a collision of the United States steamship Fern with said wharf, on January twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, being the sum actually expended in making the repairs rendered necessary by reason of such collision, forty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
Payment to Brooklyn Gaslight Company: To compensate theBrooklyn Gaslight Company, N. Y.Injury to wharf. Brooklyn Gaslight Company for damages sustained by that company’s wharf, at the foot of Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, New York, in consequence of a collision of the United States steamship Dolphin with said wharf, on January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, being the sum actually expended in making the repairs rendered necessary by reason of such collision, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Payment to master of the pungy River Queen: To compensate“River Queen.Pay to master of pungy. the master of the pungy River Queen for detention while undergoing repairs at the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, in consequence of a collision with the United States tug Triton, on March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty-six dollars. Payment to Seaboard Wharf and Warehouse Company:Seaboard Wharf and Warehouse Company.Injury to wharf. To compensate the Seaboard Wharf and Warehouse Company for damages sustained by that company’s wharf at Norfolk, Virginia, in consequence of a collision of the United States steamship Miantonomoh with said wharf, on May ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, being the sum actually expended in making the repairs rendered necessary by reason of such collision, one hundred and thirty dollars. 857 Payment to owners of schooner Carrie Dye:
To compensate“Carrie Dye”.Pay to owner of schoomer. the owners of the schooner Carrie Dye for injuries sustained by that vessel in consequence of a collision with the United States steamship Dolphin, on September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-one cents. Payment to North American Commercial Company: To compensateNorth American Commercial Company.Loss of boat. the North American Commercial Company for the loss of one bidarrah, or skin boat, which was sunk while engaged in lightening the United States steamship Adams, when aground on Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Group, Bering Sea, on August second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and which could not be raised, four hundred and fifty-four dollars.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. To pay Charles E. Monroe for professional services rendered in theCharles E. Monroe.Services. chemical examination of and testing the quality of various rubber bands submitted as samples with bids to supply the Department of the Interior bureaus and offices with stationery for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay John H. Cradlebaugh, of Hood River, Oregon, for publishingJohn H.
Cradlebaugh.Advertising. in eighteen hundred and ninety-two, pursuant to instructions from the local land office at Vancouver, Washington, eleven notices of intention of final homestead proof to be made by Indians, fifty-five dollars, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may ascertain to be due and certify for payment. Patent Office: For photolithographing or otherwise producingPatent Office.Photolithographing issues of patents. copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents, for producing copies of designs, trademarks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications, said photo-lithographing or otherwise producing plates and copies referred to twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Pension Office building: For painting the interior of the greatPension Office. court of the Pension Office building, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol Grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, three thousand dollars. eleventh census.Eleventh Census. That the office of the Eleventh Census shall be abolished and theOffice abolished.Vol. 25, p. 7. terms of all employees appointed under the provisions of the Act of March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to provide for the taking of the Eleventh and subsequent censuses,” or of any subsequent Act relating to the Eleventh Census, shall cease and terminate, except as hereinafter specified, after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
That the unfinished work of the Eleventh Census shall be completedUnfinished work to be completed by Secretary of the Interior.Employees. in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, to whom the records and other property of the Census Office shall be transferred; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to employ,from the date specified in this Act, from the force of the Census Office then employed, a chief of division, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum; three special agents, and such other employees, not to exceed ninety, as he may deem necessary for closing up and completing the work of the Eleventh Census, such employees to be paid according to the classification set forth in an Act to provide for the taking of the Eleventh and subsequent censuses, approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and the Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to rent necessaryRent. rooms in the city of Washington to carry out the provisions of this 858 Act, at a cost not exceeding the rate of six thousand five hundred dollarsCommissioner of Labor.Services.*Ante*, p. 3. per annum; and he is also authorized to continue the services of the Commissioner of Labor in charge of the completion of the Eleventh Census, in accordance with an Act to extend the time for completing the work of the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes, approved October third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
That any unexpended balance of appropriation made for the EleventhUse of balances. Census which shall remain on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be applied to the liquidation of any liabilities on account thereof, and the remainder expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the work necessary for the completionPrinting balances etc., to be used. of the Eleventh Census, as hereinbefore authorized; that unexpended balances for printing the final reports of the Eleventh Census shall be applied as provided for in the several Acts making such appropriations, and all appropriations heretofore made tor continuing and completing the Eleventh Census shall continue until exhausted.
For salaries, rents, and necessary expenses of completing the workSalaries, etc. of compiling the results of the Eleventh Census, to continue available until exhausted, ten thousand dollars. geological survey.Geological Survey. That the unexpended balances of appropriations made tor the fiscalOutstanding liabilities. year eighteen hundred and ninety-four for the Geological Survey may be applied to the liquidation of outstanding liabilities on account of any of said appropriations for said fiscal year.
To enable the Director of the Geological Survey to complete reportMineral resources report. of the mineral resources of the United States, the sum of two thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. public land service.Public lands. To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands andTimber depredations, protection, and swamp lands. 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 *Proviso*.Agents’ per diem.indemnity for swamp lands, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation.
