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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · August 18, 1894 · Chapter 301

Chapter 301. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and fir other purposes

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CHAP. 301.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and fir other purposes.August 18, 1894. *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-five, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Building for Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For two additionalEngraving and Printing Bureau. stories on old boiler house, thirty-eight thousand dollars. For post-office at Buffalo, New York: For continuation of buildingBuffalo, N. Y. under present limit, sixty-four thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Charleston, South Carolina: ForCharleton, S. C. completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.373 For public building at Clarksville, Tennessee:
The limit of cost of siteClarksville, Tenn. and buildingCost extended. is hereby extendedDavenport. Iowa. fifteen thousand dollars. For public building at Davenport, Iowa: To enable the Secretary oi the Treasury to construct all portions of the public building so as to make t he same fireproof, and also make all portions of said building two stories high, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Fort Worth, Texas: The limit of cost pf site andFort Worth, Tex. building, includingCost extended. fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches complete, is hereby extended forty thousand dollars.
That, in order to give the necessary full and free ingressPhiladelphia. and egress to the wagons carrying the United States mails into and out fromPurchase of additional land for post office. the Philadelphia post office, the Secretary of the Treasury, acting for and in behalf of the Government of the United States, is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, a certain lot or piece of ground in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, adjoining or adjacent to the Philadelphia post-office building on the west, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit:
Al) that certain lot or piece of ground late of John J. Ridgeway,Description. deceased, situate on the south side of Market street, in the Ninth ward of the said city of Philadelphia, beginning at a point on the line of said Market street where the same intersects the west side of Post-Office street, containing in front on Market street sixteen feet eight inches, and extending in length or depth of that width southwardly between parallel lines at right angles with said Market street two hundred and thirty-one and three-fourths feet, to the north side of Chant street, and for this purpose not exceeding the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
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 Buffalo, New York; post-office and courthouseBuffalo. N. Y. at Kansas City. Missouri; the courthouse, customhouse, andKansas City, Mo. post-office at Omaha, Nebraska; and the post office, courthouse, and customhouseOmaha, Nebr. at Saint Paul, Minnesota, within the respective limits of cost prescribedSaint Paul, Minn. by law for said buildings and subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress.
For post-office and courthouse at New York, New York: For generalNew York. repairs andRepairs. improvements, ninety thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Portland, Maine: For steam laundry plant,Portland, Me. one thousand dollars. For public building at Sioux City, Iowa: The limit of cost of site andSioux City, Iowa. building is herebyCost extended. extended twenty-five thousand dollars, said increase being necessary by increased cost of foundation, and the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize a contract or contracts to be entered into for the construction of any portion or the whole of said building, subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress.
For public building at Topeka, Kansas: For the construction of anTopeka, Kans. elevator, including new steam boiler, eight thousand dollars. For post office at Worcester, Massachusetts: For continuing 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia:
ForTreasury buildings. repairs to Treasury, .Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, marine-hospitals, 374 quarantine, stations, and other public buildings under control of Treasury Department, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used for the marine*Proviso*. Superintendents, etc. 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.
Heating apparatus foe 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. 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. light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.Lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.
Boston Harbor Light-Ship, Massachusetts: For constructing, equipping,Boston Harbor, Mass. and outfitting, completeLight-ship. for service, a first-class steam light-vessel with a steam fog signal, thirty-five thousand dollars, and the total cost of said steam light vessel with a steam fog signal, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not-exceed seventy thousand dollars. Staten Island Light House Depot, New York: For continuing theStaten Island depot. construction 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.
Bridgeport Light Station, Connecticut: To complete the work on theBridgeport, Conn. beacon at Bridgeport breakwater, two thousand five hundred dollars. Baltimore Light and Fog-Signal Station, Maryland: For establishingBaltimore, Md. a light and fog-signal station at or near the junction of New Cut off Channel and Craighill Channel, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, sixty thousand dollars. For Hog Island Light Station, Virginia: For completion of HogHog Island, Va. Island Light Station, on Hog Island, Great Machipaugo Inlet,seacoast of Virginia, seventy-live thousand dollars.
Grassy Point range lights, Ohio: For moving rangeGrassy Point. Ohio. lights, Maumee River, Ohio, two thousand dollars. Grassy Island Range Lights, Michigan: For completing the range lightsGrassy Island, Mich. above Grassy Island, Detroit River, Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars. Soul Choix Pointe Light and fog signal, Michigan: For beginning aSeul Choix, Mich. fog signalFog signal. at Seul Choix Point, Lake Michigan, Michigan, two thousand two hundred dollars. Seal Choix Pointe.
Light Station, Michigan: For completing theCompleting structures. structures at Seul Choix Pointe, Lake Michigan, Michigan, the Vol. 27, p. 352.appropriation by the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for moving Saint Marys River upper range lights, five thousand dollars, is made available therefor. South Boston Range Lights, Massachusetts: Establishing rangeBoston, Mass. Range lights. lights at or near Marine Park pier and City Point. Boston Harbor, one thousand dollars. 375 South Pass light-vessel:
Authority is hereby given for the establishmentSouth Pass, Mississippi River. of a Light-vessel.light-vessel*Proviso*. Trinity Shoal, discontinued off the South Pass of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico: *Provided*, That the light-vessel now established off Trinity Shoal. Gulf of Mexico, be first discontinued. Tampa Bay, Florida, additional aids to navigation: For the establishmentTampa Bay. of additional aids to navigation in Tampa Bay, Florida, in addition to the sum of six thousand dollars appropriated by the Act-approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, oneVol. 27, p. 275. thousand six hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-one cents.
Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses forOil houses. the storage of mineral oil, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil*Proviso*. Cost. house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Two Bush Island Light and Fog-Signal Station, Maine: For establishingTwo Bush Island, Me.a light and fog-signal station at Two Bush Island, west entrance to Penobscot .Bay, Maine, nineteen thousand dollars. Absecon. Absecon Inlet, New Jersey:
For the completion of the buoyAbsecon Inlet,N.J. Buoy depot. depot, one thousand two hundred dollars in addition to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by the Act approvedVol. 25, p. 509. August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Cape May, New Jersey: For the completion of the boathouse forCape May, N. J. lightships’ boats at that place, five hundred dollars in addition to the seven hundred and fifty dollars appropriated by the Act approvedVol. 25, p. 508.
October second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Salem Creek Light-Station, New Jersey: For establishing a light-stationSalem Creek,N.J. at or near the mouth of Salem Creek, southern side, New Jersey, eight hundred dollars. Mobile ship-channel lights, Alabama: For establishing additionalMobile, Ala. lightsShip channel. in the Mobile ship channel, Alabama, thirty thousand dollars, and the total cost of establishing said additional lights, under a contractContracts. which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
Chandeleur Light Station, Louisiana: For the reestablishment uponChandeleur, La. a safer site near by, the Chandeleur, Louisiana, light-station, which was wrecked on October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, by a hurricane, thirty-five thousand dollars. Sandusky Bay Range Light Station, Ohio: For moving and rebuildingSanduskv Bay, Ohio. range lights and building Keeper’s dwelling, Sandusky Bay, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars. South Bass Light-Station, Ohio: For establishing a light-station onSouth Bass Island, Ohio. or near South Bass Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
For lighting Hay Lake Channel, St. Marys River, forty-three thousandHay Lake Channel, Saint Marys River. five hundred and fifty dollars; and the lighthouse Board is hereby authorized to lease the necessary land for the sites of neededLeases, etc. lights herein provided for, and for the sites of the lights in Saint Marys River, Michigan, provided for by the Act of March third, eighteen hundredVol. 20, p. 954. and ninety-one, pending the acquisition of the. titles in accordance with sections three hundred and thirty-five and forty-six hundredR.S., secs. 335, 4661, pp. 56,907. and sixty-one, United States Revised Statutes, or where such lights are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels.
Pere Marquette Fog Signal, Michigan: For establishing a steam fogPere Marquette, Mich. signal at or near Pere Marquette light station, Ludington, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. Big Bay Point Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan: For establishingBig Bay Point, Mich. a light and fog signal at or near Big Bay Point, Lake Superior, Michigan, twenty five thousand dollars. Forty-Mile Point Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan: ForForty-Mile Point, Mich. establishing a light and steam fog signal in the vicinity of Hammonds Bay. about halfway between Cheboygan and Presqu’ile lights, Lake Huron, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. 376 Round Island Light and Fog Signal Station, Michigan:
For theRound Island,Mich. establishment of a light and steam fog signal at Round Island, Lake Huron, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. Devils Island Light-Station, Wisconsin: To enable full payment toDevils Island, Wis. Costs, etc., of title. be made of the amount of the award, taxed costs, and clerk’s fees in the matter of obtaining title by proceedings in condemnation to Devils Island, Apostle Group, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, required as a site for said light station, two hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-four cents.
Willamette River Light and Fog-Signal Station, Oregon: For establishingWillamette River, Oreg. a light and fog-signal station at or near the mouth of the Willamette River, Oregon, six thousand dollars. Umpqua River Light Station, Oregon; For completing UmpquaUmpqua River, Oreg. River Light Station, Oregon, two thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars. That fifteen thousand five hundred dollars of the remaining balanceCape Arago, Oreg. Balance from Coquille River light available.
Vol. 26, p. 955 of the sum appropriated by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the establishment of a light and fog signal at the mouth of the Coquille River, Oregon, be used in the erection of light keepers’ dwellings and a fog signal at the Cape Arago light station. North Head Light-Station, Washington: Toward establishing a first orderCape Disappointment, Wash. light on North Head, Cape Disappointment, seacoast of Washington, twenty five thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light station, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. lighthouse establishment.lighthouse establishment.
Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying fog signals, lighthouses,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 lighthouse Board, and other incidental expenses, *Proviso*. Free entry of lenses.three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That lenses and lens glass for the use of the lighthouse Establishment may be imported free of duty.
Repairs of lighthouses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. lighthouses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pier-head 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, rations,Keepers’ salaries. rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand two hundred and fifty lighthouse and fog-signal keepers, and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and eighty 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 fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys, spindles, and day beacons and for incidental expenses relating thereto, three hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars. 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 lighthouse Board, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, and for the apprehension of those who damage lighthouse property, two thousand five hundred dollars. 377 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 Chicott 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 arc used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be. made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of lighthouse 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. lifesaving 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 five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand eight 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 eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight 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 five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and fifty-three keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, including the old Chicago station, two hundred and twenty thousand five 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 378of 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, Miscellaneous.newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million and eighty-nine thousand and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For establishing new life saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty 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 *Proviso*. Cadets’ pay.the same: *Provided*, That on and after the passage of this Act the pay of cadets in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall be five hundred dollars per annum and one ration per day, in lieu of the rates at present Vol. 19, p. 107.authorized by law, chapter two hundred and forty-six, paragraph four, Act July thirty first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, 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;
Seal fisheries.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 New York Harbor. Vol. 25, p. 151.of law in Alaska; to carry into effect the provisions of “An Act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York,” approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For maintenance of a refuge station at or near Point Barrow, Alaska,Point Barrow, Alaska, refuge station. on the Arctic Ocean, four thousand dollars. For constructing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the directionSteamer for New England coast. of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the New England coast, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contract for building said vessel, in terms not to exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, in *Ante*, p. 4.accordance with the provisions of an Act approved October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three;
For constructing a-revenue steamer of the first class, under the directionSteamer for Great Lakes. of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Great. Lakes, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contract for building said vessel, in terms not to exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, in accordance *Ante*, p. 6.with the provisions of an Act approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. 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 379 printers’ assistants, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing*Proviso*. Large notes. 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 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, four hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.
Large notes. for printing United States notes of a larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired. For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctive paper,Materials, etc. and for miscellaneous expenses one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation herein for*Proviso*. engraving and printing shall be held to be contingent expenses underNot contingent expenses. sections two hundred and forty and thirty six hundred and eighty-threeR. $., aces. 240, 3683, pp. 40, 723. of the Revised Statutes.
For rental of office for the agent of the Post-Office Department toOffice for stamp agent. supervise distribution of stamps by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, two hundred dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to rent suitable rooms for such office. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to theExpenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific and Alaska coasts, etc. survey of the 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 appropriates! for, of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the lighthouse 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 of money to chiefs of field parties*Proviso*.
Advances. 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 the coast of New Brunswick eastward to Point Lepreau; Grand Mauan Island; Portsmouth Harbor, and Piscataqua River; Newburyport Harbor and Merrimac River to Haverhill; Hudson River to Troy;
Bogue Inlet and interior waters along the coast of North Carolina; Cooper and Ashley rivers, South Carolina, and necessary resurveys, including Boston Harbor, Buzzards Bay, Nantucket 380 Sound, Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, coast of New Jersey from Sandy Hook to Cape May, bar and entrance to Brunswick Harbor, Saint Johns River to Jacksonville, and Fort George Inlet, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery towards Mobile; and for triangulation, topography and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, including Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, seven thousand lour hundred dollars;
To make offshore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, live thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, including offshore hydrography, and the survey of the Columbia River to the Cascades, and the resurvey of San Francisco Harbor triangulation, topography, and hydrography, fifteen thousand dollars; and the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey is hereby directed to make a survey of the Harbor of San Francisco and the water approaches thereto.
For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, and for the establishment of astronomical, longitude, and magnetic stations, eight thousand four hundred dollars; For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for Continuing tidal and current observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, ten thousand five 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 for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars;
To continue magnetic observations, including the maintenance of the Magnetic Observatory, two thousand dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels westward and southward from the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri, westward from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, eastward from San Francisco, California, eastward from Vicksburg, Mississippi, between Saint Augustine and Cedar Keys, Florida, and from the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, to Lake Erie, 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, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
For determinations of geographical positions and to continue gravity observations, three thousand five bundled dollars; For continuing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including a primary base in the vicinity of Salt Lake, and the necessary check bases, twelve thousand six-hundred dollars; For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the lighthouse Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, two thousand five hundred 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, four thousand seven hundred dollars; 381 For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for theInternational Geodetic Association. Measurement of the Earth, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much*Post*, p. 587. 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: *Provided*, That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be*Proviso*.
Payment. payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named”; and ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyInterchangeable expenditures. 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 seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs andRepairs of vessels, etc. maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Pay of field officers: For Superintendent, six thousand dollars;Pay of field officers. For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each. For one assistant, three thousand five hundred dollars; For four assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For four 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-nine thousand three hundred dollars. Pay of office force: For not exceeding the following numberPay of office force. employed in the office force at not exceeding the amounts herein stated, namely:
For one disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one general office assistant, two thousand two 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 atone thousand two hundred dollars each; For three atone thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, 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 ten 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 two at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two at one thousand dollars each; 382 For three at nine hundred dollars each;Office force—Continued. For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For three at two thousand dollars each; For two at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
For two at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three at two thousand dollars each: For three at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one at one thousand two hundred dollars; For one atone 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, janitor, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, including a janitor, 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, for pay of office force, not exceeding one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.Reductions. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall reduce the number or compensation, or both, of said office force, so as to make the whole of said compensation equal to the sum of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five: *Proviso*.
Civil service rules not affected. Estimates.*Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed to affect the civil service rules in so far as now applicable to the Coast and Geodetic Survey; and he shall submit estimates in detail for the said office force, as reorganized hereunder, in his annual estimates to Congress for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. And the Secretary of the Report on reductions.Treasury shall examine and report to the next Congress, at its first session, what reduction can be made in the number and salaries of the employees of the Coast and Geodetic Survey without serious detriment to the service.
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 for photolithographiiig 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. 383 For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture,Office expenses—Continued. 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, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Standard weight and measures to replace those lost, etc. authorized and directed to furnish precise copies of standard weights and measures bearing the seal of the. office of construction of standard weights and measures of the United States, and accompanied by a suitable certificate, to any State, Territory, or institution heretofore furnished with the same, upon application in writing by the governor in the ease of a State or Territory, or by the official head in the ease of an institution, setting forth that the copies of standards applied for are to replace similar ones heretofore furnished, in accordance with law, by the office of construction of standard weights and measures of the United States which have been lost or destroyed: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.
Deposit for expenses. applicant shall, before the said standards are delivered, first deposit with the Secretary of the Treasury the amount of money necessary to defray all expenses incurred by the office of construction of standard weights and measures in furnishing the same, which amount shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts, as soon as the weights or measures are delivered for transportation into the hands of such persons as are designated by the officers ordering the same.
That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as herein-before provided tor officers of the field 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 am I exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibitionFurniture. and safe keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten thousand dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National Museum, thirteen thousand dollars. For postagestamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,Postage. five hundred dollars. For tearing down and rebuilding the brick walls of the steam boilers,Repairs. providing tie-rods and buck staves and grates for the same; removing, replacing, and resetting the fronts; and replacing worn-out boiler tubes, and for covering heating pipes with fireproof material, including all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars.
For rent for workshops for the National Museum, six hundred dollars.Rent. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park. 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 expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the DistrictOne-half from District revenues. of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; 384 and hereafter a report in detail of the expenses on account of theReport.
National Zoological Park shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. 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.
