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Chapter 373. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 373.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for prior years, and for other purposes. June 8, 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,Deficiencies appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
STATE DEPARTMENT. State Department. Contingent expenses: For care and subsistence of horses andContingent expenses. repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable and wagon shed, care of clocks, telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same, and for miscellaneous items, not including the foregoing, five hundred dollars. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchaseStationery, etc. of passport paper, one thousand dollars. Survey and examination, Nicaragua Canal:
Nicaraguan CanalNicaraguan Canal Commission.Additional pay, etc.Vol. 28, p. 948. Commission: To enable the Secretary of State to pay an additional allowance as compensation to the members of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission appointed under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as well as to meet a deficiency in the sum heretofore appropriated for the purposes of the Commission, six thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars. Relief of subjects of foreign governments:
To pay out ofForeign Governments.Claims of subjects. humane consideration, and without reference to the question of liability therefor, as follows: To the Italian Government for full indemnity to the heirs of three ofItaly. its subjects who were riotously killed, and to two others who were injured, in the State of Colorado by residents of that State, ten thousand dollars. To the Government of Great Britain, as full indemnity to certainGreat Britain. British subjects, as follows:
To James Bain, who was assaulted and injured in the State of Louisiana by residents of that State, one thousand dollars; To Frederick B. Dawson, wife and daughter, for loss of property and bodily injuries inflicted in the State of Nebraska by residents of that State, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred dollars. To the German Government, as full indemnity to the family ofGermany. George Pauls, a German subject, mate of the German bark Edward Pens, whose death was alleged to have been caused by carelessness in working the United States revenue-cutter Colfax in the harbor of Wilmington, North Carolina, two thousand dollars.
Reimbursement of A. Watt and E. A. Mitchell: To reimburseA. Watt and E. A. Mitchell.Reimbursement. A. Watt and B. A. Mitchell, of Newcastle, New South Wales, for losses sustained by each through the payment of certain drafts illegally drawn on the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury by George T. Baggs, late United States commercial agent at Newcastle, New South Wales, and purporting to be on account of the business of the United States Government, aggregating one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents, together with interest thereon to date of final settlement of the claims by the Treasury Department. foreign intercourse.
Foreign intercourse. Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim: To pay amounts foundChargés d’Affaires ad interim. due by the accounting officers on account of salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-one cents. 268 For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six hundred and four dollars and seventy cents. Salaries interpreters to legations:
To pay amounts foundInterpreters to legations. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Salaries interpreters to legations,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five dollars and seventy-six cents. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To pay amounts foundContingent expenses, missions. due by the accounting officers on account of contingent expenses, foreign missions, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Loss by exchange, diplomatic service: To pay amounts due byLoss by exchange, missions. the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Loss by exchange, diplomatic service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents. Pan-American Medical Congress: To meet the expense of distributionPan-American Medical Congress.Distributing reports.Vol. 27, p. 591. of printed report of the transactions of the first Pan-American Medical Congress, at Washington, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to be appropriated out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the entertainment of the delegates provided by the sundry civil Act, March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, nine hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To pay TheContingent expenses, consulates. John L. Murphy Publishing Company, of Trenton, New Jersey, for publishing death notices in August, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one dollar and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-two cents.
Steam launch for legation at Constantinople: To paySteam launch, Constantinople. amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for steam launch tor legation at Constantinople for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and ninety-one cents. Payment to Eliza Jaqua Gray: To pay Mrs. Eliza Jaqua Gray,Eliza Jaqua Gray.Payment to. widow of Isaac P. Gray, late United States minister to the Republic of Mexico, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Transportation of negroes in Mexico to their homes in Alabama: Negro colonists in Mexico.Expenses of return.*Ante*, p. 18. For payment of cost of transportation furnished by certain railway companies in connection with the failure of the scheme for the colonization of negroes in Mexico, necessitating their return to their homes in Alabama, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight of this session, six hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks: Bringing home remains of ministers, etc. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Transporting the remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment,” seven hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-six cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Expenses of sales of condemned property, etc., to be paid from proceeds.That from the proceeds of sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other public property of any kind, before being deposited into the Treasury, either as miscellaneous receipts on account of “proceeds of Government property” or to the credit of the appropriations to which such proceeds are by law authorized to be made, there may be paid the expenses of such sales, as approved by the accounting officers of the Treasury, so as to require only the net proceeds of such sales to be deposited into the Treasury, either as miscellaneous receipts or to the credit of such appropriations, as the case may be. 269 Office of the Treasurer:
For the purchase of one press and oneUnited States securities.Press, etc. separating machine for use in sealing and separating securities, two thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, expressNational currency expenses. charges, and other expenses, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctiveDistinctive paper, etc. paper for United States securities, including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, thirty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty cents.
Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins: Minor coins.Reissue, etc. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States mint at Philadelphia, tor cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in, or which may be hereafter received at, the subtreasury offices, in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the expense of transportation for such reissue. And the Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to recoin any and all the uncurrent minor coins now in the Treasury.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: To supply deficienciesPublic buildings.Furniture, etc. in the appropriations for furniture and repairs of same and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract; and all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used, as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not; for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. twenty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-five cents. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: To payFuel, lights, and water. amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and ninety dollars and twenty cents.
Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: To pay amounts foundLocal appraisers’ meetings. due appraisers of customs and others on account of the appropriation for “Expenses of local appraisers meetings,” being for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine hundred and twenty dollars and thirty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and sixty cents. Supplies for native inhabitants, Alaska:
To supply a deficiencyAlaska.Supplies to natives. in the appropriation for supplies for native inhabitants, Alaska, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand and seventeen dollars and sixty-seven cents. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including four thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred270 and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever five. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Board of Control, World’s Columbian Exposition: World’s Columbian Exposition.Government Board of Control. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, on account of the, appropriation for “Expenses, Government Board of Control, World’s Columbian Exposition,” two hundred and forty-seven dollars. Thomas W. Palmer.*Ante*, p. 20.To enable Thomas W. Palmer, President of the World’s Columbian Commission, to make payment for all claims now due and outstanding against said Commission, six thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty-seven cents, which shall be in full for all such claims.
Credit in accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs: Thomas J. Hobbs.Credit for disallowed expenses under silver act.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk, Treasury Department, the sum of nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents, disbursed by him under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury from the appropriation for expenses Vol. 26, p. 289.of Treasury notes, Act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for salaries of additional employees appointed under said Act, which amount was disallowed by the accounting officers under the provisions Vol. 22, p. 255.of section four of the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Customs service: Collecting customs revenue.To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriations for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. One sampling works.Purchase of land, etc., El Paso, Tex., Northport, Wash., and Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho.Vol. 28, p. 933.The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to expend, from the appropriation for collecting the revenue from customs, to provide for the purchase of the necessary land, and for the construction and equipment of sampling works thereon, or for the leasing of suitable buildings and equipment for the sampling and assaying of imported silver ores and other ores containing lead at El Paso, Texas;
Northport, Washington; and Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, and at such other ports as in the Judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury the interests of the revenue demand, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars, to be available for the fiscal year *Proviso*.Assaying sample ores.eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in ease of importation of said ores at ports at which no facilities are provided, to send a portion thereof to any port having said facilities, at which port said portion may be sampled and assayed.
The collector at the port of importation shall thereupon liquidate the entry upon said assay. In no instance, however, shall a less portion than one-fifth of any importation of ores be sampled and assayed. Refund to S. R. Fowle and Son: S. R. Fowle and Son.Refund of duty on salt.That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to refund to S. R, Fowle and Son, Washington, North Carolina, the sum of one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eight cents, to reimburse them for tariff exacted and collected from them February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, by A.
Mayo, deputy collector of customs, Washington, North Carolina, on cargo of salt imported in schooner Cora from Saint Kitts, West Indies, to Washington, North Carolina. Newspapers and books: Contingent expenses, newspapers, etc.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Newspapers and books,” twenty-one dollars and thirty-three cents. Assay office at Helena, Montana: Helena, Mont.Assay office.For wages of workmen, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury271 on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, assay office at Helena,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one dollar and fifty-eight cents. Stationery: To pay amount due White, Corbin and Company,Contingent-expenses, stationery. Rockville, Connecticut, for envelopes furnished the Treasury Department during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Stationery,” tor the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety five, two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-one cents. Marine-Hospital Service: For maintenance and ordinary expensesMarine-Hospital Service.Vol. 23, p. 57. of the Marine-Hospital Service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in addition to the tonnage tax appropriated by Act of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, made necessary by deductions from gross tonnage of vessels of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Building for Government exhibit, Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta, Ga.Transfer of Government Exposition Building to.Vol. 28, p. 421. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the city of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia, all of the right, title, claim, and interest of the United States in and to the building erected for the Government exhibit at the Cotton States and International Exposition recently held in said city. Lands and other property of the United States:
To enableLands, etc. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay off and discharge certain tax liens on real property on Cox street, in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, formerly owned by W. J, Fletcher and now belonging to the United States, two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. Report upon explosives: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryReport on explosives.Balance available.Vol. 28, p. 392. to investigate and report upon the importation, use, transportation, and manufacture of high and low explosives, with the view of securing by legislation greater security to life and property, authority is hereby granted to use the balance of the appropriation of four thousand dollars made for this object by the sundry civil Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, amounting to two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.
Protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska: For payment ofAlaska.Salmon fisheries. salary and expenses of the agent appointed under this appropriation while traveling under the orders of the Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and eleven dollars and eighty-seven cents. Payment to the North American Commercial Company: North American Commercial Company.Payment to. To pay the North American Commercial Company for .materials furnished for the erection of watch houses for sheltering the native watchmen on the Pribilof Islands; for stationery furnished to the Government agents on these islands, and for materials for repairing well-house and Government boat, all of which were furnished in an exigency at the request of the Government agent in charge, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and two cents.
Payment to Louis C. Raegener: For payment of judgments renderedLonis C. Raegener.Payment to. against the collector of customs at the port of New York in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, and affirmed by the United States circuit court of appeals, second circuit, in a suit brought for damages caused by the detention of the steamer South Portland, charged with carrying munitions of war to the Venezuelan insurgents, one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and ten cents, together with interest thereon at the rate of four per centum per annum from April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the date of said judgments, until the time when an appropriation is made therefor, which amount necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated. 272 Payment to the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company:
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company.Payment for injury to vessel. To pay the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company for expenses inclined by reason of its lighter numbered twenty-two being run into and stink while tied up at the coal wharf in the harbor of Norfolk, by the United States revenue cutter Hamilton, March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty dollars. Payment to owner of canal boat centre: “Centre.”Payment to owner.To pay S. J. Goucher, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for repairing damages to the canal boat Centre, caused by being run into by the United States revenue cutter Washington, December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seventy dollars.
Payment to owners of steamer Peter Jebsen: “Peter Jebsen.”Payment to owners.To compensate the owners of the Norwegian steamer Peter Jebsen for damages sustained by said steamer in consequence of a collision with the United States revenue steamer Rush in San Francisco Harbor, March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy cents. Reimbursement of Captain J. A. Henriques: J. A. Henriques.Reimbursement.To reimburse J. A.
Henriques, captain, Revenue-Cutter Service, the amount expended by him for repairs made upon the British schooner Glide in consequence of damages sustained by that vessel in collision with the United States revenue steamer Woodbury on December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty dollars and eighteen cents. Payment to Pacific Coast Steamship Company: Pacific Coast Steam ship Company.Shipwrecked seamen.To pay the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for transportation of seven destitute and disabled seamen of the American schooner C.
G. White, wrecked near Kodiak, Alaska, from Sitka to San Francisco, in July and August, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and five dollars. Payment to John Iffland: John Iffland.Payment to.To pay John Iffland, of Port Townsend, Washington, for board and lodging of seven destitute and disabled seamen of the wrecked American schooner C. G. White, in August, eighteen hundred and ninety-five two days at two dollars per day each, twenty-eight dollars, and for conveyance from hotel to wharf, one dollar; in all, twenty-nine dollars.
Refund to B. Johannessen: “Veritas.”Refund of fine.To refund to B. Johannessen, master of Norwegian ship Veritas, the amount of a fine improperly imposed and collected from him at the port of Pascagoula, Mississippi, on or about December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and covered into the Treasury, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty-five dollars. Refund of fine, schooner Phantom: “Phantom.”Refund of fine.To refund to the collector of customs, Beaufort, South Carolina, for repayment by him to the person or persons entitled thereto, the sum imposed and collected in R.S., sec. 4336, p. 838.the case of the schooner Phantom for a violation of section forty-three hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes, and covered into the Treasury, but since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred dollars.
Refund of fine, Schooner C. Braisted: “C. Braisted.”Refund of fine.To refund to the collector of customs, Brownsville, Texas, for repayment by him to the person or parties entitled thereto, that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed in the ease of the schooner C. Braisted for a violation of section R. S., sec. 4325, p. 836.forty-three hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, forty-five dollars.
Refund of fine, Schooner O. A. Mygatt: “O.A. Mygatt.”Refund of fine.To refund to the collector of customs, Key West, Florida, for repayment by him to the person or persons entitled thereto, that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed in the case of the schooner O. A. Mygatt for a violation of section R. S., sec. 4325, p. 836.forty-three hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, forty-five dollars. 273 Refund of fine, steam tug Pelican:
To refund to the collector“Pelican.”Refund of fine. of customs, Los Angeles, California, for repayment by him to the person or parties entitled thereto, that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed in the ease of the steam tug Pelican for a violation of section forty-three hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, sinceR. S., sec. 4325, p. 836. remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, forty-five dollars.
Payment to Pennsylvania Railroad Company: To pay thePennsylvania Railroad Company.Payment to. claims of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its leased lines, certified in Senate Executive Document Numbered Six, third session Fifty-third Congress, fourteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-three cents. Payment to Southern Pacific Company: To pay the claims ofSouthern Pacific Company.Payment to. the Southern Pacific Company, its branches and leased lines, certified in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-six, this session, one million five hundred and forty-two thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-four cents.
Steamboat-Inspection Service: To pay the persons named andSteamboat inspection.Assistant inspectors. the amounts specified in House Document Numbered Fifty-three of this session for services rendered by them, respectively, as assistant inspectors of boilers or assistant inspectors of hulls, after the abolishment of their offices and before notice was received by them, eighty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents. Collecting internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectorsCollecting internal revenue.Collectors, etc.Vol. 24, p. 209. and deputy collectors and clerks, including transportation of public funds and also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing uponVol. 24, p. 218. the Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of deputy collectors*Proviso*.Increase forbidden. 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.
Authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of the Treasury to payAgents, etc.Payment to gangers, etc. from the unexpended balances of the appropriations tor “Salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue” for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the accounts of certain internal-revenue gaugers and storekeepers, amounting to two thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-seven cents, for services performed and expenses incurred before the proper qualification of each.
For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty ofPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to dames W. Murphy,James W. Murphy.Payment to. of Wisconsin, amount due him from the United States for services as collector of internal revenue, First district of Wisconsin, from the fourth to the thirteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, inclusive, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-four cents.
Ford’s Theater disaster Payments: To provide for the paymentFord’s Theater disaster.Payment for injuries, etc.Vol. 28, p. 392. of employees of the Government for injuries received and losses sustained and for four death cases at the Ford’s Theater disaster, which occurred on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, which sum shall be paid out by the Secretary of the Treasury to the persons and in the amounts as follows:
Frederick Achenbach, one thousand five hundred dollars: John Baker, one thousand dollars; Alexander C. Black, eight hundred dollars; James S. Busselle, eight hundred dollars; Winfred Beck, three hundred dollars; John G. Ballou, fifty dollars; L, B. Bowman, two thousand dollars; S. S. Baker, one thousand five hundred dollars; C. H. Bliss, two thousand five hun-274dred Ford’s Theater disaster—Continued.dollars; P. G. Clark, seven hundred dollars; J. F. Bixler, three thousand dollars;
F. G. Calvert, four thousand five hundred dollars; John F. Dunton, two hundred and fifty dollars; George W. Davis, two thousand five hundred dollars; George J. Drew, four hundred and fifty dollars; John B. Dowd, three thousand dollars; Silas J. Dewey, seven hundred dollars: Horace V. Easterling, two thousand five hundred dollars; Richard H. Gilliam, seven hundred dollars ; George W. Green, eight hundred dollars; William M. Grogan, two thousand dollars; Thomas J. Griffith, three hundred dollars;
William S. Gustin, two thousand five hundred dollars; Thomas Hynes, four thousand five hundred dollars; C. A. Harper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; James H. Howard, four thousand dollars; Samuel N. Hilton, four hundred and fifty dollars; Augustus Hubbell, three hundred dollars; Isaac N. Hammer, one thousand five hundred dollars; Charles F. Hathaway, one thousand five hundred dollars; Homer B. Harlan, one thousand five hundred dollars; Firman Housel, seven hundred dollars;
James G. Jones, three hundred dollars; Milford M. Jarvis, three hundred dollars; Thomas Jones, six hundred dollars; Wellington Kugler, three thousand five hundred dollars; Charles A. Krause, one hundred and fifty dollars; William R. King, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Clifton Lowe, four hundred dollars; .James F. Linden, eight hundred dollars; Charles Lucas, one hundred and fifty dollars; William W. Lecture, two hundred dollars; Eugene Leger, eight hundred dollars; William Ludgate, two hundred dollars;
Percy 8. Lowry, five hundred dollars; Daniel P. McCornack, three thousand five hundred dollars; C. E. McLaughlin, eight hundred dollars; John A. Miller, four thousand five hundred dollars; Frank J. Metcalf, one thousand dollars; C. J. Moore, five hundred dollars; George N. McLoughlin, four thousand dollars; John A. Magee, one thousand five hundred dollars; John J. Meding, one thousand dollars; Charles S. McLaughlin, one thousand dollars; Simeon T. Neal, five hundred dollars; John F.
