Tap any paragraph to write a margin note. Your notes collect in the Desk below the text and file under cases with @. The side-by-side margin rail opens on a larger screen.

§
Marginalia
Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 29 STAT. · May 28, 1896 · Chapter 252

Chapter 252. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes

28,882 words·~131 min read·/statutes-at-large/vol-29/chapter-252-772476·

A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.

CHAP. 252.— 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-seven, and for other purposes.May 28, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For compensation of Senators, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Pay of Senators. For mileage of Senators, forty-five thousand dollars.Mileage. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in Compensation, officers, etc. the service of the Senate, namely: Office of the Vice-President: For Secretary to the Vice-President, Vice-President’s office. two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
Chaplain: For Chaplain of the Senate, nine hundred dollars.Chaplain. Office of Secretary: For Secretary of the Senate, including Secretary of the Senate, clerks, etc. compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary’s office, seven hundred dollars; chief clerk, and financial clerk, at three thousand dollars each, and five 141FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 252. 1896. hundred dollars additional to the financial clerk, while the office is held by the present incumbent; principal clerk, minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; assistant financial clerk, and reading clerk, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, and two hundred and eighty dollars additional, while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; keeper of stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars, and two hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; two messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; page, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; in all, sixty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety cents.
Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk of printing Clerks and messengers to committees. records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the committees on Naval Affairs, Census, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agricultural Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, and clerk to Conference Minority of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For clerks to Committees on Woman Suffrage, Mines and Mining, and Clerks to committees at $2,100 a year. Construction of the Nicaragua Canal, at two thousand one hundred dollars each, six thousand three hundred dollars. For twenty-five clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred At $1,800 a year. dollars each, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars. 142 Office of Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper: For Sergeant-at-Arms Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants. and Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; horse and wagon for his use, four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars, acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, Messengers. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-six messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; assistant messenger on the floor of the Senate, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger to official reporter’s room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand two hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two carpenters to assist him, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars;
Laborers. two janitors, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; two female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; telephone page, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars Pages. and fifty cents per day each during the session, four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Post-office: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty Postmaster, etc. dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Document room: For superintendent of the document room (Amzi Document room. Superintendent, etc.
Smith), three thousand dollars; three assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Folding room: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand Folding room. Superintendent, etc. one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; nine folders, at one thousand dollars each; and nine folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Under Architect of the Capitol: For chief engineer, two Chief engineer, etc. thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; three conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; machinist and assistant conductor of elevators, one thousand dollars; two firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; four laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For thirty-eight annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of Clerks to Senators. committees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-seven thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery and newspapers, Contingent expenses. Stationery and newspapers. including five thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the office of the Secretary of the Senate, two Postage stamps. hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred dollars.
For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons Horses and wagons. for carrying the mails, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 143 For materials for folding, four thousand dollars.Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, eight thousand dollars. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating Fuel, oil, etc. apparatus, exclusive of labor, nine thousand dollars. For purchase of furniture, four thousand dollars.Furniture.
For material for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, one thousand dollars. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, one thousand dollars. For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollars.Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousand Miscellaneous items. dollars. For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, sixteen Maltby Building. thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Investigations. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, twenty-five Reporting debates. thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments. capitol police.Capitol police. For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars; three lieutenants, at Pay. one thousand two hundred dollars each; thirty privates, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; seven privates at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; and eight watchmen, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
And hereafter To police Capitol grounds. the Capitol police, under the direction of the Sergeants-at-Arms of the Senate and of the House of Representatives and of the Architect of the Capitol, shall police the Capitol building and the Capitol grounds. For contingent expenses, three hundred dollars.Contingent expenses. congressional directory.Congressional Directory. for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Pay of Members and Delegates. Delegates from Territories, one million eight hundred and three thousand dollars. For mileage, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.Mileage. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in Compensation, officers, etc. the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Office of the Speaker: For private secretary to the Speaker, Speaker’s office. two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the Speaker’s table, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Chaplain: For Chaplain of the House, nine hundred dollars.Chaplain. Office of the Clerk: For Clerk of the House of Representatives, Clerk of the House, etc. including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; for hire of horses and wagons and carriage for the use of the Clerk’s office, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for chief clerk, journal clerk, and two reading clerks, 144 at three thousand six hundred dollars each, and for the journal clerk for preparing Digest of the Rules, one thousand dollars per annum; tally clerk, three thousand dollars; printing and bill clerk, and disbursing clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; file clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; assistant disbursing clerk, assistant enrolling clerk, resolution and petition clerk, newspaper clerk, index clerk, assistant journal clerk, and librarian, at two thousand dollars each; distributing clerk, stationery clerk, and two assistant librarians, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one bookkeeper, and seven clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; document clerk, and locksmith, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two messengers in the House library, at one thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars each; telegraph operator, and assistant file clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one page, one laborer in the bathroom, and six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; assistant index clerk, during the session and eighty-nine days after its close, two hundred and six days, at six dollars per day, one thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars; page in the enrolling room, and messenger in the chief clerk’s office, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, eighty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
Under Architect of the Capitol: For chief engineer, one Chief engineer, etc. thousand seven hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four conductors of the elevators, at one thousand one hundred dollars each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol; laborer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; five firemen, at nine hundred dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborer, one thousand dollars; laborer to clean Statuary Hall and watch statuary therein, six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk to the Committee Clerks and messengers to committees. on Ways and Means, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand dollars; clerks to Committees on Accounts, Agriculture, Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Judiciary, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-Office and Post-Roads, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, War Claims, and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at two thousand dollars each; and for assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand four hundred dollars.
For two clerks to the Committees on Elections, authorized by resolution Additional clerks, Elections Committees. of the House December twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars. For eighteen clerks to committees, at six dollars each per day during Clerks to committees, session. the session, thirteen thousand and sixty-eight dollars. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the House Sergeant-at-Arms, deputy, etc. of Representatives, four thousand five hundred dollars; deputy to the Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of Doorkeeper: For Doorkeeper, three thousand five hundred Doorkeeper, assistants, etc. dollars; and for hire of horses, feed, repair of wagon and harness, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; assistant doorkeeper, superintendent of document room, assistant superintendent Superintendent of document room, etc. of document room, and Department messenger, at two thousand 145 dollars each; one special employee (John T. Chancey), one thousand five hundred dollars, one special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; document file clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant document file clerk, one thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars; clerk to Doorkeeper, and janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; nine messengers, including the messenger to the reporters’ Messengers. gallery, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; nine messengers, at one thousand dollars each; six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers in the water closet, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three laborers, including two in the cloakrooms, at six hundred dollars each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of folding Superintendent of folding room, etc. room, two thousand dollars; three clerks in folding room, one at one thousand eight hundred dollars, and two at one thousand two hundred dollars each; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; folder in sealing room, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, five hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; ten folders, at nine hundred dollars each; five folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three folders during the session, at seventy dollars per month each, eight hundred and forty dollars; fifteen folders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; night watchman, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred dollars; fourteen messengers, on the soldiers’ roll, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two chief pages, at nine hundred dollars each;
Pages. thirty-three pages, boys not under twelve years of age, during the session, including two riding pages, one telephone page, and one telegraph page, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents; two messengers during the session, at seventy dollars per month each, five hundred and sixty dollars; ten laborers during the session, at sixty dollars per month Laborers, etc. each, two thousand four hundred dollars; six laborers, known as cloakroom men, at fifty dollars per month each; horse and buggy, for Department messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-one thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents.
For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, one thousand Joel Grayson. five hundred dollars. Office of Postmaster: For Postmaster, two thousand five hundred Postmaster, assistant, etc. dollars; first assistant postmaster, two thousand dollars; ten messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three messengers, during the session, at eight hundred dollars each; four messengers, at one hundred dollars per month each, during the session, one thousand six hundred dollars; and one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, three Horses and wagons. thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Official Reporters: For five official reporters of the proceedings Reporting debates. and debates of the House, at five thousand dollars each; assistant official reporter, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand two hundred dollars. Stenographers to committees: For two stenographers to committees, Stenographers to committees. at four thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars.
That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing “During the session” to mean 121 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean four months, or one hundred and twenty-one days. For clerk hire, Members and Delegates, House of Representatives:Clerk hire, Members and Delegates. To pay Members and Delegates the amount which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire necessarily *Post,* p. 302. employed by them in the discharge of their official and representative duties, as provided in the Joint Resolution approved March third, Vol. 27, p. 757. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety-three thousand seven hundred 146 and ninety-two dollars and sixteen cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For contingent expenses, namely: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, Contingent expenses. Folding materials. paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding for the use of Members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, Vol. 28, p. 624. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), five thousand dollars.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, eight thousand dollars.Fuel and oil. For furniture, and repairs of the same, nine thousand dollars.Furniture. For packing boxes, three thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars Packing boxes. and forty cents. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous items. twenty thousand dollars. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, including Stationery. five thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, fifty thousand dollars.