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 compensation of the Commissioner,Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc. five thousand dollars; 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; one draftsman, one thousand dollars; one draftsman, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture: Office—Assistant in charge, two thousand .Division of fish-culture. five hundred dollars; superintendent of ear and messenger service, Office.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; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Aquaria, Central station: Superintendent, nine hundred anti sixtyFish ponds, D. C. dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia:
Superintendent, oneAquaria, Central station. 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 five hundredGreen Lake, Me. 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 and twenty dollars. 385 Craigs Brook (Maine) station:
Superintendent, one thousand fiveCraigs Brook, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, at five hundred and forty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. 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 five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in ail, six thousand seven hundred and eighty 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 twoWytheville. Va. hundred 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 hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundredDuluth, Minn. 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. Ato. 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 fiveLeadville, Colo. hundred 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. Clackamas (Oregon) station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveClackamas, Oreg. hundred dollars; one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Division offish 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 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 386 assistant car messenger, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three ear cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand and eighty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, twoDivision of inquiries respecting food-fishes. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, 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, atone 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. eight hundred“Albatross.” 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.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first“Grampus.” 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 the office of theAdministration expenses Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books tor 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, and operations of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement,Propagation of food-fishes. maintenance, and repairs of curs, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and including not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars for necessary employees for the conduct of the fish-cultural stations in Texas, Vermont, Montana, and New York, authorized by Act of Congress and now being located, ninety-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels andStatistical inquiry. 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 ofMaintenance of vessels. 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. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesInquiry respecting food-fishes. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fish hatchery, Iowa: For the establishment of a fish-cultural stationFish hatchery, Iowa. in theEstablished. State of Iowa, at a point to be selected by the United States 387 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, including the purchase of the*Post*, p. 638. necessary lands and water rights, the erection of buildings, construction of ponds, equipment, and such other expenditures necessary to place the station on an efficient basis, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Fish hatchery, Tennessee: For the establishment of a fish-culturalFish hatchery, Tennessee. Established. station in the State of Tennessee at some suitable point to be Fish hatchery, Colorado.selected by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and its equipment, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Fish hatchery, Lake County, Colorado: For the completion of theVol. 25, p. 954. United States fish-cultural station in Lake County, Colorado, authorized by Act approved .March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Fish butchery, New York. six thousand five hundred dollars. Fish hatchery. New York: For the completion of the United StatesVol. 20, p. 964. fish-cultural station on or near the Saint Lawrence River, New York, authorized by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred andInterchangeable expenses. ninety-one, seven thousand dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterstate Commerce Commission. 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. interstate commerce commission.Salaries. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateVol. 24, p. 386. commerce,”Expenses. 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 toMiscellaneous. Treasury, Department. 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 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.World’s Columbian Exposition. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed to investigateInvestigation of French losses by fire, etc. and report to Congress at its next session, what amount of losses was sustained by the Republic of France and by French exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago by fire on the night of January eighth and ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, in the building of Manufactures and Liberal Arts of said Exposition; he shall cause proofs to be taken, satisfactory to himself, to determine the amount of such losses sustained by the French Government and by the several French exhibitors, and also by whose fault or negligence, if any, the losses occurred. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in suchPresident to signify appreciation for contribution of foreign governments. form and manner as he shall deem most suitable, to signify to the governments of the several countries duly represented at the World’s Columbian Exposition, and to their leading official representatives thereat, the grateful appreciation of the Government and people of the United States of America for their valued contributions to the success of said exposition, and for their friendly participation in the commemoration of one of the most important events in human history; and the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for this purpose, to be paid upon the order of the President. To enable the committee on final report to arrange the reports of theDepartmental reports. various Departments and prepare a synopsis of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much as may be necessary, to be 388 expended in the discretion of the committee; and said reports, with synopsis, including index for each volume, shall not exceed ten quarto volumes in all, of not exceeding one thousand pages each. That James D. McBride be, and he is hereby, authorized and permittedFac simile copies of seals allowed on certain documents. to have engraved, on stone or wood true and fac simile copies of the seal of the Supreme Court of the United States, the seal of the United States, the seal of the Senate of the United States, the seal of the House of Representatives, and the seal of the Department of State, which have been authoritatively affixed to the following documents originating with him, and to print the same on true and facsimile copies thereof: The Centennial memorial entitled, “The Administrators of the United States Government at the beginning of Its Second Century;” also, the Columbian State paper entitled “The Administration of the United States Government at the beginning of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America;” and also, to have engraved in like manner, true and fac simile copies of the seals of the Executive Departments, and to print the same in combination with the seals before mentioned, in a group under the following title: “The seal of the United States and seals of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative *Proviso*. Relief copies forbidden.departments of the Government:” *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing the said James D. McBride to make, or cause to be made any die or dies, whereby a copy of the said seals could be printed with raised characters or in relief. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight,Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc. and salary of superintendent, messengers, and watchmen, sixty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: ForPunishing violations of internal-venue 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. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentExpenses of focal agents, etc. R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719. 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, seventy thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin,Transporting silver coin. including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty 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: *Proviso*. Deposits.*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, reissue, and transportation of minor coins: TheRecoinage, etc., minor coins. 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 three hundred 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; and the sum of two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to reimburse the Treasury for the loss on such recoinage; in all, five hundred dollars. 389 Recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coins: For recomageRecoinage, silver coins. of the uncurrent fractional. silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the. direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,United States securities. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, Paper, etc.five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, sixty 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, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one‘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 sixty-five 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 custodians ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. 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 all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, seven hundred and fifty 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 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. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, and water. lights, water, electric current for light and power purposes, 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, firemen, or engineers in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, eight hundred and fifty 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 390 other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by*Proviso*. Gas governors, etc. the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum 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 counter felting, 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 (he 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 R. S. sec. 4718, p. 919.last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and tor no other *Proviso*. Witnesses.purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpumaed 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.” Lands and other property of the United States: For custody,Lands, etc. care, and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. Publication of Supplement to Revised Statutes: To enableSupplement to Revised Statutes. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay William A. Richardson, when the Payment to William A. Richardson.work shall be completed, in full for preparing and editing two pamphlets of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, one for the extra session and one for the first session of the Fifty-third Vol. 27, p. 477.Congress, under the Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu modeties. moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying thLocal appraisers’ meetings.e necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings Cor 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 contract-labor laws. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration 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 prevent unlawfulChinese exclusion. entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation,Vol. 27, p. 52. and tor enforcing the provisions of the Act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” fifty thousand .dollars. In every case where an alien is excluded from admission into theDecision of immigration. etc., officers excluding aliens, final. United States under any law or treaty now existing or hereafter made, the decision of the appropriate immigration or customs officers, if adverse to the admission of such alien, shall be final, unless reversed 011 appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury. 391 Bureau of Immigration: The head money from alien passengersBureau of immigration. on and after the first day of October next, collected under the Act of AugustHead money increased. third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to regulate immigration,Vol. 22, p. 214. shall be one dollar in lieu of the fifty cents as provided in said Act, and such head money and all other receipts which shall be collected on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in connection with immigration shall be covered into the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the next regular session ofService to be organized, report Congress a plan for the organization of the service in connection with immigration and make detailed estimates of the employees necessary for such service, and their compensation and all other expenses. The commissioners of immigration at the several ports shall beCommissioners to be appointed. appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to hold their offices for the term of four years, unless sooner removed, and until their successors are appointed; and nominations for such offices shall be made to the Senate by the President as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act. That section thirty-six hundred and eighty-seven of the RevisedPayment of acting customs inspectors. Statutes isR. S., sec. 3687, p. hereby amended724, amended. by adding thereto the following: “And to pay the salaries of watchmen and night watchmen in customhouses, who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to act as inspectors of customs.” Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaskan seal fisheries. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, Agents’ salaries,etc.three thousand six hundred and fifty 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. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the directionSalmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, four thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, andFood to Alaskans. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, and of the portion of said sum to be distributed to the inhabitants of Saint Paul Island, three thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars shall be paid to the bishop of the Greek Church, San Francisco, California, in full satisfaction of that amount contributed by members of said church of said island and placed in the hands of the agent of the North American Commercial Company for delivery to the bishop of said church, and afterwards, under instructions of the Treasury Department, expended in furnishing the natives of said island necessary supplies to prevent suffering and starvation, a pro rata amount being allowed each of the families on said island; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to fix a reasonable price to be paid the natives of said island for blue fox skins secured by them. For two coal houses on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George,Coal houses, seal islands. Alaska, eight hundred dollars. For publishing the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheriesPublishing proclamation. of Bering Sea, and for protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “to provideVol. 25, p. 1009. for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses of carrying out lease of and protecting seal life on islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sections nineteen hundred and fiftyR.S., secs. 1959, 1971, pp. 344, 346. nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one. Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expensesFur sealing log bonks, expenses. of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth*Ante*, p. 54. 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. 