Chapter 21. To provide for further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 21.— An Act To provide for further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.April 21, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety four, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting and other crimes. 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 arid 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, and for no other purpose whatever, ten thousand dollars:*Proviso*.Not to be used for witness fees *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpaend by the United States courts to attend any 59 trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses will be paid from the appropriation for “fees of witnesses, United States courts.” engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees other than plateClerks and employees. printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixty-two thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents: *Provided*, That no portionProviso.Largo notes. of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWage. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, seventy-two thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-two cents: *Provided,*, *Proviso*.Large note.That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes of a larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand and forty dollars and twenty-seven cents. mints and assay offices.Mints And assay offices. For wages of workmen and adjusters to be used in the discretion ofWage. the Secretary of the Treasury, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. That the appropriation of eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-eightRepairs, Ford’s Theater.Appropriation continued.*Ante*, p. 42. dollars, made for the repair of the old Ford’s Theater building by the Act approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is made available for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
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 crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, two thousandSteamer “Nimrod.” dollars, NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. To replace steam engineering stores destroyed by fire in the storehouseReplacing destroyed store. building numbered fifteen, in the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at the navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, forty thousand dollars.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. Postage to Postal Union Countries: For postage stamps toPostage. prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, eight thousand 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, one thousand dollars. 60 Public Land Service:
That all of the traveling and incidentalPublic lands.Expense opening Cherokee Outlet. expenses of the clerks detailed from the General Land Office to assist in the opening of the Cherokee Outlet, in Oklahoma Territory, shall be paid from the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for clerk hire, rent, *Ante*, p. 18.and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, appropriated by deficiency Act approved December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. ELEVENTH CENSUS.Eleventh Census.
The Commissioner of Labor in charge of the Eleventh Census isAbstract to be prepared. hereby directed to prepare forthwith an abstract giving the state and *Post*, p. 440.other totals of the main facts collected at the Eleventh Census, with comparative data, which abstract shall not exceed two hundred and fifty octavo pages, and shall be printed at the Government Printing Office, and be ready for distribution on or before the first day of August Distribution.next. There shall be printed and bound in cloth of such abstract one hundred thousand copies, of which sixty thousand copies shall be for the use of the members of the House of Representatives; thirty thousand copies for the use of the members of the Senate; seven thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Department of the Interior, and two thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Census Office.
The provisions of section seventeen of the Act of Congress, approvedSurvivors of the war, etc.Vol. 25, p. 765.Publication of schedules repealed. March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to provide for the taking of the Eleventh and subsequent censuses,” and of subsequent Acts, relating to the publication of the names, organizations, and length of service of those who had served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and who were survivors at the time of the Eleventh Census, and of the widows of soldiers, sailors or marines at that time, are hereby repealed, and the Commissioner of Labor in charge of the Eleventh Census is Transfer to Pension Office.hereby directed to transfer to the Commissioner of Pensions, for use in the Army and Navy Survivors’ Division, the special schedules collected at the Eleventh Census containing such names, organizations and length of service.
He is also authorized to bind the report on Fish and Fisheries with Agriculture and Fisheries report to be bound together.Vol. 27. p. 473.the report on Agriculture, instead of as a separate volume, as provided tor in “An Act to provide for the publication of the Eleventh Census,” approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. The provision of the Act entitled “An act to provide for the takingAnimals nut on farms.Collection of information repealed.Vol. 27. p. 473. of the Eleventh and subsequent censuses,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the collection, from official sources, of information relating to animals not on farms, is hereby repealed.
The time provided in the Act entitled “An Act to extend the timeTime for completing work extended.*Ante*, p. 3.*Post*, p. 857. for completing the work of the Eleventh Census, and for other purposes,” approved October third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby extended from the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety four to and including the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Expenses op Territorial courts in Utah Territory:
ForUtah.Expenses Territorial court. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-five thousand dollars. 61 Defense in Indian depredation claims:
For salaries andIndian depredation claims.Expenses. expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, nine thousand dollars. expenses united states courts.United States courts. Fees OF marshals: For fees and expenses of marshals, United StatesMarshals’ fees. courts, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fees of jurors: For fees of jurors, United States courts, fiftyJurors’ fees. thousand dollars. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses, United States courts,Witnesses’ fees. two hundred thousand dollars. .
District attorneys: For fees of United States district attorneys,District attorneys. one hundred and one thousand dollars. For special compensation to United States district, attorneys, tenSpecial compensation. thousand dollars. For regular assistants to United States district attorneys, twenty-oneRegular assistants. thousand dollars. For special assistants to United States district attorneys, forty thousandSpecial assistants. three hundred and forty dollars, ten thousand three hundred and forty dollars of which amount shall be available for deficiencies forty years eighteen hundred and ninety-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Fees of CLERKS: For fees of clerks, United States courts, oneClerk’s fees. hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. Fees OF commissioners: For fees of commissioners, United StatesCommissioners fees. courts, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. Rent of court ROOMS: For rent of court rooms, United StatesRent. courts, forty-two thousand dollars. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,Support of prisoners. including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
PRINTING AND BINDING.Printing and binding. For printing and binding, including materials therefor, to be executed at the Government Printing Office, as follows: For the Department of State, five thousand dollars.Stale Department.Treasury Department.Department of Justice.Supreme Court. For the Department of the Treasury, sixty-one thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, one thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, two thousand dollars. SENATE.Senate.
For compensation of officers, messengers, and others in the serviceEmployees. of the Senate, thirteen thousand dollars. For materials for folding, three thousand dollars.Folding materials.Sarah B. Colquitt. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Sarah B. Colquitt, widow of the Honorable Allied II. Colquitt, deceased, late a Senator from the State of Georgia, five thousand dollars. CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.Congressional Directory. For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the CongressionalExpenses.
Directory for the second session of the Fifty-third Congress, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars. 62 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. For compensation and mileage of Members of the House of Representatives,Compensation and mileage. and Delegates from Territories on account of fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars. To pay the clerk to the Speaker’s table, for services rendered as clerkClerk at Speaker’s table. to the Committee on Rules during the first and second sessions of the Fifty-third Congress, five hundred dollars. For stationery, for Members of the House of Representatives, sevenStationery. hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous. two thousand live hundred dollars.
For furniture, and repairs of the same, one thousand five hundredFurniture. dollars. For materials for folding, ten thousand five hundred dollars.Folding materials.Clerks to Members. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay to Members and Delegates the amount which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire necessarily employed by them in the discharge of their Vol. 27. p. 757.official and representative duties, as provided in the Joint Resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-seven thousand dollars. library of congress.Library of Congress.
To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ a laborer for the careLaborer. of the library rooms containing the law books of the Library of Congress, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, seventy-five dollars. Sec. 2. That the Act entitled “An Act to amend section thirty-sevenContracts for Department supplies.*Ante*, p. 33. hundred and nine of the. Revised Statutes relating to contracts for supplies in the Departments at Washington,” approved January Provisions limited.twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the provisions thereof shall apply only to advertisements for proposals for fuel, ice, stationery, and other miscellaneous supplies to be purchased at Washington for the use of the Executive Departments and other Government establishments therein named; and Contracts, etc., not invalid.no advertisements made or contracts awarded or to be awarded thereon since January twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, in accordance with the laws in force prior to said date, shall be declared to be illegal or invalid for non-compliance with said law of January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety four.
Approved, April 21, 1894.