Nichol, five hundred dollars; B. J. O’Driscoll, four thousand dollars; John O’Neill, five hundred dollars; Chambers R. Owen, four hundred dollars; Polk K. Pennington, five hundred dollars; Charles H. Patterson, seven hundred dollars; C. M. Punteney, one hundred dollars; Charles L. Patten, seven hundred dollars; R. M. Patrick, three thousand five hundred dollars; George T, Prewitt, two hundred dollars; Seth V. Peck, one thousand five hundred dollars; Cassius C. Parker, one hundred and fifty dollars;
Morton E. Rose, two hundred dollars; Louis A. Rosafy, one thousand two hundred dollars; William T. Richardson, two thousand seven hundred dollars; Lloyd J. Smith, five thousand dollars; Fountain F. Sams, one thousand two hundred dollars; Frank B. Smith, two hundred and fifty dollars; Edwin H. Spang, four hundred dollars; James A. Stewart, two thousand five hundred dollars; H. M. Shannon, five hundred dollars; Robert A. Smith, one thousand two hundred dollars: Charles D. Shadbolt, three thousand two hundred dollars;
Charles I. Simms, two thousand five hundred dollars; Daniel K. Sargeant, three hundred dollars; James M. Stewart, six hundred dollars; Peter U. Sommers, two thousand five hundred dollars; James L. Taylor, five hundred dollars; H. C. Thomas, one thousand six hundred dollars; Julia E. Test, widow of Francis W. Test, five thousand dollars; John H. Thomas, two thousand dollars; Wilson IL Thompson, one thousand five hundred dollars; W. W. Valentine, five hundred dollars; James W. Webb, three hundred dollars;
Nathaniel P. Worley, one thousand dollars; Robert J. Walker, two thousand dollars; Arthur P. Whitney, one thousand five hundred dollars; W. L. H, Wright, one hundred dollars; Albert G. Yount, one thousand dollars. Personal representatives to be paid in case of death.Should any of the persons hereinbefore mentioned die before payment to the parties herein named, then, and in that event, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the personal representatives of the persons so dying the amount allowed under the provisions of this Act. 275 And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed, before payingClaims to be reexamined. over to the parties entitled to the same the amount allowed under the provisions of this Act, to require them, in consideration of the amount allowed, to release, discharge, and tree the United States from all claim, demand, or damage by reason of any injuries received or losses sustained in the Ford’s Theater disaster, which occurred on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three:
And the claims of Thomas D. Anderson, Ethelbert Baier, Edward G. Carroll, George R. Garnett, Thomas Morley, Charles R. Miller, George W. Smoot, Smith Thompson, Nathan F. White, H. P. Willey, James A, White, Nina A. Kime, Mrs. Georgie H. Baldwin, and Julia Miller, be, and the same are hereby, referred back to the Joint Commission authorized in the SundryVol. 28, p. 392. Civil appropriation act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to investigate and report upon the Ford’s Theater disaster, with instructions to reexamine and report thereon.
For compensation to E. V. Brookshire as a member of the FordE. V. Brookshire.Pay as member of commission. Theater Commission, for twenty-one days subsequent to the expiration of his term in the House of Representatives, at ten dollars per day, two hundred and ten dollars. For compensation to J. P. Piggott as a member of the Ford TheaterJ. P. Piggott.Pay as member of commission. Commission, for nine days subsequent to the expiration of his term in the House of Representatives, at ten dollars per day, ninety dollars. revenue-cutter service.
Revenue-Cutter Service. For amount to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “ExpensesExpenses. of Revenue-Cutter Service, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,” on account of extraordinary expenditures for that Service, arising from contingencies not foreseen when the annual estimate for eighteen hundred and ninety-six was submitted, in connection with the patrol ofFurseal patrol. the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, fifteen thousand dollars. engraving and printing. Engraving and Printing Bureau.
For rental of the office now occupied by the agent of the Post-OfficeStamp agent.Rent. Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six hundred dollars. That the compositors and pressmen employed in the awards divisionLeave to employees, awards division. of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall be allowed leave of absence with pay not exceeding thirty days in any one year, or a pro rata portion thereof for a less time than one year, under such regulations and such time or times as the Chief of the Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe and designate, and in conformity with the Act approved July sixth, eighteenVol. 27, p. 87. hundred and ninety-two, granting leaves of absence with pay to the employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and for this purpose the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. public buildings.
Public buildings. For old custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky: For outstandingLouisville, Ky. liabilities, expenses incident to sale of old custom-house, nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. For post-office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For amount necessaryPhiladelphia, Pa.Additional ground. to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, and for the removal of the buildings thereon, the lots or pieces of ground in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, adjoining or adjacent to the Philadelphia post-office building, additional to the sums appropriated therefor in the sundryVol. 28, pp. 373, 912. civil appropriation acts for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and276 ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten thousand dollars.
And this appropriation and the said previous appropriations shall be *Proviso*.Extent.available for the purchase of said property: *Provided*, That the same shall contain a frontage on Market street of not less than sixteen feet eight inches and extend in length and depth of that width not less than two hundred and twenty-two feet. Denver, Colo.For court house and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For payment in full of allowance by the Treasury Department to John Moore and Company for interior finish of building, one thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents.
New York city.Appraisers’ warehouse.For appraisers’ warehouse at New York: For the purpose of strengthening the floors of the appraisers’ warehouse building in the city of New York, State of New York, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. New Orleans, La.Marine hospital.For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For outstanding liabilities, expenses incident to sale of old marine hospital, three hundred and forty-four dollars and sixteen cents. light-house establishment.
Light-House Establishment. Expenses of light vessels: Light vessels.For expenses of light vessels for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to adjust the account of Commander M. 11. S. Mackenzie, United States Navy, inspector of the Sixth light-house district for expenditures made from the appropriation “Expenses of fog signals,” eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the services of the Davis Coast Wrecking Company in recovering and floating Rattlesnake Shoal Light-Ship, South Carolina, Numbered Thirty-four, held by the Commissioner of Customs, not properly chargeable to *Proviso*.Adjusting accounts.said appropriation, two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this shall not involve the further payment of money from the Treasury.
For expenses of light vessels for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to adjust the account of Commander W. S. Schley, inspector of the Third light-house district, for amount expended by him from the appropriation “Expenses of light vessels,” eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for repairs of light-ship Numbered Thirteen, but disallowed in his accounts for the reason that the expenditure was properly chargeable to the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and four cents: *Proviso*.Adjusting accounts.*Provided*, That this shall not involve the further payment of money from the Treasury.
To pay amounts found due the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, on account of the following appropriations: “Expenses Buoyage.of light vessels,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and two dollars and five cents; “Expenses of buoyage,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-two cents; in all three hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-seven cents. Absecon Buoy Depot, New Jersey: Absecon Buoy Depot, N.
J.For amounts paid by Captain F. A. Mahan, United States Army, as engineer of the Fourth light-house district, from the appropriation for the buoy depot at Absecon, New Jersey, fourth quarter of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for legal services and expenses in acquiring title to the land, and so forth, for a site therefor, said payments having been authorized by the Treasury Department and approved by the Attorney-General, but disallowed by the Commissioner of Customs under date of November twenty first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for want of authority of law, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury, five hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-three cents.