392 That a Joint Commission, consisting of the select committee of fiveJoint commission tn investigate Ford’s Theater disaster. Senators, appointed by the President of the Senate, to investigate the Ford Theater disaster and five members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Report.shall investigate the Ford Theater disaster and report to the Senate and House, whether in equity and justice the Government should *Post*, p. 032.compensate the sufferers of that disaster for the injuries sustained by them, and, if it shall be decided that they should be compensated, then the Clerks etc.Commission will investigate each individual case, and report the amount of compensation that should be allowed in each case. The commission may employ a clerk who is a stenographer, and who shall do the stenographic work of the Commission as clerk, and that the commission shall have power to send tor persons and papers, and the chairman of the Commission or of any subcommittee may administer Expenses.oaths. The expenses of said investigation shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives on vouchers approved by the chairman, and the Commission may report by bill or otherwise. Report upon explosives: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryReport on explosives. to investigate and report upon the importation, use, transportation, and manufacture of high and low explosives, with the view of securing by legislation greater security to life and property, four thousand dollars. That there shall be appointed in the district of Baltimore, State ofBaltimore, Md. Maryland,Assistant appraiser authorized. one assistant appraiser of merchandise, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, who shall reside at the port of Baltimore. Massachusetts avenue: For grading Massachusetts avenue asMassachusetts avenue, D. C. Grading. *Post*, p. 588. extended around the Naval Observatory Circle, seven thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 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), Brunswick, Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For ballast scows, small hospital, repairs to buildings, and boatRepairs, Gulf station. landings, for the Gulf Quarantine Station, Ship Island, Mississippi (transferred from Chandeleur Island), five thousand dollars. For establishing a quarantine station, and maintenance of same, atStation, Southport, N.C. or near Southport, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized in case ofUnexpended balance available. 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.appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, 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 which may be then in force. 393 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 a new copper roof for the Pension Office building, and a corrugated metal ceiling for the great hall, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapital. Repairs, etc. thereof, including wages of mechanics, and laborers, twenty-live thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to the steam-heating apparatus, including elevators and machinery of the Senate wing of the Capitol, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, two thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. For removal of the ranges, steamers, and apparatus of the Senate restaurant, the work to be done under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol extension, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For construction of an elevator leading to the Supreme Court rooms, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, two thousand three hundred 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 an may be necessary. For the repair of paintings in the Capitol, including repairs to the frames of the same, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand dollars. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and tor care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, twelve thousand dollars. For reconstructing eastern elevator House wing, United StatesElevator, House wing. Capitol, to insure increased speed; and for extending the western elevator of same wing to cellar story, including opening passageway in the, cellar towards Terrace rooms, five thousand one hundred dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting, Capitol and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; for use of electric lighting plants in Senate and House wings at not exceeding two hundred dollars per month during the sessions of Congress; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Sales of public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForSalaries, registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent,Contingent expenses. land offices. and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses ofDepositing moneys. depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, five 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 394 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,sixty 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 pay each and actual necessary expenses for transportation; and the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the foregoing appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein. 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 plate 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 transcriptsTranscripts 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 of public lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,Surveys, rates. at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Proviso*. Preferences.*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 States by the Vol. 25, p. 676.Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. 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 Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of lands heavily Extra rates for heavily timbered, etc., lands.timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, when the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys 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 for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve *Post*, p. 638.dollars for section lines. And of the sum hereby appropriated not Resurveys, etc.exceeding forty-five thousand dollars maybe 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 for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or Inspecting mineral and timber lands.fraudulent; and inspecting 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. That it shall be lawful for the governors of the States of Washington,Surveys for grants to new States. Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming to apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the survey of any township or townships of public land then remaining unsurveyed in any of the several surveying districts, with a view to satisfy the public land grants made by the several Acts admitting the said States into the Union to the extent of the full quantity of land called for thereby; and Application of governorsupon the application of said governors the Commissioner of the General 395 Land Office shall proceed to immediately notify the Surveyor-General of the application made by the governor of any of the said States of the application made for the withdrawal of said lands, and the Surveyor-General shall proceed to have the survey or surveys so applied for made, as in the cases of surveys of public lands; and the lands that may be found to fall within the limits of such township or townships, as ascertained by the survey, shall be reserved upon the filing of the application for survey from any adverse appropriation by settlement or otherwise except under rights that may be found to exist of prior inception. for a period to extend from such application for survey until the expiration of sixty days from the date of the filing of the township plat of survey in the proper district land office, during which period of sixty days the State may select any of such lands not embraced in any valid adverse claim, for the satisfaction of such grants, with the condition, however, that the governor of the State, within thirty days from the date of such tiling of the application for survey, shall cause a notice to be published,Public notice. which publication shall be continued for thirty days from the first publication, in some newspaper of general circulation in the vicinity of the lands likely to be embraced in such township or townships, giving notice to all parties interested of the fact of such application for survey and the exclusive right of selection by the State for the aforesaid period of sixty days as herein provided for; and after the expiration of such period of sixty days any lands which may remain unselected by the State, and not otherwise appropriated according to law, shall be subject to disposal under general laws as other public lands: *And provided further*,*Proviso*. Notice of townships withdrawn. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall give notice immediately of the reservation of any township or townships to the local land office in which the land is situate of the withdrawal of such township or townships, for the purpose hereinbefore provided: *And provided further*, That the governors of the several States hereinAdvance. named are authorized to advance money from time to time for the survey of the townships withdrawn at such United States depository as may be designated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the moneys so advanced shall be reimbursable. The foregoing provisions shall be applicable to Utah when admitted as a State into Applicable to Utah.the Union and a governor is duly inaugurated and acting. For the survey of the public lands lying within the limits of landSurvey of railroad land grant. grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and the selection therein of such lands as are granted therefor, to enable*Post*, p. 938. the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of section one of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitledVol. 24, p. 556. “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, and 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 and twenty-five thousand dollars, which was appropriated therefor by the Act approvedReappropriation. August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “AnVol. 27, p. 370. 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,” is hereby reappropriated and continued, and any money which shall have been expended of such appropriation and reimbursed and paid into the Treasury is hereby reappropriated, and the said sum shall remain a continuing appropriation, and so often asContinuing appropriation. any part of the same shall, after being expended.be reimbursed by any railroad company as hereinafter provided, the same shall be again available for the purposes aforesaid: *Provided*, That any portion of*Proviso*. Reimbursements. said sum expended 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,Vol. 16, p. 305. eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter two hundred and ninety-two, volume sixteen, pages three hundred and five and three hundred 396 and six, and Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six,Vol. 18, p. 121. 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 ”: Florida excluded.*Provided*, That no part of the foregoing moneys shall be used for any land embraced in any grain to the State of Florida. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada,Survey of private land claims. and Wyoming, and in the Territories of Arizona. New Mexico, and Vol. 26, p. 854.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 a proper survey of thirty-two thousand acres of land, more orSurvey of certain land in North Carolina. less, in southwestern part of North Carolina, conveyed to the United Post, p. 931.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, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the retracement of so much of the boundary line between theBoundary between Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. States of Louisiana and Arkansas and of the boundary line between said States and the State of Texas, and the lines of public land surveys closing thereon, as will enable the surveyor-general of Louisiana to construct a proper plat of certain lands in township twenty-three north, range sixteen west, in the State of Louisiana, over which, owing to discrepancies in existing surveys, neither Arkansas nor Louisiana now claims jurisdiction, and to enable the United States land officers to admit entries of said lands, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale, and pay ofAbandoned military reservation a. custodians of abandoned military reservations transferred to the Vol. 23, p. 103.control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, five thousand dollars. For the purpose of making a resurvey of the lands of Grant andResurvey directed in Nebraska. Hooker Counties in the State of Nebraska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid out of the appropriation for surveys of public lands made by this Act. Port Angeles Town-site, Washington: That suburban blocksPort Angeles, Wash. numbered eighty-seven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-one, Lots granted for cemetery.ninety two, ninety three, and ninety-four, within the limits of the Government town-site reserve of Port Angeles, in the State of Washington, shall be, and are each hereby, granted and confirmed to the town or city of Port Angeles, Washington, for use as a burial ground or cemetery; and upon application therefor by the proper municipal authorities of said town or city to the Secretary of the Interior, patent shall be issued for said blocks, respectively, to said authorities and for the purpose herein expressed. Des Moines River lands settlers: To adjust the claims ofDes Moines River lands, Iowa. settlers on the so-called Des Commissioner to hear, etc., claims of settlers.Moines River lands, in the State of Iowa, two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior, in the following manner: The Secretary of the Interior shall appoint a special commissioner to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of all settlers, their heirs 397 and assigns, who, being duly qualified thereunto, have, under the homestead, preemption, or other public land laws, entered or filed upon lands included in the grant made by an Act entitled “An Act grantingVol. 9, p. 77. certain lands to the Territory of Iowa to aid in the improvements of the navigation of the Des Moines River, in said Territory,” approved August eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and by the “JointVol. 12, p. 251. Resolution to quiet title to lands in the State of Iowa,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, whose title thereto from the United States has failed. Said commissioner shall find the reasonable sum due, if anything, to the respective claimants, and the measure of damages of said claimants shall be the amount heretofore expendedDamages, etc. by them to purchase the paramount title to said lands, or in case they have not heretofore purchased the outstanding paramount title, the measure of their damages shall be the reasonable value of such paramount title, if they arc still in possession, or the reasonable value of same at time of eviction, in cases of eviction. Said commissioner, in making such examination, shall find and determine: First. The amount of the just claims of persons, their heirs or assigns,Continuous holdings. holding patents or other written evidences of title from the United States, who are now and who have, been in continuous possession thereunder. Second. The claims of persons, their heirs or assigns, holding writtenEvicted claimants. evidences of title from the United States, who have been evicted from said lands by process of court at the suit of the Des Moines River Navigation Company or its assigns. Third. The claims of persons, their heirs or their assigns, for a valuablePurchasers. consideration, whose chain of title runs back to the person making the original entry of said lands, and who have heretofore purchased the paramount title: *Provided*, That if the amount herein appropriated*Provisos*. Reports of claims unpaid. is not sufficient to settle all the claims hereinbefore described and included in Schedule 15 of special report submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, being Senate Executive Document Numbered Ninety-seven, present session, those remaining unpaid shall be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior, giving the amount of each claim, and such payments shall not include any claim of any preemptor or homesteader who had actual notice of the adverse claim of the Des Moines River Navigation Company at the time of making such preemption or home-. stead claim and only paid the necessary fees to the land officers, and who made no valuable improvements on the land so preempted or homesteaded. All such claims shall be reported to Congress, and all the facts in regard to any claim of preemption and homestead entry, in such cases, shall be reported to Congress: *Provided further*, ThatPayments. said claims, except those hereinbefore indicated, shall be paid in the order of their approval by the Secretary of the Interior, and no money shall be paid hereunder, in any case, until the findings of the Commissioner, in such case, are approved by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall have full authority to control all proceedings authorized by this paragraph. To pay the expenses arising under the preceding paragraph.Expenses. in addition to the appropriation to pay said claims, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That all soldiers’ additional homestead certificates heretofore issuedSoldiers’ certificates sold, declared valid. under the rules and regulations of the General Land Office under section R. S., sec. 2308, p. 422.twenty-three hundred and six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or in pursuance of the decisions or instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, of date March tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, or any subsequent decisions or instructions of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall be, and are hereby, declared to be valid, notwithstanding any attempted sale or transfer thereof; and where such certificates have been or may hereafter be sold or transferred, such sale or transfer shall 398 not be regarded as invalidating the light, but the same shall be good and valid in the bands of bona fide purchasers for value; and all entries heretofore or hereafter made with such certificates by such purchasers shall be approved, and patent shall issue in the name of the assignees. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the GeologicalScientific assistants. Survey: For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, at 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, at 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 Held 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, one-hundredTopographic surveys. and fifty thousand dollars; 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; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, tenPaleontolegic researches. thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology ofChemical researches. the United States, seven thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, thirteenIllustrations. thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States,Mineral Resources report. fifteen thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment Books, etc.for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand collars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States,Maps. sixty-five thousand dollars; 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, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, fourRent. thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, four hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.Miscellaneous. supreme court reports.Supremo Court reports. To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and fifty-five to one hundred and fifty-nine, inclusive, of the United States 399 Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p. 681. and eighty-nine, seven hundred and sixty dollars. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Expenses. For 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 huudred and sixty-six thousand live hundred and twenty dollars; and not 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 the Buildings and grounds.Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, thirteen thousand dollars. For special improvements, as follows: For detached kitchen for the Toner building, two thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For electric plant, ten thousand dollars.Electric plant. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for theCurrent expenses. Deaf and Dumb: 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 to complete the inclosure of the grounds, one thousand dollars. howard university.Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance, etc. 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-three 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 lor 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, andSupport of station. for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 400 UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island Ill. For machinery and shop fixtures and renewal of steam plant, tenMachinery. thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting andCare, etc. care and preservation of permanent buildings, and shores of the island; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. For extraordinary repairs of the dikes, and dams of the RockRepairs, etc. Island water power, and for repairing Moline dam wall and counter-ports and foundations, thirty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of Contract.War is authorized to contract for all of said works at an additional cost not exceeding thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:Bridge expenses. For operating and care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaducts, twelve thousand dollars. For protecting Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For establishing a completeBenicia, Cal. and proper system of sewerage and to perfect the plumbing system at officers’ quarters numbered one, two, three, and tour, fifteen thousand dollars. Columbia Arsenal, Columbia, Tennessee: For steam engine,Columbia, Tenn. one thousand dollars; for one thousand feet of tire hose, two and one-half inches in diameter, with necessary couplings, nozzles, and hose reels, one thousand tour hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For purchaseFrankford, Pa. or manufacture of new machinery, fifteen thousand dollars. Indianapolis Arsenal, Indianapolis, Indiana: For constructionIndianapolis, Ind. of sewers to connect with the Indianapolis city sewer on Clifford, avenue, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For constructing a new fence along the west side of the arsenal on Hanna street, five thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building andSpringfield, Mann. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops and storehouses and quarters, two thousand live hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: ForProving ground, Sandy Hook, N. J. repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten 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 increase ofWatervliet, West Troy, N. Y. the independent water supply in addition to the supply from the West Troy waterworks, eleven thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty cents. Authority is hereby granted to use any balance that may remain ofPaving. the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by the Act of Congress Use of balance.approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for Vol. 27, p,461.paving the highway to the extent of the arsenal frontage at the Watervliet Arsenal, for the purpose of paving the roadways inside the arsenal grounds. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenalsRepairs. and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, fifty thousand dollars. 401 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. For improvement of grounds north and south of Executive Mansion, five thousand dollars. 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, two thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen andOld canal, etc. *Proviso*. site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than propertyCondition. belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting Pitchmen’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 for nursery, trees and stock for nursery to be purchased by con tract 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, live hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, two thousand five 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 replacing the old flagging pavement of the sidewalks in the grounds north of the Executive Mansion by a granolithic pavement, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion, as follows;Executive Mansion. For care, repair,Repairs, fuel, etc. 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 renewing the superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. For portrait and frame for same of Honorable Benjamin Harrison,Portrait of ex-President Benjamin Harrison. ex-President of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and Public Grounds: ForLighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, 402 and repair of lamps and lamp posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds: fuel and lights for office, office stables, 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 Limps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to subsitute 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: *Provided*, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp Burners.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 live 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, mid 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: *Proviso*. Investigation of water rights’ etc.*Provided*, That the Secretary of War and the Attorney-General are hereby authorized to investigate and ascertain what action has been taken by them or their predecessors in office, or by any Secretary of Vol. 22, p. 168.the Interior, under the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An Act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington,” and under any previous Acts; and also the existing claims, if any, of the State of Maryland, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, and any other owner of land and water rights, or either, at the Great Falls; and also, further, the cost of acquiring the title or titles to such lands and water rights, or either, as maybe necessary to vest in the Government complete ownership of the water rights and necessary lands, and to make a full report of all the facts to Congress; and the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for such investigation, examination and report. 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 Care and maintenance.dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-live 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; hi 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 floor, 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. For one new engine, complete, in position, to replace the old engineNew engine. which runs the dynamo for the electric lights, six hundred and fifty dollars. 403 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 thousand dollars. And the limit of expenditure for the construction of Fort Crook. Nebraska, is hereby increasedFort Crouk, Nebr. to seven hundred thousand dollars, and of Fort Harrison, Montana, toFort Harrison Mont. three hundred thousand dollars. Fort Ethan Allen Military Reservation: To enable the SecretaryFort Ethan Allen. of War to acquire the title, for military purposes, to Purchase of additional land.additional lands, not exceeding one hundred and ninety acres, required to extend the military reservation of Fort Ethan Allen, near Essex Junction, Vermont, to the Winooski River, subject to the right of way through said lands of the Winooski and Essex highway and the right of way of the Central Vermont Railway, seven thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Title. That in acquiring the land for the purpose the Secretary of War is authorized to proceed in accordance with the Act approved MarchVol. 20, p. 079. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses, under title “Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park.” Improvement of the Yellowstone National, Park: For theYellowstone National Park. improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty thousand dollars. For salary of commissioner provided for in the Act to protect theCommissioner. birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park and to punish crimes in said *Ante*, p. 74.park, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: To enableChickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. the Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in accordance with the terms of existing laws, including road construction, maps, tablets, surveys, continuing the restoration of the field, foundations for State monuments, the purchase of the north end of Missionary Ridge, and monument sites in the vicinity of Glass’s Mill, compensation of two civilian commissioners and their assistant in historical work, labor, clerical and other assistance, and office, expenses; in all, seventy-live thousand dollars. war department. That the proviso in the paragraph for the Medical DepartmentAssistant surgeons. *Ante*, p. 235. under title “ For pay of the general staff” in the Act making appropriations for the support of the Army tor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: *Provided*, That hereafter no appointments*Proviso*. Number of grade fixed at 110. shall be made to the office of assistant surgeon until the number of assistant surgeons shall be reduced below one hundred and ten, and thereafter the number of officers in that grade in the Medical Department shall be fixed at one hundred and ten. The Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directedPayment for unused leaves to discharged-clerks. to pay, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for salaries .of the War Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to those persons who have been discharged as clerks of the War Department since June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, because of the reduction of employees in such Department, their salaries for such period of leave of absence, at the rate of two and one-half days’ leave for each month of service from January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the date of their discharge, as may have been allowable to and unused by said clerks at the date of their discharge. That all military records, such as muster and pay rolls, orders, andAll Revolutionary army records transferred to Secretary of War. reports relating to the personnel or the operations of the armies of the Revolutionary war and of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, 404 now in any of the Executive Departments, shall be transferred to the Secretary of War to be preserved, indexed and prepared for publication. engineer department.Engineer Department. For continuing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:River and harbor improvements. Continuing improvement, removal of Smiths Island and Windmill Philadelphia, Pa.Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston. Texas: Continuing improvement,Galveston, Tex. six hundred 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 Hay Lake Channel, Saint Marys River, Michigan:Hay Lake channel, St. Marys River, Mich. Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvementHudson River N.Y. one hundred and forty five thousand dollars. For improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio RiverMississippi River, mouth of the Ohio to Minneapolis, Minn. 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; continuing improvement from the mouth of Missouri River *Ante*, p. 357.to Minneapolis, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty seven cents; in all, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving Saint Marys River at the Falls, Michigan: Continuing improvement, three hundredSt. Marys River at the Falle, Mich. thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement,Point Judith, R. I. one hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, including Sullivan IslandCharleston, S. C. and Mount Pleasant Shore: Continuing improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia; Continuing improvement, nineSavannah, Ga. hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Mobile. Alabama: Continuing improvement, threeMobile, Ala. hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Under Mississippi River Commission: For improving MississippiMississippi River Commission. River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, Mississippi 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 Com mission. from its mouth to the south line, of Sioux City, Iowa, including Missouri River.salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri *Ante*, p. 358.River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks and gauges, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars of which may be used for removal of snags and other like obstructions in the Missouri River above Sioux City, Iowa, from the south hue thereof, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase oi tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-fiveSuperintendents. superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. 405 Headstones for graves of soldiers: For eon tinning 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, eighteen hundredVol. 