For additional appropriations required for the office of the Surveyor-GeneralMontana.Surveyor-general. of Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars, as follows: for compensation of clerks, one thousand dollars; for contingent expenses, five hundred dollars. To pay the State Capital Printing Company of Guthrie, Oklahoma,Oklahoma.Advertising. in full for publishing said list of lands, in the Oklahoma State Capital, agreeably with the President’s proclamation of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay William P. Thompson, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, in full for publishing said list of lands in the Guthrie Daily News, agreeably with the President’s proclamation of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Joshua B. Campbell, of Hennessey, Oklahoma, in full for publishing said list of lands in the Hennessey Clipper, agreeably with the President’s proclamation of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and sixteen dollars. indian service.Indian service.
For the purchase of equipments for the Indian police service, six Indian police.thousand dollars. 859 To reimburse John L. Bullis, captain Twenty-fourth Infantry and John L. Bullis.Expenses.acting Indian agent at San Carlos Agency, Arizona, for expenses incurred by him in the United States district courts of Globe and Solomonsville, Arizona, in a suit brought against him by one E.W. Kingsbury, an ex-Indian trader at said agency in eighteen hundred and ninety one, six hundred dollars and fifteen cents.
For payment to Henry L. Fitch in full compensation of amountsHenry L. Fitch.Services. found due him by the Interior Department for survey of the Quinaielt Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, under contract with the surveyor-general of said State, dated May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, six hundred and four dollars and ten cents. To pay to Ebenezer Douglass, late Indian agent at White EarthEbenezer Douglass.Services. Indian Agency, in the State of Minnesota, for money paid out and services performed by said Douglass, at the request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in closing the accounts with said agency, five hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing ofContingent expenses. animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, to supply deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eight dollars. For stationery, three hundred dollars. For furniture and repairs, five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, to supply deficiencies on account of fiscal years, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand one hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. Payment to The Bancroft Company: To pay the account of TheThe Bancroft Company.Payment to. Ban croft Company, successor and assignee of the A. L. Bancroft Company of Sail Francisco, California, for stationery furnished to the late M. C. Hillyer, United States marshal for the Territory of Alaska, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-five cents.
Payment to Winston and Winston: To pay the accounts of WinstonWinston and Winston.Services. and Winston for two hundred and fifty dollars, and of Alexander M. Winston for one hundred and fifteen dollars for services as attorneys rendered in defending certain Indians, under orders of the judge of the United States court for the district of Washington; in all, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. To pay Allen R. English, of Arizona, in full for services as attorney,Allen R. English.Services. rendered in defending five certain Indians charged with murder, under orders of the judge of the United States Court in Arizona, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Payment to Charles F. Munday: To pay the accounts of CharlesCharles F. Munday.Services. F. Munday, late assistant United States attorney at Seattle, Washington, as set forth in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-three, Fifty-third Congress, third session, five hundred and twenty dollars. Payments to D. B. Miller: The accounting officers of the TreasuryD. B. Miller.Services. are authorized to audit the account of D. B. Miller for services rendered and expenses incurred as de facto United States marshal for the southern district of Iowa from February seventh to March seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, and to pay the same out of the appropriation for fees and expenses of marshals for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. 860 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 States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, to supply deficiencies on account of fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty cents. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries andDefense, Indian depredation claims. expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, five thousand dollars, which sum, in connection with the amount appropriated August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the defense of Indian depredation claims and the investigation and examination of judgments of the Court of Claims in said cases, shall continue available until expended for the payment of salaries and expenses in the defense of said claims whether pending or reduced to judgment.
Court of Private Land Claims: For fees and expenses in theCourt of Private Land claims. suit of Peralta-Reavis against the United States, in the Court of private Land Claims in New Mexico, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. Settling title to Greer County, Texas: To enable the AttorneyGreer County Tex., suit.Special counsel. General to employ special counsel to assist in bringing suits in equity in the Supreme Court of the United States, provided by section Vol. 26, p. 02.twenty-five of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” passed May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for taking testimony, stenographer’s fees, and other expenses necessary to be incurred in the preparation and trial of such suit, ten thousand dollars.
Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: ForUtah courts defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners,, to be approved by the courts, the expense 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 thousand dollars.
United States Courts.United States courts. Fees of marshals: For payment of the fees and expenses of theMarshals.Fees. United States marshals and deputies, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For defraying expenses incurred by marshals in executing orders,Protecting property in receivers’ hands. warrants, and processes of United States courts; for the protection of property in the hands of receivers of such courts, and for the arrest and detention until trial of persons arrested for violating such orders and resisting the execution of such warrants and processes, to be audited and allowed by the Attorney-General, one hundred and forty thousand 861 dollars, and said sum shall be available for expenses incurred during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five: *Provided*, That the Attorney-General shall report to*Proviso*.Report.
Congress the payments made under this paragraph, to whom paid, and for what purpose or service. Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors for the fiscal years as follows:Jurors’ fees. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, eleven thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, four hundred and one dollars and sixty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eight dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety, thirteen dollars.
For eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-five, ten dollars. For eighteen hundred and seventy-two, live hundred and six dollars and fifty cents. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses for the fiscal years, as follows:Witnesses’ fees. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighty thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand five hundred and six dollars and thirty-six cents.
For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen dollars and thirty cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety, sixty-one dollars and seventy cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two dollars and fifty cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and five dollars. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,Support of prison, era. including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifty thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seventy-eight thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand dollars and seventy-seven cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-two cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety, six hundred and nine dollars and sixty-seven cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-five dollars and sixty cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, three dollars.
Pay of bailiffs: For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding threeBailiffs, criers, etc. bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, forty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifteen dollars. 862 For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, fifty-four dollars. Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous. expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, five dollars. For eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, forty-one dollars and twenty cents. For eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, eighteen dollars and fifty cents. Fees of district attorneys: For payment of United StatesDistrict attorneys.Fees. district attorneys, the same being in payment of the regular fees Provided by law for official services, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fifty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and ten cents. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, twenty-six thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employedSpecial assistants. by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special eases, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-five thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty nine cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand two hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents. Fees of clerks: For fees of clerks, for the fiscal years as follows:Clerks’ fees. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand dollars.
Fees of commissioners: For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners,Commissioners’ fees. for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, forty thousand one hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-five cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand dollars. Rent of court rooms: For rent of United States court rooms,Rent. sixty-two thousand dollars.
Refund to Noble C. Butler, clerk United States Court:Noble C. Butler.Refund. To refund to Noble C. Butler, clerk of United States courts, Indianapolis, Indiana, the sum of forty-nine dollars and thirty cents, costs in the case of The United States versus Nettie Williams, inadvertently turned over to the United States and covered into the Treasury. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Contingent expenses: For fuel and repairs to heating apparatus,Contingent expenses. being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety-two dollars and sixteen cents.
For purchase and keeping of horses, and repair of wagons and harness, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and twenty nine dollars and forty-three cents. 863 Postal Service.Postal service. out of the postal revenues Mail transportation: For inland mail transportation by railroadTransportation, railroad routes. routes, exclusive of Pacific railroads, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. To pay amounts set forth in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty eight, of this session, for inland mail transportation by railroad routes, being deficiencies, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, exclusive of Pacific railroads, twenty-four thousand one hundred dollars and seventy-one cents. Mail messenger service: To pay amounts set forth in HouseMessenger service. Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, of this session, for mail messenger service, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, forty-six dollars and twenty-two cents. Mail depredations: To pay Samuel A. Harper, late United StatesSamuel A.
Harper.Services. attorney, western district of Wisconsin, for amount of bill for fees in the case of the United States against E. W. Reyes, late postmaster, Madison, Wisconsin, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety three, ten dollars. Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse thePostmasters.Compensation. postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-six cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-seven cents. Miscellaneous: For electric motors for canceling machines, fiscalMiscellaneous.Motors for canceling machines. year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents. To pay the account of Springman’s Express Company for movingWashington post office.Moving.
Washington city post-office, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eighty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. To pay Harrison Postal Bag Back Company for bag racks, fiscalHarrison Bag Rack Company. year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five hundred and ninety-two dollars. To pay Corbin Cabinet Lock Company for furniture, fiscal yearCorbin Lock Company. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and sixty-four dollars. For rent, light, and fuel, post-office at Yankton, South Dakota, onYankton, S.
Dak.Rent, etc. account of fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and five cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-one, thirty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents. Mail Transportation: To pay amounts set forth in SenateTransportation, railroad routes. Executive Document Numbered Ninety-nine, of this session, for inland mail transportation by railroad routes, being deficiencies, as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, exclusive of Pacific railroads, fifteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-six cents. Miscellaneous: For rent, light, and fuel, first and second classRent, light, etc. offices, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse thePostmasters. postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in Senate Executive 864 Document Numbered Ninety-nine, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows:
For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-six cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, eight hundred and thirty dollars and sixteen cents. To enable the Postmaster-General to refund to Volley P. Hart, PostmasterVolley P. Hart.Refund. at Sedalia, .Missouri, the balance of the nine thousand dollars received by him on the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, from the Post-Office Department to pay postal clerks and office force for the months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and deposited by him in the First National Bank of Sedalia, which remained in said bank at the date of its failure, on May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, not to exceed six thousand *Proviso*.Assignment of claim against bank.dollars: *Provided*, That before said balance shall be so refunded the said Volley P.
Hart shall assign and transfer to the Postmaster-general his claim against said First National Bank of Sedalia for the said balance of the said nine thousand dollars and all dividends thereon. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to credit H. F.H. F. Menough.Credit in accounts. Menough, late postmaster at Rock Springs, Wyoming, with one hundred and seventy-one dollars, the amount contained in a registered package placed in the mail for transmission to the Post-Office Department by the said H.