Supplies of light-houses: Supplies.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Supplies of light-houses,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety cents. 277 Credit in accounts of Major William Ludlow: Authority isWilliam Ludlow.Credit in accounts. hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of Major William Ludlow, United States Army, late engineer Ninth and Eleventh light house district s, the sum of three hundred and seventeen dollars and thirteen cents, paid by him in connection with the examination and report upon the titles to lands to be acquired by the United States as sites for light-house structures, the bills for the expenditures referred to having been approved lay the Attorney-General, and payment authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Light-House Board, but disallowed by the Com-missioner of Customs for want of authority of law to allow the same, said accounts being set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight, of this session. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. To compensate C. H. Boyd, assistant, Coast and Geodetic Survey, forC.H. Boyd.Services. services from August eighteenth to August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, both days inclusive, at the rate of two thousand two hundred dollars per annum, eighty-three dollars and seventy cents. To compensate E. Goodfellow, assistant, Coast and Geodetic Survey,E. Goodfellow.Services. for services from August eighteenth to August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, both days inclusive, at the rate of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. government in the territories.
Territories. Alaska: The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are herebyAlaska.Contingent expenses. authorized to allow and credit in the accounts of James Sheakley, governor of Alaska, the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, expended by him from the appropriation tor “contingent expenses, Territory of Alaska,” during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for clerk hire in his office, but disallowed by the accounting officers for want of authority of law to allow the same.Allowance for clerks Alaska and Oklahoma.R.
S., sec. 1935, p. 340, amended. And the provisions of section nineteen hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to clerk hire in the executive departments of the Territories, is hereby extended to include the Territories of Alaska and Oklahoma. Utah: To pay the salaries of the chief justice and three associateUtah.Territorial judges. judges of the Territory of Utah from January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to January fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, at the rate of three thousand dollars each per annum, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents.
To pay the following, on account of the Territory of Utah, which are submitted to Congress in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-six and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight, of this session, namely: For compensation of the officers of election, including contingentElection officers. expenses, twenty-three thousand four hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents; For contingent expenses, Utah Commission, eight hundred and oneUtah Commission. dollars and eighteen cents;
For expenses of constitutional convention, nine thousand six hundredConstitutional convention.*Proviso*.Distribution. and nine dollars and fifty cents: *Provided*, That of said sum so appropriated there shall be paid by said treasurer of the State of Utah, to Richard G. Lambert, eight hundred and fifty dollars; to Frank E. McGurrin five hundred dollars; to C. C. Goodwin, for the “committee on compilation and arrangement” of said convention, two hundred and fifty dollars, and to the members of said convention eight thousand and nine dollars and fifty cents, to be paid to them in the amounts shown by the records of said convention to be due and unpaid to them,278 respectively; in all, thirty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-six cents.
Publishing proceedings.To pay expense of publishing proceedings of the Utah constitutional convention, seven thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. Utah Commission.To pay traveling expenses of E. AV. Tatlock, member of late Utah Commission, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents. To pay in full George E. Blair, clerk to late Utah Commission, two hundred and five dollars. To pay in full George W. Parks, clerk to late Utah Commission, one hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay expense of annual report of late Utah Commission for eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty dollars. To pay telephone bill of late Utah Commission, twenty-five dollars. To pay Charles C. Richards, late secretary of Utah Territory, for cost of moving Government safes and furniture, sixty-five dollars. Industrial Christian Home.To pay Arthur Croxford and Edward H. Rush, for repairs made in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the Industrial Christian Home Building, at Salt Lake City, Utah, forty-three dollars and Transferred to Treasury Department.fifty-eight cents; and said building is hereby transferred to the custody and control of the Treasury Department. independent treasury.
Independent Treasury. George L, Wellington.Services, BaltimoreTo enable the accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and pay the salary of George L. Wellington, late assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore, from the expiration of his term of service to the date of his successor’s qualification (July ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive), during which time he actually performed the duties of the office, a sufficient sum, not to exceed one hundred and seventy-one dollars and nineteen cents, is hereby appropriated from the Vol. 28, p. 181.unexpended balance of the appropriation made by Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred arid ninety-four, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Louis R. Walters.Services, Philadelphia.To enable the accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and pay the salary of Louis R. Walters, late assistant treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia, from the expiration of his term of service to the date of his successor’s qualification (July eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive), during which time he actually performed the duties of the office, a sufficient sum, not to exceed four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighteen cents, is hereby appropriated from the unexpended Vol. 28, p. 182.balance of the appropriation made by the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
John P. Jackson.Services, San Francisco.To enable the accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and pay the salary of John P. Jackson, late assistant treasurer of the United States at San Francisco, from the expiration of his term of service to the date of his successor’s qualification (May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, inclusive), during which time he actually performed the duties of the office, a sufficient sum not to exceed five hundred and six dollars and eighty-five cents, is hereby appropriated from the unexpended Vol. 28, p. 152.balance of the appropriation made by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
FISH COMMISSION. Fish Commission. Propagation of food-fishes: For miscellaneous expenses for thePropagation. propagation and distribution of food fishes, five thousand dollars. Fish hatcheries, repairs: Fish hatcheries.Repairs, etc.For repairs and constructions required at the fish-cultural stations at Put in Bay, Ohio; Duluth, Minnesota;279 Greenlake, Maine; Craig Brook, Maine, and Neosho, Missouri, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For the payment of outstanding liabilities on account of miscellaneous expenses of the Fish Commission, incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-four cents.
For the payment of outstanding liabilities incurred during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and eighteen hundred and ninety-three, on account of the propagation and distribution of food-fishes and the collection of statistics of tire fisheries, eighteen dollars and fifty-seven cents. Fish hatchery, Montana: For the completion of the fish-culturalBozeman, Mont.Vol. 27, p. 361. station near Bozeman, Montana, authorized by the Act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twelve thousand dollars.
Fish hatchery, Iowa: For the completion of the fish-culturalIowa.Vol. 26, p. 384. station in Iowa, authorized by the Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eight thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Northville, Michigan: For the construction ofNorthville, Mich.Vol. 26, p. 384. a hatchery building, dwelling for superintendent, alterations and repairs to present buildings, improvement of grounds, and extension of water supply, including purchase of additional springs, thirteen thousand dollars.
Fish hatchery, Vermont: For the increase of spring-water supply,Saint Johnsbury, Vt.Vol. 26, p. 964. reservoir and connections, and other constructions necessary for the development of the fish-cultural station at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, seven thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Wytheville, Virginia: For the purchase fromWytheville, Va.Purchase of property, etc. the State of Virginia, for the consideration of one hundred dollars, of the property near Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, now used as a fish-cultural station by the United States Fish Commission, for the purchase of additional property adjacent thereto, and for the development and improvement of all the property acquired under this Act, ten thousand dollars.
Fish hatchery, New York: For the completion of the fish-culturalSaint Lawrence River, N. Y.Vol. 26, p. 964. station on the Saint Lawrence River, New York, authorized by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two thousand five hundred dollars. Fish hatchery, Texas: For the completion of the fish-culturalSan Marcos, Tex.Vol. 27, p. 361. station at San Marcos, Texas, authorized by the Act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eighteen thousand dollars.
UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. National Zoological Park: For repairs to the Holt Mansion, toZoological Park.Repairs, etc. make the same suitable for occupancy, and for office furniture, including the accounts set forth hereunder in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four of this session, four hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents. To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for assuming the expenses of labor and materials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation of the Holt Mansion, including the accounts set forth hereunder in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four of this session, four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents.
National Museum: To enable the National Museum to refund toNational Museum.Nicaragua collection. the Honorable A. D. Straus, consul-general of the Republic of Nicaragua at New York, the amount expended by him in connection with the transportation of a collection of antique pottery to Washington City, said collection being the gift of the President of the Republic of Nicaragua to the National Museum, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twenty dollars. 280 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Interstate Commerce Commission. Expenses.That the unexpended balances of the appropriations for the Interstate Commerce Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-four and Balance reappropriated.Vol. 27, p. 585; Vol. 28, p. 387.Vol. 24, p. 286.eighteen hundred and ninety-five, are hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to enable the Commission to properly carry out the objects of the “Act to regulate commerce” (including expenses in the employment of counsel under the limitations contained in said Acts of appropriation), to give effect to, execute, and enforce the provisions of said Act and all acts and amendments supplementary thereto.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Coroner’s office: District of Columbia. Coroner’s office.Deputy.To pay Doctor Larkin W. Glazebrook, deputy coroner, for services for fifteen days during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for sixteen days during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at five dollars per diem; in all, one hundred and fifty-five dollars. Rent of district offices: Rent.To pay the National Capital Investment Company in full compensation for rent and occupation of building for fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight hundred and four dollars.
