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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · March 2, 1895 · Chapter 189

Chapter 189. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 189.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, 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*,Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. For post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: For continuation ofAllegheny, Pa. building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For the construction of aEngraving and printing Bureau. third additional story to the old boiler house of the main building, including the extension and renewal of elevator on the west side of said boiler house, twelve thousand dollars.
For post-office at Buffalo, New York: For continuation of buildingBuffalo. under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and other Government offices at Brockton, Massachusetts:Brockton, Mass.*Ante*, p. 675. For securing a site for the construction of the public building, twenty-five thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is Contract.authorized to contract for the completion of said building including heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, elevators, and approaches complete, within the limit of cost prescribed in the law, subject to the appropriations to be made by Congress.
For the public building at Charleston, South Carolina: For completionCharleston. S. C. of building, forty thousand dollars. In order to provide accommodations for the Government officials inChicago, Ill.Temporary building. the city of Chicago now occupying the present building, during the 911 erection of the proposed new building, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to accept for use temporarily any site that may be offered for such use free of cost and rent and to erect thereon a temporary building, complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus therefor, and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be immediately available, of which amount the sum ofRent. twenty-seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, may be used for the rental of buildings for one year; said temporary building to be so erected shall be removed by the Government when said new building is completed and ready for use.
In pursuance of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provideCommencement of new building on present site.*Ante*, 664. for the erection of a, Government building at Chicago, Illinois,” approved February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the commencement and continuation of the building, of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporarily draftsmen and skilled service, which may be necessary in the preparation of plans and specifications for the said building, this amount to be exclusive of any moneys that he may be authorized to expend for the services of engineers, draftsmen, and other persons employed in the preparation of plans and specifications for any other public buildings.
For post-office at Clarksville, Tennessee: For completion of buildingClarksville, Tenn. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. For public building at Cumberland, Maryland: For purchase of siteCumberland, Md.*Ante*, p. 676. and commencement of building, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the completionContract. of said building at a cost, including site therefor, heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, and approaches complete, not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the public building at Fort Dodge, Iowa: For completion ofFort Dodge, Iowa. three additional rooms in said building and placing additional dormers in the roof, one thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the balance of the appropriation now available. For post office at Fort Worth, Texas: For completion of buildingFort Worth, Tex. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For post-office and Courthouse at. Kansas City, Missouri: For continuationKansas City, Mo. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
That the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize a contract or contractsContracts authorized. to be entered into for the construction of any portion or the whole of the post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: Court-house andAllegheny, Pa.Detroit. Mich.Portland, Oreg.Pueblo, Colo.Savannah. Ga. post-office at Detroit, Michigan; customhouse at Portland, Oregon; post-office at Pueblo, Colorado, and Courthouse and post-office at Savannah, Georgia, within the respective limits of cost prescribed by law for said buildings and subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress.
For Courthouse and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas: To constructLittle Rock, Ark. an addition to the United States court house and post-office and enlarging judge’s chamber and the offices of the marshal and clerk of the circuit and district courts, and for an elevator, fifty eight thousand dollars. For Courthouse and post office at Meridian, Mississippi: The SecretaryMeridian, Miss.Vol. 26, p. 695.Change of site. of the Treasury is hereby authorized, if in his discretion he thinks it to the public interest to do so, to exchange the site formerly purchased for said building and now owned by the United States for another and more suitable site: *Provided*, That the exchange can be*Proviso*.Condition. effected without cost to the United States.
For Courthouse and post-office at Meridian, Mississippi: The limit ofCost extended. cost of building and site therefor, including heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, elevators, and approaches complete, is hereby extended to eighty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the 912 Treasury is authorized to contract for the completion of said buildingContracts as aforesaid within said limit of cost. For customhouse and post-office at Newark, New Jersey: For completionNewark.
N. J. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For public building at Newport, Kentucky: To enable the SecretaryNewport, Ky.*Ante*, p. 676. of the Treasury to select, designate, and procure by purchase or otherwise a suitable site, and commence the construction of the public building provided by law to be erected in Newport, Kentucky, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and it the said site shall be obtained by purchase, the cost thereof shall not exceed said sum, and tins Secretary Contract.is authorized to contract for the erection of the entire building, its cost including site therefor, heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, elevators, and approaches complete, not to exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars.
For Courthouse and post-office at Norfolk, Virginia: For completionNorfolk. Va. of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For public building at Pottsville, Pennsylvania: For purpose ofPottsville. Pa.*Ante*. 11.675. acquiring a suitable site by purchase or otherwise and to commence the construction of the public building provided by law at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury Contract.is authorized to contract for the completion of said building at a cost including site therefor, heating and ventilating apparatus, fire proof vaults, elevators, and approaches complete, not to exceed sixty thousand dollars.
For the appraiser’s warehouse, New York City, New York: For continuationNew York.Appraiser’s warehouse.Cost extended. of building, two hundred thousand dollars, and the limit of cost of said building, exclusive of cost of site, is hereby extended one million dollars, making the total limit of cost of said building one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and Contract.the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize a contract or contracts to be entered into for the construction of any portion oi the whole of said building, including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, or any portion of the same, subject to appropriations made or to be made therefor by Congress.
For Courthouse, customhouse, and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska:Ornaba, Nebr. For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. For the public building at Paterson, New Jersey: For the commencementPaterson. N. J.*Ante*, p. 673. and continuation of the construction of the public building, fifty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is Contract.authorized to contract for the completion of said building including heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, elevators, and approaches complete, within the limit of cost prescribed by law, subject to appropriations to be made by Congress.
For post-office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For amount necessaryPhiladelphia. Pa.Additional land. to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, the lots or pieces of ground in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, adjoining or adjacent to the Philadelphia post-office building, additional to the sums appropriated therefor in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen thousand dollars. For customhouse at Portland, Oregon: For completion of buildingPortland, Oreg. under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
For post-office at Pueblo, Colorado: For continuation of buildingPueblo, Colo. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office, Courthouse, and customhouse at Saint Paul, Minnesota:Saint Paul, Minn. For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For public building at Richmond, Kentucky: For an additionalRichmond, Ky. amount for the completion of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and Courthouse at San Francisco, California:San Francisco, Cal.
For commencement and continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That before any work is done upon this*Proviso*. 913 building or contract let therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shallSite to be examined. cause to be carefully examined the nature of the subsoil and bed of foundation of the site that has been purchased for such building at San Francisco, and whether the character of the same is proper for said building, before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and what will be the cost of making a foundation for said building, and whether the construction of said building should be proceeded with on said site; and the Secretary of War, upon the request of theDetail of Army officers.
Secretary of the Treasury, shall detail two or more engineer officers of the Army to make such examination. If the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine that said building should be erected on said site, he is hereby authorized to proceed with the construction of the building, and to enter into contracts for any part or the whole thereof, within theContracts. limit of cost fixed by law; the expenses of such examination and investigation, not to exceed three thousand dollars, to be paid out of the appropriations made for the erection of said building.
For Courthouse and post-office at Savannah, Georgia: For continuationSavannah, Ga. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For Courthouse, post office, and custom house at Sioux City, Iowa:Sioux City. Iowa. For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For public building at Troy, New York: For additional amount forTroy, N. Y. completion, including elevator, painting, clock, storm doors, and other necessary work, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For post-office at Worcester, Massachusetts: For completion of buildingWorcester, Mass. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Washington, District of Columbia: For continuationWashington, D. C., post-office. of building under present limit, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForTreasury buildings. repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make such additions toLos Angeles, Cal. and alterations in the United States Courthouse and post-office building at Los Angeles as he may find necessary, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to select, designate, andBuildings authorized. procure, by purchase or otherwise, suitable sites, and for the commencement of the construction of public buildings thereon, in the city ofCheyenne, Wyo.Boise City, Idaho.Helena, Mont. Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming; in Boise City, the capital of Idaho, and in the city of Helena, the capital of Montana, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars.
Each of said sites shall contain at leastSites. sixteen thousand square feet of ground, and shall leave an open space around the building to be erected thereon, including streets and alleys, of at .cast forty feet; neither of said sites shall cost in excess of twenty thousand dollars; and neither of said buildings, each of which shall be fireproof, shall cost, including the site, heating and ventilatingCost apparatus, elevators, fireproof vaults, and approaches complete, in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the appropriations herein made shall be available during this fiscal year for the purchase of sites and the commencement of the construction of the buildings, with power to contract for each of the buildings within the limit of oneContracts. hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each site and building.
That permission be, and the same is hereby, granted .to the mayor andBaltimore, Md.Permission to use lot for court purposes. city council of Baltimore to erect on the lot or parcel of ground in the city of Baltimore described as follows: Beginning for the same on the corner formed by the intersection of the west side of North street and the south side of Lexington street and running thence south, binding on the west side of North street one hundred and twelve feet; thence west parallel with the south side of Lexington street seventy feet; thence north parallel with the west side of North street one hundred and twelve feet to the south side of Lexington street, and thence east, binding thereon seventy feet, to the place of beginning, a two-story 914 brick building, to be used by the State of Maryland for the purpose of holding therein the sessions of the State courts within said city, for a period not to exceed five years from the time said building shall be begun, and that during said period concurrent jurisdiction, so far as the same may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, ceded to the State of Maryland for said purpose, so that the sessions of the said courts in said building, upon said lot, may be during said period fully *Proviso*.Removal, etc.legalized: *Provided, however*, That the mayor and city council of Baltimore will enter into a contract with the United States of America, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury before the erection of said building shall be begun, that within three months after the expiration of-the said period of five years the said building shall be entirely torn down and the materials thereof removed, and the said lot restored to the same condition in which it now is, and in default thereof that the said building may be removed and the lot restored to its present condition by the United States at the expense of the municipality of Baltimore.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to select, designate, andSouth Omaha, Nebr. *Ante*, p. 674. procure by purchase or otherwise a suitable site and commence the construction of the public building provided by law to be erected at South Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and if the said site shall be obtained by purchase the cost thereof shall not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; and Contract.the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the erection of the entire building, its cost including site therefor, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, tire-proof vaults, anti approaches complete, not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of customhouses, court houses, post-offices, marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and other public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used *Proviso*.Superintendents, etc.for the marine hospitals and quarantine stations: *Provided*, That of the sum hereby appropriated, not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment of superintendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed, if in his judgmentElectric wiring. such work should be performed, to pay for the wiring for electric lighting of all buildings in process of erection or hereafter to be erected under the control of the Treasury Department from the construction funds of such buildings. marine hospitals.Marine hospitals. For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For invalid elevator,Boston, Mass. one thousand dollars; isolation ward, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.