F. Menough while postmaster as aforesaid, and which was lost during transmission. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.Senate and House of Representatives. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the HouseOne month’s extra pay to employees. of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House, borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, including the Capitol W. A. Smith.police and official reporters of the Senate and House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record Clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-third Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. Extended to certain clerks.This provision shall apply to the clerks of the junior Senators of Washington, Montana, and Wyoming, respectively, though said clerks were not borne on the annual and session rolls on the date named. That the provisions of the Joint Resolution authorizing Members toClerk hire for Members extended one month.Vol. 27, p.757. certify monthly the amount paid by them for clerk hire, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same are hereby, extended to Members and Delegates of the Fifty-third Congress for the period of thirty days from March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; and to enable the Clerk of the House to pay to said Members and Delegates the amount, not exceeding one hundred dollars each, which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire hereunder, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.
SENATE.Senate. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inClerks, etc. the service of the Senate, one thousand and twenty-five dollars and seventeen cents, as follows: For clerk to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, and clerk to the conference minority of the Senate, one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-six cents each; for clerk to the Committee on Woman Suffrage, and clerk to the Committee on Mines and Mining, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty cents each; three clerks to committees, one hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-five cents each; salary for the above-mentioned employees, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in accordance with the 865 provisions of the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,*Ante*, p. 163. making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government; and five hundred dollars additionalAdditional to financial clerk. for the salary of the. financial clerk of the Senate while the office is held by the present incumbent.
For five annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen to committeesClerks to Senators. from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-five cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of .labor, eighty-nine dollars andMiscellaneous. nine cents, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents formerly inStorage. the Maltby Building, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, nine hundred and forty five dollars, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George H. Walker forGeorge H. Walker. services as skilled laborer in the Senate from and including the first day of June to the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixty dollars and forty-four cents. To reimburse the official reporter of the Senate for moneys paid byOfficial reporter. him for clerk hire and extra clerical services during the third session of the Fifty-third Congress, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay Kimball E. Valentine, three hundred and forty dollars; andKimball E. Valentine. T. B. Kirby.Services. T. B. Kirby, two hundred dollars, being balance for making inventory of Public Documents in the Senate wing of the Capitol in eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred and forty dollars. To P. J. McHenry for translating, proofreading, and editing the proceedingsP. J. McHenry.Services. of the Berlin silver commission, by authority of Senate resolution of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
To pay Solomon J. Fague for services and disbursements in makingSolomon J. Fague.Services. measurements and estimates of work on post-office and court house in New York City at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury and afterwards by direction of the Committee on Claims of the United States Senate, two thousand five hundred dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives andCompensation. Delegates from Territories, three thousand dollars.
For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, oneStationery. hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay the widow’of Philip S. Post, late a Representative in CongressPhilip S. Post.Pay to widow. from the State of Illinois, seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-one cents. To pay the widow of G. B. Shaw, late a Representative in CongressG. B. Shaw.Pay to widow. from the State of Wisconsin, three thousand and fifty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. To pay the widow of M.
B. Wright, late a Representative in CongressM. B. Wright.Pay to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. To pay one thousand dollars to Mrs. Celeste H. McCoy, of Saint Paul,W. D. McCoy.Pay to widow. Minnesota, widow of the Honorable W. D. McCoy, deceased, late minister and consul-general of the United States to Liberia. For rent of annex folding room, at the rate of one hundred dollarsFolding room annex. per month, from March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand dollars, oi’ so much thereof as may be necessary. 866 For allowance to the following contestants and contestees, audited Contested elections.and recommended by the Committee on Elections, for expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, namely:
To J. Thomas Goode, two thousand dollars;J. Thomas Goode.James F. Epes. Charles E. Belknap. G. F. Richardson.Lewis Steward.Robert A. Childs. To James F. Epes, two thousand dollars; To Charles E. Belknap, one thousand five hundred dollars; To G. F. Richardson, one thousand five hundred dollars; To Lewis Steward, one thousand dollars; To Robert A. Childs, two thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. To reimburse Robert A. Childs, Thomas Settle, and A. H. A. WilliamsRobert A.
Childs, Thomas Settle, A. H. A. Williams. for expenses necessarily incurred in contested election eases during the Fifty-third Congress,.two thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay John R. Conklin, messenger, for extra services, as a clerk inJohn R. Conklin.Services. the disbursing office, three hundred dollars. To pay Baylor Thornton seventy-five dollars and Charles CarterBaylor Thornton, Charles Carter. sixty dollars for caring for subcommittee rooms of the Committees on Ways and Means and Appropriations; in all, one hundred and thirty-five dollars.
To pay D. S. Porter as extra compensation for services rendered asD. S. Porter. assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions during the Fifty-third Congress, five hundred dollars. For postage stamps for the Doorkeeper, fifty dollars.Postage stamps.G. W. Pratt. To pay G. W. Pratt, assistant journal clerk, for extra services rendered during the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congress, five hundred dollars. To pay F. L. Fishback for services as clerk to the Committee onF. L. Fishback.