For postage stamps for the Postmaster, one hundred dollars; for the Postage stamps. Clerk, two hundred dollars; for the Sergeant-at-Arms, two hundred dollars; and for the Doorkeeper, twenty-five dollars; in all, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. office of the public printer.Public printing. For Public Printer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, Public Printer, clerks, etc. two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, Contingent expenses. traveling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, three thousand dollars. library of congress.Library of Congress. For Librarian, four thousand dollars, and for thirty assistant librarians, Librarian, assistants, etc. two at two thousand five hundred dollars each, two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; eight at one thousand four hundred dollars each, one of whom shall be in charge of international exchanges; ten at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and two at six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-four thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the employment of twelve clerks at nine hundred dollars each, Clerks on copyrights. under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, necessary for the execution of the copyright law, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For purchase of books for the Library, four thousand dollars; for Purchase of books, etc. purchase of law books for the Library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars; for purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars; for expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, one thousand five hundred dollars; for purchase of files of periodicals, serials, and newspapers, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Library, five hundred dollars.Contingent expenses. For expenses of the copyright business, five hundred dollars.Copyright, expense. 147 BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars.Superintendent, etc. For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, twelve thousand and ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For procuring manure, tools, fuel, purchasing trees and shrubs, and Repairs and improvements. for labor and material in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, five thousand dollars.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousand Compensation of the President. dollars. For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, eight Vice-President. thousand dollars. For compensation to the following in the office of the President of the Executive office. Private secretary, etc. United States: Private secretary, five thousand dollars; assistant secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; one executive clerk and disbursing officer, and one executive clerk, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; steward, one thousand eight hundred dollars; other, two thousand eight hundred dollars; four doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; watchman, nine hundred dollars; and engineer, who is also the fireman, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery Contingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, eight thousand dollars. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. For three Commissioners, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; Commissioners, examiner, etc. chief examiner, three thousand dollars; secretary, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; ten clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two laborers; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; and two watchmen; in all, ninety-one thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting Expenses. under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, seven thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. For compensation of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars; Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; for six chiefs of bureaus and one translator, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two, one clerk of class two, for indexing records, one thousand four hundred dollars; sixteen clerks of class one, one of whom is to be a telegraph operator; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; ten laborers; in all, one hundred and nineteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. 148 The Secretary of State is authorized to use not exceeding three Employees on consular reports. thousand one hundred and twenty dollars for the services of employees in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of State, in the work of compiling and distributing consular and other commercial reports, out of the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, made in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen *Ante,* p. 36. *Post,* p. 590. hundred and ninety-six.
For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase Stationery, etc. of passport paper, five thousand dollars. For books and maps, and books for the library, two thousand dollars.Books, etc. For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographic Lithographer, etc. press, one thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horses, Contingent expenses. to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same, and for miscellaneous items not including the foregoing; in all, three thousand dollars.
For expenses of editing and distributing the laws enacted during Editing, etc., laws. the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For editing and distributing the Statutes at Large of the Fifty-fourth Editing, etc., Statutes at Large. Congress, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available. That hereafter the total amount appropriated in the various paragraphs Footing of paragraphs to determine amount appropriated. of an appropriation Act shall be determined by the correct footing up of the specific sums or rates appropriated in each paragraph contained therein unless otherwise expressly provided.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. of the Treasury, eight thousand dollars; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one copyist; four messengers; four assistant messengers; in all, forty-one thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: For chief clerk, including Chief clerk, clerks, etc. three hundred dollars as superintendent of Treasury building, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of Treasury building, two thousand one hundred dollars; inspector of electric-light plants, gas, and fixtures for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, one thousand nine hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four, as bookkeeper, one hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief engineer, Engineer, etc. one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; two assistant engineers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; locksmith, one thousand two hundred dollars; three firemen; five firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; coal passer, five hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; two Watchmen. lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; fifty-eight watchmen; six special watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, male, eight Laborers. hundred and forty dollars; three skilled laborers, male, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-six laborers; ten laborers, at five 149 hundred dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; ninety charwomen; foreman of cabinet shop, one thousand five hundred dollars; draftsman, Cabinet shop. one thousand two hundred dollars; eleven cabinetmakers, at one thousand dollars each; cabinetmaker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; carpenter’s helper, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the Winder Building: Engineer, one thousand dollars; Winder Building. conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one fireman; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; and six charwomen; in all, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For chief of division, three Bookkeeping and warrants division. thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand four hundred dollars; estimate and digest clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two principal bookkeepers, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; ten bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; ten clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; three clerks of class one; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, sixty thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
Division of customs: For chief of division, two thousand seven hundred Customs division. and fifty dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four, acting as drawback clerk, two hundred dollars; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and two assistant messengers; in all, twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.
Division of appointments: For chief of division, two thousand seven Appointments division. hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Division of public money: For chief of division, two thousand five Public moneys division. hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one laborer, five hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Division of loans and currency: For chief of division, two thousand Loans and currency division. five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; six clerks of class four, additional to two clerks of class four as receiving clerk of bonds and bookkeeper, one hundred dollars each; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; copyist, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; six laborers; superintendent of paper room, one thousand two hundred dollars; paper cutter, at three dollars per day; paper counter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; twenty-four paper counters and laborers, at six hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixty-two thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars.
Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: For assistant chief of division, Revenue-Cutter division. two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; and one laborer; in all, eighteen thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* Engineer in chief to rank as captain. That the chief engineer of the Revenue-Cutter Service, detailed as engineer in chief of said Service, under the provisions of the legislative appropriation Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, Vol. 28, p. 172.150 shall hereafter receive the duty pay and have the relative rank of a captain of the Revenue-Cutter Service.
Miscellaneous division: For chief of division, two thousand five hundred Miscellaneous division. dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class one; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Division of stationery, printing, and blanks: For chief of division, Stationery division. two thousand five hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; foreman of bindery, at four dollars per day; four binders, at three dollars and twenty cents per day each; and two sewers and folders at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, thirty-one thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and forty cents.
Division of mail and files: For chief of division, two thousand five Mail and files division. hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; five clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one mail messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-six thousand and forty dollars. Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division, two thousand Special agents division. four hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one messenger; in all, twelve thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Offices of disbursing clerks: For two disbursing clerks, at two thousand Disbursing clerks. five hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; and one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred dollars. Miscellaneous: For one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand Miscellaneous. dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Office of the Supervising Architect: In the construction Supervising Architect’s office. branch of the Treasury:
For Supervising Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers, Draftsmen, etc. accountants, assistants to the photographer, copyists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed in the Office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the *Proviso.* Limit. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, shall not exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount Report. paid to each.
That any draftsman or other employee engaged in the Office of the Special employees, Chicago building, may be temporarily detailed on other work. Vol. 28, p. 911. Supervising Architect, under the special appropriation made for the erection of a public building at Chicago, Illinois, may, when not employed on work pertaining to said building, be temporarily detailed by the Secretary of the Treasury to other work in said office; but while so detailed no part of his compensation shall be paid out of the appropriation for said building.
Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: For Comptroller of Comptroller’s office. the Treasury, five thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief law clerk, two thousand seven hundred dollars; four law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions, one at two thousand one hundred dollars, and three at two thousand dollars each; two confidential clerks of class four including one 151 for the Assistant Comptroller; five clerks of class three; two clerks of class one; two messengers; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: For Auditor, Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; seventeen clerks of class four, including confidential clerk to the Auditor; thirteen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; and four laborers; in all, one hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For clerical force for the liquidation of manifests of vessels and cars Additional force on manifests. arriving in the United States from foreign countries with merchandise intended for consumption, namely: For one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; ten clerks at one thousand dollars each; and three clerks at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Office of Auditor for War Department:
For Auditor, four Office of Auditor for War Department. thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; forty-three clerks of class three; sixty-six clerks of class two; fifty-three clerks of class one; eleven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; and eight laborers; in all, three hundred and one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purpose of restoring and repairing the worn-out and defaced Restoring rolls, etc. rolls and vouchers in the office of the Auditor for the War Department, twenty-one thousand dollars. Office of Auditor for Navy Department: For Auditor, four Office of Auditor for Navy Department. thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; one clerk of class four; ten clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; six clerks at one thousand dollars each; five clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, sixty-eight thousand and eighty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department: For Auditor, Office of Auditor for Interior Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; nineteen clerks of class three; thirty-nine clerks of class two; thirty clerks of class one; eleven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; ten laborers; and one female laborer four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-four thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Office of Auditor for State and other Departments: For Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; for chief of division of judicial accounts, two thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; ten clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two copyists; one messenger; and three laborers; in all, eighty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: For Auditor, Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks of class four; additional to 152 one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; fifty-nine clerks of class three; seventy-two clerks of class two; eighty-six clerks of class one; sixty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; twenty money-order assorters, at nine hundred dollars each; thirty money-order assorters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-three money-order assorters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty-three male laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; three female laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; and ten charwomen; in all, five hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
For additional force for bringing up work of assorting and checking Additional force, money orders. money orders, in arrears, and for increased business, namely: For five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; twelve clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the Treasurer: For Treasurer of the United States, Treasurer’s office. six thousand dollars; assistant treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, three thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; five chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; vault clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand one hundred dollars; two tellers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk for the Treasurer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-five clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; coin clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; twenty clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty-seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-five expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine clerks, at seven hundred dollars each; mail messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; six messengers; six assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; seven charwomen; three pressmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one compositor and pressman, at three dollars and twenty cents per day; eight separators, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; seven feeders, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty cents.
For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be Redemption of currency. reimbursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant teller, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; sixteen clerks of class one; one skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; and one charwoman; in all, sixty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the Register of the Treasury: For Register, four Register’s office. thousand dollars; Assistant Register, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; twenty-four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; and four laborers; in all, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: For Comptroller Office of Comptroller of the Currency. of the Currency, five thousand dollars; Deputy Comptroller, two thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; eight 153 clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; eleven clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; engineer, one thousand dollars; one fireman; three laborers; and two night watchmen; in all, one hundred and three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank Special examinations, etc. plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, one thousand six hundred dollars. For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the National currency expenses. national banks), namely: For superintendent, two thousand two hundred dollars; teller, bookkeeper, and assistant bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one assistant messenger; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For Commissioner Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. of Internal Revenue, six thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, three thousand two hundred dollars; chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; two heads of divisions, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; five heads of divisions, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; superintendent of stamp vault, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-four clerks of class four; twenty-four clerks of class three; thirty-four clerks of class two; twenty-four clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; and thirteen laborers; in all, two hundred and fifty-nine thousand and ninety dollars.