For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For extension to hospitalChicago, Ill. buildings, ten thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio: For steam laundry plant,Cincinnati, Ohio. two thousand seven hundred dollars. For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For new laundryNew Orleans. La. and attendants building, five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Wilmington, North Carolina: For increase ofWilmington, N. C. hospital facilities by construction of new ward, seven thousand dollars. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations.
For quarantine station, Reedy Island, Delaware River: For improvementReedy Island. of grounds to protect from overflow, four thousand two hundred dollars. 915 For quarantine station, Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: For naphthaDelaware Breakwater. launch for boarding vessels, four thousand dollars. For quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For completing additionBrunswick, Ga. to ballast wharf, three hundred dollars; ballast cars and tracks, three hundred dollars; hoisting engine, seven hundred dollars: raising trestle, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For quarantine station, South Atlantic: For hospital barge (alterationSouth Atlantic. to steamers), one thousand dollars; telephone, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For quarantine station, San Francisco, California: For naphtha orSan Francisco. steam launch, three thousand dollars; cistern tor water supply, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Heating apparatus for public buildings:
For heating, hoisting,Heating, etc., apparatus. and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults,Vaults, safes, and locks. safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, forty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only. Plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials,Plans, etc. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.
Boston Harbor Light-Ship, Massachusetts: For constructing, equipping,Boston Harbor, Mass.Light-ship.*Proviso*.Range lights. and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light-vessel with a steam fog signal, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any unexpended balance from this appropriation may be expended by the Light-House Board in the construction of range lights in Boston Harbor. Butler Flats Light Station, Massachusetts: For establishing a lightButler Flats, Mass. and fog signal on or near Butler Flats, entrance to the lower harbor of New Bedford, to take the place of Clarks Point and Fairhaven bridge lights, forty-five thousand dollars.
Spectacle Island Range lights, Massachusetts: For establishingSpectacle Island, Mass. range lights on Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Spring Point Ledge Light and Fog-Signal Station, Maine: TowardPortland, Me. Spring Point. establishing a light and fog signal on Spring Point Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine, twenty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light and fog-signal station, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall-not exceed forty-five thousand dollars.
Kennebec River lights, Maine: For the establishment on KennebecKennebee River.Me Range lights, etc.*Ante*, p. 636. River, Maine, of a light, range lights, and fog signal at or near Doubling Point; a light at Ámes Ledge; a light at or near the southwest point of Perkins Island; a light at or near Squirrel Point, and a day beacon on or near Ram Island; and for sites for same, not to exceed in all, seventeen thousand dollars. - Plum Beach Light and Fog-Signal Station, Rhode Island:
For establishingPlum Beach, R. I. a light and fog-signal station at or near Plum Beach, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars, and the total cost of establishing such light and fog-signal station complete, under a 916 contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. Southwest Ledge Light Station, Connecticut: For establishing a fogNew Haven, Conn. signal at Southwest Ledge Light Station, entrance to New Haven harbor, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, three, thousand dollars.
Lower Cedar Point Light Station, Potomac River, Maryland: ForLower Cedar Point, Md. reestablishing Lower Cedar Point Light Station, Potomac River, Maryland, twenty-five thousand dollars, and the total cost of reestablishing such light station complete, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars. Smith’s Point Light-House, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland: ForSmiths Point, Md. reestablishing the light-house at Smith’s Point, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, recently carried away by the ice, twenty-five thousand dollars to be immediately available, and the total cost of reestablishing such light-house, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars.
Maumee Range-Light Station, Ohio: For establishing a new beaconMaumee Bay, Ohio. at each end of the range, to form a range both outward and inward in the line of the channel in Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars. Chequamegon Point Light and Fog-Signal Station, Wisconsin: ForChequamegon Point, Wis. moving and rebuilding the main La Pointe light and establishing a harbor bell and light at or near Chequamegon Point, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars.
Devils Island Light and Fog-Signal Station, Wisconsin: For constructingDevils Island, Wis. a permanent tower,twenty-two thousand dollars. Grand Marais Light Station, Minnesota: That of the unexpendedGrand Marais, Minn.Use of balance.Vol. 23, p. 485. balance of the appropriation made in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for completing the construction of a light house at Grand Marais, Minnesota, four thousand dollars may be applied to the purchase of a site for and construction of a light-keeper’s dwelling at or near Grand Marais Light Station.
Detroit River lights, Michigan: For the completion of the lightingGrassy Island, Mich. of the north and south ends of Grassy Island, Detroit River, Michigan, six thousand seven hundred dollars. Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior, Michigan: For fog signal at Eagle Eagle Harbor, Mich.Harbor, Lake Superior, Michigan, five thousand dollars. At or near Squaw Point, Little Bay de Noquet, a light, at a cost notSquaw Point, Mich. exceeding five thousand dollars. Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge, Lake Superior, Michigan:
For aGrand Marais, Mich. light and bell at the Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge, now completed, on Lake Superior, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. Mendota Light Station, Michigan: For reestablishing the light stationMendota, Mich. at or near Mendota Bete Grise Bay, entrance to Lac la Belle, Lake Superior, Michigan, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Portage Lake Ship Canal pier head fog signal, Michigan: For establishingPortage Lake Canal, Mich. a fog signal at Portage Lake Ship Canal pier head light station, Lake Superior, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Grays Harbor Light Station, Washington: For completing the lightGrays Harbor, Wash. and fog-signal station at Grays Harbor, Washington, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. North Head Light Station, Washington: For establishing a first-orderCape Disappointment Wash. light on North Head, Cape Disappointment, seacoast of Washington, twenty-five thousand dollars. Umatilla Reef Light-Ship, off the Straits of Fuca, Washington: ForUmatilla Reef, Wash.Light-ship. constructing, equipping, and outfitting a steam light ship, with steam fog signal to be established at or near Umatilla Reef, at the Flattery Rocks, off the Straits of Fuca, Washington, forty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said steam light-ship with a steam fog signal, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars. 917 Staten Island Lighthouse Depot, New York:
For continuing the constructionStaten Island Depot. of the sea wall, rebuilding the south wharf, and dredging the basin, at the general lighthouse depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, twenty-five thousand dollars. Tibbetts Point Light Station, Lake Ontario and Saint LawrenceTibbetts Point. N.Y. River, New York: For constructing and equipping, complete for service, a fog signal, four thousand three hundred dollars. Mobile Ship Channel lights, Alabama: For establishing additionalMobile, Ala.Ship channel. lights in the Mobile Ship Channel, Alabama, thirty thousand dollars.
Manitowoc Light Station, Wisconsin: For establishing a steam fogManitowoc, Wis. signal at Manitowoc Pierhead Light Station, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, five thousand five hundred dollars. North Manitou Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan: For establishingNorth Manitou Island, Mich. a light and fog-signal station on North Manitou Island, Lake Michigan, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Porte des Morts Range Lights and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan:Plumb Island, Mich. For establishing range lights and a steam fog signal on or near Plumb Island, in the Porte des Morts (Death’s Door) passage, entrance to Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Michigan, twenty-one thousand dollars.
South Fox Island Fog Signal, Michigan: For establishing a steamSouth Fox Island, Mich. fog signal at South Fox Island light-station, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. Sturgeon Bay Canal Light Station, Wisconsin: For establishing aSturgeon Bay Canid, Wis. light station at or near the entrance to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars. Sheboygan Pierbead Light Station, Wisconsin: For establishing aSheboygan, Wis. steam fog signal at Sheboygan Pierhead Light Station, entrance to Sheboygan Harbor.
Wisconsin, five thousand live hundred dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses forOil houses.*Proviso*.Cost. the storage of mineral oil, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. lighthouse establishment.Light-house establishment. Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Free entry of lenses.
That lenses and lens glass for the use of the Light-House establishment may be imported free of duty. Repairs of light houses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. light houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pierhead and other beacon lights: for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries, fuel,Keepers salaries. rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand two hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers, and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light-vessels, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, spindles, and (lay beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. 918 Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, seventy thousand dollars. Inspecting lights: For mileage or traveling expenses of membersInspecting, etc. of the Light-House Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage light-house property, three thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting of rivers. post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; York River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chieott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers;
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations,Survey of sites. surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:Superintendents. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand six . hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent of the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand six hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand six hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand four hundred dollars. 919 For salaries of two hundred and fifty-seven keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews, 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 eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, one million two hundred thousand dollars.
That the proviso in section one of the Act approved August third,Pay of surfmen.*Ante*, p. 225. eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: “*Provided*, That those surfmen who enlist for a term including more than eight and a half months of active service, and those who enlist to fill vacancies caused by the promotion, death, resignation, or dismissal of such surfmen, shall receive sixty dollars per month during said period of active service.
” For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty-three thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries and expenses. lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, firemen, coal-passers, cooks, stewards, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering • Sea and the other waters of Alaska and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports ofVol. 25, p. 151.
New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three;Vol. 26, p. 431. contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For completing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the directionSteamers.New England coast.*Ante*, p. 4. of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the New England coast, in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred thousand dollars.
For completing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the directionGreat Lakes. of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Great Lakes, in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved November third,*Ante*, p. 6. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred thousand dollars. 920 For constructing a revenue cutter for service in the harbor of SanSan Francisco.*Ante*, p. 286. Francisco, California, fifty thousand dollars. For constructing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the directionPacific Coast. of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Pacific Coast, Contract.seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contract for building said vessel at a total cost not *Proviso*.Board on retirement of officers.to exceed two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to convene a board, to be composed of three surgeons of the Marine-Hospital Service, to examine and report upon all officers now in the Revenue-Cutter Service who, through no vicious habits of their own, are now incapacitated by reason of the infirmities of age or physical or mental disability to efficiently perform the Pay of retired officers.duties of their respective offices.
And such officers as, under the terms of this Act, may be reported by said board to be so permanently incapacitated shall be placed on waiting orders out of the line of promotion, with one-half active duty pay, and the vacancies thereby created in the active list of the officers shall be filled by promotion in Examination for promotion.the order of seniority, as now provided by law: *Provided, however*, That no such promotion shall be made until the professional qualifications of the candidate shall have been determined by written examination before a board of officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service convened by the Number of officers not increased.Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the number of officers upon the active list now authorized by law shall not be increased by this Act.