Banking and Currency from August twenty-eighth to September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and two dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters and stenographers. the House of Representatives, and the official stenographers to Committees, tor moneys actually paid by them during the third session of the Fifty-third Congress, for clerk hire and extra clerical services, three hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay the following, which have been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: To pay George Jennison and E. L. Currier, special messengers underGeorge Jennison, E. L. Currier. a resolution of the House, their salaries at the rate of one hundred dollarsBert W. Kennedy. per month, and Bert W. Kennedy, special messenger under a resolution of the House, bis salary at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, from March fourth to December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, two thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-three cents;
To pay George L. Browning and P. E. Cox three hundred dollarsGeorge L. Browning, P. E. Cox. each for extra services rendered in the folding room; in all, six hundred dollars; To pay the account of William M. Galt and Company for feed purchasedWilliam M. Galt and Co. during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, sixty-six dollars and twenty-three cents; To pay the widow of George B. Shaw, late a Representative in CongressGeorge B. Shaw.Clerk hire allowance. from the State of Wisconsin, for allowance due on account of clerk hire to August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighty-six dollars and ninety-four cents;
To pay M. M. Robinson for services rendered as assistant to the Sergeant at-Arms,M. M. Robinson. three hundred dollars; To pay William J. Assman the difference between the pay of a laborerWilliam J. Assman. and that of a messenger in the Hall Library, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, five hundred and ninety-four dollars; 867 To pay W. J. Houghtaling, reading clerk, for extra services renderedW.
J. Houghtaling. during the Fifty-second Congress and eighteen days’ service during the Fifty-third Congress, three hundred dollars; To pay Lauritz M. Olsen, a messenger under the Doorkeeper of theLauritz M. Olsen. House during the Fifty-second Congress, three hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and nine dollars and eighty cents. To pay Howard Gill for services as acting assistant foreman of theHoward Gill. folding room, from August twenty-ninth to December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, two hundred and forty dollars.
To pay Howard Wiltberger for services rendered in the folding roomHoward Wiltberger. from August twenty-ninth to December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, two hundred and forty dollars. To pay J. H. Van Buren, assistant index clerk of the House, his salaryJ. H. Van Buren. from October first to November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, and from November fourth to December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, inclusive, at six dollars per day, five hundred and thirty-four dollars.
To pay George B. Parsons, enrolling clerk, and John Kelley, assistantGeorge B. Parsons, John Kelley. enrolling clerk, for extra services, two hundred dollars each; in all, four hundred dollars. To pay Richard H. Dalton for extra services rendered in the foldingRichard H. Dalton. room, three hundred dollars. To reimburse Walter H. French for moneys actually paid by him forWalter H. French. clerical hire, in rearranging the files of the House, including the consolidation of the papers in the reports of the Southern Claims Commission and the papers in Indian depredation cases, and re-lettering the file boxes from the Forty-fourth to the Fifty-second Congress, inclusive, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay Peter J. McDonald the difference between his salary as folderPeter J. McDonald. and that of acting assistant foreman of the folding room at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from January-twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to January twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, three hundred dollars. To pay F. C. Shell for services rendered as clerk to the Committee onF. C. Shell. Ventilation and Acoustics from January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, during the second and third sessions of the Fifty-third Congress, three hundred dollars.
To pay E. L. Phillips, chief page, for extra services as DepartmentE. L. Phillips. messenger, from September twenty-fifth to October twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety dollars and sixty-seven cents. To pay George Smart for services rendered, in pursuance of a resolutionGeorge Smart. of the House of Representatives directing an investigation of charges against Augustus J. Ricks, judge of the United States district court for the northern district of Ohio, fifty-six dollars.
To pay James Kerr, Clerk of the House of Representatives of theJames Kerr.Contested elections testimony. Fifty-second Congress, balance due for services in compiling and arranging for the printer and indexing testimony used in contested election cases as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act-relating to contestedVol. 24, p. 445. elections,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of five hundred dollars, and an additional sum of seven hundred dollars to such employees as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said James Kerr, and in such proportion as he may deem just, for assistance rendered in the work; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars.
To pay to Annie E. Thompson, mother of J. A. Thompson, deceased, lateJ. A. Thompson. Pay to mother. a member of t he Capitol police force, the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, being an amount equal to six months pay, as such policeman, same to be in lieu of all other allowances or funeral expenses, to be immediately available. 868 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government printing Office. To make the daily wages of Stephen Caldwell, laborer, from JulyStephen Caldwell Samuel Robinson, William Madden.Payment to. first to August twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, and of Samuel Robinson and William Madden, messengers on night duty, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, and from December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three dollars and sixty cents per day each, four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For public printing and binding, and for paper for the public printing,Printing, etc., for Congress. including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including the salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, one hundredTreasury Department. and twenty thousand dollars. 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, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as Pro rata leaves to certain employees.may be necessary, and the Public Printer is authorized to pay pro rata leave of absence to any former employees of the Government Printing Office, who have during the present fiscal year resigned, died, or otherwise severed his or her connection with the office, notwithstanding the fact that thirty days’ leave of absence, with pay, may have been granted to such employees during the fiscal year on account of service rendered in a previous fiscal year.
Hereafter the Public Printer is authorized to pay pro rata leave ofPro rata leaves from appropriation for any fiscal year. absence out of any appropriation for leaves of absence to employees of the Government Printing Office in any fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that thirty days’ leave of absence, with pay, may have been granted to such employees in that fiscal year on account of service rendered in a previous fiscal year. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofJudgments.
