Chapter 3. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for prior years, and for other purposes. December 22, 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, and Urgent deficiencies appropriations.the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 480FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 3. 1896.not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely: TREASURY DEPARTM ENT. Treasury Department. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury. R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand and four dollars and twenty-one cents. public buildings. Public buildings. Columbus, Ga. For completion of post-office at Columbus, Georgia, four thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy. bureau of construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Preservation, repair, etc., of vessels. Preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and other steam auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, five hundred thousand dollars. bureau of steam engineering.
Bureau of Steam Engineering. Repairs to machinery, etc. To carry on the current work of the Bureau in repairs to machinery of naval vessels, and furnishing necessary stores and supplies therefor, two hundred thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Clerk and messengers. For compensation of one clerk, class four, from January first to June thirtieth, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, nine hundred dollars. For compensation of two assistant messengers from January first to June thirtieth, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
JUDICIAL. Judicial. Court of Private Land Claims. Appropriation continued available. *Ante,* p. 449. That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars made in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to enable the Attorney-General to employ such assistant attorneys, agents, stenographers, and experts to aid the United States attorney for the Court of Private Land Claims, as may be necessary is hereby made available for expenses incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and until the expiration of the term of service of said court.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 3, 4. 1896, 1897. 481 That the oath or oaths required to be taken by marshals and deputy Oaths of marshals.marshals before entering upon the duties of their respective offices may be administered by any officer of the United States or of any State authorized by law to administer oaths. That United States marshals may receive credit in the settlement of Accounts of deputies’ services. R. S., 609, 782, 1756, 1757, pp. 147, 312, 313.their accounts for amounts paid by them to their deputies for services heretofore rendered, notwithstanding any of said deputies may not have taken oaths of office in compliance with sections seven hundred and eighty-two and seventeen hundred and fifty-six or seventeen hundred and fifty-seven, Revised Statutes of the United States, prior to the rendition of said services.
For fees of United States attorneys in the District of Columbia, Attorneys, District of Columbia.twenty-two thousand six hundred dollars. To establish a site for the erection of a penitentiary on the military United States penitentiary. Site. *Ante,* p. 380.reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and for other purposes, under the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five thousand dollars. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. For payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying Messengers of electoral votes.to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual road traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for the one distance only, six hundred dollars. senate.
Senate. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one Folding.dollar per thousand, five thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars and seven cents. house of representatives. House of Representatives. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous, etc., expenses.twenty thousand dollars. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, three thousand dollars. Fuel and oil. To pay the account of the Keystone File Company, five hundred and Keystone File Company, payment to.thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
PUBLIC PRINTING. Public printing. That the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for printing Appropriations for Supreme Court continued.and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven shall be expended under the direction of that court, and the printing for that court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. Approved, December 22, 1896.