For maintenance of a refuge station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska,Point Barrow, Alaska. on the Arctic Ocean, four 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, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to be *Proviso*.Large notes.expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso*.Large notes.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger . denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of theExpenses of survey of Atlantic. Gulf. Pacific. and Alaska coasts, etc. Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip. and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government 921 of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury: for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels; to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance*Proviso*.Advances. of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct:
For field expenses:Field expenses. For survey of unfinished portions of the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, including Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River; Hudson River to Troy; Charleston bar and entrance, South Carolina, and necessary resurveys, including Boston Harbor, and the approaches to New Bedford Harbor, Buzzards Bay, the bar and entrance to St. Simonds Sound, and Savannah River bar, eighteen thousand dollars; To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile; and for triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, and for the necessary resurveys, seven thousand eight hundred dollars;
For offshore soundings along the Atlantic, and Gulf coasts, and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, five thousand dollars; For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, anti for necessary resurveys, San Francisco harbor, triangulation, topography and hydrography, fifteen thousand dollars; For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska and making hydrographic surveys in the same, including survey of the Aleutian Islands and examination of the mouth of Yukon River, and for the establishment of latitude, longitude, and magnetic stations, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for tidal and current observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five thousand dollars; For establishment of a self-registering tide gauge at Reedy Island on the Delaware River, seven hundred dollars; For examination of reported dangers on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts as may be necessary for the same, three thousand dollars;
To continue magnetic observations, including the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory, two thousand dollars: For continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, two thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicablePoints to State surveys. in States where points have not been furnished, and for surveying and distinctly marking with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of California commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, twelve thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
For determinations of geographical positions, and to continue gravity observations, two thousand live hundred dollars; 922 For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, thirteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars;
For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, six thousand dollars; For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for theInternational Geodetic Association. Measurement of the Earth, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended through the office of the American legation at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Proviso*.Payment.*Provided*, That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named;” and ten Interchangeable expenditures.per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation;
In all, for field expenses, one hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenanceRepairs of vessels, etc. of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including new boiler and decks for the steamer Patterson, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Salaries Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, fiveSalaries.Superintendent.Assistants. thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed either in the field or office, as the Superintendent may direct, such authority and direction to take effect from and after the passage of this Act:
For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For four assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For seven assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For seven assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For four assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For aids temporarily employed at a salary not greater than nine hundred dollars per annum each, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, ninety thousand four hundred dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousandOffice force. two hundred dollars; For one general office assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives,one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one clerk to the Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one clerk to the assistant in charge of the office, and topography, one thousand dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand two.hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; 923 For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewritersOffice force—Cont’d. and copyists, namely:
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each;
For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand dollars; For additional engravers, at not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For ten, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For six, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For three, at six hundred and forty dollars each;
For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For four, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-two thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions, eight thousand dollars. For copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing, engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for extra engraving and drawing; and tor photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, eighteen thousand dollars.
For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice and washing, six thousand dollars. 924 For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, tour thousand live hundred dollars.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and GeodeticAllowances. Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the held force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law.
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. National Museum: For continuing the preservation, exhibition,National Museum.Preserving collections. and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibitionFurniture. and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National .Museum, thirteen thousand dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the NationalPostage. Museum, five hundred dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum,Repairs. including all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. For rent of workshops for the National Museum, nine hundred dollars.Rent. National Zoological Park:
For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park.Expenses. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting, and repairing buildings and inclosures for animals; and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental One-half from District revenues.expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty-five thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley Lane, and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the west batik of Rock Creek, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one-half chargeable to the revenues of the District of Columbia.
And of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall be used toward the construction of a road from the Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek, Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of AstrophysicalAstrophysical observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, apparatus, and miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand dollars.
International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, seventeen thousand dollars. Fire protection, Smithsonian Institution and NationalFire protection. Museum: For expenses of putting in four additional fire pings in the Smithsonian grounds for the better protection of the Smithsonian 925 Institution, National Museum, and Astrophysical Observatory, and the purchase of necessary fire hose, eight hundred dollars.
North American Ethnology: For continuing ethnologicalNorth American Ethnology. researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for rent of building. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars;Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc. chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars: stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; two clerks at nine hundred dollars each: one clerk, six hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundredOffice of accounts. dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand and eighty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousandOffice of architect and engineer. two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture: Office—Assistant in charge, two thousandDivision of fish-culture.Office. five hundred dollars: superintendent of ear and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish-culture, station employees: Central station, Washington,Central station.
District of Columbia: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Aquaria, Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixtyAquaria. dollars; skilled labor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, oneFish ponds. thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveGreen Lake, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred mid twenty dollars. Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCraigs Brook. Me. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousandSaint Johusbury, Vt. five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. 926 Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Custodian and fish-culturist, nineGloucester, Mass. hundred dollars. Woods Holl (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandWoods Holl, Mass. five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at live hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, six thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Cape Vincent (New York) Station Superintendent, one thousandCape Vincent. N. Y. five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred andBattery Island, Md. sixty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station:
Custodian, three hundred andBryans Point, Md. sixty dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand two-hundredWytheville, Va. dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Put-in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredPut-in Bay, Ohio. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand and sixty dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNorthville, Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred dollars; skilled laborer four hundred and eighty dollars; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundredAlpena, Mich. dollars; fish-culturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredDuluth, Minn. dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; machinist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredNeosho, Mo. dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, at six hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredLeadville, Colo. dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: superintendent,Baird and Fort Gaston, Cal. one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredSan Marcos, Tex. dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two-laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand three hundred dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent one thousand five hundredClackamas, Oreg. dollars; one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish-culture—employees at large: Two field-station superintendents,Division of fish culture. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; one coxswain, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one 927 coxswain, at five hundred and forty dollars; one clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Three car captains, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; two assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant car messenger, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all. thirteen thousand and eighty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant in charge, twoDivision of inquiry respecting food Ashes. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk class one: one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant inDivision of statistics, etc. charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, class four; one clerk, class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, at one thousand two hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousandVessels.“Albatross.” eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars.“Fish Hawk.”“Grampus.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration: For the contingent expenses of theAdministration expenses. office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to, and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, nine thousand dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For the maintenance, equipment, andPropagation of food-fishes. operations of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and including not exceeding five thousand dollars for necessary employees for the conduct of the fish-cultural stations in Montana, Iowa, and Tennessee, authorized by Congress and now being located, one hundred thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels andMaintenance of vessels. launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, and contingent expenses, thirty thousand five hundred dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses ofInquiry respecting food-fishes. the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interests of fish-culture; for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, including the expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, ten thousand eight hundred dollars, and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Fisheries to make special 928 investigation as to the extermination of migratory fishes on the IndianIndian River fishes. River of Florida. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesStatistical inquiry. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, five thousand dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchangeable expenses. expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. For investigation and report respecting the advisability of establishingHatchery, New Hampshire. a fish-hatching station at some suitable point in the State of New Hampshire, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries.Vol. 24, p. 386. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of Secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission toExpenses. give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel; In all, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous. World’s Columbian Commission: That the Secretary of the TreasuryWorld’s Columbian Commission.Cases for medals. be, and he is hereby, authorized to procure suitable cases for the bronze medals awarded exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition, and to pay for the same and also the expense of distributing said Vol 27, p. 389.medals from the appropriation contained in the third section of an Act entitled “An Act to aid in carrying out the Act of Congress approved Vol. 26, p. 62.April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled‘An Act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exposition of arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,’ and appropriating money therefor,” approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. That the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, under the supervisionNames, etc., to be printed on diplomas. of the Secretary of the Treasury, be authorized to print upon the blank Vol. 27, p. 289.Vol. 27, p. 587.diplomas authorized by section three of the said Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the names of the persons to whom the diplomas are to be awarded by the World’s Columbian Commission, and the language of the awards as furnished by the committee on awards of the World’s Columbian Commission; and the expense thereof shall be paid from the appropriation of one hundred and three thousand dollars contained in said sundry civil Act to carry out section three as amended, which appropriation is hereby made available for such purpose until expended. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to furnishElect retypes, etc., of medals to be furnished exhibitors, etc. electrotypes or photographs of the medal of award of the World’s Columbian Exposition, to exhibitors to whom medal has been awarded, at the expense and cost of such exhibitors, and also to furnish the same to newspapers and periodicals for publication, provided the publishers to 929 whom the electrotypes or photographs are furnished pay the expenses thereof, but that no electrotypes or photographs shall be furnished to any persons except those to whom medal has been awarded and to newspapers and periodicals paying for the same, and any other person printing facsimiles of said electrotypes or photographs of said medals shall be liable to the penalty prescribed by Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight,Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc. and salary of superintendent, counters, messengers, and watchmen, sixty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: ForPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to lease and provide accommodationsColumbus, Ohio.Internal-revenue office. for the office of the internal revenue service at Columbus, Ohio, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentExpenses of fiscal agents, etc. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection,[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3653/p719). safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silverTransporting silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, fifty-five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight goldRecoinage gold coins. coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/t/s3512/p696). twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, five thousand dollars. Recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coins: For recoinageRecoinage silver coins. of the incurrent fractional silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars. Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins:Recoinage, etc., minor coins. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States mint at Philadelphia, for cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in, or which may be hereafter received at, the subtreasury offices, in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the expense of transportation for such reissue. And the Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to recoin any and all the uncurrent minor coins now in the Treasury. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,United States securities.Paper, etc. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, sixty-five thousand dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: ForSealing and separating. materials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, 930 manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, expressDistinctive paper, etc. charges, and other expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Witness, destruction. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper:Canceling, etc. For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plate. dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each: distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, including the temporary post-office building to be erected in Chicago, Illinois, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for publicInspector of furniture, etc. buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of same and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals and the temporary post-office building to be erected at Chicago, Illinois, included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used, as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not: *Proviso*.Furniture, Chicago.*Provided*, That the furniture now used in the Government offices in the old custom house building at Chicago, Illinois, shall be, so far as practicable, transferred to and used by the Government officials in the temporary post office building to be erected at Chicago, Illinois, as soon as the said building shall be ready for occupancy. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel,lights,Fuel, lights, and water. water, electric current tor light and power purposes, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required for the use of the janitors, firemen, or engineers, in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, marine hospitals, and the temporary post-office building to be erected at Chicago, Illinois, included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia, under the control of the Treasury Department, shall include the rental or use of any gas governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by the Secretary of 931 the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum*Proviso*.Gas governor, etc. shall be paid for such rental or use of such gas governor, gas purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including four thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven[R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/t/s4718/919). hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.Witnesses. of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpœnaed 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 for “fees of witnesses, United States courts.” Mint Building at Denver, Colorado: For purchase of site andDenver, Colo., coinage mint.*Ante*, p. 673. commencement of building at Denver, Colorado, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the completion of said building at a cost, including site therefor, heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, elevators, and approaches complete, not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars. Lands and other property or the United States: For custody,Lands, etc. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. For a proper survey of thirty-two thousand acres, more or less, inSurvey of lands in North Carolina. southwestern part of North Carolina, conveyed to the United States in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in compromise of an indebtedness due to the United States from E. B. Olmsted, formerly disbursing clerk of the Post-Office Department, one thousand dollars in addition to the sum of one thousand dollars appropriated by the sundry civil Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,*Ante*, p. 396. which sum, together with the amount hereby appropriated, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in making said survey; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ such persons and to pay for such services as in his judgment may be necessary and proper for the making of such survey. Publication op Supplement to Revised Statutes: To enableSupplement to Revised Statutes.Payment to William A. Richardson. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay William A. Richardson, when the work shall be completed, for preparing and editing a Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the third session of the Fifty-third Congress, under the Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu op moieties: For compensation in lien ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying theLocal appraisers meetings. necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, eight hundred dollars. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcementAlien con tract-labor laws. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration 932 of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred thousand dollars. Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To preventChines 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 tor 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 coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” one hundred thousand dollars. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaskan seal fisheries.Agents’ salaries, etc. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows; For one agent, three thousand six hundred and titty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each: necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, andFood to natives. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska under the directionSalmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, four thousand dollars. And the Investigation of wanton killing of game, etc.Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to order investigations and reports by the inspector for the salmon fisheries in Alaska of the alleged taking and destruction of the eggs of game wild fowl in said Territory, as well also as to the alleged wanton destruction of game birds, deer, fox, and other animals, and also the advisability of adopting suitable regulations as to close seasons as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent such destruction in future. For publishing the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheriesPublishing proclamation.Vol. 25, p. 1009. of Bering Sea, and for protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “to provide for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses of carrying out lease of and protecting seal life on islands of Saint [R. S., sees. 1959, 1971, pp. 344, 346](/us/rs/t/s1959/1971/pp344/346).Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sections nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one, Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expenses ofFur-sealing log books, etc.*Ante*, p. 54. enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand five hundred dollars. Payments on account of the Ford Theater Disaster: ForFord Theater dis aster.Payment to heirs of persons killed.*Ante*, p. 392. payment to the heirs and legal representatives of those who were killed by reason of the falling of the Ford Theater building on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which sum there shall be paid to the legal or personal representatives of each of the following persons the sum of five thousand dollars: George Q. Allen, George Michael Arnold. Samuel P. Banes. John Bussius, John B. Chapin, Jeremiah Daly, Joseph R. Fagan, Joseph Barker Gage, David Clark Jordan, Justus Boyd Jones, Frederick B. Loftus, Jay Hirst McFall, Otto F. W. Metier, Howard 8. Miller, Benjamin Franklin Miller. Burrows Nelson, Emanuel G. Shull, Frank M. Williams, Alfred L. Ames, Arthur Napoleon Girault, Michael T. Mulledey, George W. Roby, John T. Reynolds, *Proviso*.Distribution.George C. Bollinger, and Charles Best Sayers: *Provided*, That where the deceased died leaving a widow but no children the five thousand dollars shall be paid her; where the deceased left a widow and children, the widow shall receive one-half and the children shall share alike; and 933 where the deceased was unmarried, the sum shall be paid to the personal representatives tor the benefit of the next of kin. Payment to executors of Francis Wharton: To pay theFrancis Wharton.Payment to executors of. executors of Francis Wharton, being balance due his estate tor services rendered in preparing the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, under a Joint Resolution of Congress approved AugustVol. 25, p. 629 thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, providing for the printing of a supplement of Wharton’s Digest of International Law, seven thousand live hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations for theLead ores.Assaying imported. sampling and assaying of lead ores imported into the United States, and such regulations shall provide that the method of sampling and assaying such ores shall be the same as that usually adopted for commercial purposes by public sampling works in the United States: and he is authorized to incur the necessary expense out of the appropriation for the collection of the revenue from customs: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Sampling works. part of the expense herein authorized and directed shall be incurred for the erection of sampling works by the United States. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedJames D. McBride.Impressions of en graving to be furnished. and directed to furnish General James D. McBride, on his written requests from time to time as may be required, impressions on lithographic transfer paper, from the following, engravings: The signers of the Declaration of Independence, and portraits of the Presidents of the United States; and that the said McBride be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted to print the vignette of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in connection with bis historical publication (which he is now ready to issue), entitled, “Important. Periods in the History of the United States,” and also to print said portraits in a group under the following title: “The Portraits of the Presidents of the United States:” *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be*Proviso*.Condition. construed as authorizing the said McBride to print, or cause to be printed, copies of said engravings in any other manner than herein-before specified; and the cost and expense thereof shall be paid by said McBride. That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize and provide for the dispositionDisposal of useless papers.Vol. 25, p. 672.Extension of provisions. of useless papers in the Executive Department,” approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to include in its provisions any accumulation of tiles of papers of a like character therein described now or hereafter in the various public buildings under the control of the several Executive Departments of the Government. Bounty on sugar: That there shall be paid by the Secretary of theBounty on sugar.Payment on production prior to August 28, 1894. Treasury to those producers and manufacturers of sugar in the United States from maple sap, beets, sorghum, or sugar cane grown or produced within the United States, who complied with the provisions of the bounty law as contained in Schedule E of the tariff Act of OctoberVol. 26, p. 583. first, eighteen hundred and ninety, a bounty of two cents a pound on all sugars testing not less than ninety degrees by the polariscope, and one and three-fourths cents a pound on all sugars testing less than ninety and not less than eighty degrees by the polariscope, manufactured and produced by them previous to the twenty-eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and upon which no bounty has previously been paid; and for this purpose the sum of two hundred and thirty-eight thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eight cents is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That there shall be paid to those producers who complied with thePayment on production from August 28, 1894, to June 30, 1895. provisions of the bounty law as contained in Schedule E of the tariff Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, by filing the notice, application for license, and bond therein required, prior to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and who would have been entitled to receive a license as provided for in said Act, a bounty of eight-tenths 934 of a cent per pound on the sugars actually manufactured and produced in the United States testing not less than eighty degrees by the polariscope, from beets, sorghum, or sugar cane grown or produced within the United States during that part of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred anti ninety-five, comprised in the period commencing August twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety five, both days inclusive; and for this purpose the sum of five million dollars, or so *Proviso*.Restriction.much thereof as maybe necessary, is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That no bounty shall be paid to any person engaged hi refining sugars which have been imported into the United States, or produced in the United States, upon which the bounty herein provided has already been paid or applied for. The bounty herein authorized to be paid shall be paid upon the presentationProofs to be preseated. of such proof of manufacture and production as shall be required in each case by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. And for the payment of such bounty the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment. is authorized to draw warrants on the Treasurer of the United States for sums as shall be necessary, which sums shall be certified to him by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by whom the bounty shall be Limit.disbursed, and no bounty shall be allowed or paid to any person as aforesaid upon any quantity of sugar less than five hundred pounds. For examination of claims and ascertaining the amount due and theExamination of claims. prevention of fraudulent claims for said bounty, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is hereby authorized to employ two internal-revenue agents, in addition to those already provided for, and upon the same terms as to compensation. That any person not entitled to the bounty herein provided for, whoPunishment for fraudalent claims. shall with intent to defraud apply tor or receive the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedEmile M. Blum.Allowance in accounts. and directed to allow and pay to Emile M. Blum, late United States commissioner-general to the International Exposition at Barcelona, Spain, the sum of three thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and ninety-six cents, in the adjustment of his accounts, being the amount of money by him disbursed in furthering American interests at said exposition not heretofore allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury. quarantine service.Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersMaintenance. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, South Atlantic Station (Sapelo Sound), Southport, Brunswick, Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, or Chinese plague or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil Vol. 27, p. 590.*Ante*, p. 392.appropriation Acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same: and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws 935 which may be then in force: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryProviso.Smallpox investigation. may use not exceeding nine hundred dollars of such unexpended balance for the experimental investigation of the treatment and prevention of smallpox in the laboratory of the Marine-Hospital Service, to be immediately available. District of Columbia: For the salaries of the surveyor andSurveyor, D. C.Salaries, etc. assistant surveyor of the District of Columbia and for such employees as may be required in accordance with the provisions of the Act of*Ante*, p. 689. Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, including for surveying instruments and implements for the surveyor’s office, drawing material, stationery, copying and binding plats and records, and necessary transportation, in all, ten thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs. Interior Department and Pension buildings, five thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, twenty-five thousand dollars. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, one thousand five hundred dollars. Senate Wing of the Capitol: For repaving sub-basement floor,Senate wing. rebuilding horizontal smoke flue from boilers to stack, and repairing and rearranging the Senate legislative electric bells service, repairing and enlarging hot well under boiler room and other work appertaining to same, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house and Senate and House stables, five hundred dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For purchase of the electricLighting Capitol and grounds.Purchase, etc., of electric light plant. lighting plant in the Senate wing, ten thousand dollars; for repairs and extension of the same and of the electric lighting plant in the House wing, to meet the present requirements of the service, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to have the electric plant, wiring, and fixtures put in place during the ensuing recess of Congress, under the direction of the Committee on Rules, in accordance with the plan adopted by said committee; for lighting the Capitol and grounds aboutLighting, etc. the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas titters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand dollars. The Architect of the Capitol, with theArrange m e n t for electric lights for one year. approval of the Committee on Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives, is hereby authorized and directed to arrange, for not exceeding one year, with any existing electric lighting company in the city of Washington to furnish electric current for the Capitol building at a rate not to exceed one-half a cent per hour of burning of a nominal sixteen-candle power incandescent lamp, or an equivalent thereof; and the Architect of the Capitol is also authorized to grant permission to said 936 electric lighting company to lay an underground conduit through the Capitol grounds in order to connect its supply mains with the Capitol building with a view to furnishing current to the electric lights in said building, no expense to be chargeable to the Government for laying such conduit or mains; any injury to the grounds or appurtenances caused thereby to be repaired by the said company. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForSalaries registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: ForContingent expenses, land offices. clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, three thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands,Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swampland claims. and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swampland indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp *Proviso*.Agents per diem.lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, ninety 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. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, ten thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing plats of surveys. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand dollars. Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing Transcripts from records. of records and plats, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. surveying the public lands.Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, two hundred and fiftySurveys, rates. thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and *Provisos*.Preferences.five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers, and of lands granted to the Vol. 25, p. 676.States by the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, and lines of reservations, except that the Extra rates for heart by timbered, etc. lands.Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars Exceptional difficulties.for township, and seven dollars for section lines; and incases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, 937 when the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile tor standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided*,Lands in Idaho, etc. That in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, California, Arizona, Wyoming, and Washington there may be allowed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines. And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding fifteen thousandResurveys, etc. dollars may be expended for resurveys, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be expended for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and tor examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent: and inspectingInspecting mineral lands, etc. mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. For the survey of the public lands lying within the limits of landSurvey of railroad land grants. grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and the selection therein of such lands as ace granted therefor, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of section oneVol. 24, p. 556. of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, anti for other purposes,” being chapter three hundred and seventy-six of volume twenty-four of the Statutes at Large, page five hundred and fifty-six, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and made a continuing appropriation for the Survey of lands within the limits of railroad land grants, and any money which shall be expended of such appropriation and reimbursed and paid into the Treasury is hereby reappropriated, and said sum shall remain a continuing appropriation, and so often as any part of the same shall, after being expended, be reimbursed by any railroad CompanyContinuing appropriation. as hereinafter provided, the same shall be again available for the purposes aforesaid: *Provided*, That any portion of said sum expended*Provisos*.Reimbursements. for surveying such lands shall be reimbursed by the respective companies or parties in interest for whose benefit the lands are granted, according to the provisions of the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 16, p. 395. and seventy, chapter two hundred and ninety-two, volume sixteen, pages three hundred and five and three hundred and six, and Act ofVol. 19, p. 121. July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter two hundred and forty-six of volume nineteen, page one hundred and twenty-one of the Statutes at Large, requiring “that before any lands granted to any railroad company shall be conveyed to such company or any persons entitled thereto under any of the Acts incorporating or relating to said company, unless said company is excepted by law from the payment of such cost, there shall first be paid into the Treasury of the United States the cost of surveying, selecting, and conveying the same by the said company or persons in interest”: *And provided further*,Appropriation for surveys. That whenever there shall have been reimbursed and paid into the Treasury of the United States, by the respective companies or parties in interest, any part of said appropriation expended for surveys within such grants, there shall be immediately available, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to the amount so reimbursed, and the same shall be available for the survey of the public lands lying within the limits of the railroad land grants made by Congress, until allot said lands shall have been surveyed: *Provided*, 938 That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the use,Use of regular appropriation. within the limits of any railroad land grant made by Congress, of any part of any regular appropriation for surveying the public lands: Florida excluded.*Provided*, That no part of the foregoing money shall be used for any land embraced in any grant to the State of Florida: Successors of railroad bound.*And provided further*, That the provisions of law requiring reimbursements to be made to the United States by railroad corporations claiming such grants, shall apply equally to the successors of such railroad corporations acquiring title to their lands and other property, under decree of Substituted for former provision.*Ante*, p. 395.foreclosure of any mortgage authorized by Congress. This paragraph shall be in lieu of the provision in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, providing for the survey of such lands, and the Secretary of the Interior shall report to each regular session of Congress what has been done under the foregoing provisions. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada,Survey of private land claims.Vol. 26, p. 854. and Wyoming, and in the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims, and to provide for the settlement of private land claims, in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, twenty thousand dollars. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale, of abandonedAbandoned military reservations. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Vol. 23, p. 103.Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including Casa Grande.Edwin H. Van Antwerp, Charles H. Bates.pay of a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, five thousand dollars. To pay Edwin II. Van Antwerp and Charles II. Bates, United States deputy surveyors, for surveying the west boundary of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as per contract with the Commissioner of the general Land Office, four hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty-one cents. That the governor of the State of Wyoming, subject to the approval ofFort McKinney Reservation.Selection of portion by Wyoming. the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby empowered and authorized to select and enter of the public lands contained within the boundaries of the abandoned Fort McKinney Military Reservation, in Johnson County, State of Wyoming, not exceeding in all two sections, on which are situated the buildings heretofore used for military purposes; that the lands so selected and entered, with the buildings thereon, are hereby *Proviso*.Part of grant of lands.granted and donated to the State of Wyoming; *Provided*, That the entry and selection of lands under the provisions of this Act shall be construed as being in part satisfaction of the grant of lands to the State of Wyoming for charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory Vol. 26, p. 224.institutions under the provisions of section eleven of the Act of Congress of July tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety. That the Governor of the State of Montana is hereby empowered andFort Maginnis Reservation, Mont.Portion of granted for soldiers Lome. authorized to select and enter of the public lands contained within the boundaries of the abandoned Fort Maginnis Military Reservation in Fergus County, State of Montana, which are free from any settlement or other right or claim at the date of selection, not exceeding in all two sections, on which are situated the buildings heretofore used for military purposes; that the lands and water rights so selected and entered, with the buildings thereon, are hereby granted and donated to the State of Montana for the maintenance of a soldiers’ home, or for *Proviso*.Part of grant of lands.other public purposes: *Provided*, That the entry and selection of lands in the provisions of this Act shall be construed as being in part satisfaction of the grant of lands to the State of Montana for educational, penal, and reformatory institutions, under the provisions of Section Vol. 25, p. 681.seventeen, of the Act of Congress of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “To provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, 939 Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments and to lie admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States.” That the lands in the Fort Rice Military Reservation in the State ofFort Rice Reservation.Portion of, grants to North Dakota. North Dakota, except such tracts as may be occupied by bona fide settlers, may be selected at any time within one year after the passage of tins Act by the State of North Dakota as a part of the lands granted to the State under the provisions of an Act to provide for the admissionVol. 25, p. 681. of North Dakota into the Union, approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and when said lands are selected as herein provided the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patents to be issued to the said State of North Dakota: *Provided*, That if the State*Proviso*.Restriction, etc. of North Dakota shall select said lands such selections shall embrace any land in said reservation except those hereby reserved on account of settlement, the amount so selected not to exceed the amount of land granted to said State by the said Act of admission. For continuing the work of the Commission appointed under sectionCommission to negotiate for lands of civilized Indians.Vol. 27, p. 645. sixteen of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the unexpended balance of the present appropriation, thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and the PresidentAdditional members. is hereby authorized to appoint two additional members of said Commission, who shall receive the compensation and expenses provided in said Act for members of said Commission: *Provided*, That so much of*Proviso*.Stenographer, etc., abolished. said Act as authorizes the employment of a stenographer and a Surveyor, or other assistant or agent, is hereby repealed. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey:Scientific assistants. For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For theExpenses. Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, thirteenLaborers. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, oneTopographic surveys. hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, thirty-five thousand dollars of which shall be expended west of the ninety-seventh meridian in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and the Territory of Oklahoma, and at least one third of the remainder shall be expended west of the one hundred and third meridian; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For an investigation of the coal and gold resources of Alaska, fiveAlaska, coal and gold. thousand dollars. 940 For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontologic reseaches. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical researches. United States, seven thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. thirteen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, eighteen thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States,Maps. sixty-five thousand dollars: and the Director of the Geological Survey, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to sell copies of topographical maps with text at cost and ten per centum added; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of theGauging water supply. United States, including the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, twenty thousand dollars; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, fourRent. thousand two hundred dollars; In all, tor the United States Geological Survey, lour hundred and thirty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. library of congress.Library of Congress. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to considerStone contract to be examined. and examine the terms of the contract between the United States and William H. B. Stout, Cyrus J. Hall, and Isaac S. Bangs, dated April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for furnishing stone for the Congressional Library building, which was rescinded by the Act of Congress of October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and to what extent it was executed prior to its rescission, and what payments have been made, and whether injustice and equity any sum additional to the payments is due in his judgment to said Report.contractors, and if so, itemize each sum and make report of his action at the beginning of the next Congress. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.Miscellaneous. supreme court reports. To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the UnitedSupreme Court reports. States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and sixty to one hundred and sixty-three, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of Vol. 23, p. 661.section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six hundred and eight dollars. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane. Current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: ForExpenses. support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; and not 941 exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For additional accommodations for the insane, twenty-five thousand dollars. For general repairs and improvements, thirteen thousand dollars. For special improvements, as follows: For fireproof stairs and sanitary towers for the Belief and Dawes buildings, six thousand dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb:Current expenses. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For special repairs to the buildings and for the improvement of the grounds, one thousand dollars. For additional building complete, thirty thousand dollars. howard university.Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty eight thousand five hundred dollars: For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books for library, bookcases, shelving and fixtures, three hundred dollars; For books for the library of the law department,one thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history and laboratory, two hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; For repairs of buildings, one thousand dollars; In all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. education in alaska.Education in Alaska. For the industrial and elementary education of children in the Territory of Alaska, without, reference to race, thirty thousand dollars. reindeer for alaska.Reindeer for Alaska. For support of the reindeer station at Port Clarence, Alaska, and forSupport. the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Official Register of the United States: For the preparationOfficial Register.Preparation. of the Official Register of the United States for eighteen hundred and ninety-five, including editing, proof reading, and indexing, four thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenate. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill.Machinery.Care, etc. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. 942 For extraordinary repairs of the dikes and dams of the Rock IslandRepairs, etc., water power. water power, and for repairing Moline dam wall and counterports and foundations, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, being the *Ante*, p. 400.balance of the amount authorized to be contracted for in the Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for which the sum of thirty thousand dollars was appropriated in said *Proviso*.Balance available.Act: *Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated, together with the thirty thousand dollars appropriated by said Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall remain available until expended for the objects for which appropriated, or until otherwise ordered by Congress. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:Bridge expenses.Renewing superstructure. For renewing the superstructure of the Rock Island Bridge, at RockChanges to tie made. Island, Illinois, including alterations of the masonry thereof and repairs thereto for a double track, one hundred thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War be, and ho is hereby, authorized and*Proviso*.Cost. directed to cause to be renewed and changed to a double track the superstructure of the Rock Island Bridge at Rock Island, Illinois, and to make all necessary alterations of the masonry work thereof, and Payment by railroad company.repairs thereto, as recommended by the Chief of Ordnance: *Provided, however*, That the total cost of such renewal, alterations, and repairs, shall not exceed the sum of four hundred and ninety thousand dollars, Rails, etc.and authority to contract for the whole work is hereby given: *Provided, further*, That, before any money is expended by the Government for such renewal, alterations, and repairs, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company shall secure to the United States, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, sixty per centum of the cost of such renewal, alterations, and repairs, to be paid by said railway Company upon the request of the Secretary of War as said work progresses: Sale of material, etc.