United States courts.Vol. 24, p. 505. suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled ‘An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-nine, in Senate Executive Document Numbered One hundred and which have not been appealed, forty-nine thousand one dollar and fourteen cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is *Proviso*.Appeal.made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, certifiedJudgments, Court of Claims to Congress at its present session in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-three, and Senate Executive Docu- 869ment Numbered One hundred and one, nine hundred and thirty-seven thousand three hundred and forty three dollars and ninety-four cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid*Proviso*.Appeal. until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims in Indian depredationJudgments, Court of Claims. eases in the order in which they are certified to Congress in Senate Executive Documents Numbered Seven, parts one and two, numbered Eighty-two and One hundred and twenty-eight and Senate Miscellaneous Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-nine of the Fifty-third Congress, second session, and House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and forty-three, and Senate Executive Document Numbered Eighty-six of this session, including final judgments rendered since the date of those included in the last named Executive Document two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay and discharge such judgments as have been rendered against the United States, after the deductions required to beDeductions.Vol 26, p. 853. made under the provisions of section six of. the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian.depredations” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having doe regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and inReimbursement. such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service: *Provided*, That no one of the said judgments*Provisos*.Examination of judgmental etc. shall be paid until the.
Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that he has caused to be examined the evidence heretofore presented to the Court of Claims in support of said judgment and such other pertinent evidence as he shall be able to procure as to whether fraud, wrong or injustice has been done to the United States or whether exorbitant sums have been allowed, and finds upon such evidence no grounds sufficient in his opinion to support a new trial of said case: or until there shall have been filed with said Secretary a duly certified transcript of the proceedings of the Court of Claims denying the motion made by the Attorney-General for a new trial in any one. of said judgments: *Prodded further*, That any and all judgmentsCertification. included in said documents which the present Attorney-General has already examined, and is willing to certify under the provisions of this Act, and any and all judgments rendered during his term of office which he shall be willing to certify under the provisions of this Act maybe certified notwithstanding the order of payment herein specified.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-four, Fifty-third Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows: 870 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY.Claims allowed by Comptroller. treasury department.Treasury Department.
Internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors ofInternal revenue.Collectors. internal revenue, seven dollars and fifty cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers ofAgents, etc. internal revenue (except for service over Pacific railroads), one dollar and one cent. Mints and assay offices: For contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia,Philadelphia mint. one hundred and twenty-nine dollars. Territorial governments: For contingent expenses, Utah CommissionUtah Commission.
(except for service over Pacific railroads), six dollars. For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act of August sixth,eighteenArizona.Indian expenses.*Ante*, p. 580. hundred and ninety-four, three thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. interior department.Interior Department. Public lands service: For reimbursement to receivers of publicPublic lands.Reimbursing receivers.Registers and receivers. moneys for excess of deposits, seven dollars and twenty-five cents.
For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, forty-one dollars and forty-five cents. For surveying the public lands (except for service over the PacificSurveying. railroads), two thousand nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty-one cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. For salaries district marshals, fifty dollars.Marshals. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, seven hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-two cents. For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, one hundred andDistrict attorneys. fifty-five dollars.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, eighty-tour dollars andClerks. fifty-five cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, three hundred andCommissioners. eleven dollars and ninety-five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, seven hundred and eighty-fourWitnesses. dollars and sixty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, sixty-three dollarsMiscellaneous. and twenty-five cents. CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Claims Auditor for Treasury.
For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, freight, telegrams,Contingent expenses. and so forth, fifty-two dollars and twenty-two cents. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, miscellaneous items, eight dollars and seventy cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, four hundred and eightyPublic buildings.Assistant custodians. etc.Furniture. dollars. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, ninety-two dollars and eighty cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, five hundred and tenFuel, etc. dollars and three cents.
For beating apparatus for public buildings, nine dollars and eighty-fiveHeating apparatus. cents. For collecting the revenue from customs (except for service overCustoms revenue. Pacific railroads), eighty-eight dollars and twenty cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, one hundred andRepaying importers. fifty-three dollars and fifty-eight cents. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving andEngraving and printing. Printing, ten dollars. 871 For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, nine dollars.Coast survey.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, twenty-one dollars andRevenue cutter service. sixty cents. For supplies of lighthouses (except for service over Pacific railroads),Light-houses.Supplies. eight hundred and five dollars and sixty-seven cents. For expenses of light vessels, five dollars and seventy-seven cents.Light vessels.Repairs, etc. For repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses, six thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents. For repairs and preservation of public, buildings, one hundredRepairs, public buildings. and thirteen dollars and sixty cents.
To reimburse Dick Emmons, formerly deputy collector of customs atDick Emmons. Unalaska, in the District of Alaska, for moneys actually paid out by him for the services of a janitor at the custom house at Unalaska, Alaska, during the period from September twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay Peter Martin seventy-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents thePeter Martin. amount allowed by Third Auditor of the Treasury Department under Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty four.
CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, one thousand five hundred andArmy.Pay. thirty-five dollars and sixty-one cents. For subsistence of the Army, two hundred and twenty-four dollarsSubsistence. and fifty-eight cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred andQuartermaster’s Department.Supplies.Incidental expenses. thirteen dollars and seventy cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, two thousand and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-three cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, one thousand oneTransportation. hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, one hundred andClothing. twenty dollars. For horses for cavalry and artillery, five hundred and twenty-oneHorses. dollars and forty-three cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, one hundred and eighty dollars.Medical Department. For observation and report of storms, fifteen dollars and fifty-five cents.Observation of storms.
For current and ordinary expenses, Military Academy, forty-threeMilitary Academy. dollars and fifty-five cents. For contingencies of fortifications, thirty-five dollars and forty cents.Fortifications.Refund to States. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-five cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, except theHorses, etc., claims. claims of the Eureka, Globe Mutual, and Washington Marine insurance companies, three thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonOregon and Washington volunteers. volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, sixty dollars and fifty-six cents. For support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, twenty cents.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. For twenty per centum additional compensation, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty cents.Twenty per cent. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, eleven dollars and ninety-one cents.Mexican war volunteers.
For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, one hundredCalifornia and Nevada volunteers. and thirty-one dollars and twenty-three cents. 872 CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, fifteen thousand eight hundred and three dollarsPay, Navy. and nine cents. For pay, miscellaneous, twenty dollars and thirty-two cents.Miscellaneous.Mileage, Graham decision. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision: For the payment of claims for difference between actual expenses and mileage allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the ease of Graham versus The United States, eight thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirteen cents.
For pay, Marine Corps, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nineMarine Corps. dollars and eighty-six cents. For clothing. Marine Corps, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-six cents. For contingent, Marine Corps (except for service over Pacific railroads), two dollars and eleven cents. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, four dollarsBureau of Ordnance. and ninety-eight cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance (except for service over Pacific railroads), eighty-three cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment (except for service over PacificBureau of Equipment. railroads), one hundred and three dollars and seventy-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks, thirty-seven dollarsBureau of Yards and Docks. and sixty-nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Burger,y (except for serviceBureau of Medicine and Surgery. over Pacific railroads), twenty-four dollars and fifteen cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy-eightBureau of Supplies and Accounts. dollars and twenty-five cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (except for service over Pacific railroads), one thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-six cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, oneBureau of construction and Repair. thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, eighty-eight dollars andNavy-yards. nine cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, threeDestroyed clothing. hundred and four dollars and twenty-three cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, one thousand and fifty-five dollarsLost clothing. and two cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, sixteen dollars andBounty, destruction of enemies vessels. fifty cents. For enlistment bounties Jo seamen, eight hundred and sixty-nineEnlistment bounty. dollars and thirty-six cents. CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, sixteen dollarsContingent expenses. and fifty cents.
For surveying the public lands, one thousand and fifty-three dollarsSurveying. and sixty-eight cents. For appraisement and sale of abandoned military reservations, fourAbandoned military reservations. hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-five cents. For pay of Indian agents, six hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-five cents.Indian service.Agents. For pay of interpreters, thirty dollars.Interpreters.Inspectors.School superintendent. For pay of Indian inspectors, four dollars and eighty-six cents.
For traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent, thirty-four cents. 873 For telegraphing, anti purchase of Indian supplies, one thousandSupplies, purchaser etc. one hundred and four dollars and five cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, five hundred and eighty-oneTransportation. dollars and five cents. For buildings at agencies, and repairs, one hundred and forty-twoAgency buildings. dollars and twenty-five cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes—employees, and so forth,Sioux, etc. one hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-one cents.
For support of Sioux of different tribes—subsistence and civilization, five hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-eight cents. For support, of Sioux, Medawakanton band, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For support of Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans, one hundredArickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans.Arizona and New Mexico. and fifty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, two dollars and fifteen cents.
For support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Tongue River,Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. thirty one cents. For Indian schools, support, one hundred and fifty eight dollars andSchools. seventy-nine-cents. For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, seven hundred and twelveCarlisle, Pa. dollars and forty-one cents. For Indian,school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, one hundred and twenty-sixFort Mojave, Ariz. dollars and forty-five rents. For Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, ten dollars.Phenix, Ariz.Tomah, Wis.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents. For incidentals in South Dakota, ten dollars and thirty-two cents.South Dakota.Pensions. For army pensions, one thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty cents. CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims, Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen,Services to American vessels. eighteen dollars and seventy-four cents.
CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for Post office Department. For inland mail transportation, railroad, five thousand and eighty-oneTransportation.Railroads. dollars and twenty-one cents; For inland mail transportation, star, ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eightStar routes. cents: For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, two hundred dollars;Depredations.Advertising.Postmasters. For advertising, twenty six dollars and forty cents;
For compensation of postmasters, one thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-six cents; For clerk hire, eighty-one dollars and eight cents;Clerk hire.Special delivery.Railway postal clerks.Letter carriers.Printing.Canceling machines. For special delivery fees, eight cents; For railway postal clerks, two hundred and fifty dollars; For letter carrier, twenty-five dollars and eighty-three cents; For printing facing slips, and so forth, ninety-six cents; For rent of canceling machines, thirty-three dollars and seventy cents; in all, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and eighty cents, payable from the appropriation “Deficiency in the Postal Revenues.
