Chapter 37. Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 37.— An Act Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for prior years, and for other purposes.March 12, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act: To preventChinese exclusion. unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S. sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/t/s3653/p3653). 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, 42 and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. Inspector of Furniture and other Furnishings for PublicInspector of furniture, etc.
Buildings: For actual necessary traveling expenses, six hundred dollars. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding. For the public printing and binding, and for paper for the publicCongress. printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping and engraving for both I louses of Congress, including the salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks or employees, for labor (by the day, piece or contract) and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, being for the third and fourth quarters of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, three hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave of absence to employees of the Government Printing Office, fifteen thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. Surveying and allotting Indian Reservations: For surveyIndian reservations.Surveying and allotting. and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. For repairs to the old Ford’s Theater building, in accordance withRepairs, old Ford’s Theater. the recommendations of the board of engineer officers submitted to *Post*, p. 59.Congress in House Executive Document Numbered Sixty-one of this session, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. united states courts.United States courts. For fees of witnesses, two hundred thousand dollars.Witness fees.Pay of bailiffs, etc.
For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the .southern district of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their Districts and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five, dollars per day not exceeding three days for any one term of court, twenty-five 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, fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Attorney-General to represent and protect the interestsPacific Rail roads suits. of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, thirty thousand dollars.
FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. For rent of offices for the Fish Commission, in the city of Washington, Rent, temporary offices.pending the repair of the so-called Armory building, and for the expenses of the transfer and return of the office records and equipment, two thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. 43 UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution For rent for workshops for the National Museum, and for expensesNat ional Museum.Rent, etc. of transfer from the so-called Armory building, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use fifty thousandImprovement, “Castine” and “Machias”Vol. 27, p. 731. dollars of the fund heretofore appropriated for “ Increase of the Navy” for necessary improvements of the Castine and the Machias. SENATE.Senate. For the compensation of officers, messengers, and others in the serviceEmployees. of the Senate, three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. For materials for folding, three thousand dollars.Folding materials.Fuel, oil, etc.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, two thousand three hundred dollars. For purchase of furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifteen thousand dollars.Furniture.Miscellaneous.Storage of documents. For the rent of warehouse for the storage of public documents formerly in the Maltby building, from August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, if necessary, at the rate of one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents per mouth, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars; and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby directed to allow, pass, and credit certain payments made by the SecretaryCredit of accounts. of the Senate for the transportation of public documents from the appropriation for expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and wagons for carrying the mails for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved, March 12, 1894.