For one stamp agent, one thousand six hundred dollars, and one Stamp agent. counter, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Light House Board: For chief clerk of the Light-House Board, Light-House Board. two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; laborer, six hundred dollars; assistant civil engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Office of Life-Saving Service: For General Superintendent of Life-Saving Service. the Life-Saving Service, four thousand dollars; assistant general superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk, two thousand dollars; topographer and hydrographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Navigation: For Commissioner of Navigation, three Bureau of Navigation. thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; additional to one clerk designated as deputy commissioner, two hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-six thousand and eighty dollars. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For Director of Bureau, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant director, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; accountant, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two 154 clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Bureau of Statistics: For officer in charge of the Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Statistics. three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; statistical clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand five hundred dollars; five clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one messenger, one assistant messenger; one laborer; and one female laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of the services of experts, and for other necessary Experts, etc. expenditures connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and foreign commerce of the United States, eight hundred dollars. Secret Service Division: For one chief, three thousand five hundred Secret service division. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; and one attendant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of Construction of Standard Weights and Measures:Standard weights and measures. For construction and verification of standard weights and measures, including metric standards, for the custom-houses, other offices of the United States, and for the several States, and mural standards of length in Washington, District of Columbia: For adjuster, one thousand five hundred dollars; mechanician, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant messenger; and one watchman; in all, four thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
For purchase of materials and apparatus, and incidental expenses, Expenses. five hundred dollars. For expenses of the attendance of the American member of the International Committee on Weights and Measures. Vol. 20, p. 709. International Committee on Weights and Measures at the general conference provided for in the convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, four hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of the Director of the Mint:
For Director, four thousand Office of Director of the Mint. five hundred dollars; examiner, and computer, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assayer, two thousand two hundred dollars; adjuster of accounts, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; translator, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one copyist; one messenger; assistant in laboratory, one thousand dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, Freight. between mints and assay offices, sixteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended Contingent expenses. under the direction of the Director, namely: For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, and other necessaries, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints and assay offices for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins and ores, balances, weights, and incidentals, four hundred dollars. For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production of Statistics. the precious metals in the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. Office of Supervising Surgeon-General Marine-Hospital Marine-Hospital Service. Service: For Supervising Surgeon-General, four thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk and translator, one thousand two hundred 155 dollars; hospital steward (employed as chemist), one thousand two hundred dollars: six copyists; one messenger, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and one laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Marine-Hospital Service.
Office Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat Inspection Steamboat-Inspection Service. Service: For Supervising Inspector-General, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class one; one messenger; in all, ten thousand five hundred and forty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Steamboat-Inspection Service. Bureau of Immigration: For Commissioner-General of Immigration, Immigration Bureau. four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; confidential clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; statistician and stenographer, with power to act as immigrant inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, ten thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, which, together with other expenses of regulating immigration, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses regulating immigration.
For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, Contingent expenses. including all buildings under control of the Treasury in Washington, District of Columbia, namely: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus, Stationery. twenty-six thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union Postage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of Newspapers. reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand dollars.
For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary Investigations. traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including the temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, accountants, or other expert services outside of the District of Columbia when not properly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, three thousand Freight, etc. five hundred dollars.
For rent of buildings, three thousand nine hundred and seventy Rent. dollars. For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to be Horses and wagons. used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. For purchase of ice, including ice for the office of the Auditor for the Ice. Post-Office Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of file holders and file cases, two thousand dollars.Files.
For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets Fuel. and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lights. gas brackets, candles, candlesticks, drop lights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, fourteen thousand dollars. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and Miscellaneous. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street, and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, 156 wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, eight thousand dollars.
For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, Carpets, etc. rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, three thousand dollars. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, seven thousand dollars. collecting internal revenue.Collecting internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors and Collectors, etc. deputy collectors and clerks, including transportation of public funds and also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen hundred and Vol. 24, p. 209. Vol. 24, p. 218. eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported, one million seven hundred and ten thousand dollars; *Provided,* That the number of deputy collectors *Proviso.* No increase of employees or salaries. and clerks employed in the collection of internal revenue shall not be increased, nor shall the salary of said officers and employees be increased beyond the salaries paid during the last fiscal year.
For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses Agents, surveyors, etc. of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, one million nine hundred thousand dollars. independent treasury.Independent Treasury. Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: For assistant Offices of assistant treasurers. Baltimore. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three vault watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Boston: For assistant Boston. treasurer, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk, two thousand dollars; receiving teller, two thousand dollars; first bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; second bookkeeper, one thousand four hundred dollars; specie clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant specie clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; money clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; redemption clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, eight hundred dollars; messenger and chief watchman, one thousand and sixty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; three watchmen and janitors, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Chicago: For assistant Chicago. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, assorting teller, and receiving teller, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two coin coupon and currency clerks, at one thousand five hundred 157 dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; janitor, six hundred dollars; and three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: For assistant Cincinnati. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; check clerk, and interest clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger, six hundred dollars; watchman, one hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: For assistant New Orleans. treasurer, four thousand dollars; chief clerk and cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; receiving teller and paying teller, at two thousand dollars each; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; coin and redemption clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; porter, five hundred dollars; day watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at New York: For assistant New York. treasurer, eight thousand dollars; deputy assistant treasurer and cashier, four thousand two hundred dollars; assistant cashier and chief clerk, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier and vault clerk, three thousand two hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at three thousand one hundred dollars each; chief paying teller, three thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand seven hundred dollars each; authorities clerk, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief of division, and chief bookkeeper, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; correspondence clerk, and assistant chief of division, at two thousand three hundred dollars each; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; assistant paying teller, and assistant chief of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; minor coin teller, and two clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at two thousand dollars each; twelve clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; seven clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; thirteen clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; eleven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; money counter, nine hundred dollars; money counter, eight hundred dollars; two messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred dollars each; two hall men, at one thousand dollars each; two porters, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of building, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief detective, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant detective, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand and fifty dollars; assistant engineer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; six watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred and ninety dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: For assistant Philadelphia. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; bond and authorities clerk, and vault clerk, at one thousand nine hundred 158 dollars each; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; coin teller, one thousand seven hundred dollars; redemption teller, and receiving teller, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent messenger and chief watchman, one thousand one hundred dollars; four counters, at nine hundred dollars each; and seven watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-two thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Saint Louis: For assistant Saint Louis. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant bookkeepers, coin teller, and assistant teller, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant coin teller, assistant bookkeeper, and messenger, at one thousand dollars each; two day watchmen and coin counters, and one night watchman, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: For assistant San Francisco. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant cashier, receiving teller, and assistant bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; coin teller and one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; and four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examiners Special 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 R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718. and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, three thousand dollars. For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and other Paper for checks. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, ten thousand dollars. united states mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
Mint at Carson, Nevada: For superintendent, three thousand Carson. dollars; assayer, and melter and refiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, cashier, assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and weigh clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, fifteen thousand dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage of operative Contingent expenses. officers, and loss on sale of sweeps, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Mint at Denver, Colorado: For assayer in charge, two thousand Denver. five hundred dollars; melter, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant assayer, and calculating clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen, twenty thousand dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.Contingent expenses. 159 Until the mint and assay office at Denver shall become a coinage Assay office to continue until coinage mint established.
Vol. 28, p. 673. mint in accordance with law, the present mint shall be continued as an assay office, and the business now transacted at said mint shall be continued therein, and the appropriations heretofore and herein made shall be applicable to such mint. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: For superintendent, three New Orleans. thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; cashier, and chief clerk, at two thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; abstract clerk, bookkeeper, weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; register of deposits, warrant clerk, and assistant weigh clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, seventy-four thousand dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage of operative Contingent expenses. officers, and loss on sale of sweeps, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mint at Philadelphia: For superintendent, four thousand five Philadelphia. hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and engraver, at three thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, abstract clerk, and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, warrant clerk, and register of deposits, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred and eighty-five Wages. thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery Contingent expenses. and repairs, expenses annual assay commission, wastage of operative officers and loss on sale of sweeps (and purchases, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value, of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint), sixty-five thousand dollars. Mint at San Francisco, California: For superintendent, four San Francisco. thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, and cashier, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, abstract clerk, weigh clerk, warrant clerk, assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, assistant coiner, and register of deposits, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assayer’s computation clerk, assistant weigh clerk, and superintendent’s calculation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and seventy Wages. thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage of operative Contingent expenses. officers and loss on sale of sweeps, thirty-five thousand dollars. Assay office at Boise, Idaho: For assayer, who shall also perform Boise. the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Wages.
For incidental and contingent expenses, three thousand dollars.Contingent expenses. Assay office at Charlotte, North Carolina: For assayer and melter, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant assayer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.Charlotte. For wages of workmen, one thousand and eighty dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, nine hundred and twenty Contingent expenses. dollars. 160 Assay office at Helena, Montana:
For assayer in charge, two Helena. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; melter, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen, thirteen thousand dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.Contingent expenses. Assay office at New York: For superintendent, four thousand New York. five hundred dollars; assayer, and melter and refiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, assistant melter and refiner, and weighing clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; warrant clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; cashier, two thousand dollars; bar clerk, abstract clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; register of deposits, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s first assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage of operative Contingent expenses. officers and loss on sale of sweeps, ten thousand dollars. Assay office at Saint Louis, Missouri: For assayer in charge, Saint Louis. two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For wages of workmen (including janitor), one thousand dollars.Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty Contingent expenses. dollars. government in the territories.Territories.
Territory of Alaska: For governor, three thousand dollars; Alaska. judge, three thousand dollars; attorney, marshal, and clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; five commissioners, one of whom shall reside at Kodiak, in the District of Alaska, at one thousand dollars each; six deputy marshals, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Territory, stationery, Contingent expenses. lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, two thousand dollars.