Judicial expenses: To pay William Herbert Smith balance dueJudicial expenses.Reporting. for services reporting case of E. N. Gray versus District of Columbia, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirteen dollars and twenty-six cents. General advertising: Advertising.To pay accounts for general advertising set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and five dollars and ninety-four cents.
Surveyor’s office: Surveyor’s office.To pay account of Dunlap Printing Company, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two dollars and eighty-five cents. Sewers: Sewers.For relief sewers and for replacing obstructed sewers, namely: For amount required to invest the ten per centum retained on Hussey and Brown’s contract, numbered nineteen hundred, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six dollars and sixty one cents. For suburban sewers, namely:
To pay Andrew Gleeson the ten per centum retained on contract, numbered eleven hundred and ninety-seven, for sewer in Rock Creek Valley, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, seven hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-one cents. Streets: Streets.Electric lighting.For electric lighting, namely: For amount required to light Eckington and West Eckington, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred dollars.
Repairs.For lighting, namely: To pay H. L. Cranford for repairing cuts in granolithic pavements caused by erection of lamps, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen handled and ninety-three, seventeen dollars and five cents. Public schools: Public schools.For salaries of janitors, namely: To pay the janitor of Business High School, three hundred dollars; to pay the janitor of Brightwood School, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; in all, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture for new school buildings, four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For rent of Miner School building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Fire department: Fire department.For fuel, namely: To pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this281 session, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twelve dollars and seven cents.
For repairs to apparatus and new appliances, namely: To pay Thomas Somerville and Sons, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, nine dollars and sixty-four cents. For buildings, namely: That the Commissioners of the District ofTransfer of balances. Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized to transfer the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six for truck house, lot, and furniture to the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six for site and building for engine house numbered two, so as to complete, furnish, and equip said building for the additional use as headquarters of the fire department; also to repair the old Number Two engine house for use for a chemical engine company.
Telegraph and telephone service: For amount required toTelegraph and telephone service. replace fire-alarm boxes destroyed by electric wires, two thousand and ten dollars. Payment of referees, Court of Claims: To pay J. W. Anderson,J. W. Anderson. five hundred and thirty dollars. Police court: For witness fees on account of fiscal years as follows:Police court. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six one thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three dollars and seventy-five cents. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the ActVol. 19, p. 347. approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy cents.
Health department: That the sum of twenty dollars, paid toHealth department.W. S. Odell. W. S. Odell as salary from February twenty-third to February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be allowed (the said Odell having been removed from office February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, but the fact of his removal being unknown to the officer who delivered his cheek in advance of the end of the month), and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of Commissioners J.
W. Ross, M. M. Parker, and Major Charles F. Powell, Board Numbered Nine, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Repairs to jail: For amount required for necessary repairs to roofJail, repairs. of jail, three thousand dollars. Smallpox hospital: Smallpox hospital.For amount required to complete and equip the smallpox hospital with boiler house, heating apparatus, and furniture. six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the*Proviso*.Rules, etc.
District of Columbia are hereby authorized to make rules and regulations for the government of said smallpox hospital. Washington Asylum: To pay John B, Lord, being for the serviceWashington Asylum. of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five dollars and twenty-five cents. Board of Children’s Guardians: For care of feebleminded children:Board of Children’s Guardians. care of children under three years of age, white and colored; board and care of all children over three years of age, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, on account of fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three thousand eight hundred and one dollars and thirty-six cents. 282 For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-four cents. Reform School for Girls: To pay the treasurer a salary of fiftyGirls’ Reform School. dollars per month from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: Freedmen’s Hospital.For contingent expenses, namely, to pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For subsistence on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six dollars and ninety-six cents. Judgments: Payment of judgments.For the payment of judgments against the District of Columbia as follows: To Alice M. Boswell, by Robert S. Boswell, next friend, five thousand dollars, together with seventy-one dollars and ninety cents costs; To Edwin N. Gray, four thousand five hundred dollars, together with one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety cents costs;
To James B. Gibson, one thousand and fifty dollars, together with forty-six dollars and forty-five cents costs; To Joel Mann, three hundred dollars, together with nine dollars and ninety-eight cents costs; To Lemuel E. Mayhew, two hundred and fifty dollars, together with fifty-one dollars costs; To United States ex relatione Thomas W. Kerr, seventy-eight dollars and sixty-five cents costs; To Isaac S. Lyon, four thousand and eighty-two dollars and seventy cents, together with seventy-one dollars and fifty cents costs;
To John Stuckert, one hundred dollars; To John Stuckert and Mary Stuckert, one thousand five hundred dollars, together with sixty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents costs; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty dollars and sixty-three cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until date of payment. William H. Mohler.That a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated to pay the judgment of one thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirty cents in the ease of Louisa Mohler, executrix of William H.
Mohler, deceased, versus The District of Columbia, together with the costs, thirty-four dollars and sixty cents, and interest, as required by law, from the date *Proviso*.Retained bonds to be sold.the same became due until date of payment: *Provided*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the payment of said judgment, shall first apply the proceeds of the sale of the bonds in which the retent under contract eight hundred and twenty-six, between the District of Columbia and William H.
Mohler, was invested, deducting from the residue such sums as may have been paid to the executrix aforesaid for interest subsequent to April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. James McCandlish.Payment to.That the sum of one thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-four cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the ten per centum retained tinder contract eight hundred and thirty-two, between the District of Columbia and James McCandlish, after deducting therefrom the amount expended on account of repairs during the guaranty period.
Court-house building: Court-house.Alterations.To alter certain rooms in the second and in the third stories of the District of Columbia court-house building, which rooms are now occupied by the second division of the equity court and by the surveyor of the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the United States Capitol, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Repairs to Aqueduct Bridge: Aqueduct Bridge.Repairs.For reconstruction of Pier Numbered Four of the Aqueduct Bridge across the Potomac River at283 Georgetown, District of Columbia, to be available until expended, sixty-five thousand dollars.
That one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. Extension of highways: To pay certain of the accounts set forthExtension of highways.Expenses.Vol. 27, p. 532. in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four of this session, namely: For advertising, bill of costs of United States marshal, and for services in reporting testimony incurred in the execution of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a permanent, system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and including one thousand dollars to compensale A.
S. Worthington and Samuel Maddox in full for services as special attorneys for the District of Columbia, five thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Excise board: For amount required to enable the board to pay forExcise board.Purchase of liquors. liquors obtained from places where intoxicants are sold, and for the purpose of having analyses made of the same, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, three hundred dollars.
Redemption of tax-sale certificate: To pay Joseph R. SpransyJoseph R. Spransy.Payment to. for tax-sale certificate for lot sixteen, square seven hundred and sixty, assessed to A. Grant, sold April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, one thousand and thirty-one dollars. Water department: For the following, to be paid wholly from theWater department. revenues of the water department, namely: For contingent expenses, namely:
To pay accounts set forth in HouseContingent expenses. Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five dollars and twelve cents. WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. military establishment. Pay of the army: For pay of officersArmy.Pay. of the line; pay to the officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay; pay of enlisted men; pay of retired officers; additional pay for length of service to retired officers; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; and for commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops; in all, four hundred and forty-nine thousand eight hundred and five dollars and forty-two cents.
Horses for cavalry and artillery: For purchase of horses forHorses. the cavalry and artillery and for the Indian scouts and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, twenty tour thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under*Proviso*.Number, etc. this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service, and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition drily invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
Quartermaster’s Department: To pay amounts audited andQuartermaster’s Departments.Barracks and quarters. allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, for barracks and quarters, and reported to Congress in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-four, Fifty-third Congress, third session, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars and twelve cents. To pay George Baber, of Kentucky, amount found due, as per Treasury settlement numbered one hundred and thirty-three, and reported to284 Congress in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and seventeen, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, one thousand and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents.
For payment of Treasury settlements certified to Congress and reported in Senate Miscellaneous Document Numbered Fifty-seven, Fifty-third Congress, third session, eight thousand dollars. For payment of Treasury settlements certified to Congress, Fifty-third Congress, second session, and reported in Seriate Executive Document Numbered Thirty-three, Fifty-third Congress, third session, nineteen thousand dollars. To pay the claims (Treasury settlements) certified in Senate Executive Document Numbered Ninety-eight, second session Fifty-third Congress, thirty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
To pay the claims (Treasury settlements) certified in House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Fifty-six, third session Fifty-third Congress, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-four cents. Relief of certain officers of the Corps of Engineers: Engineer officers.Expenses allowed. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, in settling the disbursing accounts of Colonels William P. Craighill and George H. Mendell and of Major James C. Post, deceased, to allow and credit them with the amounts authorized and allowed them by the Secretary of War while traveling on duty in Europe, for rent of rooms not exceeding two dollars per day each for two rooms for the time specified in the orders of the Secretary of War directing them to make the journeys, but which amounts have been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
Battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam: Antietam battlefield.Surveying, etc.For continuing the work of surveying, locating, and preserving lines of battle of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, at Antietam, Maryland, three hundred dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers: Burial of indigent soldiers.For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, seven hundred dollars.
