Chapter 3. Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3.— An Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.December 21, 1893. *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 be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Mints and assay offices: For freight on bullion and coin, by registeredMints and assay offices.Freight. mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, live thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentIndependent Treasury.Contingent expenses.[R. S. sec. 3663, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3663/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. 17 To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryUnited States Express Company. to the United States Express Company from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and one dollars and one cent.
Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin,Transporting silver coin. by registered mail or otherwise, forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or*Proviso*.Deposits. currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Customs service: To defray the expenses of collecting t he revenueCollecting customs revenue. from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five hundred thousand dollars. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, and water, public buildings. lights, water, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal service, for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, forty thousand dollars.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine stations.Maintenance. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Cape Charles, South Atlantic (Sapilo Sound), Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, forty thousand dollars.
UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES.Fish Commission. For supporting roof, strengthening of floors, and general repairs toRepairs to Armory building. the so-called Armory building, now occupied jointly by the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries and United States National Museum, including reconstructing elevator, and for standpipes and fire escapes, the work to be done under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol, seven thousand one hundred dollars.
That the. appropriation made by the Act approved August fifth, eighteenHatchery, Lake County, Colo.Purchase of water rights.Vol. 27, p. 361. hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes,” for the introduction of a water supply to the station of the United States Fish Commission, Lake County, Colorado, be, and is hereby, made available for the purchase of such properties adjacent to said station, and the water and other rights appertaining to the same as will vest in the United States the practical control of the water supply of Rock Creek, as also for any further expenditures connected with the introduction of said water supply.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. To repair the roof of the east wing of the Interior DepartmentRepairs to building. building the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend such a sum as may be necessary, not to exceed one thousand dollars, from the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteenVol. 27, p. 707. hundred and ninety-four, for contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior, and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department. 18 pension office.Pension Office.
For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outsideSpecial examiner’ per diem. the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, two hundred Proviso.Pensions not to be suspended without notice, etc.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any pension heretofore or that may hereafter be granted to any applicant therefor under any law of the United States authorizing the granting and payment of pensions, on application made and adjudicated upon, shall be deemed and held by all officers of the United States to be a vested right in the grantee to that extent that payment thereof shall not be withheld or suspended until, after due notice to the grantee of not less than than thirty days, the Commissioner of Pensions, after hearing all the evidence, shall decide to annul, vacate, modify, or set aside the decision upon which such pension was granted.
Such notice to grantee must contain a full Charges to be furnished pensioner.and true statement of any charges or allegations upon which such decision granting such pension shall be sought to be in any manner disturbed or modified. public land service.Public lands. For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the several landContingent expenses. offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. To meet the expenses during the remainder of the current fiscal yearTimber depredations; protecting lands; swamp land claims. 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 lands, and indemnity for swamp *Proviso*.Agents’ per diem, etc.lands, forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation.
For per diem, in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks detailedPer diem, etc., inspectors. to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct; also, of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, four thousand dollars. eleventh census.Eleventh Census.
For salaries, rents, and necessary expenses in continuing the workExpenses. of compiling the results of the Eleventh Census, to continue available until exhausted, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For maintenance of the small printing office allowed by law for usePrinting office. in the Eleventh Census, to continue available until exhausted, live thousand dollars. For the payment of bills already contracted for printing, engraving,Printing, etc. and binding for the Eleventh Census, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing ofContingent expenses. animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand dollars. 19 For fees and expenses in suits against Benjandn Weil and La AbraWeil and La Abra claims. Mining Company, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of litigation in ease of the United States againstCherokee claims. Thomas and others, in the interest of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina, five thousand dollars.
For the deficiency in the compensation of the assistant attorney-generalAssistant Attorneys General, Indian depredation claims.Salary increased. charged with the defense of Indian depredation claims, which compensation shall hereafter he the same as that of the other assistant attorneys-general in the Department of Justice, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the following expenses of the court of appeals of the DistrictCourt of appeals, D.
C.Officers of court. of Columbia, namely: For compensation of crier from May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, one thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents; for messenger from May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eight hundred anti forty dollars; for clerical assistance and necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents, one-half of which sum shall be. paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.One-half from District revenues. public printing and binding.Public Printing.
For public printingCongress. and 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, including the salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for fill the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Public Printer to continue operations under the JointStoring documents, etc.Vol. 22, p. 637. Resolution approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the removal and Storage of certain property of the (government mentioned therein, three thousand dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. To pay all session employees of the House of Representatives authorizedSession employees.Vol. 27. p. 675. by the Act making appropriation for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to the end of the present session of Congress, thirteen thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents.
For mileage of members of the House of Representatives and DelegatesMileage, Members. from Territories, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, for the second session of the Fifty-third Congress. For mileage of Senators for the second session of the Fifty-third Congress,Mileage, Senators. forty-five thousand dollars. For stationery for members of the House of Representatives andStationery, Members. Delegates from Territories, for the first session of the Fifty-third Congress, forty-five thousand dollars.
For stationery for Senators, for the first session of the Fifty-thirdStationery, Senators. Congress, eleven thousand dollars. For stationery for members and for use of the committees and officersStationery, House. of the House of Representatives, one thousand five hundred dollars. For materials for folding, five thousand dollars.Folding material.Furniture, etc. For furniture, and repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. twenty-eight thousand dollars. 20 To pay W, Tyler Page for clerical services under the Clerk of theW.
Tyler Page. House in the months of October and November, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofOne month’s pay to employees, Senate and House. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House, borne on the annual and session rolls on the third day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the Capitol police and official reporters of the Senate and House, for extra services during the Fifty-third Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available.
To pay Joel Grayson for services rendered in the Document RoomJoel Grayson.Payment to. since December fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety three, and to continue him in said service until and including December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, at seventy-five dollars per month, nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents. Approved, December 21, 1893.