Territory of Arizona:: For governor, two thousand six hundred Arizona. dollars; chief justice and three associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the Contingent expenses. governor, five hundred dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, messenger, postage, stationery, Legislative expenses. fuel, lights, printing, and incidental expenses for secretary’s office; per diem of members of the legislature, mileage, legislative supplies, pay of officers of legislature, rent, furniture, printing, and incidentals for legislative assembly, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Territory of New Mexico:: For governor, two thousand six New Mexico. hundred dollars; chief justice and four associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the Contingent expenses. governor, five hundred dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, light, fuel, ice, stationery, Legislative expenses. record files, record casings, printing, postage, clerks, messenger 161 and porter, and incidentals in secretary’s office; compensation of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, printing, stationery, record books, rent, furniture, and incidentals for legislative assembly, twenty-six thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the next session *Provisos.* Sessions of assembly. of the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico shall commence on the third Monday in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and each succeeding session thereof shall commence on the third Monday in January of every odd-numbered year thereafter: *Provided further,* That no other officer of either house of said legislative Restriction on appointment of officers, etc. assembly shall be elected or appointed, or paid out of any moneys appropriated by the Congress of the United States, or by the legislative assembly of said Territory than such as may be provided for by the laws of the United States, except a translator and an interpreter.
For repairs of the Adobe Palace at Santa Fe, New Mexico, two Repairs to Adobe Palace. thousand dollars. Territory of Oklahoma:: For governor, two thousand six hundred Oklahoma. dollars; chief justice and four associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; nineteen thousand four hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the Contingent expenses. governor, one thousand dollars. For legislative expenses, namely:
For rent of office, furniture, fuel, Legislative expenses. lights, stationery, clerk hire, printing, postage, ice, record casings, messenger, porter, and other incidental expenses of the secretary’s office; for pay of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the legislature and committees, furniture, stationery, printing, fuel, lights, and incidentals, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,* That the legislative assembly shall *Proviso.* Seat of government not to be changed. not consider any proposition or pass any bill to remove the seat of government of said Territory from its present location.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. of War, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four messengers; seven assistant messengers; eight laborers; carpenter, and foreman of laborers, at one thousand dollars each; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; hostler, six hundred dollars; two hostlers, and one watchman, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, ninety-four thousand three hundred dollars.
Record and Pension Office: For two clerks of division, at two Record and Pension Office. thousand dollars each; twenty-one clerks of class four; forty-three clerks of class three; ninety-three clerks of class two; one hundred and ninety-three clerks of class one; ninety-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer for night duty, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; five messengers; thirty-one assistant messengers; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; five watchmen; superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and sixteen laborers; in all, six hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty dollars; and all employees provided for by this paragraph for the Record and Pension Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and the Secretary of War shall, Military history. upon the application of the governor of any State, furnish to such governor a transcript of the military history of any regiment or company 162 of his State, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, at the expense of such State.
Office of the Adjutant-General: For chief clerk, two thousand Adjutant-General’s Office. dollars; twelve clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; fifty-eight clerks of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four messengers; eighteen assistant messengers, and three watchmen; in all, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Office of the Inspector-General: For one clerk of class four; Inspector-General’s Office. two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of the Judge-Advocate-General: For chief clerk, two Judge-Advocate-General’s Office. thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one copyist; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Signal Office: For one clerk of class four; two clerks of class one; Signal Office. one messenger; one laborer; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
Office of the Quartermaster-General: For chief clerk, two Quartermaster-General’s Office. thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; twenty-three clerks of class two; thirty-nine clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six skilled typewriters, at one thousand dollars each; female messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; four messengers; nine assistant messengers; two laborers; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant civil engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; experienced builder and mechanic, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Office of the Commissary-General: For chief clerk, two thousand Commissary-General’s Office. dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; fourteen clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, forty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Office of the Surgeon-General: For chief clerk, two thousand Surgeon-General’s Office. dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; anatomist, one thousand six hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, for night duty, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; twelve assistant messengers; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), two hundred and fifty dollars; five laborers; chemist, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; principal assistant librarian, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Office of the Paymaster-General: For chief clerk, two thousand Paymaster-General’s Office. dollars; five clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; four laborers; in all, thirty-four thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Office of the Chief of Ordnance: For chief clerk, two thousand Ordnance Office. dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of the Chief of Engineers: For chief clerk, two thousand Engineer Office. dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand 163 dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other Draftsmen, etc. services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided,* That the expenditures on *Proviso.* Limit, etc. this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, shall not exceed seventy two thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
Office of Publication of Records of the Rebellion: For Records of the Rebellion. one agent, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one copyist; two assistant messengers; two watchmen; and one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as Postage stamps. required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus, Contingent expenses. including purchase of professional and scientific books, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture, and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by the Adjutant-General’s Office, the Surgeon-General’s Office, office of Records of the Rebellion, and Record and Pension Office of the War Department; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, and other absolutely necessary expenses, forty-five thousand dollars.
For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, Stationery. twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent of buildings for use of the War Department as follows: for Rent. medical dispensary, Surgeon-General’s Office, one thousand dollars; for the Rebellion Records Office, one thousand two hundred dollars; for Record and Pension Office, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. public buildings and grounds.Public buildings and grounds.
Office of Public Buildings and Grounds: For one clerk, one Clerk, messenger, etc. thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger; public gardener, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For overseers, draftsmen, foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers Overseers, etc. employed in the public grounds, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For day watchmen as follows: One in Franklin Park; one in Lafayette Watchmen. Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one at Iowa Circle; one at Thomas Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one at McPherson and Farragut parks; one at Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two at Henry and Seaton parks and reservations east of Botanic Garden; one at Mount Vernon Park and adjacent reservations; one for the greenhouses and nursery; one at grounds south of Executive Mansion; one at Garfield Park; eighteen in all, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
For night watchmen, as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds; one in Judiciary Park; one in Henry and Seaton parks and reservations 164 east of Botanic Garden; and one in Garfield Park; five in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. For watchman, to care for the monument and wharf at Wakefield, Wakefield, Va. Monument and wharf. Virginia, three hundred dollars; the wharf to be used by the public under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed therefor by the Secretary of War.
For contingent and incidental expenses, five hundred dollars.Contingent expenses. state, war, and navy department building.State, War, and Navy Department building. Office of the superintendent: For one clerk of class one; chief Clerk, engineers, etc. engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; eight assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; fifty-eight watchmen; carpenter, one thousand dollars; machinist, plumber, and painter, at nine hundred dollars each; four skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-eight firemen; ten conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty laborers; and eighty charwomen; in all, one hundred and twenty-one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
For fuel, lights, miscellaneous items, and repairs, thirty-seven thousand Fuel, lights, etc. five hundred dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary Pay of Secretary, Assistant, etc. of the Navy, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; appointment clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Appointment clerk. *Post,* p. 285. one clerk of class four; one clerk of class four in charge of files and records; three clerks of class three; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand dollars; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; two messengers; three assistant messengers; two messenger boys, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; one laborer; one clerk of class one, and one laborer (for Inspection Board); one clerk of class one (for Examining and Retiring Board); in all, fifty thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Bureau of Navigation: For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred Bureau of Navigation. dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; three laborers; in all, twenty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion For two clerks of Naval Records of the Rebellion. class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
For continuing the publication of the Official Naval Records of the Continuing publication. Vol. 28, p. 190. Rebellion, both Union and Confederate, in accordance with the plan adopted by the Secretary of the Navy under the Act of Congress approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen thousand dollars. For printing, binding, and wrapping one thousand additional copies Additional copies vols. 1, 2, 3, and 4. of series one, volumes one, two, three, and four, for supplying officer 165 of the Navy who have not received the work, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Library of the Navy Department: For one clerk, one thousand Library. dollars; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Judge-Advocate-General, United States Navy For two Judge-Advocate-General’s Office. clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one laborer; in all, ten thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Hydrographic Office: For two clerks of class two; one clerk of Hydrographic Office. class one; one assistant messenger; one watchman; in all, five thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For draftsmen, engravers, assistants, nautical experts, computers, Services. custodian of archives, copyists, copper-plate printers, apprentices, and laborers in the Hydrographic Office, forty thousand dollars. For purchase of copper plates, steel plates, chart paper, electrotyping Materials, etc. copper plates; cleaning copper plates; tools, instruments, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; data for charts and sailing directions; reduction of charts by photography; photolithography charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; expert marine, meteorological, and other work in the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of, compiling, and arranging data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, and surveying, thirty thousand dollars.
For rent of building and rooms for printing presses, draftsmen, and Rent. engravers, storage of copper plates and materials used in the construction and printing of charts; repairs and heating of the same, and for gas, water, and telephone rates, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Contingent expenses. Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, and Port Townsend, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight, express, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, including one thousand dollars for rent of New York office, seventeen thousand dollars.
For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showing Monthly Pilot Chart, Pacific Ocean. graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific Coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; and the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; including the expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for, and printing and mailing the chart; the employment of three nautical experts at one thousand six hundred dollars each, and two tabulators and copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, ten thousand dollars.
Bureau of Equipment: For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred Bureau of Equipment. dollars; two clerks of class two; two copyists; one assistant messenger, and one laborer; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Nautical Almanac Office: For the following assistants, in preparing Nautical Almanac Office. for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely: Three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist and 166 typewriter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the Computers. American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, seven thousand dollars. Naval Observatory: For pay of three assistant astronomers, one Naval Observatory. at two thousand dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; instrument maker; one thousand five hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five computers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; carpenter, and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; two firemen; six watchmen; one foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and eleven laborers; in all, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
For miscellaneous computations, one thousand two hundred dollars.Computations. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two Apparatus. thousand dollars. For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photographs, Books, etc. and fixtures for the library, one thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, Repairs, etc. and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for Miscellaneous. the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Bureau of Steam Engineering: For chief clerk, one thousand Bureau of Steam Engineering. eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; two laborers; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Construction and Repair: For chief clerk, one Bureau of Construction and Repair. thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Bureau of Ordnance: For chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred Bureau of Ordnance. dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one thousand dollars; one copyist; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For chief clerk, one thousand Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two stenographers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; eleven clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, thirty-six thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
For chief clerk, one thousand Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; janitor, six hundred dollars; 167 and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars (for Naval Dispensary); in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Bureau of Yards and Docks: For one chief clerk, one thousand Bureau of Yards and Docks. eight hundred dollars; draftsman and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, ten thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
For professional books and periodicals for Department library, five Books, etc. hundred dollars. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing Contingent expenses. materials, horses and wagons, to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, eleven thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. the Interior, eight thousand dollars;
First Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and two hundred and fifty dollars additional as superintendent of the Patent Office building; nine members of a board of pension appeals, to be appointed Board of pension appeals. Land inspector. by the Secretary of the Interior, at two thousand dollars each; special land inspector connected with the administration of the public-land service, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and to be subject to his direction, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk in charge of documents, two thousand dollars; custodian, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand dollars; six clerks, chiefs of division, one of whom shall be disbursing clerk, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; twenty-five clerks of class one, two of whom shall be stenographers or typewriters; returns office clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; female clerk to be designated by the President to sign land patents, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; seven copyists; telephone operator, six hundred dollars; three messengers; six assistant messengers; fourteen laborers; two skilled Messengers, etc. mechanics, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; one laborer, six hundred dollars; one packer, six hundred and sixty dollars; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four charwomen; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; forty watchmen; additional Watchmen, etc. to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; and seven firemen; in all, two hundred and twenty thousand and seventy dollars; to Distributing Census reports. enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ laborers in the work of distributing the reports of the Eleventh Census, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be immediately available.