Yellowstone National Park: Yellowstone Park.Repairs, etc.For repairs and maintenance of existing roads and bridges, and improvement and protection of the park, to be available until expended, five thousand dollars. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.Repairs, Southern Branch.For construction and repairs: To reimburse the governor (P. T. Woodfin) of the Southern Branch for money paid from his personal funds for repairs to the governor’s quarters at that Branch during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand three hundred and nine dollars and ten cents.
Marion, Ind.Use of appropriation.*Post*, p. 447.That the appropriation of one thousand three hundred dollars in the sundry civil appropriation Act, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes, “For leasing additional ground for the Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Marion, Indiana,” shall also be available for the purchase of gas pipe.
State and Territorial Homes: State and Territorial Homes.For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity Vol. 25, p. 450.*Proviso*.Deductions.with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received by the inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Road to national cemetery, Illinois: Road to cemetery.Pulaski County, Ill.For the construction of a graveled road starting at a point on the north side of Cache River,285 in Pulaski County, Illinois, where the present county graveled road from Cairo, in Alexander County, Illinois, and the bridge across said Cache River terminates, and connecting with the present national graveled road running from Mound City, in said Pulaski County, Illinois, to the Illinois Central Railroad in said county, at or near the national cemetery in Pulaski County, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars.
Said road to be constructed above high-water mark, to be eighteen feet in width on top surface, graveled similar to present national road to said cemetery, and same to be in continuation of graveled road to said national cemetery. Indianapolis Arsenal, Indianapolis, Indiana: For the paymentIndianapolis Arsenal, Ind.Sewer. to A. Bruner for the construction of a main sewer in Clifford avenue, adjacent to the United States arsenal grounds, in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, four thousand three hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifteen cents: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall*Proviso*.Condition. not issue a warrant for the payment of said sum until the officer in command of the arsenal at Indianapolis shall certify that the sewer now provided for upon said grounds shall have been constructed by the United States and the same connected with the sewerage system of the city of Indianapolis.
Payment to John Finn: To pay amounts found due to John Finn,John Finn.Payment to.*Post*, p. 709. under the Act authorizing the Auditor for the War Department to audit certain quartermaster vouchers alleged to belong to John Finn, of Saint Louis, Missouri, approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Rent of Bellevue Rifle Range: For the payment to Henry T.Bellevue Rifle Range, Nebraska.Rent.
Clark for the use of Bellevue Rifle Range, in the State of Nebraska, by the United States Army, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six hundred dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. That the title “appointment clerk,” office of the Secretary, NavyAppointment, etc., clerk.Title and pay corrected.*Ante*, p. 164. Department, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read:
“Clerk in charge of civil employments and labor regulations at navy-yards, who shall also perform the duties of appointment clerk of the Navy Department, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.” Naval Observatory lands: To pay the accounts which are setNaval Observatory.Expenses, attempted sale of lands. forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, for expenses of attempted sale of Naval Observatory lands, eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents. naval establishment.
Naval establishment. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act ofAdvances.Vol. 20, p. 167. June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-fourPay. thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and three cents;
For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seventy-two thousand and ninety eight dollars and sixteen cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy cents; For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundredContingent. and six dollars and twenty-eight cents; For provisions, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, oneProvisions. Marine Corps. thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; 286 Pay, miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents;
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-six dollars and fifty-seven cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty-two cents; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents; in all, two hundred and seven thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-two cents.
Naval Station, Key West, Florida: Key West., Fla.Coaling shed.Vol. 28. p. 131.For additional amount for coaling shed, four thousand dollars, and the appropriation of ten thousand dollars for this object made by the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five is hereby continued available for the same purpose. Pay of the Navy: PayTo pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay of the Navy,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay of the Navy” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay claims hereafter audited by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay of the Navy” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand dollars. To pay claims hereafter audited by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay of the Navy” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, five thousand dollars.
Pay, Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay, mis-cellaneous” (Navy), for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-three cents; For pay, miscellaneous, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty cents; To pay bill of the Western Union Telegraph Company, for telegraphic services during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents;
To pay bill of Henry Hilton for rent of rooms occupied by the Navy pay office, New York, for the quarter ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents: To pay claims not yet presented for settlement (estimated), two thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. To pay bill of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company for telegraphic service on account of the appropriation, “Pay, miscellaneous,” during year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty-two cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of transportation of officers traveling under orders, rents of buildings, salaries, and incidental expenses of purchasing pay officers, and any other expenditures chargeable to this, appropriation, fifty thousand dollars. Contingent, Navy: Contingent.To pay bill of the Chattanooga, Home and Columbus Railroad.
Eugene E. Jones, for transportation of ordnance stores (guns and shell) from the navy-yard, New York, to the national park, Lytle Station, Georgia, in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-eight cents. 287 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Navy,” for the fiscal year, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three dollars and eighty-six cents.
That the Auditor for the Navy Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pass vouchers in favor of the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, of San Francisco, California, for rentals of telephone instruments used in officers’ quarters at the navy-yard, Mare Island, California, during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, amounting to three hundred and eighteen dollars, and to relieve Pay Inspector Edward Bellows, United States Navy, of the disallowance of these vouchers in the settlement of his accounts, and further to pay and allow additional vouchers in favor of the same company for similar services for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, aggregating three hundred and seventy-two dollars, out of funds in the hands of Pay Inspector Edward Bellows, under the proper appropriations for the payment of telephone rentals at navy-yards. marine corps.
Marine Corps. Provisions: For amount due Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,Provisions. Navy Department, on account of commuted rations stopped from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to dune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, on account of sick in naval hospitals, to be transferred to Naval Hospital fund, three thousand and sixty-five dollars and thirty-five cents. To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractors for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eleven thousand and twenty-one dollars and. fifty-four cents.
Clothing: To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractorsClothing. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand and thirty-four dollars and sixteen cents. Military stores: To pay accounts on file for military supplies forMilitary stores. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents. Transportation and recruiting: To pay amounts on file forTransportation and recruiting. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two dollars and eight cents.
Forage: To pay account and reservation on file due contractors forForage. the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents. Contingent: To pay accounts on file for freight, straw, gas, water,Contingent. express charges, advertising, and so forth, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand and seventy dollars and forty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and five dollars and twenty-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Marine Corps,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and four cents. naval academy. Naval Academy. Pay: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of thePay. Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay, Naval Academy,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents. 288 Heating and lighting: Heating and lighting.To pay the accounts for coal set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, one thousand nine hundred dollars and two cents. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. Rent of dock, New York City.To pay bill of The Corporation of the City of New York, approved by the Paymaster-General August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for rent of docks at Fiftieth street, North River, New York City, for the months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-one days, at six dollars per day, for the United States steamship Minnesota, five hundred and forty-six dollars. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-two cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. bureau of equipment. Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels.To pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, which were not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation “Equipment of vessels” had been covered back into the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety-three dollars and eighty-two cents.
Contingent.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-three cents. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account, of the appropriation for “Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” twenty-one dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and two dollars and eighty-three cents. Contingent.To pay the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, on account of “Contingent expenses, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, ninety-seven dollars and thirty-five cents. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighty-four dollars and sixty cents. 289 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” together with the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, and to pay bills not yet rendered, all being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred and four dollars and three cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety four, two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-one cents. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering. To pay bill of the Union Iron Works for a cast-steel low-pressureMachinery. piston ordered for the United States steamer Charleston upon requisition of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, dated May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand and fifty-five dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twelve dollars and fourteen cents. navy, miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Schooner H. E. Thompson: To pay the owners of the schooner“H. E. Thompson.”Payment to owners. H. E. Thompson for injuries sustained by that vessel in consequence of a collision with the United States tug Triton in the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, November second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as determined by a board of survey appointed under the regulations of the Navy Department, ninety dollars.