” To pay the legal representatives of George K. Otis, as compensationGeorge K. Otis. for the extraordinary increase of service performed by him on route sixty-seven hundred and seventy-one, contract term ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, thirty-one thousand six hundred dollars. 874 That the proceeds of sales of the property of the United States, madeMexican Boundary Commission.Receipts from sales of properly to be used for further expenses.Vol. 22, p. 986.Vol. 29, p. 1493. by the International Boundary Commission provided for by the convention of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the convention of February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, between the United States and Mexico, shall revert to the appropriations for the execution of the engagements of said conventions and be applied to the purposes for which said appropriations were made and shall not be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts as [R.
S., secs. 3617, 3618. p. 713](/us/rs/t/s3617/3618/p713).provided for by sections thirty-six hundred and seventeen and thirty-six hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 18, p. 110.Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 251.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Executive Document Numbered One hundred and two, Fifty-third Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE Treasury DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, freight, telegrams,Contingent expenses. and so forth, two thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars and nine cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, two hundred and nine dollarsCustoms revenue. and sixty-one cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, one thousand oneRepaying importers. hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-three cents.
For quarantine service, seventy-seven dollars and eighty cents.Quarantine service.Refunding taxes. For refunding taxes illegally collected (internal revenue), thirty-five dollars and fourteen cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, three hundred andRepairs, etc., public buildings. thirty-five dollars and four cents. CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, one thousand six hundred andArmy pay. eighty-one dollars and ninety-one cents.
For expenses of recruiting, three dollars and fifteen cents.Recruiting.Transportation. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, four dollars and seventy-eight cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, two hundred and sixty dollars.Medical Department.Barracks and quarters.Horses, etc., claims. For barracks and quarters, forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, five hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-nine cents.
CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, two thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollarsNavy, pay. and eighty-five cents. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision: For the payment of claims forMileage. difference between actual expenses and mileage allowed under the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Graham versus The United States, two thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and thirteen cents. 875 For pay, Marine Corps, ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents.Marine Corps.Bureau of Ordnance.
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance (except for service over Pacific railroads), seven dollars and forty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment (except for service over Pacific-railroads),Bureau of Equipment. eighty-five dollars and fifty cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (except for serviceBureau of Medicine and Surgery. over Pacific railroads), two hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (except for serviceBureau of Supplier and Accounts. over Pacific railroads), seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, twenty-threeDestroyed clothing. dollars and ninety cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’vessels, two dollars and thirty-eightBounty, destroying enemies vessels. cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, five hundred and fifty-four dollars.Enlistment bounty. CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor fur Interior Department. Public Lands Service: For surveying the public lands, ten thousandSurveying. and thirty-two dollars and one cent.
Indian Affairs: For pay of Indian agents, thirty-six dollars andIndian service.Agents. eight cents. For telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies, eighteen dollarsSupplies. and eighty-five cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, two dollars and fifty-five cents. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, six hundred andArizona and New Mexico. forty-five dollars and fifty-three cents. For Indian schools, support, twenty dollars.Schools. For Indian school transportation, one hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
For incidentals in Arizona, including support and civilization, twoArizona. dollars. CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims, Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Foreign Intercourse: For contingent expenses, foreign missions,Contingent expenses, missions. sixty-five dollars and sixteen cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one hundred andConsulates. thirty-six dollars and thirty-three cents. For loss by exchange, consular service, ninety-nine dollars and fifty-eightLoss by exchange. cents.
Department of Agriculture: For botanical investigations andDepartment of Agriculture. experiments, fifteen dollars and thirty cents. Department of Justice: For fees and expenses of marshals,United States courts. United States courts, eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventyMarshals. cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one hundred andCommissioners. seventy-three dollars and five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, one hundred and eighty-eightWitnesses. dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, fifteen dollars.Bailiffs, etc.N. R. Peekinpaugh. Excess of deposits by N. R. Peekinpaugh, clerk of United States courts, ten cents. For pay of special assistant attorney, as follows: To Charles S. Whitman,Special assistant attorneys. eight hundred dollars; to S. F. Phillips, six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-six cents: in all, one thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-six. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five: to S.
F, Phillips, two hundred and fifty dollars, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. 876 CLAIMS REPORTED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Claims, Auditor for Post-Office Department. For inland mail transportation, railroad, eleven thousand five hundredTransportation.Railroads. and ten dollars and six cents; For inland mail transportation, special facilities, forty dollars; •Special facilities.Star routes. For inland mail transportation, star, two dollars and twenty-one cents;
For compensation of postmasters, four hundred and ninety-one dollarsPostmasters. and one cent; For clerk hire, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy cents;Clerk hire.Rent. etc. For rent, light, and fuel, ten dollars and sixteen cents; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and nine dollars and fourteen cents, payable from the appropriation “Deficiency in the Postal Revenues.” Approved, March 2, 1895.
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