Office of Assistant Attorney-General: For assistant attorney, Assistant Attorney-General’s office. two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant attorneys, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; thirteen assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class three, one of whom shall act as stenographer; one clerk of class one; and one clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, forty-two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of one special land inspector connected Per diem, etc., land inspector. with the administration of the public-land service, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not 168 exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. General Land Office: For the Commissioner of the General General Land Office.
Land Office, five thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be authorized to sign such letters, papers, and documents, and to perform such other duties as may be directed by the Commissioner, and shall act as Commissioner in the absence of that officer or in case of a vacancy in the office of Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices, at two thousand dollars each; recorder, two thousand dollars; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two law examiners, at two thousand dollars each; ten principal examiners of land claims and contests, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-one clerks of class four; fifty-seven clerks of class three; fifty-nine clerks of class two; sixty-one clerks of class one; forty-nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-five copyists; two messengers; nine assistant messengers; twelve laborers; and six packers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, four hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks detailed Per diem, etc., investigations. to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct; also of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, seven thousand dollars.
For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, four Law books. hundred dollars. For connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in Maps. the General Land Office, fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; and of the United States maps nine hundred and seventy-six copies shall be delivered to the General Land Office, four thousand six hundred and sixty-four copies shall be delivered to the Senate, and nine thousand three hundred and sixty copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives for distribution.
Mine Inspectors: For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized Mine inspectors. Vol. 26, p. 1104. by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars. For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Indian Office: For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, four thousand Indian Office. dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; financial clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division, two thousand dollars; principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; twelve clerks of class three; one draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; ten clerks of class two; twenty-three clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twelve copyists; one messenger; two assistant messengers; one laborer; female messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and two charwomen; in all, one hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Pension Office: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousand Pension Office. dollars; First Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; 169 Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand dollars; fifty-eight principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; twenty assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; seventy clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred and fifty clerks of class two; four hundred and thirty-eight clerks of class one; two hundred and eighty-seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one hundred and seventy-five copyists; thirty-three messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeants of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; three firemen; twenty-five laborers; five female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; and fifteen charwomen; in all, two million and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.
For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outside Per diem, etc., investigations. 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, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* Chief and assistant special examiners.
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 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; and the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For an additional force of one hundred and fifty special examiners for Additional special examiners. one year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. For the purchase of statutes and other necessary law books for the Books.
Pension Office, two hundred and fifty dollars. Patent Office: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand Patent Office. dollars: Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirty-two principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; thirty-four first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; thirty-eight second assistant examiners, at one thousand six 170 hundred dollars each; forty-three third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; fifty-two fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; financial clerk, two thousand dollars, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine; librarian, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; five clerks of class four, one of whom shall act as application clerk; machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; six clerks of class three, one of whom shall be translator of languages; fourteen clerks of class two; fifty-one clerks of class one; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; messenger and property clerk, one thousand dollars; twenty-five permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five model attendants, at one thousand dollars each; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; sixty copyists, five of whom may be copyists of drawings; seventy-six copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messengers; twenty assistant messengers; forty-five laborers, at six hundred dollars each; forty-five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; fifteen messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, six hundred and ninety-four thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
For purchase of professional and scientific books and expenses of Books. transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, two thousand dollars. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, Official Gazette. and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, ninety-five thousand nine hundred dollars. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents, for Copies of drawings, etc. producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding Vol. 28, p. 620. *Proviso.* Work at Government Printing Office. and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided,* That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, fifty-nine thousand dollars.
For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions Investigating use of inventions, etc. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau, Berne. International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, seven hundred dollars. Bureau of Education:
For Commissioner of Education, three Bureau of Education. thousand dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; specialist in foreign educational systems, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in education as a preventive of pauperism and crime, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; translator, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven copyists; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, at four hundred dollars; and one laborer, at three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifty thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For one clerk of class four, to obtain, receive, collate, and, under the Agricultural colleges statistics. direction of the Commissioner of Education, to furnish the Secretary of the Interior with the information in relation to the operations and work 171 of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts that will enable the Secretary to discharge the duties imposed on the Secretary of the Interior by the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 26, p. 417. ninety, to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Vol. 12, p. 503. one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current Books, etc. publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, five hundred dollars. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, Statistics. two thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, Distributing documents, etc. and for the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, text-books and educational reference books, articles of school furniture, and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for procuring anthropological instruments of precision, and for repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
The Commissioner of Education is hereby authorized to prepare and Bulletin of higher education, etc., to be prepared. publish a bulletin of the Bureau of Education as to the condition of higher education, technical and industrial education, facts as to compulsory attendance in the schools, and such other educational topics in the several States of the Union and in foreign countries as may be deemed of value to the educational interests of the States, and there shall be printed one edition of not exceeding twelve thousand five hundred copies of each issue of said bulletin for distribution by the Bureau Distribution. of Education, the expense of printing and binding such bulletin to be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for the Department of the Interior.
Office of Commissioner of Railroads: For Commissioner, four Commissioner of Railroads. thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For examination of books and accounts of certain subsidized railroad Examining books, etc. companies, and inspecting roads, shops, machinery, and equipment thereof, one thousand dollars.
Office of the Architect of the Capitol: For Architect, four Architect of the Capitol. thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; compensation to disbursing clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Congressional Library and Supreme Court, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars; three laborers for cleaning rotunda, corridors, and dome, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars.
Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Geological Survey. Director, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-one thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. 172 For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior Contingent expenses. and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission:
For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food and shoeing for horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases, cases for drawings, file holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, seventy-three thousand dollars. For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several Stationery. bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Survey, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For professional and scientific books and books to complete broken Books, etc. sets, five hundred dollars. For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely: Rent. For the Bureau of Education, four thousand dollars; Geological Survey, ten thousand dollars; additional rooms for the engraving and printing division of the Geological Survey, one thousand two hundred dollars; Indian Office, six thousand dollars; storage of documents, two thousand dollars; Civil Service Commission, four thousand dollars;
Patent Office model exhibit, thirteen thousand dollars; in all, forty thousand two hundred dollars. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and its Postage stamps. bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, three thousand dollars. surveyors-general and their clerks.Surveyors-general, etc. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, two thousand dollars; Arizona. and for the clerks in his office, five thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of California, two thousand dollars; and for the California. clerks in his office, twelve thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand dollars. For books, pay of messenger, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Colorado, two thousand dollars; Colorado. and for the clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, pay of messenger, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand six hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Florida, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Florida. and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel, books, messenger, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of Idaho, two thousand dollars; and for the Idaho. clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, three thousand six hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Louisiana. and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel, books, stationery, printing, binding, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Minnesota, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Minnesota. and for the clerks in his office, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel, books, stationery, printing, binding, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. 173 For surveyor-general of Montana, two thousand dollars; and for the Montana. clerks in his office eleven thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of Nevada, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Nevada. and for the clerks in his office, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, two thousand New Mexico. dollars; and for clerks in his office, eight thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of North Dakota, two thousand dollars; and for North Dakota. the clerks in his office five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Oregon, two thousand dollars; and for the Oregon. clerks in his office six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of South Dakota, two thousand dollars; and for South Dakota. clerks in his office, eight thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, binding records, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of the State of Utah, two thousand dollars; and Utah. for the clerks in his office six thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Washington, two thousand dollars; and for Washington. the clerks in his office, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of Wyoming, two thousand dollars; and for the Wyoming. clerks in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand three hundred dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Office Postmaster-General: For compensation of the Postmaster-General, Pay of Office Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. eight thousand dollars; chief clerk, Post-Office Department, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; appointment clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one curator of museum, one thousand dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; page, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand and twenty dollars.
Office Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Assistant Attorney-General’s office. Department: Law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; 174 two clerks of class one; assistant messenger; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Office First Assistant Postmaster-General: For First Assistant First Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of salary and allowance division, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of post-office supplies, two thousand dollars; superintendent of free delivery, three thousand dollars; assistant Free delivery. superintendent of free delivery, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six assistant messengers; nine laborers; two pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; superintendent of the money-order system, three thousand five hundred Money-order system. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; six clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; engineer, one thousand dollars; assistant engineer for additional building for Auditor for Post-Office Department, one thousand dollars; one fireman; four watchmen; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four charwomen; female laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; and ten laborers; superintendent of Dead-Letter Office, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Dead-Letter Office. one clerk of class four, who shall be chief clerk; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; twenty-four clerks of class one; twenty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirty-three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; six laborers; four female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, two hundred and sixty-three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Office Second Assistant Postmaster-General:
For Second Second Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two Foreign mails. thousand dollars; chief of division of inspection, two thousand dollars; superintendent of railway adjustment division, two thousand dollars; ten clerks of class four; thirty-three clerks of class three; eighteen clerks of class two; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; eighteen clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; two laborers; superintendent of foreign mails, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; in all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Office Third Assistant Postmaster-General: For Third Third Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division of postage stamps, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of finance division, who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster-General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; sixteen clerks of class three; twenty-two clerks of class two; twenty-six clerks of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; six laborers; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General: For Fourth Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of appointment division, two thousand dollars; chief of bond division, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; page, three hundred and sixty dollars; chief post-office inspector, three thousand dollars; chief clerk Chief inspector. of mail depredations, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; 175 stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and two assistant messengers; in all, eighty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Office of topographer: For topographer, two thousand five hundred Topographer, draftsmen, etc. dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; examiner, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; magnonumber, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant magnonumber, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; two watchmen; four copyists of maps, at nine hundred dollars each; and one charwoman; in all, thirty-one thousand and twenty dollars.
Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk and superintendent Disbursing clerk, etc. of buildings, two thousand one hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; one fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and one fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at nine hundred dollars each; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two firemen; carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant carpenter, one thousand dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; nineteen watchmen; twenty-two laborers; plumber and gas fitting maker, at nine hundred dollars each; and fifteen charwomen; and for force in the additional building as follows:
Four watchmen; two firemen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers; and six charwomen; and the following additional force for additional building used for the storage of post-office supplies: Two watchmen; two firemen; one laborer; and one charwoman; in all, sixty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department,Contingent expenses. including the additional building occupied by the money order division of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, and the additional building used for storage of post-office supplies, namely:
For stationery and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free-penalty envelopes, eight thousand dollars. For fuel and for repairs to heating apparatus, nine thousand dollars. For gas and electric lights, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For plumbing and gas and electric-light fixtures, one thousand five hundred dollars. For telegraphing, two thousand five hundred dollars. For painting, two thousand five hundred dollars. For carpets and matting, including one thousand dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, three thousand dollars.
For furniture, including one thousand dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness to be used only for official purposes, one thousand three hundred dollars. For hardware, five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including two thousand dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, twelve thousand dollars. For rent of topographer’s office, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Rent. for rent of a suitable building or buildings for the use of the Money-Order Office of the Post-Office Department, eight thousand dollars; for rent of building for use of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, eleven thousand dollars; for rent of a suitable building for the storage of post-office supplies, four thousand dollars; for rent of a suitable building for storing records of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, including Official Postal Guide.176 not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Executive Departments, twenty-five thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, cause the contract for furnishing the Contract. Official Postal Guide to be let for a term of four years. For miscellaneous expenses in the topographer’s office in the preparation Post-route maps. and publication of the post-route maps, Sale. eighteen thousand dollars.
And the Postmaster-General may authorize the sale of post-route maps to the public at cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps. For postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is Postage stamps. not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, five hundred and fifty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
Office of the Attorney-General: For compensation of the Pay of Attorney-General, Assistants, Solicitor-General, etc. Attorney-General, eight thousand dollars; Solicitor-General, seven thousand dollars; four Assistant Attorneys-General, at five thousand dollars each; Assistant Attorney-General of the Post-Office Department, four thousand dollars; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, four thousand five hundred dollars; Solicitor for the Department of State, three thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief clerk Clerks. and ex officio superintendent of the building, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographic clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three stenographic clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; six clerks of class four; attorney in charge of pardons, two thousand four hundred dollars; additional for disbursing and appointment clerk, five hundred dollars; chief of division of accounts, two thousand two hundred dollars; seven clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; telegraph operator and stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; nine copyists; one messenger; five assistant messengers; four laborers; three watchmen; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two conductors of the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight charwomen; superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and three firemen; in all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Department, namely:Contingent expenses. For furniture and repairs, five hundred dollars. For law books for library of the Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For stationery, two thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, six thousand four hundred dollars.
For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand dollars. Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury: For Solicitor of Solicitor of the Treasury. the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Solicitor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. 177 For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, three hundred Law books. dollars.
For stationery for office of Solicitor of the Treasury, one hundred Stationery. and fifty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. For compensation of the Commissioner of Labor, five thousand dollars; Commissioner, clerks, etc. chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand dollars; four statistical experts, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; messenger; one assistant messenger; three watchmen; two laborers; two charwomen; six special agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; ten special agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four special agents, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and one thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For per diem, in lieu of subsistence of special agents and employees Per diem, special agents, etc. while traveling on duty away from home and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, sixty thousand dollars. For stationery, one thousand five hundred dollars.Stationery. For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library, one thousand Books, etc. dollars.
For postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Postage stamps. Union countries, four hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of rooms, including steam heat and elevator service, five Rent. thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, Contingent expenses. hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, expressage, storage for documents, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars, repairs of cases and furniture, fuel and lights, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, and other absolutely necessary expenses, three thousand dollars.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court: For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Supreme Court. Justices. the United States, ten thousand five hundred dollars; and for eight associate justices, at ten thousand dollars each; For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand Marshal. dollars; For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate Clerks to justices. justice of the Supreme Court, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and seven thousand nine hundred dollars.
Circuit courts: For twenty-two circuit judges, at six thousand Circuit judges. *Proviso.* Terms circuit court of appeals, ninth circuit. dollars each, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in the ninth judicial circuit in addition to the term or terms held in San Francisco, a term of the circuit court of appeals shall be held each year in two other places in said circuit, to be designated by the judges of said court. For nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at three thousand dollars Clerks circuit court of appeals. *Proviso.* Allowance for law books. each: twenty-seven thousand dollars: *Provided,* That each circuit court of appeals shall be entitled to retain and have expended, under the direction of the Attorney-General, for law books for its use, one-half of the surplus fees of its clerk’s office, accrued therein for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
For a messenger of the United States circuit court of appeals for the Messenger, etc., circuit court of appeals eighth circuit. eighth judicial circuit, who shall also perform the duties of librarian 178 and crier of said court, the sum of two thousand dollars as yearly compensation; said messenger shall also receive his necessary traveling and other expenses when said court shall hold a term at any other place than that of his residence, not to exceed, however, five dollars per day, and said messenger shall be appointed by the judges of said circuit court of appeals to serve during the pleasure of the court.
Court of Private Land Claims: For chief justice and four Court of Private Land Claims. associate justices, at five thousand dollars each; For clerk, two thousand dollars; For stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; For attorney, three thousand five hundred dollars; For interpreter and translator, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For deputy clerks, as authorized by law, so much therefor as may be necessary. District courts:
For salaries of the sixty-five district judges of the District judges. United States, at five thousand dollars each, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. United States courts, Indian Territory: To pay the salaries Indian Territory courts. and expenses of the judges, district attorneys, marshals, clerks, commissioners, and constables of the United States courts in the Indian Territory, one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Retired judges: To pay the salaries of the United States judges Retired judges.
R. S., sec. 714, p. 135. retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby appropriated. Court of appeals, District of Columbia: For the chief justice Court of Appeals, D. C. of court of appeals of the District of Columbia, six thousand five hundred dollars; and for two associate justices, at six thousand dollars each; For clerk, three thousand dollars;
For assistant or deputy clerk, two thousand dollars; For reporter, one thousand dollars, to be paid monthly: *Provided,**Proviso.* Reports; sale. That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than five dollars per volume; For messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme court, District of Columbia: For salaries of the chief Supreme Court, D. C. justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and of the five associate judges, at five thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Clerk of district court, northern district of Illinois:Clerk, Illinois northern district. For salary of the clerk of the district court for the northern district of Illinois, as authorized by the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred Vol. 28, p. 204. and ninety-four, three thousand dollars.
Commissioner, Yellowstone Park: For salary of commissioner Commissioner, Yellowstone Park. Vol. 28, p. 74. provided for in the Act to protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park and to punish crimes in said park, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars. Court of Claims: For salaries of five judges of the Court of Court of Claims. Claims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and one messenger; in all, thirty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For stationery, books, fuel, gas, and other miscellaneous expenses, Contingent expenses. three thousand dollars. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the Reporting decisions. printing of the thirty-first volume of the Reports of the Court of Claims, 179 to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109. and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, Rate of pay assistant messengers, firemen, etc. laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each.
Sec. 3. Section one hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes is amended to read as follows:" “Sec. 166. Each head of a Department may, from time to time, alter Executive Departments. Temporary detail of clerks allowed. R. S., sec. 166, p. 27, amended. the distribution among the various bureaus and offices of his Department, of the clerks and other employees allowed by law, except such clerks or employees as may be required by law to be exclusively engaged upon some specific work, as he may find it necessary and proper to do, but all details hereunder shall be made by written order of the head of the Department, and in no case be for a period of time exceeding one hundred and twenty days: *Provided,* That details so made may, on *Proviso.* Renewals. expiration, be renewed from time to time by written order of the head of the Department, in each particular case, for periods of not exceeding one hundred and twenty days.
All details heretofore made are hereby revoked, but may be renewed as provided herein.”" Sec. 4. So much of section twelve of the legislative, executive, and Annual report of delinquencies extended to all offices. Vol. 28, p. 209. judicial appropriation Act approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as requires the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday of January in each year, to make report to Congress of such officers as are then delinquent in the rendering of their accounts or in the payment of balances found due from them for the last preceding fiscal year is amended to read as follows:
" “The Secretary of the Treasury shall, on the first Monday of January in each year, make report to Congress of such officers and administrative departments and offices of the Government as were, respectively, at any time during the last preceding fiscal year delinquent in rendering or transmitting accounts to the proper offices in Washington and the cause therefor, and in each case indicating whether the delinquency was waived, together with such officers, including postmasters and officers of the Post-Office Department, as were found upon final settlement of their accounts to have been indebted to the Government, with the amount of such indebtedness in each case, and who, at the date of making report, had failed to pay the same into the Treasury of the United States.”" Sec. 5.
That section thirty-six hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes is amended to read as follows:" “Sec. 3621. Every person who shall have moneys of the United States Moneys to be deposited in public depositaries. R. S., sec. 3621, p. 714, amended. in his hands or possession, and disbursing officers having moneys in their possession not required for current expenditure, shall pay the same to the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, or some public depositary of the United States, without delay, and in all cases within thirty days of their receipt.