*Provided, also*, That said railway company is to bear the entire cost of the sleepers and rails put down upon said bridge, and the United States shall bear the entire cost of the wagon road on said bridge: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War may sell so much of the old superstructure of said bridge as is not required in such renewal and repairs to the highest bidder, the net proceeds of the sale to be turned into the Treasury of the United States and one-half thereof shall be paid to said railway company:Bridge over canal. *Provided further*, That such portion of the old superstructure of said bridge as the Ordnance Department may require to replace an unserviceable bridge across the Bock Island water-power canal may be retained by the Secretary of War for such purpose at a fair valuation, which valuation shall not exceed the price per pound obtained for the remainder of the bridge, and one half of this valuation Use by horse power cars.shall be paid to said railway company: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War shall not. under the Act “to empower the Secretary of War to permit the establishment, under certain conditions, of a horse railway upon and over the island of Rock Island, and the bridges erected by the United States connecting the cities of Davenport and Rock Island therewith,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, permit the lower portion of said bridge to be occupied by any street railway company without paying a reasonable rent therefor. For operating and care, and preservation of Rock Island bridgesOperating expenses, etc. and viaducts, twelve thousand dollars. For protecting Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. Columbia Arsenal, Columbia, Tennessee: For inclosing arsenalColumbia, Tenn. grounds, eight thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For purchaseFrankford, Pa. or manufacture of new machinery, five thousand dollars. Indianapolis Arsenal, Indianapolis, Indiana: That the appropriations,Indianapolis, Ind. aggregating fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars, for constructing a new fence and sewers at Indianapolis 943 Arsenal, which were made in the Act making appropriations for sundry*Ante*, p. 400. civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, are hereby continued and made available until expended. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building andProving ground, Sandy Hook. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops, storehouses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: ForSpringfield, Mass. repairs and preservation of grounds and of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. For macadamizing Federal street, running between the two main inclosures of the armory, also used as a highway by the city of Springfield, but the property of the United States, three thousand dollars. Testing Machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor, and materialTesting machine, Watertown. in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, ten thousand dollars. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For necessaryWatervliet, West Troy, K. Y. fire protection, as recommended by board convened at this arsenal by Post Orders, numbered sixteen, dated May third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenalsRepair. and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty-five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows:Improvement and care.Children’s playground. For improvement of grounds north and south of Executive Mansion, five thousand dollars; and the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds shall authorize the use of a portion of the ground within the circle south of the. Executive Mansion for a children’s playground, under regulations to be prescribed by him. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lincoln Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument grounds, three thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen andOld canal, etc.*Proviso*.Expenditure. site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For repair of post-and-chain fences and high iron fences, and constructing stone coping about reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, one thousand dollars. - For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock tor nursery, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand .five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. 944 For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand live hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, two thousand five hundred dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be madeLimit for concrete pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand five hundred dollars. For cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, two hundred dollars. For expenses, including advertising, of sale of old condemned and useless property, one hundred dollars. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion, as follows:Executive Mansion.Repairs, fuel, etc. For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lampposts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds: fuel, and lights for office, office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand *Proviso*.Maximum per lamp.dollars: *Provided*, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars and fifty cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this Act: and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Governors.*Provided*, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from sevenElectric lights. posts, at thirty cents per light per night, seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes,Repair of water pipes, etc. purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. For changing route of pipe line that supplies the Capitol, incasing a portion of it in concrete, and uncovering and examining the entire line, ten thousand dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsTelegraph, Capitol. Departments, and Printing Office. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, 945 at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand live hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Statue of General W. T. Sherman: For the completion of theStatue of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. equestrian statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said statue shall not be located on the Capitol grounds. military posts.Military posts. For the construction of buildings at, And the enlargement of suchConstruction. military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided further*,*Provisos*.Post on Puget Sound. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized within his discretion to establish a military post at such point on Puget Sound as shall in his judgment best subserve the public interests: *Provided*, That six hundred and forty acres of land suitable for the purpose shallLand to be donated. be donated free of cost to the United States, or such greater quantity of land as in the opinion of the Secretary of War shall be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is herebyBismarck, N. Dak.New post. authorized, within his discretion, to establish a military post at or near the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, in place of the present post at Fort Yates, to be abandoned, as in his judgment shall best subserve the public interests: *Provided*, That a sufficient quantity of land not lessDonation of land. than six hundred and forty acres as, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, will be suitable for the purpose, shall be donated free of cost to the United States. Said post to be established only after a thoroughExamination, etc. official examination of all the sites that may be offered to the United States for the purpose above mentioned, such examination to be made by a board of three army officers to be selected by the Secretary of War outside of the military district in which such post is to be established; and said board shall report its findings in all matters to the Secretary of War for his action. Improvement and Protection of the Yellowstone National Yellowstone National Park.Park: For the improvement and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty thousand dollars. For salary of commissioner provided for in the Act to protect theCommissioner.*Ante*, p. 74. birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park and to punish crimes in said park, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars. To reimburse John W. Meldrum amount paid for completion of buildingJohn W. Meldrum. authorized to be erected in said park by section nine of the foregoing Act, three hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: To enable theChickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in accordance with existing laws, including roadwork, memorial gateway and designs therefor, maps, surveys, iron and bronze tablets, gun carriages, land the purchase of which has heretofore been authorized by law, sites for monuments in Lookout Valley, not to exceed three hundred dollars in all, foundations for State monuments, compensation of two civilian commissioners and their assistant in historical work, labor, clerical and 946 other assistance, and office expenses; in all, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Shiloh National Military Park: The commissioners appointedShiloh Military Park.*Ante*, p. 598. under the Act of Congress approved December twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to have charge, under the Secretary of War, of the affairs of the Shiloh National Military Park, shall have Office of commissioners.their office at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, or at such other point convenient to the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee, as the Secretary of War may direct; and the limit of cost of all the lands to be embraced in the said park is hereby fixed at not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. Military Reservation on Mackinac Island, Michigan: TheMackinac Island Mich.Granted to Michigan. Secretary of War is hereby authorized, on the application of the governor of Michigan, to turn over to the State of Michigan, for use as a State park, and for no other purpose, the military reservation and buildings and the lands of the national park on Mackinac Island, *Proviso*.Reversion.Michigan *Provided*, That whenever the State ceases to use the land for the purpose aforesaid it shall revert to the United States. For extending and improving the Fort Wayne Military ReservationFort Wayne. by grading the grounds, filling in the marsh along the river front, and protecting the same by a riprap of stone; for restoring the ground and constructing drains, twenty thousand dollars. For the purpose of building a hospital at Fort Meade, South Dakota,Fort Meade. S. Dak. twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. That the Secretary of War, at the request of the governor of the StateFort D. A. Russell.May set apart lands for fair grounds, Wyoming. of Wyoming, is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to select and set apart one hundred and sixty acres of land that may no longer be required for military purposes, in the Fort D. A. Russell Military Reservation, in the said State, for the use of the said State for agricultural fair and industrial exposition grounds, and for other public purposes. That the lands so set apart are hereby granted to the *Proviso*.Entries, etc.State of Wyoming: *Provided*, That the entry and selection of lands under the provisions of this Act shall be construed as being in part satisfaction of the grant of lands to the State of Wyoming for charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions under the provisions of section eleven of the Act of Congress of July tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety. ’ engineer department.Engineer Department. For continuing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:River and harbor improvements.Philadelphia. Pa. Continuing improvement, removal of Smiths Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For construction of movable dam numbered six, in the Ohio River,Ohio River, dam.*Ante*, p.355. near Beaver River, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing improvement,Galveston, Tex. one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars of which may be expended for dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the United States. For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement,Hudson River, N.Y. five hundred thousand dollars. For improving Great Kanawha River, West Virginia: Completing Great Kanawha River. W. Va.improvement, five hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred dollars. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in hisMuskingum River, Ohio. distribution, to apply so much of the funds now applicable to the care, preservation, and maintenance of the public works of the United States, as may be necessary, not exceeding two thousand five hundred Repair of wall, Zanesville.dollars, to rebuild or repair the protection wall now standing upon the ground owned by the United States at Zanesville, Ohio, on the Muskingum River, and which is a part of the public works of said river, 947 more particularly described as follows: Being stonewall on the west bank of the river, constructed by the State of Ohio as part of the public works of Ohio, and being that part of the wall about one hundred feet north of the Main Street bridge. For improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio RiverMississippi River, mouth of Ohio to Minneapolis. to the landing on the west bank below the Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, seven hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents: *Provided*, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War,*Provisos*.Movable jetties. not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this appropriation may be expended in using movable jetties or steel caissons in removing bars and improving the low-water channel of said river; Continuing improvement from the mouth of Missouri River to Minneapolis, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents: Provided, That eighty-five thousand fiveWarsaw to Quincy. hundred dollars thereof, or as much as may be necessary, shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, with a view to improving the navigation from the city of Warsaw to the city of Quincy, by preventing the water from overflowing the natural and artificial banks along the east bank of that part of said river, and deepening the channel, in accordance with the survey reported on December thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the accompanying Estimates; and also eighty-five thousand dollars thereof shall be expendedIowa bank. to commence the work, under the direction of the Secretary of War, from the mouth of Flint Creek, in Des Moines County, State of Iowa, and running along the west bank of the river to the mouth of the Iowa River, with a view to improving the navigation by preventing the water from overflowing the natural and artificial banks along that part of the river, and deepening the channel, in accordance with the survey reported on January third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the accompanying estimates; and so much thereof as may be necessary,Bay City, Wis. not to exceed one thousand dollars, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in the improvement of the channel to the harbor of Bay City, Wisconsin, at the head of Lake Pepin; in all, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving Saint Marys River at the Falls, Michigan: completingSaint Marys Falls, Mich. improvement, four hundred and eighty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. For improving channel connecting the waters of the Great LakesGreat Lakes. between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, five hundred thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: ContinuingPoint Judith, harbor of refuge. improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: CompletingCharleston, S. C. improvement, five hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Completing improvement,Savannah, Ga. eight hundred and fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Completing improvementMobile, Ala., two hundred and ninety one thousand three hundred dollars. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: ContinuingHumboldt, Cal. improvement, two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Under Mississippi River Commission: For improving MississippiMississippi River Commission.Mississippi River. River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Under Missouri River Commission: For improving Missouri RiverMissouri River Commission.Missouri River. from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River commission, surveys, permanent bench marks and gauges, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That forty thousand dollars thereof*Proviso*. 948 shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for theSioux City, Iowa. extension of the improvements for the protection of the banks of the Missouri River in front of Sioux City and on the Iowa side of the river. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized andShip canal, Puget Sound to lakes Union and Washington.*Ante*, p. 360. directed to expend, from the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars “For dredging Salmon Bay and improvement of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound, at Salmon Bay, with lakes Union and Washington, by enlarging the said waterway into a ship canal, with the necessary locks and appliances in connection therewith,” made by the “Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” received by the President August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the sum of live thousand dollars in making a definite survey and location of said improvement, and in preparing a cadastral map, showing each piece of property required to be deeded to the United States or from which a release is required, with its metes and bounds. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized toYaquina Bay, Oreg.Examination of bar.