Chapter 43. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 43.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.January 25, 1895. *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-five, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, three thousandContingent expenses. two hundred dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silverTransporting silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twenty 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;
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 43. 1895.637 *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been*Proviso*.Deposits. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent fractionalRecoining silver coins. silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars.
Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins: TheMinor coins.Recoinage, etc. 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 thousand five 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 uncurrentUncurrent coins. minor coins now in the Treasury. Recoinage of gold coins:Recoining gold coins. For recoinage of lightweight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, twelve thousand dollars. Assay Office at Boise City, Idaho: For incidental and contingentBoise City, Idaho, assay office. expenses, including labor, one thousand dollars.
Independent Treasury: For actual expenses of special agentsIndependent Treasury.Serial agents, etc. detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including[R. S., sec. 3640, p. 716](/us/rs/s3640/p716). examinations of cash accounts at mints, two thousand five hundred dollars.
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, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “AnVol. 27, p. 52.
Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” and the provisions of the treaty recently entered into between the*Post*, p. 1210. United States and China, twenty-five thousand dollars. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For increasedInternal Revenue.Increased clerical force. force in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the six month sending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, namely: For one statistician, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one head of division, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; six clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each per annum; one messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars.
Salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy’ collectorsAdditional deputy collectors. of internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of three hundred and three additional deputy collectors, including stationery and printing, said deputies to be employed in the same manner as now provided by law, being for the six months ending J line thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and eleven thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries and expenses of ten additional revenue agents, to beAdditional agents. employed and paid in the same manner as now provided by law, being for the six months ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen thousand dollars. 638FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 43. 1895. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For field and contingent expenses ofInquiry respecting food-fishes. the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interests of fish culture; for the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, including the expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, three thousand dollars.
And the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is herebyFish hatchery, Iowa.*Ante*, p. 386. directed to proceed with the establishment of the fish-cultural station in the State of Iowa, authorized by the Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, [R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60).and for other purposes,” the provisions of section three hundred and fifty-five.
Revised Statutes United States, requiring the prior consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the necessary site, to the contrary notwithstanding. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For continuing improvement,Galveston Harbor, Tex. under existing contracts, two hundred thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department Pension Office: For per diem, when absent from home and travelingPension Office.Per diem, etc., investigations. on duty outside the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance and any other necessary expenses, including telegrams, two *Proviso*.Chief and assistant special examiners.hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That two special examiners, or clerks, detailed and acting as chief and assistant chief of the division of special examiners, may be allowed, from this appropriation, in Expenses.addition to their salaries and in lieu of per diem and all expenses for subsistence, a sum sufficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively; and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on official business outside the District of Columbia by special direction of the Commissioner, he shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in field service.
Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for theGeological Survey.Books, etc. library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, one thousand dollars. Surveying the public lands: That the paragraph making anSurveying.*Ante*, p. 304. appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for surveys of public lands in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “lines,” where it last occurs in the proviso of said Extra rates for lands in Montana, etc.paragraph, the following words:
“*Provided further*, That in the States of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon there may be allowed, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines.” FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 43–45. 1895.639 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
For the following additional clerks in the Department of Justice, forAdditional clerks. the six months ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, namely: For three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two, and two clerks at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each; in all, seven thousand four hundred dollars. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. For fees of jurors, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.Jurors’ fees.
For fees of witnesses, five hundred thousand dollars.Witness fees. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners, etc. 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 and forty thousand dollars.
SENATE.Senate. For materials for folding, twelve thousand dollars.Folding materials. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. To pay Joel Grayson for services in the document room from JanuaryJoel Grayson. first to December thirty-first, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at seventy-five dollars per month, nine hundred dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the salaryAssistant clerk, Invalid Pensions Committee. of the second assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, at six dollars per day during the session, seven hundred and twenty-six dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
The words “during the session” as here used to be construed to mean one hundred and twenty-one days. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special andMiscellaneous, etc. select committees, seven thousand dollars. Approved, January 25, 1895. Chapter 44: To authorize the Secretary of War to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in charge of the Government lot in Oakwood Cemetery, near Chicago, Illinois. Chapter 44 28 Stat. 639 1895-01-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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