And the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer, or the public depositary shall issue duplicate receipts for the moneys so paid, transmitting forthwith the original to the Secretary of the Treasury, and delivering the duplicate to the depositor: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Postal revenues. postal revenues and debts due to the Post-Office Department shall be paid into the Treasury in the manner now required by law.”" Sec. 6. That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and United States courts.
Fees of marshals and attorneys to be covered in. ninety-six, all fees and emoluments authorized by law to be paid to United States district attorneys and United States marshals shall be exchanged as heretofore, and shall be collected, as far as possible, and paid to the clerk of the court having jurisdiction, and by him covered into 180 the Treasury of the United States; and said officers shall be paid for their official services, which, in the case of district attorneys, shall include services in the circuit courts of appeals of their respective circuits wherever sitting, salaries and compensation hereinafter provided Salaries to be paid. *Proviso.* Charges against United States. and not otherwise: *Provided,* That this section shall not be construed to require or authorize fees to be charged against or collected from the United States, except as provided by sections eleven and thirteen of this Act relating to field deputies and their payments.
Sec. 7. That the United States district attorney for each of the following District attorneys. Salaries in lieu of fees, etc. R. S., secs. 770, 835, pp. 145, 158. judicial districts of the United States shall be paid in lieu of the salaries, fees, per centums, and other compensations now allowed by law an annual salary as follows: For the northern and middle districts of the State of Alabama, each four thousand dollars; for the southern district of the State of Alabama, three thousand dollars; for the Territory of Arizona, four thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Arkansas, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Arkansas, five thousand dollars; for the northern district of California, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the southern district of California, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Colorado, four thousand dollars; for the district of Connecticut, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Delaware, two thousand dollars; for the northern district of Florida, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the southern district of Florida, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the northern district of Georgia, five thousand dollars; for the southern district of Georgia, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Idaho, three thousand dollars; for the northern district of Illinois, five thousand dollars; for the southern district of Illinois, five thousand dollars; for the district of Indiana, five thousand dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Iowa, each four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Kansas, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Kentucky, five thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Louisiana, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the western district of Louisiana, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Maine, three thousand dollars; for the district of Maryland, four thousand dollars; for the district of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Michigan, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Michigan, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Minnesota, four thousand dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Mississippi, each three thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of Missouri, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the western district of Missouri, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Montana, four thousand dollars; for the district of Nebraska, four thousand dollars; for the district of Nevada, three thousand dollars; for the district of New Hampshire, two thousand dollars; for the district of New Jersey, three thousand dollars; for the district of New Mexico, four thousand dollars; for the northern district of New York, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of New York, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of North Carolina, four thousand dollars; for the western district of North Carolina, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of North Dakota, four thousand dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Ohio, each four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Oklahoma, five thousand dollars; for the district of Oregon, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the western district of Pennsylvania, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Rhode Island, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern and western districts of the district of South Carolina, four thousand five hundred dollars, two thousand five hundred dollars of which shall be for the performance of the duties of district attorney for the western district; for the district of South Dakota, four thousand dollars; for the eastern, middle, and western districts of Tennessee, each four thousand five hundred dollars; for the northern district 181 of Texas, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of Texas, five thousand dollars; for the western district of Texas, four thousand dollars; for the district of Utah, four thousand dollars; for the district of Vermont, three thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Virginia, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Virginia, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Washington, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of Wisconsin, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the western district of Wisconsin, four thousand dollars; for the district of Wyoming, four thousand dollars.
Sec. 8. That whenever, in the opinion of the district judge of any Assistant attorneys to be appointed by Attorney-General. R. S., sec. 363, p. 61. district or the chief justice of any territory and the district attorney, evidenced by writing, the public interest requires it, one or more assistant district attorneys may be appointed, by the Attorney-General; but such opinion shall state to the Attorney-General the facts as distinguished from conclusions, showing the necessity therefor.
Such assistant district attorneys shall be paid such salary as the Attorney-General Compensation. may from time to time determine as to each, which shall in no case exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum: *Provided,**Proviso,* Expense allowance. That the necessary expenses for lodging and subsistence actually paid, not exceeding four dollars per day and actual and necessary traveling expenses of the district attorney and his assistants, while absent from their respective official residences and necessarily employed in going to, returning from, and attending before any United States court, commissioner, or other committing magistrate, and while otherwise necessarily absent from their respective official residences on official business shall be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided.
The Attorney General is authorized to fix and declare the place of Residence. the official residence of the district attorney and of each of his assistants: *Provided,* That the said assistants must be residents of the *Proviso,* Assistants. district for which they are appointed. Sec. 9. That the United States marshal for each judicial district of Marshals. Salaries established. R. S., secs. 781, 841, pp. 147, 159. the United States shall be paid, in lieu of the salaries, fees, percentums, and other compensation now allowed by law, an annual salary as follows:
For the northern and middle districts of the State of Alabama, each four thousand dollars; for the southern district of the State of Alabama, three thousand dollars; for the Territory of Arizona, four thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Arkansas, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Arkansas, five thousand dollars; for the northern district of California, four thousand dollars; for the southern district of California, three thousand dollars; for the district of Colorado, four thousand dollars; for the district of Connecticut, two thousand dollars; for the district of Delaware, two thousand dollars; for the District of Columbia, five thousand five hundred dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Florida, each three thousand dollars; for the northern district of Georgia, five thousand dollars; for the southern district of Georgia, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Idaho, three thousand dollars; for the northern district of Illinois, five thousand dollars; for the southern district of Illinois, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Indiana, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Iowa, each four thousand dollars; for the district of Kansas, four thousand dollars; for the district of Kentucky, five thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Louisiana, three thousand dollars; for the western district of Louisiana, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Maine, three thousand dollars; for the district of Maryland, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Michigan, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Michigan, three thousand dollars; for the district of Minnesota, four thousand dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Mississippi, each three thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Missouri, four thousand dollars; for the western 182 district of Missouri, four thousand dollars; for the district of Montana, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Nebraska, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Nevada, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of New Hampshire, two thousand dollars; for the district of New Jersey, three thousand dollars; for the district of New Mexico, four thousand dollars; for the northern district of New York, five thousand dollars; for the eastern district of New York, four thousand dollars; for the eastern district of North Carolina, four thousand dollars; for the western district of North Carolina, four thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of North Dakota, four thousand dollars; for the northern and southern districts of Ohio, each four thousand dollars; for the district of Oklahoma, five thousand dollars; for the district of Oregon, four thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Pennsylvania, four thousand dollars; for the district of Rhode Island, two thousand dollars; for the eastern and western districts of the district of South Carolina, four thousand five hundred dollars, two thousand five hundred dollars of which shall be for the performance of the duties of marshal of the western district; for the district of South Dakota, four thousand dollars; for the eastern, middle, and western districts of Tennessee, each four thousand dollars; for the northern district of Texas, three thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Texas, five thousand dollars; for the western district of Texas, four thousand dollars; for the district of Utah, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the district of Vermont, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the eastern district of Virginia, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the western district of Virginia, four thousand dollars; for the district of Washington, four thousand dollars; for the district of West Virginia, four thousand dollars; for the eastern district of Wisconsin, four thousand dollars; for the western district of Wisconsin, four thousand dollars; for the district of Wyoming, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 10. That when in the opinion of the Attorney-General the public Office deputies and clerks. interest requires it, he may, on the recommendation of the marshal, which recommendation shall state the facts as distinguished from conclusions, showing necessity for the same, allow the marshals to employ necessary office deputies and clerical assistance, upon salaries to be fixed by the Attorney-General, from time to time, and paid as hereinafter provided. When any of such office deputies is engaged in the Allowance in serving writs, etc. service or attempted service of any writ, process, subpena, or other order of the court, or when necessarily absent from the place of his regular employment, on official business, he shall be allowed his actual traveling expenses only, and his necessary and actual expenses for lodging and subsistence, not to exceed two dollars per day, and the necessary actual expenses in transporting prisoners, including necessary guard hire; and he shall make and render accounts thereof as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 11. That at any time when, in the opinion of the marshal of any Marshals to appoint field deputies. R. S., sec. 780, p. 147. district, the public interest will thereby be promoted, he may appoint one or more deputy marshals for such district, who shall be known as field deputies, and, who, unless sooner removed by the district court as now provided by law shall hold office during the pleasure of the marshal, except as hereinafter provided, and who shall each, as his compensation, receive three-fourths of the gross fees, including mileage, as Compensation. provided by law, earned by him, not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per fiscal year, or at that rate for any part of a fiscal year; and in addition shall be allowed his actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two dollars a day, while endeavoring to arrest, under process, a person charged with or convicted of crime: *Provided,* That a field *Provisos.* Expenses.
Additional allowance. deputy may elect to receive actual expenses on any trip in lieu of mileage: *Provided,* That in special cases, where in his judgment justice requires, the Attorney-General may make an additional allowance, not, 183 however, in any case to make the aggregate annual compensation of any field deputy in excess of twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than three-fourths of the gross fees earned by such field deputy. The marshal, immediately after making any appointment or appointments under this section, shall report the same to the Attorney-General, stating the facts as distinguished from conclusions constituting the reason for such appointment, and the Attorney-General may at any time cancel any such appointment as the public interest may require.
The field deputies Double fees to field deputies in certain States. herein provided for of the districts of California, Colorado, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming, and Idaho shall, for the services they may perform during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, receive double the fees allowed by law to like officers in other States for performing similar duties, but neither of them shall be allowed to receive of such fees any sum exceeding the aggregate compensation of such officer as provided herein.
Sec. 12. That the marshal, when attending court at any place other Expenses allowed to marshal. than his official residence, and when engaged in the service or attempted service of any process, writ, or subpena, and when otherwise necessarily absent from his official residence on official business, shall be allowed his necessary expenses for lodging and subsistence, not exceeding four dollars per day and his actual necessary traveling expenses. He shall also be allowed the actual necessary expenses in transporting prisoners, including necessary guard hire.