Newton’s Wharf, Norfolk, Virginia: To compensate the ownersNewton’s Wharf, Norfolk, Va.Payment to owners. of Newton’s Wharf, Norfolk, Virginia, for damages caused the said wharf in February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, by the United States tug Wahneta, as ascertained and determined by a board of officers of the Navy appointed to investigate and report thereupon, forty-eight dollars. Yacht Gossoon: To compensate the owners of the yacht Gossoon“Gossoon.”Payment to owners. for damages sustained by said yacht in consequence of a collision (August second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five) with the yard ferry launch Annie, attached to the naval station, Newport, Rhode Island, as ascertained and determined by a board of officers appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-six cents.
Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company: To compensate theBrooklyn and New York Ferry Company.Payment to. Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company for damages caused to ferry slip on June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, by the United States steamship Atlanta, as ascertained and determined by a board of officers of the Navy appointed to investigate and report thereupon, sixty-two dollars. Accounts of Pay Director H. M. Denniston: The accountingH. M. Denniston.Allowance in accounts. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to pass the voucher, under the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,” from which it was paid by Pay Director H.
M. Denniston, United States Navy, namely: For services of a detective agency, eight hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-four cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Payment of pensions: Interior Department. That the Auditor of the Department of theA. Wilson Norris.Payment to widow. Interior is hereby authorized and required to state the account of Colonel A. Wilson Norris, late pension agent at Philadelphia, and the bal-290ance found due shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to Mrs.
Mirtie M. Norris, widow of the said A. Wilson Norris, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. H. Kessler Smith.Fee refunded.To refund to H. Kessler Smith a fee paid by him to the Patent. Office September fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, in the matter of an application for registration of a label, which application was subsequently withdrawn, six dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: Lighting Capitol and grounds.For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty eight cents.
Investigation of methods of filtering water.The Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to examine into the methods for the filtration of water used in the Capitol building, and to report to Congress on the first day of the next session the result of his investigations, what propositions have been made to furnish such filtration, and the probable cost thereof. public-land service. Public Lands. Desert lands selected by States: Desert lands.Examination for selection by States.That the sum of one thousand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine the desert lands selected by the States under Vol. 28, p. 422.the provisions of section tour of said Act, be, and is hereby, reappropriated and made available for the examination of said lands during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
California.Surveys.For survey of lands in California: To pay amounts found to be due under contracts for the survey of public lands in California prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty thousand *Proviso*.Contracts suspended.dollars: *Provided*, That in the case of contracts for the survey of public lands in the State of California executed prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in which the returns of the survey have been suspended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office until the appropriation for the survey of public lands from which the contracts for such surveys were made payable has lapsed and been covered into the Treasury, and in which cases such suspension is afterwards removed and the surveys executed under such contracts accepted by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or in the ease of such contracts when made payable from the fund of deposits by individuals for the survey of public, lands in which the deposits made for the particular survey arc insufficient.
Office of surveyor-general of Montana: Montana.Surveyor general.For contingent expenses of the office of surveyor-general of Montana, including the sum of three hundred and ninety dollars and fifteen cents to reimburse the Interior Department for stationery furnished during the, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five; one hundred and forty dollars to reimburse the surveyor-general for plat eases made and furnished during the same fiscal year, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for which he had conditional authority, but for which funds were not available at the close of the fiscal year, and three hundred dollars for binding two hundred volumes of field notes; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Maps of the United States: Map of the United States.Advertising.To pay the account of the Evening Star Newspaper Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, for publishing, in August and September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, proposals for bids for photolithographing and printing maps of the United States, and of land States and Territories, prepared in the General Land Office, twelve dollars and thirty-eight cents. 291 Reproducing plats of surveys: To pay the account of theReproducing plats.Advertising.
Evening Star Newspaper Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, for publishing, in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, proposals for bids for photolithographing township plats and other plats constituting part of the official records of the General Land Office, eleven dollars and twenty-five cents. Geological Survey: For topographic surveys in various portionsTopographic surveys. of the United States, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Payments to deputy surveyors: To pay Fred L. Gould, AlbertDeputy surveyors.Services. F. Easeley, John E. Jackson, William R. Whipple, Clayton G. Coleman, and Bernard Keegan, United States deputy surveyors, the amounts of their accounts for services, as set forth in House Documents Numbered One hundred and twenty-eight and Three hundred and twenty-four, of this session, nine hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-seven cents. To pay Charles Holcomb, James R. Glover, George W. Baker, S.
A. Hanson, Mil ton Santee, M. F. Reilly, and George H. Pradt, United States deputy surveyors, the amounts of their accounts for services, as set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven, of this session, nine thousand two hundred and two dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay to George T. Simpson and Louis Shaw the difference betweenGeorge T. Simpson and Louis Shaw.Payment to. the amount actually expended by them in the survey of the Grand Portage Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, and the amount allowed them under the construction of their contract for the work by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
To pay Oscar Sonnekalb, of Pocatello, Idaho, for surveying publicOscar Sonnekalb.Payment to. lands in the State of Idaho under contract numbered one hundred and fifty two, five hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty five cents, said sum being the cost and value of the work done under said survey contract, according to the rates fixed by statute. To pay Richard S. Fuller, United States deputy surveyor, balanceRichard S. Fuller.Payment to. due for surveys executed in townships three and four north, of range ninety-one west, and township three north, of range ninety-two west, in Colorado, under contract numbered seven hundred and eighty-one, and for retracements of thirty-three miles forty-two links and twenty nine chains of retraced exterior lines of survey of said townships, and reestablishing corners along said lines, said contract having been approved by the surveyor-general, four hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-one cents.
To pay the account of Philip M. Gallaher, United States deputy surveyor,Philip M. Gallaher.Payment to. for the survey of certain boundary lines of the Yellowstone National Park and Public Forest Reserve in Montana, executed by him under contract numbered two hundred and sixty-three, dated October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety one, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior and by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, respectively, under date of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety three, at rates of twenty-six dollars, thirty dollars, and forty-three dollars per mile for lines embraced in said contract, eight thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents.
Payment to register and receiver: To pay John J. Beavers,John J. Beavers and Benjamin H. Crowley.Payment to. register, and Benjamin H. Crowley, receiver, of the United States Land Office at Little Rock, Arkansas, compensation at the rate of five dollars per day each for nine days in February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the time in which they were respectively engaged in appraising the Government lots at Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, ninety dollars. indian affairs.
Indian Department. Pay of interpreters: To pay amounts found due by the accountingInterpreters. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay292 of interpreters” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy-six dollars and thirty nine cents. For the payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent: School superintendent.Expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-nine cents. Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska: Genoa, Nebr.School.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust, settle, and pay, upon the presentation of sworn and competent evidence, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriations for the support of the Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the claims of all persons, firms, and corporations who furnished goods and supplies for the Indian industrial school at Genoa, Nebraska, during the incumbency of Horace R.
Chase, superintendent of said school, which have not already been allowed and *Proviso*.Limit.adjusted: *Provided*, That the sum so expended shall not exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars. Education in Alaska: Alaska.Education.For all expenses during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven of a school at Circle City, including hire of a teacher, one thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies: Supplies.Purchase, etc.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies” for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars and nineteen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-three cents. Support of Poncas: Poncas.Support etc.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Support of Poncas” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two dollars and forty cents.
Sissetons and Wahpetons.Payment of interest.That the Secretary of the Treasury is directed until otherwise provided by law, to pay, after reserving not exceeding thirty thousand dollars per annum for educational purposes and expenses of necessary employees, to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians of South Dakota all interest money due them up to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and that thereafter all interest money as it shall accrue shall be paid, except as herein provided, on the first day of November annually.
Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Carlisle, Pa.Indian school.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and eight dollars and eighty-five cents. Incidentals in South Dakota: South Dakota.Incidental expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Incidentals in South Dakota” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty one cents.
Incidentals in Idaho: Idaho.Incidental expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Incidentals in Idaho,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-four dollars and forty-eight cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. Incidentals in Oregon: Oregon.Incidental expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for293 “Incidentals in Oregon;
Employees,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six hundred arid three dollars and thirteen cents. Removal of Southern Utes: To pay amounts found due by theSouthern Utes.Removal. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Removal of Southern Utes,” five hundred and two dollars and forty cents. Substation, Flathead Agency, Montana: To pay amounts foundFlathead Agency, Mont. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Substation, Flathead Agency, Montana,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and four cents.
Homesteads for Indians: To pay amounts found due by theAllotments. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Homesteads for Indians,” eight hundred and one dollars and fourteen cents. Indian Exhibit, World’s Columbian Exposition: To pay amountsIndian exhibit, World’s Fair. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Indian exhibit, World’s Columbian Exposition,” to adjust appropriations, twenty-seven dollars and seven cents.