*Ante*, p.346. appoint a board, to consist of three officers of the Engineer Corps, who shall make an examination of the bar of the Yaquina Bay, in Oregon, with a view to a project for deeper water, and shall report the result of such investigation, with estimate of cost, to the next, regular session of *Proviso*.Balance.Congress: *Provided*, That the cost of said investigation, and also surveys and expenses of said board, shall be defrayed from the balance of money available of the appropriation made for improving the harbor at Yaquina Bay, in Oregon, by Act of Congress of August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, is hereby directed toSabine River, Tex.Dredging the bar.*Ante*, p. 343. use and expend in dredging and deepening the channel of the Sabine River in Texas, at and across the bar at the mouth of said river in Sabine Lake, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, to be taken from an appropriation made at the second session of the Fifty-third Congress of the United States, amounting to two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, for “Improving harbor at Sabine Pass, Texas: Continuing improvement,” by the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.” Harbor of refuge at Woods Holl, Massachusetts: ForWoods Holl, Mass.Harbor of refuge. repair of the stone pier or breakwater constituting a harbor of refuge at Woods Holl, damaged by the storm of January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for repairing, so far as may be necessary the wooden wharf upon said breakwater, five thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War in bis discretion is hereby authorized andOswego. N. Y.*Ante*, p. 340. directed, to expend, from the appropriation of thirty-seven thousand dollars for the improvement of the harbor at Oswego. New York, made by the river and harbor appropriation Act passed at the second session of the Fifty-third Congress, not to exceed eight hundred dollars for the purpose of making a survey, examination, and preparation of the Breakwater.project for the construction of an east breakwater or jetty at the mouth of the Oswego River, for the protection of the harbor and to render entrance to it easy and safe. That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, be, and he hereby is,Dunkirk. N. Y.*Ante*, p. 34O. authorized to use a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars of the appropriations for the improvement of the harbor at Dunkirk, New Surrey.York, carried in the last river and harbor Act, for a survey of said harbor, in accordance with the recommendations of the Secretary of War. For the purpose of ascertaining the feasibility, permanence, and costNicaragua Canal.Ascertaining feasibility, etc. of the construction and completion of Nicaragua Canal by the route contemplated and provided for by an Act which passed the Senate January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Vol. 25, p. 673.Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the Maritime 949 Canal Company of Nicaragua,’ approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,” twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. And a board of three engineers is hereby constituted to make the SurveyBoard of engineers to examine. and examination necessary for such ascertainment; said board to be selected and appointed by the President of the United States, oneSelection. from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, one from the Engineers of the Navy, and one from civil life; and the compensationCompensation. of the members of said board shall be fixed by the President, not to exceed five thousand dollars each, including such pay as the engineers so selected are receiving, for the time they are so employed, from the Government. And the said board, under such arrangements and regulationsDuties. as shall be made by the Secretary of State with the approval of the President of the United States, shall visit and personally inspect the route of the said canal, examine and consider the plans, profiles, sections, prisms, and specifications for its various parts, and report thereon to the President; and should they ascertain that any deviation from the general line of the proposed route is desirable, they shall so state in their findings and conclusions with regard thereto in their . report. And said board shall make their report on or before November first,Report. eighteen hundred and ninety-five; and the appropriation shall be immediately available. The foregoing appropriations for work on rivers and harbors shall be immediately available. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improvingMaintenance. national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of Superintendents.seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the workHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteenVol. 17, p. 545.Vol. 20, p. 261. hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted*Proviso*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, eight thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers. Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California:Road to Presidio, Cal. For continuing the work of improving the reservation at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, by developing and perfecting the water supply, the reclaiming of sand dunes, the planting of trees and shrubs, and construction of new roads, the erection of a permanent fence or wall on the south and east lines of the reservation, the erection of permanent, gateways, the reclamation of the marsh, and other general and much needed improvements, ten thousand dollars. 950 Battlefield of Antietam: For completing the work of locating,Antietam battlefield. preserving, and marking the lines of battle at Antietam, and for properly marking with tablets, each bearing a brief historical legend compiled without praise and without censure, the positions occupied by the several commands of the Armies of the Potomac and of Northern Virginia on that field, and for opening and improving avenues along the positions occupied by troops upon those lines, and for fencing the same, nine thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso*.Gnu carriages.Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War be. and he is hereby, authorized to supply fifty unserviceable wooden field-gun carriages, of the type used during the civil war, for the purpose of marking the positions occupied by batteries of artillery on the said field. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous. Survey of Northern and Northwestern lakes: For printingSurvey of Northern, etc., lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dollars. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. The President of the United States is authorized to appoint, immediatelyInquiry on feasibility of deep-water channel, Great Lakes to the Atlantic. after the passage of this Act, three persons, who shall have power to meet and confer with any similar committee which may be appointed by the Government of Great Britain or of the Dominion of Canada, and who shall make inquiry and report whether it is feasible to build such canals ’as shall enable vessels engaged in ocean commerce to pass to and fro between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, with an adequate and controllable supply of water for continual use; where such canals can be most conveniently located, the probable cost of the same, with estimates in detail; and if any part of the same should be built in the territory of Canada, what regulations or treaty arrangements will be necessary between the United States and Great Britain to preserve the free use of such canal to the people of this country at all times; and all necessary facts and considerations relating to the construction and future use of deep-water channels between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The persons so appointed shall serve without compensation in any form, but they shall be paid their actual Expenses.traveling and other necessary expenses, not exceeding in all ten thousand dollars, for which purpose the said sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. The President may, in his discretion, detail as one of such personsDetail. an officer of the Army or Navy. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting maps. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: ForProvidence Hospital.Support of destitute patients. the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it toGarfield Hospital, D. CMaintenance. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars. 951 Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and chargesMilitary convicts. of penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of the United States military convicts confined in them, three thousand dollars, to be expended in the current support of military convicts. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion:Official Records War of the Rebellion.Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, including the atlas of maps and plans, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordanceCivilian board.Vol. 25, p. 970. with the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication, and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, and for the purchase of stationery and for additional rent, not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, and for traveling expenses of the agent for collection of records, to be disbursed under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, not exceeding five hundred dollars, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia: To provide forArtillery School, Fort Monroe, Va. means of instruction, such as textbooks, instruments, drawing materials, and stationery, required in the courses of artillery, engineering, law, and the art and science of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas:Infantry etc., school Fort Leavenworth, Kans. For textbooks, books of reference, instruments and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesInspectors, etc. of office, fifteen thousand dollars;Vessels. For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, ten thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of one steam tug heretofore authorized by law, twelve thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For purchase or construction of one steam tug, forty-five thousandNew tug. dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available; In all, ninety thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to reimburse Colonel F. C. Ainsworth.F. C. Ainsworth.Reimbursement. Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, for such expense incurred by him in legal proceedings growing out of the Ford’s Theater disaster on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as the Secretary of War may decide to have been necessary, proper, and reasonable, four thou sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For currentDayton, Ohio.Current expenses. expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, 952 magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; for librarians and musicians; also for stationery, advertising, legal advice, and for such other expenditure as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, sixty three thousand dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissarySubsistence. clerks, porters, laborers, and orderlies employed in the subsistence department; bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, bread cutters, and butchers: the cost of all animals, fowls, and fish purchased for provisions; of all articles of food, their freight, preparation, and serving; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, three hundred thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters:Household. for bedsteads, bedding, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers at id firemen; bathhouse keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, machines, tools, materials, and appliances purchased for use under this head, and for their repair unless the repairs are made by the Home; also for all labor and material for upholstery shops, broom and soap shops, one hundred thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital. hospital stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, Hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such labor as may be necessary; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins, and materials; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs not done by the Home, fifty-three thousand nine hundred dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, two thousand dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmithsConstruction., carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone masons, quarry men, white-washers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, sixty thousand dollars; For gas house, six thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid from the appropriation for construction and repairs for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harnessmakers,Farm. farm hands, gardeners, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, hog feeders, and laborers, and for all machines, implements, tools, appliances, and materials required for such work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing and seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals and fowls purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, five hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; . For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, sixty-two thousand dollars; 953 For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand fiveTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forConstruction. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For quartermaster and commissary storehouse, four thousand dollars; For construction of a headquarters building, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, seven thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For currentTogus, Me.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and eight thousand four hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eightTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forConstruction. the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; For additional barrack, seven thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentHampton. Va.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the. Central Branch, sixty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For guardhouse, four thousand dollars; For additional barracks, twenty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm. Central Branch, thirteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For currentLeavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-eight thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundredTransportation. dollars; 954 For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forConstruction. the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Brunch, twenty thousand dollars: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, eighty-three thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation.Construction. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For one additional barrack, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For main kitchen, sixteen thousand dollars; For electric plant, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For currentMarion, Ind.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the. same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, eighty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Branch, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forConstruction.*Proviso*.Condition. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For two additional barracks, forty thousand.dollars; For dining hall, twenty-five thousand dollars: For standpipe, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, four thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing,Clothing for all Branches. underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, andSalaries, etc., Board of Managers. for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; Secretary[R. S., sec. 4827, p. 936](/us/rs/t/s4827/p936). of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars: one general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, three thousand dollars; one inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant inspector-general, two thousand dollars; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; messenger service for secretary’s office, 955 fifty-two dollars; clerical services for managers, one thousand five hundred dollars; agents, two thousand four hundred dollars: for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, elevenExpenses. thousand five hundred dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all. thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars; In all, two million five hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State orState and Territorial homes. Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p. 450. and eighty-eight, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes*Proviso*.Deductions. on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of payArrears of pay. of two and three year volunteers that maybe certified to be due. by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widowsBounty. and legal heirs that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth,Additional bounty.Vol. 14, p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five thousand dollars. For payments of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation oi rations. war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourthouse, D. C. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds:Punishing violations of intercourse acts.Indian service. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, live thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution ofProsecution of crimes. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, Attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, 956 shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty-five thousand Fees of clerks.dollars. And it shall be unlawful for any clerk of any court of the United States to include in his emolument, account, or return any fee or fees not actually earned and due at the time such account or return is required by law to be made, and no fees not actually earned shall be allowed in any such account. 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 tees 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, subpaenaing 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-five thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecutionProsecuting and collecting claims. and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Traveling expenses. Territory of Alaska: For the actualAlaska.Traveling expenses. and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: ForRent, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries andDefense in Indian depredation claims. expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, thirty thousand dollars. Indian Territory: For expenses of judge, Indian Territory, holdingJudge, Indian Territory court at places other than at Muscogee, six hundred dollars. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States Courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying theExpenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the court in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States, and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of the fees and expenses of the United States marshalsMarshals, fees, etc.*Proviso.*Accounts. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way. the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, [R. S., sec. 856, p. 161](/us/rs/t/s856/p161).only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes. The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorizedD. T. Guyton.Allowance for special deputies. and directed to settle the accounts of D. T. Guyton, United States marshal for the northern district of Mississippi, for the amounts paid by him to special deputies who.failed to take the oath of office required by section seven hundred and eighty-two of the Revised Statutes, in the same manner such settlements would have been made had such deputies complied with the provisions of said section. 957 For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being inDistrict attorneys’ fees. payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and titty thousand dollars. For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment ofSpecial compensation. such special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney General for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneysSpecial assistants. employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees.Commissioners’ fees, etc. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, six hundred thousand dollars.Juror’s fees.Witnesses’ fees.Military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Changed to United States penitentiary, and transferred to Department of Justice. For fees of witnesses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, including all the buildings, grounds, and other property connected therewith, is hereby transferred from the Department of War to the Department of Justice, to be known as the United States Penitentiary, and to be used for the confinement of persons convicted in the United States courts of crimes against the United States and sentenced to imprisonment in a penitentiary, or convicted by courts-martial of offenses now punishable by confinement in a penitentiary’ and sentenced to terms of imprisonment of more than one year; and the Attorney-General is hereby directed to transfer to the said United States Penitentiary such persons now undergoing sentences of confinement, imposed by the United States courts, in State prisons and penitentiaries, as can be conveniently accommodated at the same penitentiary: *Provided*, That the said United States*Proviso*.Operation.Vol. 26, p. 839. Penitentiary shall be carried on in accordance with the provisions of sections four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: *Provided further*, ThatTemporary warden, etc. the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, upon the request of the Attorney-General, to detail an officer of the Army to act temporarily as warden of the said penitentiary, and to continue the military guard on duty thereat for such length of time, not exceeding ninety days, after the close of the current fiscal year, as may be deemed necessary to enable the prisoners and property to be transferred to the care and custody of the officers designated by the Attorney-General to receive and care for the same: *And provided further*, That convicts in saidManufactures limited. United States Penitentiary shall be employed only in the manufacture of articles and the production of supplies for said penitentiary, and in the manufacture of supplies for the Government, and said convicts shall not be worked outside of Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisons ere. 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, four hundred thousand dollars. And of the sum hereby appropriated, not exceeding one hundredUnited States Penitentiary. and twenty-five thousand dollars may be used for subsistence of convicts and for general maintenance of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including subsistence, tobacco, forage, and hay for bedding, stationery, medical supplies, fuel, and general supplies, transportation of prisoners, pay of warden, deputy warden, inspector, deputy inspectors, superintendent, and foremen of industries, surgeon, chaplain, apothecary, watchmen, clerks, bookkeeper, engineer, assistant engineer, and teamsters: *Provided*, That for the fiscal year eighteen*Proviso*.Estimates. hundred and ninety-seven, and annually thereafter, the Attorney-general shall submit estimates in detail for all expenses of maintaining 958 said penitentiary, including salaries of all necessary officers and employees therefor. Jail building at Guthrie, Oklahoma: For purchase of theGuthrie, Okla.Purchase of jail. building and ground now used and occupied as a jail at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, five thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For rent of United States court rooms, fifty thousand dollars.Rent.Bailiffs etc.*Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/t/s715/p136). For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Pro-ruled*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: Vacation.*And provided further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; 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, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation,under the directionStatement of appropriations. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the third session of the Fifty-third Vol. 25, p. 587.Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. And of the statements required to be prepared by said Act of October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, there shall be printed, after the close of each regular session of Congress, the usual number of copies. The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to make, requisition uponBinding for Senate Library. the Public Printer for the binding for the Senate library of such books as he may deem necessary at a cost not to exceed two hundred dollars per year. For rent of warehouse for the storage of public documents formerlyStorage of documents. in the Maltby Building, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For two thousand two hundred galvanized iron tile holders for theSenate document room. Senate document room, eight hundred and eighty dollars. For repairs of Maltby Building, two thousand dollars.Maltby Building.E. T. Cressey.Services. For pay of E. T. Cressey for preparing a catalogue of the books contained in the Senate library under the direction of Anson G. McCook, former Secretary of the Senate, one thousand dollars. To pay for the work done in preparing and completing the documentIndex to documents. index of the Fifty-third Congress, by Alonzo W. Church, one thousand dollars. To pay to Henry Talbott for extra services to the Committee onHenry Talbott.Services. Finance of the Senate during the consideration and debate on the tariff bill, two thousand dollars. 959 building foe the library of congress.Library of Congress. For continuing the construction of the building for the Library ofContinuing construction. Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, nine hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That while the officer inProvisos.Pay of officer in charge. charge of said building is engaged upon works of construction confided to him by authority of Congress, his pay and allowances shall be the same as for officers of his grade on the active list:*Provided*, That theTunnel to be built.Ante. p. 419. officer in charge lie, anti he is hereby, authorized to construct, with the moneys appropriated for the said building, a tunnel, with suitable conveying apparatus for the rapid transmission of books, papers, and messages, between the said Library building and the Capitol, the terminal of said apparatus in the Capitol to occupy the room in rear of that now occupied by the House Committee on Enrolled Bills. botanic garden.Botanic Garden. For new roof on packing shed, workshop, and stable; metallic gutteringRepairs, etc. for main conservatory; extending and repairs to concrete walk; steam boiler and repairs to heating apparatus; carpenter work, lumber, painting, and glazing, and for general repairs to buildings under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including the compensation of the foreman of printing, which shallForeman of printing.*Ante*, p. 607. hereafter be at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and for rents and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million six hundred and twenty-eightAmount. thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings andAllotment of appropriation. debates, and for rents, one million four hundred and sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, eighteen thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Consular reports. That hereafter the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to print of each issue of consular reports an edition not exceeding seven thousand copies. For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the War Department, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, seventy thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. 960 For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, two hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks and for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, and binding scientific books and pamphlets, presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twelve thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, and for printing advanced copies of papers on *Proviso*.Report on minerals.economic resources, seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the report of the mineral resources of the United States shall be issued as a part of the report of the Director of the Geological Survey, and printed for each preceding calendar year as soon as compiled and transmitted for publication, and that the separate chapters on any given mineral product, such as iron, coal, building stone, and so forth, shall be printed as rapidly as transmitted for publication; that a pamphlet edition of any chapter shall be printed for distribution on the request of the Director of the Geological Survey, approved by Secretary of the Interior, the size of the edition to be controlled by the importance of the mineral treated; that hereafter papers for the Director’s annual report that are of a strictly economic character shall be issued in pamphlet form, in the same manner as prescribed above for the report on the mineral resources; that the entire cost of paper, printing, and binding of all of the above provided for pamphlets shall not exceed two thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, ten thousand dollars; For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty *Proviso*.Monographs and bulletins.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter three thou sand copies of the monographs and bulletins of the Geological Survey shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the cost of paper, printing, and binding, and ten per centum thereof added. For the Department of Justice, nine thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Labor, seven thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand dollars. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, twelve thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriatedDivision of appropriation. shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition‘thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for *Proviso*.Amount for Agricultural report, immediately available, etc.preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary, for printing and binding the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be immediately available and shall not be included in said allotments. For printing and binding the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture,*Ante*, p. 612. as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety live, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 961 That nothing in the second provision of section ninety-nine of theCommittees of Congress.Printing for.*Ante*, p. 624. Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be held to contravene the orders of either House of Congress authorizing printing for the use of committees, as to the number of copies or otherwise: *Provided*, That there shall not be printed,Proviso.Hearings, etc. under such orders, for the use of any committee, any bearing or other document costing in excess of five hundred 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, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That all appropriations made and to be made for the fiscal yearsAppropriations for printing considered under Government Printing Office.*Ante*, p. 601. eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in so far as the same are affected by the provisions of the Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and which are not expressly appropriated under the Government Printing Office, except for the two Houses of Congress, their committees, and officers, shall be considered as so appropriated and available thereunder, to the extent that the same may be required or contemplated by the said Act. And it shall be the duty of the Public PrinterEstimates by Public Printer. to submit to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session, Estimates in detail under the head of Printing and binding for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and annually thereafter, covering appropriations requisite for all work to be done and services to be rendered under his direction by the provisions of the said Act and not previously required of him; and of the details of all such estimates, he shall notify the heads of the Executive DepartmentsNotification to Departments. and other Government establishments affected thereby, within such time as will enable them to omit the amounts thereof from the estimates of appropriations which the,y are required to submit for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. The Public Printer, under section thirty-seven of the “Act providingAdditional printing on envelopes for documents, etc.*Ante*, p. 606. for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public Documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, may, at the request of any Senator, Representative, or Delegate in Congress, print on envelopes authorized to be furnished, in addition to the words therein named, the name of the Senator, Representative, or Delegate, and State, the date, and the topic or subject-matter, not exceeding twelve words. That nothing in the Act entitled “An Act providing for the publicSupplement to Revised Statutes.Publication continued.Vol. 27, p. 477. printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall prevent the stereotyping, printing, and distribution of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes as authorized by the Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, chapter one hundred and sixty-seven. For pay of the person designated, as required by law. by the JointMember of boards, Government Printing Office.Salary.*Ante*, p. 603. Committee on Printing, to constitute with the Chief Clerk, the Foreman of Printing, and the Foreman of Binding, the three boards, first, to examine and report in writing on all paper delivered under contract to the Government Printing Office; second, to examine and report in writing on all material except paper for the use of the bindery, and third, the board of condemnation to determine, upon the call of the Public Printer, the condition of presses and other machinery and material used in the Government Printing Office, with a view to condemnation, two thousand dollars. Government Printing-Office Building: For the constructionGovernment printing Office.Construction of building on adjoining lot. by the Chief of Engineers of a fireproof building upon the lot belonging to the United States now occupied by the stables of the Government Printing Office, according to the plan and specifications of 962 Colonel John M. Wilson, of the Engineer Corps, submitted to general Thomas L. Casey, Chief of Engineers, December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and approved by him, one hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety cents, to be immediately available and until the completion of said work. The appropriation of seventy-five thousand dollars made by theAppropriation for fire escapes, etc., continued.*Ante* p. 420. sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the repair of the Government Printing Office, to provide fire escapes, and to put the building in a safe, and secure condition, shall be available until the completion of the work. Committee on Printing of either House to serve when no joint committee exists.At any time when there is no joint committee of the two Houses of Congress the powers and duties under the law devolving upon the Joint Committee on Printing shall be exercised and performed by the Committee then in existence of either House. That whenever the President of the United States shall determineInternational monetary conference. that the United States should be represented at any international conference called with a view to secure, internationally, a fixity of relative value between gold and silver, as money, by means of a common ratio between those metals, with free mintage at such ratio, the United Nine delegates.Selection.States shall be represented at such conference by nine delegates, to be selected as follows: The President of the United States shall select three of said delegates; the Senate shall select three Members of the Senate as delegates; and the Speaker of the present House of Representatives shall select three Members of the House of Representatives Vacancies.of the Fifty-fourth Congress as delegates. If at any time there shall be any vacancy such vacancy shall be filled by the President of the Compensation.United States. And for the compensation of said delegates, together with all reasonable expenses connected therewith, to be approved by Appropriation for expenses.the Secretary of State, including the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expenses of such conference, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. Sec. 3. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officersSums for salaries to be in full.Repeal. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety six; and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 2, 1895.
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