An account of such expenses shall be made out and paid as hereinafter provided. The marshal’s official residence Residence. shall be deemed to be at one of the places of holding court in the district, and the Attorney-General shall be authorized to fix and declare the place of such official residence. Sec. 13. That whenever in this Act an officer is allowed actual Expense accounts. expenses the account therefor shall be made out quarterly, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Attorney-General.
When made out the account shall be verified on oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths. The expense accounts of the marshals and their office deputies and Payment of expense accounts. the accounts of the field deputies shall be paid by the marshals; said accounts and the expense accounts of the district attorneys and their assistants when made out in accordance with this Act shall be submitted to and examined by the circuit court or district court of the district, and when approved by the court shall be audited and allowed as now provided by law.
Each marshal shall make such returns of the earnings and expenses of his office as shall be required under rules and regulations prescribed by the Attorney-General: *Provided,* That no *Proviso.* Compensation forbidden. office or field deputy shall receive compensation as bailiff, and no field deputy shall receive fees for representing the marshal in court. Sec. 14. That the necessary office expenses of the district attorneys Office expenses, attorneys and marshals. and marshals shall be allowed when authorized by the Attorney-General.
Sec. 15. That the district attorney of any judicial district, when the Extra clerical assistance. facts showing the necessity therefor are certified by the district judge to the Attorney General, may, with the approval of the Attorney-General, and no longer than such approval lasts, employ necessary clerical assistance at such salary or salaries as shall be from time to time fixed by the Attorney-General. Sec. 16. That all salaries provided by sections six to fifteen, inclusive, Salaries payable monthly. of this Act shall be paid monthly by the Department of Justice.
Sec. 17. That sections six to fifteen, inclusive, of this Act shall not Costs. be so construed as to prevent or affect the amount or taxation of costs against the unsuccessful party in civil proceedings or against defendants convicted of crimes or misdemeanors. Sec. 18. That any officer whose compensation is fixed by sections six Punishment for accepting illegal fees, etc to fifteen, inclusive, of this Act who shall directly or indirectly demand, receive, or accept any fee or compensation for the performance of any official service other than is herein provided, or shall willfully fail or 184 neglect to account for or pay over to the proper officer any fee received or collected by him shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 19. That the terms of office of all commissioners of the circuit Circuit court commissioners abolished after June 30, 1897. R. S., sec. 627, p. 109, Amended. Records, etc. courts heretofore appointed shall expire on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and such office shall on that day cease to exist, and said commissioners shall then deposit all the records and other official papers appertaining to their offices in the office of the clerk of the circuit court by which they were appointed.
All proceedings pending, returnable, unexecuted, or unfinished at said date before any such commissioner shall be continued and disposed of according to law by such commissioner appointed as herein provided, as may be designated District court commissioners to be appointed. by the district court for that purpose. It shall be the duty of the district court of each judicial district to appoint such number of persons, to be known as United States commissioners, at such places in the district as may be designated by the district court, which United States commissioners shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as are now imposed upon commissioners of the circuit courts.
The appointment of such United States commissioners shall be entered of record in the district courts, and notice thereof at once given by the clerk to the Attorney-General. That such United States commissioners shall hold their offices, respectively, for the term of four years, but Term, etc. they shall be at any time subject to removal by the district court; and no person shall at any time be a clerk or deputy clerk of a United States court and a United States commissioner without the approval of the Attorney-General: *Provided,* That all acts and parts of acts applicable *Proviso,* To supersede circuit courts commissioners. to commissioners of the circuit courts, except as to appointment and fees, shall be applicable to United States commissioners appointed under this Act.
Warrants of arrest for violations of internal-revenue Internal revenue arrests. laws may be issued by United States commissioners upon the sworn complaint of a United States district attorney, assistant United States district attorney, collector or deputy collector of internal revenue, or revenue agent or private citizen, but no such warrant of arrest shall be issued upon the sworn complaint of a private citizen unless first approved in writing by a United States district attorney.
That United Oaths. States commissioners and all clerks of United States courts are hereby authorized to administer oaths. Sec. 20. That no marshal or deputy marshal, attorney or assistant Persons disqualified for commissioners. attorney of any district, jury commissioner, clerk of marshal, no bailiff, crier, juror, janitor of any Government building, nor any civil or military employee of the Government, except as in this Act provided, and no clerk or employee of any United States justice or judge shall have, hold, or exercise the duties of the United States commissioner.
And Receivers. it shall not be lawful to appoint any of the officers named in this section receiver, or receivers in any case or cases now pending or that may be hereafter brought in the courts of the United States. Sec. 21. That each United States commissioner shall be entitled to Fees allowed commissioners. the following-named fees, and none other: Drawing a complaint, with oath and jurat to same, fifty cents; copy of complaint, with certificate to same, thirty cents; issuing warrant of arrest, seventy-five cents; issuing a commitment and making copy of same, one dollar; entering a return, fifteen cents; issuing subpena or subpenas in any one case, with five cents for each necessary witness in addition to the first, twenty-five cents; drawing a bond of defendant and sureties, taking acknowledgment of same and justification of sureties, seventy-five cents; for administering an oath (except to witness as to attendance and travel), ten cents; recognize or all witnesses in a case, when the defendant or defendants are held for court, fifty cents; transcripts of proceedings, when required by order of court and transmission of original papers to court, sixty cents; copy of warrant of arrest, with certificate to same, 185 when defendant is held for court, and the original papers are not sent to court, forty cents; order in duplicate to pay all witnesses in a case:
For first witness, thirty cents, and for each additional witness, five cents, and for oath to each witness as to attendance and travel, five cents; for hearing and deciding on criminal charges and reducing the testimony to writing when required by law or order of court, five dollars a day for the time necessarily employed: *Provided,* That not *Provisos.* Per-diem allowance. more than one per diem shall be allowed in a case, unless the account shall show that the hearing could not be completed in one day, when one additional per diem may be specially approved and allowed by the court: *Provided further,* That not more than one per diem shall be Restriction.
No per diem allowance for taking bond, etc. allowed for any one day: *Provided further,* That no per diem shall be allowed for taking a bond or recognizance and passing on the sufficiency of the bond or recognizance and the sureties thereon when the bond or recognizance was taken after the defendant had been committed to prison upon a final commitment, or has given bond or been recognized for his appearance at court, or when the defendant has been arrested on a capias or bench warrant, or was in custody under any process or order of a court of record.
For the examination and certificate in cases of application for discharge of poor convicts imprisoned for nonpayment of fine or fine and costs, and all services connected therewith, three dollars; for attending to a reference in a litigated matter, in a civil cause at law, in equity, or in admiralty, in pursuance of an order of the court, three dollars a day; for taking and certifying depositions to file in civil cases, ten cents for each folio; for each copy of the same furnished to a party on request, ten cents for each folio; for issuing any warrant under the tenth article of the treaty of August ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-two, between the United States and the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, against any parties charged with any crime or offense set forth in said article, two dollars; for issuing any warrant under the provision of the convention for the surrender of criminals between the United States and the King of the French, concluded at Washington, November ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, two dollars; for hearing and deciding upon the case of any person charged with any crime or offense, and arrested under the provisions of said treaty or of said convention, five dollars a day for the time necessarily employed.
Such commissioners shall keep a complete record of all proceedings Record book to be kept. before them in criminal cases, in a well bound book, which record book shall be delivered to and preserved by the clerk of the district court for such district on the death, resignation, removal, or expiration of term of the commissioner, for which record the commissioner shall receive no compensation. Sec. 22. That it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the Report on compensation to clerks of courts.
United States to make an investigation as respects the compensation to be paid, by salary or otherwise, to clerks of United States circuit and district courts; and he shall report on the first day of the next session of the present Congress a plan for fixing such compensation for the clerks of the several courts of the United States as he may deem just, and he shall also recommend with his report such provisions as may to him seem proper touching their appointment and the performance of their duties.
Sec. 23. The Attorney-General shall, in his annual report to Congress Annual report of Attorney-General. Detailed statement required. each year, include a statement in detail showing for the preceding fiscal year the number of assistant district attorneys employed, the salaries of each; the number of clerical assistants employed for each district attorney, the salaries of each; the amount expended for necessary subsistence, and actual and necessary traveling expenses of each district attorney and his assistants: the number of office deputies and clerical assistants employed for each marshal, the salaries paid to each; the amount expended for necessary subsistence and actual and necessary traveling expenses of each marshal and his office deputies, and 186FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 252, 253. 1896. the number of field deputy marshals employed by each marshal and the amount of fees earned by and the compensation paid to each of them out of such fees. Sec. 24. That all Acts and portions of Acts inconsistent with this Repeal provisions. *Provisos.* Not applicable to Indian Territory and Alaska. *Post,* p. 577. Act are hereby repealed: *Provided,* That none of the provisions of sections six to twenty-three, both inclusive, of this Act shall apply to the Indian Territory or Territory of Alaska, and said sections shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, except as in said sections otherwise specially provided: *Provided further,* That none of the provisions of sections six, Attorneys’ offices New York and District of Columbia not included. eight or fifteen of this Act shall apply to the office of the United States District Attorney and his assistants for the southern district of New York, or for the District of Columbia.
Sec. 25. That the appropriation for relief and protection of American Relief and protection of American seamen. Extended to Alaska. *Ante,* p. 38. seamen, which was made in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,” approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and which appears in the printed copy of said Act on page twelve, be amended so that it will read: relief and protection of american seamen.
Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, May 28, 1896.
★   the supreme law of the land   ★
Don't Tread on Me
E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one

"If you don't know your rights, you don't have any."

Marginalia · a citizen's law index
A research desk, not legal advice. Always read the cited source before relying on a summary.
Questions or an issue? support@self-law.org
disclaimerMarginalia is a research index, not a law firm. Nothing on this site is legal, tax, or financial advice and no attorney–client relationship is formed by using it. Statutes, regulations, and case law change; summaries, search results, AI output, and member posts may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Any interpretation drawn from material on this site should be validated by a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction before you act on it.