17, p, 545. and seventy-three, and February third, Vol. 20, p. 281.eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars, and of this sum the Quartermaster-general is authorized to expend not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in suitably marking the grave of Captain Samuel Chester Reid,Grave of Capt S. C. Reid. the designer of the American flag, and a hero of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoad ways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, 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,Road to Presidio. California: For continuing the work of improving the Cal.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. Gettysburg battlefield: For continuing the work of surveying,Gettysburg battlefield. locating, and preserving the lines of battle at Gettysburg, Continuing surveys, etc.Pennsylvania, and for purchasing, opening, constructing, and improving avenues along the portions occupied by the various commands of the armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia on that field, and for fencing the same; and for the purchase, at private sale or by condemnation, of such parcels of land as the Secretary of War may deem necessary for the sites of tablets, and for the construction of the said avenues; for determining the leading tactical positions and properly marking the same with tablets of batteries, regiments, brigades, divisions, corps, and other organizations with reference to the study and correct understanding of the battle,each tablet bearing a brief historical legend, compiled without praise and without censure; fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept on behalfDonations may be accepted. of the United States donations of land for road or other purposes. miscellaneous objects.Miscellaneous objects. 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. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting map. 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 ninety-four thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the 406 United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed tinder the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients:Providence Hospital D. C. For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and Sunport of destitute patients.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 C. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay Maintenance.therefor, nineteen thousand dollars. Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and chargesMilitary convicts. of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, three thousand dollars. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion:Official Records, War of the Rebellion. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Continuing publication.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 board. Vol. 25, p. 970.civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordance 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 t he 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; in all, 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 text books, 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 live 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; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousandSteamers, etc. dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, eight thousand dollars. For purchase or construction of one steam tug, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. In all, seventy-six thousand dollars. Arming and equipping the militia: The permanent annualMilitia. appropriation made by the Act of April twenty-third, eighteen hundred Appropriation not to lapse.and eight, designated as section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Vol. 24, p. 111.Revised Statutes, and which was increased to four hundred thousand dollars by the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, being for the procurement of ordnance and ordnance stores and quartermaster’s stores and camp equipage for the use of the militia of the country, shall not lapse with the end of any fiscal year nor be turned into the surplus fund, but shall remain a permanent appropriation and be available for the several States and Territories and District of Columbia until expended as provided in said Acts, or otherwise disposed of by Congress. 407 united states military prison at port leavenworth.Military prison, Fort Leavenworth. Kans. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows:Support. For subsistence of prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen, andExpenses. for prisoners en route to insane asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, eighteen thousand dollars. For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, three hundred dollars; For forage and bedding for public animals used exclusively at the prison, and hay for prisoners’ bedding, two thousand dollars; For stationery, blank books, typewriting supplies, for use in prison offices, memorandum books for use of guard when on duty, stationery for use in prisoners’school, postage stamps, envelopes, and letter paper for issue to prisoners, one thousand dollars; For fuel for generating steam for running machinery, heating buildings and cooking purposes; materials for repair of steam-heating Apparatus and water circulation; hose, belting, machinery, castings, horses and mules, horse and mule shoes, and nails, stoves and stovepipe, lime, cement, lire clay, tire brick, iron, tin, solder, blacksmiths’coal, charcoal, putty, nails, paint and whitewash brushes, painting materials, disinfectants, axes, shovels, spades, wheelbarrows, glass, horse medicines and dressings, articles for police of buildings and grounds, articles for repairing wagons and harness, tools and miscellaneous articles for use in shops, laundry, barber shop, bathrooms, stables, printing office, and photograph gallery; furniture for use in offices; oil and electrical supplies; blankets, bedsacks, and bunks for prisoners’ use, and miscellaneous articles which can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty thousand dollars; For materials for manufacture of clothing, and to purchase articles of clothing that can not be made at the prison, all for prisoners’ wear at prison and issue to prisoners on release from confinement at the prison and at military posts; and for donation of five dollars each to prisoners on release from confinement at prison and military posts, eight thousand dollars; For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, dressings, and for all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; hospital furniture and supplies, heating appliances, and for expense of interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand five hundred dollars; For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred dollars; For expenses of pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards tor their capture, three hundred dollars; For the transportation of prisoners, on their discharge from the prison, to their homes (or elsewhere, as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment, five, thousand dollars; For pay of civilian employees: One clerk, at one thousand eightCivilian employees hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; extra-duty pay for prison guard, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; five foremen of mechanics and one engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; one teamster at forty dollars per month; two night watchmen and four teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each; and one fireman at sixty dollars per month, to take charge at night of the heating apparatus and electric-light plant; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For construction of buildings and repairs of all buildings on prisonRepairs, etc. grounds, including plumbing and all other civilian labor which can not be done by prison labor, four thousand dollars. In all, seventy-six thousand and forty dollars. 408 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:Support. At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For currentDay ton. Ohio. expenses, namely: Fay of officers and noncommissionedCurrent expenses. 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 tire company; for all property and materials purchased tor their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, 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 expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, one *Proviso*. Posthumous fund available.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in addition to this amount not exceeding sixty-four thousand dollars of the balance of the “ Posthumous fund,” in the hands of the treasurer of this Branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, may be used for payments authorized under this head. 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 and seventeen 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 tor cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen; bathhouse keepers,hall cleaners,laundrymen, gas-makers, and privy watchmen, and for all 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, ninety thousand six hundred 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, carnage, 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 five hundred dollars. For construction and repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders,Construction. blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas-fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steamfitters; stone masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all machines, tools, appliances, and materials used under this head, seventy thousand dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness-makers,Farm. farm hand, 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 409 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, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. In all, five hundred and fifty-two thousand five, hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under thisCurrent expenses. head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars:*Proviso*. Posthumous fund. *Provided*, That in addition to this amount not exceeding seventeen thousand dollars of the balance of the “Posthumous fund” in the hands of the treasurer of this branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, may be used for payments authorized under this head. 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-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eightTransportation. hundred dollars; For construction and repairs, including the same objects specifiedConstruction. under this head for the Central Branch, twenty four thousand dollars; For building for central boiler plant, including coal sheds and smokestacks, seven boilers in place, and water-heater, twenty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. For tunnel for connection with main building, hospital, and barracks, including excavation, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For perfecting a system of sewerage, six thousand dollars. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eight thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and one thousand nine hundred and two dollars; At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Togus, Me. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Current expenses.Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That in addition*Proviso*. Posthumous fund. to this amount, not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars of the balance of the “Posthumous fund” in the hands of the treasurer of this branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, may be used for payments authorized under this head. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand one hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specifiedConstruction. under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand dollars; For alteration of boiler plant, five thousand dollars;Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this headHampton, Va. for the Central Branch, ten thousand four hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentCurrent, expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*. Posthumous fund. in addition to this amount not exceeding seventeen thousand dollars of the balance of the “Posthumous fund” in the hands of the Treasurer 410 of this Branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, maybe used for payments authorized under this head. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand 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 headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specifiedConstruction. under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this headFarm. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For currentLeavenworth, Kans. expenses, including the same objects specified under this Current expenses.head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.That in addition to this amount not exceeding seven thousand dollars Posthumous fund.of the balance of the “Posthumous fund” in the hands of the treasurer of this branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, may be used for payments authorized under this head; 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 four hundred and fifty dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. Construction. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, nine thousand seven hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal. Current expenses. *Proviso*. Posthumous fund. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in addition to this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars of the balance of the “Posthumous fund” in the hands of the treasurer of this branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, may be used for payments authorized under this head; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. tor the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars;Transportation. For construction and repairs, including the same objects specifiedConstruction. under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For construction of quarters for governor of home, nine thousand dollars; For fire protection, including pumps, pipes, hydrants, and placing and locating same, eight thousand one hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and eight thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. 411 At the Marion Branch, at Marion Indiana: For currentMarion, Ind. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Current expenses.Central Branch, twenty one thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in addition*Proviso*. Posthumous fund. to this amount the balance of the “ Posthumous fund” in the hands of the treasurer of this Branch on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, may be used for payments authorized under this head: 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, twelve thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation, including the same, objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, two thousand dollars; For construction and repairs, including the same objects specified under this headConstruction. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for construction and repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any *Proviso*. No new buildings.new building; For one new barrack, twenty-five thousand dollars;Barrack. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head-for theFarm. Central Branch, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred dollars. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures forClothing for all branches clothing, 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 thousand dollars. For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers,Salaries, etc., Board of Managers. and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars;R. S., sec. 4827, p. 036 secretary 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 service 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, 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 officersExpenses. and employees, eleven 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 three hundred and twenty-four thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars: *Provided*, That all amounts disbursed*Proviso*. Accounts. from the appropriation of a Branch Home shall be disbursed and accounted for monthly to the general treasurer by the treasurer of that Branch, except such expenditures for services, stationery, tableware, clothing and bedding as may be required by the Board of Managers to be legally made by the general treasurer, and all such stationery, tableware, clothing and bedding as may be required for each Branch Home shall be shipped directly from the place of purchase or manufacture to such Branch Home; and all disbursements shall be made, in conformityDisbursements. with Sections thirty-six hundred and seventy-eight and thirty-six R. S., secs. 3678, 3679, p. 723.hundred and seventy-nine, Revised Statutes: *Provided further*, That the balance of the posthumous fund, including the amount invested in bondsUse of posthumous fund. pertaining to that fund, that may be in the hands of the treasurer of any Branch of the Home on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, 412 shall be transferred to the appropriation for “ current expenses, eighteen hundred and ninety-live,” of that Branch Home, and thereafter all Receipts from deceased members to be credited to current expenses.receipts on account of the effects of deceased members shall be credited to the appropriation for “ current expenses” of the fiscal year during which such amounts were received, and all repayments of such amounts shall be made from and charged to the like appropriation for the fiscal year in which such repayments shall be made. The general treasurer shall give good and sufficient bond to theBond of general treasurer. United States in a sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars, as the Secretary of War may direct, and to be approved by him, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which he may receive, and the treasurers of the several Branch Homes shall give good and sufficient bonds to the general treasurer in such sums as he may require, and to be approved by him, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which they may receive. That the provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the Act entitledMail matter to be sent free. “An Act establishing post-routes, and for other Vol. 19, p. 335.purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,” for the transmission of official mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. That all sums received from sales of subsistence stores or otherReceipts from sales. property of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be taken up by the disbursing officer under the proper current appropriation and be available for disbursement on account of that appropriation. That the Board of Managers shall classify all the officers andRates of pay to be classified. employees of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and establish a rate of pay and allowance for each class, and the rate so established shall not be increased by fees, perquisites, allowances, or advantages under any pretense whatever; and no employee shall be borne on more than one pay roll or voucher. That when an officer of the National Home for Disabled VolunteerTraveling expenses of officers. Soldiers, not a member of the Board of Managers thereof, travels under orders on business for the Home he shall be allowed seven cents in lieu of all other expenses for each mile actually traveled, distance to be computed by the most direct through route. That hereafter no member of the Board of Managers of the NationalExpenses of Board of Managers. Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall receive any compensation or pay for any services or duties connected with the Home; but the traveling and other actual expenses of a member, incurred while upon the *Proviso*. Officers who may receive salaries.business of the Home, may be reimbursable to such member: *Provided*, That the president and secretary of the Board of Managers may receive a reasonable compensation for their services as such officers, not exceeding four thousand dollars and two thousand dollars, respectively, per annum. That hereafter, once in each fiscal year, the Secretary of War shallAnnual inspection. cause a thorough inspection to be made of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, its records, disbursements, management, discipline, and condition, such inspection to be made by an officer of the Inspector-General’s Department, who shall report thereon in writing, and said report shall be transmitted to Congress at the first session thereafter. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State orState and Territorial homes. Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in Vol. 25, p. 450.conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen *Proviso*. Pensions deductions.hundred and eighty-eight, five hundred and seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes 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 may be certified to be due by 413 the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred 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-five, 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 (luring the. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation of 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-five, fifteen thousand dollars. UNDER NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Naval Academy: That the provision in the Act making appropriationsNaval Academy. for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, Appointment of cadets.eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes, approved on the twenty-sixth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and reading as follows: “That every Member or Delegate of Congress*Ante*, p. 137. whose district or Territory is now unrepresented at the Naval AcademyDistricts not represented. by a cadet who is not an actual resident of the district shall be permitted on or before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to recommend a candidate for appointment as a cadet at-the Naval Academy, and the Secretary of the Navy shall nominate such candidate for appointment to the Academy, subject to qualifications now prescribed by law,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows: That every Member or Delegate in Congress whose district orNew candidate if district not represented by resident at time appointed. Territory is not represented at the Naval Academy by a cadet who was at the time of his appointment an actual resident of such district shall be permitted on or before the first day of September, *Post*, pp. 663, 838.eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to recommend a candidate for appointment as cadet at the Naval Academy subject to the qualifications prescribed by law. Dry Dock at Puget Sound, Washington: To continue the constructionDry Dock, Puget of the dry dock at the Puget Sound United States naval station, Sound, Wash.Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Washington, and for erecting office buildings and other necessary structures, approaches to dry dock, quarters for civil engineer and inspector, pay of superintendents, inspectors, and draftsmen, necessary dredging, cleaning, and clearing up station, incidental expenses, unforeseen emergencies, and contingent expenses, forty-five thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-house. Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt house, D. C. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Opinions of the Attorney-General: To enable the Attorney-GeneralOpinions of the Attorney-General. to employ a competent person or persons to edit and prepare for Editing, etc,, vol. 20.publication and superintend the printing of the twentieth volume of the Opinions of the Attorneys General, five hundred dollars; and the Attorney-General is hereby authorized to expend that sum in such manner as will, in his judgment, best accomplish the work of editing and preparing for publication and superintending the printing of the volume above mentioned. 414 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 French spoliation claims.in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty live thousand dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds:Punishing violations,intercourse acts. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Indian service.Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to 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, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty-live thousand dollars. Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: ForUtah courts. defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners, to be approved by the courts; the expense of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, thirty-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. and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, Traveling expenses.when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars. Kent and incidental expenses. Territory of Alaska: ForRout, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For collecting and printing the decisions of the United States DistrictDecisions. court of Alaska, five hundred dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For expenses in defenseDefense, Indian depredation claims. of the Indian depredation claims, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars, and in expending said sum the Attorney-General may direct such action as will accomplish the disposition of those eases which were Vol. 26, p. 853.given priority of consideration by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the preparation of the defenses for the Government in other cases in which the claimants have closed then proof. Indian Territory: For expenses of judge, Indian Territory, holdingJudge, Indian Territory. court at places other than at Muscogee, six hundred dollars. Repairs to United States jails: For repairs to United StatesRepairs to jails. jails, five thousand dollars. That the “Act to repeal all statutes relating to supervisors of electionsSupervisors of elections, etc. and special deputy marshals and for other purposes,” approved 415 February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall not be deemedPending claims not barred. to have repealed the appropriation contained in section thirty-six R. S., sec. 3689, p. 729.hundred and eighty-nine of*Ante*, p. 36. the Revised Statutes for “Fees of supervisors of elections” so far as the same is necessary to pay all claims for services legally rendered prior to February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and said appropriation shall continue available for the purpose of paying all such claims accruing prior to February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Penitenttary building, North Dakota: That the Secretary North Dakota.of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the treasurer Penitentiary.of the State of North Dakota the unexpendedBalance for feeble minded institution. balance of thirty thousand dollars appropriated by “An Act making appropriations to supplyVol. 26, p. 522. deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the construction, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, of a penitentiary building in the State of North Dakota, upon such tract or parcel of land, at or near the city of Grafton, in the county of Walsh, as should be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, said unexpended balance to be used by said State of North Dakota for the erection of an institution for the feeble-minded upon the tract or parcel of land designated and secured by the Secretary of the Interior for the site of the penitentiary building provided for in said Act. And when said sum so to be paid to the treasurer of the State of North Dakota shall have been expended by said State in the erection of an institution for the feeble-minded, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to release and Conveyance.convey to said State of North Dakota the title of the United States in and to the parcel of land upon which said building shall have been erected, including all interest in said building; and the money so paid to the treasurer of the State, of North Dakota shall be in full settlement of all claims of said State under section fifteen of the Act approvedVol. 25, p. 680. February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States.” 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 of the Indian Territory; of the circuit court 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. and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*. Accounts. 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, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes: *Provided further*,R. S., sec. 856, p, 161. 416 That hereafter no marshal or deputy marshal be allowed more thanLimit of mileage. one mileage for each mile actually and necessarily traveled, irrespective of the number of writs he may execute in making such travel; nor shall any marshal or deputy marshal be allowed any additional mileage incident to the execution or return of any writ of arrest, commitment, or removal other than the ten cents a mile now allowed by law for each deputy, prisoner, and guard; and no mileage shall be allowed upon any writ not executed or when the travel was without cost to marshal or deputy. For defraying expenses incurred by marshals in executing orders,Protecting property in receivers’ hands. warrants, and processes of United States courts for the protection of property in the hands of receivers of such courts, and for the arrest and detention until trial of persons arrested for violating such orders and resisting the execution of such warrants and processes, to be audited and allowed by the Attorney-General, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and said sum shall also be available for expenses incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being inDistrict attorneys. payment for the regular fees provided by law for official services, two Fees.hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Mileage.That hereafter the United States district attorney shall be allowed one mileage actually traveled to and from the place of bearing for his attendance in person, or by his assistant, before a United States commissioner or other committing magistrate, in each ease, and no more. For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment of suchSpecial compensation. special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salaries 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 attorneys employedSpecial assistants. by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.Clerks fees. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners’ fees, etc. acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. And Warrants under internal-revenue laws.hereafter no part of any money appropriated to pay any fees to the United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks shall be used for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal revenue laws, unless said fees have been taxed against and collected from the defendant or unless the prosecution has been Sworn complaints required.commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant or upon a sworn complaint by a United States district attorney, collector, or deputy collector of internal revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon information and belief, and approved either before or after such arrest by a circuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have *Proviso*. Arrests, etc.been committed or the indictment is found: *Provided*, That it shall be the duty of the marshal, his deputy, or other officer, who may arrest a person charged with any crime or offense, to take the defendant before the nearest circuit court commissioner or the nearest judicial officer having jurisdiction under existing laws fora hearing, commitment, or taking bail for trial, and the officer or magistrate issuing the warrant shall attach thereto a certified copy of the complaint, and upon the arrest of the accused, the return of the warrant, with a copy of Jurisdiction, etc.the complaint attached, shall confer jurisdiction upon such officer as fully as if the complaint had originally been made before him, and no mileage shall be allowed any officer violating the provisions hereof. For fees of jurors, six hundred thousand dollars.Jurors’ foes. For fees of witnesses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Witnesses’ fees. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners. 417 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, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter one-half of all expenses incurred for*Proviso*. Half of jail, D.C.., expense from District revenues. maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia and for support of prisoners therein shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and estimates for such expenses shall each year hereafter be submitted in the annual estimates for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia. For rent of United States court rooms, fifty thousand dollars.Rent. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of Hew York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their Districts, and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by 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. For salary of the additional circuit judge for the eighth judicial District,Judge, eighth circuit. authorized by the Act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and *Ante*, p. 115.ninety-four, six thousand dollars. For assistant or deputy clerk of court of appeals of the DistrictCourt of appeals, Assistant clerk, D. C. of Columbia, not exceeding two thousand dollars, in the discretion of Expenses. Repeal of former amount. *Ante*, p. 204.said court. For necessary expenditures in the conduct of the office of the clerk of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, five hundred dollars; and the clause in the act entitled “ An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” making an appropriation of two thousand dollars for clerical assistance and necessary expenditures in the conduct of such clerk’s office be, and the same is hereby, repealed. To enable the Attorney-General to represent and protect the interestsPacific railroads, suits. of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, thirty thousand dollars. To pay the supervisors of election at Lynchburg, Virginia, for theirSupervisors of election, Lynohburg, Va. services on the election held November fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in the sum of fifty dollars to each of the following supervisors, namely: Ft. E. Latham, John T. Edwards, Robert Cox, W. L. Lewis, M. B. Hancock, Thomas Y, Mosby, Robert L, Dudley, IL B. Dameron, James M. Harris, W. G. Leftwich, five hundred dollars. UNDER DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. That the appropriation of five thousand dollars made by the sundryCanadian boundary. civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-fourAppropriation Continued. for the United States moiety of the cost of marking the boundaryVol. 27. p. 591. line between the United States and Canada in Passamaquoddy Ray, opposite and adjacent to Eastport, Maine, and for the expenses of a commissioner on the part of the United States, as provided for by the convention of July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,Vol. 27, p. 956. with Great Britain, be, and the same is hereby, continued and made available until the completion of the work. 418 The Secretary of State is hereby directed to cause the RevolutionaryRevolutionary archives. archives, except the military records, now deposited in his Report on publishing.Department to be carefully examined, and to ascertain what portions are of sufficient importance and historical value to publish, and the number of printed volumes they would make and the reasonable cost of their publication and editing, and report the result to Congress with such recommendations as he may deem proper. For the Bureau of American Republics: For preparing, printingBureau of American Republics. and circulating publications, five thousand dollars. Publications.The Bureau of American Republics shall be placed under the control and direction Secretary of State to report on continuing.of the Secretary of State, who shall report to Congress at its next regular session the propriety of continuing said Bureau, or if any obligation exists upon the part of the United States requiring the continuance thereof. For the execution of the obligations of the United States and theSamoan Islands. protection of the interests and property of the United States Protecting American interests.in the Samoan Islands under any existing treaty with the Government of said islands and with the Governments of Germany and Great Britain, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President. 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 first and second sessions of Vol. 25, p. 587.the Fifty-third 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 lo do said work. Index to Congressional documents: To pay for the work doneIndex to Congressional documents. in preparing and completing the document index of the Fifty-second Congress, by Alonzo W. Church, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to the officers andSenate. employees of the Senate who were borne on the rolls of the Senate One month’s pay to certain employees’ 1st. session, 53d Congress.August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and who were not borne on said rolls November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at the closed Hie first session of the Fifty-third Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the rate of compensation paid them at the time of their discharge, eleven thousand dollars, or so much thereof us may be *Proviso*. Reappointments.necessary: *Provided*, That no payment shall be made hereunder to any officer or employee who was reemployed in the service of the Deceased employees.Senate within the period named: *Provided*, That in case any of the employees above referred to have deceased since November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the amount herein provided shall be paid to the widow of such deceased employee. For beating apparatus and repairs of Maltby building, four thousandMaltby Building. dollars. For the rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, formerlyStorage of documents. in the Maltby building, nine hundred and forty-five dollars. To pay Charles H. Evans extra compensation for preparing statisticalCharles H. Evans. tables and for services rendered to the Committee on Finance, one Payment to.thousand dollars. To pay Florence. S. Vance, widow of the Honorable Zebulon B.Florence S. Vance. Vance, deceased, late a Senator from the State of North Carolina, five thousand dollars. To pay Bessie A. Stockbridge, widow of the Honorable Francis B.Bessie A. Stock bridge. Stockbridge, deceased, late a Senator from the State of Michigan, five thousand dollars. 419 building for the library of congress.Library of Congress. For containing the construction of the building for the Library ofContinuing construction. Congress, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be*Proviso*. Contracts authorized. entered into for any work or materials required for the construction of said building, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law; and the officer in charge of said building is hereby directed to report to CongressReport on tunnel. at its next session plans and estimates of cost for a tunnel, with suitable*Post*, p. 050. conveying apparatus for the rapid transmission of books, papers, and messages at all times between the said building and the Senate and House wings of the Capitol. Botanic Garden: For repairs to buildings at Botanic Garden,Botanic Garden. including extending concrete walks, and for erecting “shading” of iron construction under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, live 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), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million three hundred andAmount. seventeen thousand 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 proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, one million ninety-one thousand and five hundred 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 (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business; For the State Department, eighteen thousand dollars; 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; For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office; 420 For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks and for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, eleven thousand dollars; For binding scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, one thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, live thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, ten thousand dollars; For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty thousand dollars; For the Department of Justice, nine thousand dollars; For the Post-Office Department, two hundred 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 preceding quarters may be expended. 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. To enable the Public Printer, during the fiscal year ending JuneStorage, etc. Vol. 22, p. 637. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to comply with the provisions of the Joint Resolution, approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the removal and storage of certain property of the Government mentioned therein, seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government printing Office. To enable the Chief of Engineers of the Army, under the direction ofRepairs, fire escapes, etc. the Joint Committee on Printing, to repair the Government Printing *Post*, p. 062.Office, provide fire escapes, and put said building in a safe and secure condition, and to enable the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, to rent, if necessary, any buildings for use of the printing office, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act tor salaries of officersSums to be in full for salaries. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. cotton states and international exposition at atlanta, georgia.Cotton States anti International Exposition. Sec. 3. For an exhibit by the Government of the United States of Government exhibit.such articles and materials as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government, to be made at the Cotton States and international Exposition, to be held at Atlanta, Georgia, in the year eighteen 421 hundred and ninety-live, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants by the board of management hereinafter created, and for the maintenance of the building hereinafter provided for, and for other contingent expenses incidental to the Government exhibit, to be approved by the chairman of the board of management and by the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized accounts and vouchers, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of management, of which not exceeding ten thousand dollars shall be expended for clerical services. And to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of said GovernmentBoard of management. exhibit a board of management shall be created, to be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safekeeping, exhibition and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may respectively decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such board shall be composed of one member to be detailed by theComposition. head of each Executive Department, one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and one by the head of the United States Fish Commission, and the President shall name one of said members as chairman. But the United States shall not in any manner nor under any circumstancesNonliability of the United States. be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or representations of the said Cotton States and International Exposition organized under the laws of the State of Georgia, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or fin the service, salaries, labor, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for any subscriptions to the capital stock, or tor any certificates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued by said corporation, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses incidental to the exposition; *Provided, however*, That all articles which shall be imported*Provisos*. Free entry of articles for exhibition. from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulation as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exhibition to sell for delivery at theSales. close of the exposition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulation for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the UnitedDuty on articles sold. States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: *And provided further*, That medals with appropriate devices,Medals to be prepared. emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of said Cotton States and International Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint of the United States for the board of directors thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage Act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon theVol. 17, p. 432. R. S., sec. 3551, p. 702. payment of a sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage Act against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medals struck and issued under this Section. For taking down the Government main building erected for the Government exhibital Government building at Chicago Fair may be removed. the World’s Columbian Exposition.and its transportation, or so much of the material thereof as may be available, and its re-erection upon the site selected for the said Cotton States and International Exposition, including the purchase of such new material as may be found necessary, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be 422 necessary, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*,*Proviso*. New buildings if removal impracticable. That if it be found impracticable to take down, transport, and re-erect said building for the sum herein appropriated, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a new building to be erected upon said site of the Cotton States and International Exposition for the Government exhibit, at a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, for which purpose the Limit of Government liability.amount herein appropriated is hereby made available: *Provided always*, That the United States shall in no manner and under no circumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, or liability of any kind whatever of the said Cotton States and International Exposition, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said Exposition, nor for any amount whatever in excess of the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and of the fifty thousand dollars herein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission, and the board of management herein authorized, their officers, agents, servants, or employees, shall in no manner and under no circumstances expend, or create any liability of any kind for, any sum in excess of the appropriations herein made, or create any deficiency. Sec. 4. That to aid the public land States in the reclamation of theDesert lands. Grants to States Irrigating. desert lands therein, and the settlement, cultivation and sale thereof in small tracts to actual settlers, the Secretary of the Interior with the approval of the President, be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, upon proper application of the State to contract and agree, from time to time, with each of the States in which there may be situated Vol. 19, p. 377.desert lands as defined by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of desert land in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the Act amendatory Vol. 26, p. 1096.thereof, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, binding the United States to donate, grant and patent to the State free of cost for survey or price such desert lands, not exceeding one million acres in each State, as the State may cause to be irrigated, reclaimed occupied, and not less than twenty acres of each one hundred and sixty-acre tract cultivated by actual settlers, within ten years next after the passage of this Act, as thoroughly as is required of citizens who may enter under the said desert land law. Before the application of any State is allowed or any contract orPlan of proposed irrigation to be filed. agreement is executed or any segregation of any of the land from the public domain is ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, the State shall file a map of the said land proposed to be irrigated which shall exhibit a plan showing the mode of the contemplated irrigation and which than shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops and shall also show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and reclamation, Regulations.and the Secretary of the Interior may make necessary regulations for the reservation of the lands applied for by the States to date from the date of the tiling of the map and plan of irrigation, but such Reservation shall be of no force whatever if such map and plan of irrigation Contracts authorized.shall not be approved. That any State contracting under this section is hereby authorized to make all necessary contracts to cause the said lands to be reclaimed, and to induce their settlement and cultivation in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this section; but the State shall not be authorized to lease any of said lands or to use or dispose of the same in any way whatever, except to secure their reclamation, cultivation and settlement. As fast as any State may furnish satisfactory proof according to suchIssue of patents for lands reclaimed. rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, that any of said lands are irrigated, reclaimed and occupied by actual settlers, patents shall be issued to the State or its assigns for said lands so reclaimed and settled: *Provided*, That *Proviso*. Limit to one person.said States shall not sell or dispose of more than one hundred and sixty acres of said 423 lands to any one person, and any surplus of money derived by any State from the sale of said lands in excess of the cost of their reclamation, shall be held as a trust fund for and be applied to the reclamation of other desert lands in such State. That to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine any of the lands that may be selected Examination.under the provisions of this section, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, one thousand dollars. Approved, August 18, 1894.
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