Appraisal of improvements, Cherokee Outlet: For the purposeCherokee Outlet.Appraising improvements.Vol. 27, p. 641. of paying a balance due for the appraisal of improvements of intruders in the Cherokee Nation, under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, six hundred and forty-nine dollars. Contingencies: For contingencies of the Indian service, includingContingencies. traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, three thousand dollars.
Surveying and allotting Colville Reservation: That tenColville Reservation, Oreg.Vol. 28, p. 306. thousand dollars of the amount appropriated by the Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for survey and subdivision of Indian reservations, and of lands to be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and added to the sum of thirty-fiveReappropriation for survey, etc.Vol. 27, p. 64. thousand dollars appropriated for the survey of the Colville Reservation by the seventh section of the Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of a part of the Colville Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes,” this amount to be reimbursable from the proceeds of the lands when sold as in said Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, provided.
Support of Sioux of different tribes: To pay the Fremont,Sioux, etc. Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company for rent of a warehouse at Rushville, Nebraska, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred dollars. Reimbursement of John L. Bullis: To reimburse Captain JohnJohn L. Bullis. L. Bullis, Twenty-fourth Infantry, United States Army, in full for amount actually paid by him for expenses incurred in a suit brought against him by E. W. Kingsbury, an ex-Indian trader at San Carlos Agency, Arizona, in eighteen hundred and ninety one, one hundred dollars. eleventh census.
Eleventh Census. For salaries, rents, and necessary expense in continuing the work ofExpenses. compiling the results of the Eleventh Census, to continue available until exhausted, ten thousand dollars. 294 Printing, etc.Vol. 27. pp. 473, 658; Vol. 28, pp. 60, 439, 858.To continue printing, engraving, and binding the final volumes of the Eleventh Census, authorized by Act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and by amendments thereto, to continue available until expended, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Rent.For this amount to pay rent of first floor of number five hundred and twelve Ninth street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, known as the Inter-Ocean Building, from March fifth to tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, six days, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, twenty-five dollars. For rent of seventh floor of the Inter-Ocean Building from March fifth to April seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, one month and three days, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department. Contingent expenses: Contingent expenses.For telegraphing on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifteen cents. out of the postal revenues. Postal service. Mail transportation: Transportation.Railroad routes.For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one million one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight of this session, one hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred and four dollars and seven cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to pay amount set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight of this session, ninety dollars and sixty-eight cents.
Railway post-office cars.To pay the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company for railway post-office car service on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and fifty-two cents. Foreign mails: Foreign mails.For balance due foreign countries, eighty thousand dollars. Compensation of postmasters: Postmasters.For amounts to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-four and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight of this session, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighty-nine thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and forty-seven cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, six thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents. Rent of canceling machines: Canceling machines.Rent.To pay the amounts for rent of canceling machines set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty four of this session, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and four cents.
Payment to John W. Ross: John W. Ross.Credit in accounts.That the Auditor for the Post-Office Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the account of John W. Ross, late postmaster at Washington, District of295 Columbia, with the sum of one hundred and forty-one dollars paid for fuel for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety; with the sum of thirty-five dollars and twelve cents paid for ice third quarter of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and with the, sum of forty-five dollars and eighty-three cents paid W.
C. Talley, junior, letter carrier, for overtime. Credit to William M. Masi: That the Postmaster-General isWilliam M. Masi.Credit in accounts. hereby authorized to credit William M. Masi, late postmaster at Cheyenne, Wyoming, with two thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and fourteen cents, the amount now standing charged against him; upon the receipt by the Secretary of the Treasury of the full amount of all dividends heretofore paid or hereafter to be paid by the receiver of the Cheyenne National Bank in the administration of the assets of said bank upon the case of William M.
Masi all further liability of said William M. Masi and of his sureties to the United States of America upon his official bond as postmaster at, Cheyenne, Wyoming, shall cease and determine as to the extent of certain funds belonging to the United States which were deposited and upon deposit by the said Masi in said Cheyenne National Bank at the time it closed its doors and ceased to do business and went into the hands of the receiver: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.Liability of bond.
That nothing in this Act contained shall operate as a release to the said Masi and his sureties on his official bond of any liabilities to the United States which may have been incurred by said Masi while acting as postmaster at Cheyenne other than as to the amount so deposited and on deposit in said bank as aforesaid. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Contingent expenses: For official transportation, Department ofContingent expenses. Justice, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repair of wagons and harness, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to pay the account of John H.
Gheen, twenty-five dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, one thousand one hundred dollars. For the purpose of providing the necessary books to be used in the United States marshals’ offices and in the Department of Justice, in order to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping for United States marshals, ten thousand dollars. For official transportation on account of fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and forty-six dollars and ninety-five cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five dollars and thirty-five cents. For law books for library, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four hundred and ninety-two dollars and forty cents. Agreements with Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians: ToEastern Cherokee Indians.Expenses of suit. pay the decree of the United States circuit court, western district of North Carolina, in the cause of the United States versus William H.
Thomas and others, settling the title to certain land in controversy in said suit, six hundred and twenty-two dollars. To pay the accounts of J. R. Snow, clerk, and N. B. Thompson, register of deeds, of Swain County, North Carolina, and John R. Long, register, and William IL Thomas, junior, justice of the peace, of Jackson County, North Carolina, for taking acknowledgements of deeds, privy examinations of married women, recording decrees, and so forth, one hundred and thirty four dollars and eighty-five cents.
Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: ToAlaska.Court expenses. pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for rent of offices and incidental expenses for the marshal, district attorney, commissioners, Territory of Alaska, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty dollars. 296 Expenses in settling title to Greer County: Greer County suit.Expenses.To enable the Attorney-General to make final settlement for the services and expenses incurred by counsel employed to assist in bringing suits in equity in the Vol. 26, p. 92.Supreme Court of the United States, provided by section twenty-five of the Act of May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, relating to temporary government in Oklahoma Territory, for enlarging the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes, five thousand dollars.
Defense in indian depredation claims: Indian depredation claims.Expenses.For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, four thousand dollars, which amount shall continue available until expended. Suits against Benjamin Weil and La Abra Mining Company: Weil and La Abra claims.Expenses of suits.For fees and expenses in suits of the United States against Benjamin Weil and others, and the same against La Abra Silver Mining Company and others, ten thousand dollars, the said suits having been brought Vol. 27, pp. 409, 410.in obedience to the two Acts of Congress, approved, respectively, on December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and entitled Vol. 20, p. 144.“An Act to amend and enlarge the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled ‘An Act to provide for the distribution of the awards made under the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,’” ten thousand dollars.
Payments for legal Services: Frank R. Ogg.Services.To pay the account of Frank R. Ogg, of Kansas, for services rendered in the case of the United States versus Black Bob Band of Shawnee Indians from July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to September third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, under Act of March first, eighteen hundred and Vol. 25, p. 768.eighty-nine (Twenty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and sixty-eight), five thousand dollars. Miles Pointdexter.Services.To pay the account of Miles Pointdexter, of Washington, for services in the case of the United States versus Mary McConnell, performed under direction of the United States attorney for Washington at a time when he and his assistants were otherwise officially engaged, twenty-five dollars.
Courts in Indian Territory: Indian Territory.Court expenses.The Attorney-General is authorized to pay out of the appropriation for salaries and expenses of United States courts in the Indian Territory for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the accounts on file in his Department for letter heads and blanks for the several court officials in the Indian Territory, and for envelopes furnished the United States marshals and United States attorneys in said Territory prior to May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Payment to C. R. Evans: C. R. Evans.Expenses.To pay C. R. Evans tor legal services rendered to C. C. Hewitt, a commissioned officer of the United States Army, on duty as recruiting officer a t Chattanooga, State of Tennessee, who had in his custody J. B. Gordon, held as a deserter from the United States Army as a duly enlisted soldier in the Army of the United States, two hundred and fifty dollars. Payment to the Bancroft Company: Bancroft Company.Payment to.To pay the account of The Bancroft Company, successor and assignee of the A.
L. Bancroft Company of San Francisco, California, for stationery furnished to the late United States marshal for the Territory of Alaska, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty five, one hundred and six dollars and twenty cents. Payment to Eugene Hagan: Eugene Hagan.Services.To enable the Attorney-General of the United States to make an agreement with the defendant, the Leavenworth Coal Company, to pay Eugene Hagan, of Topeka, Kansas, for services as special master and examiner in chancery in the case of the United States of America against the Leavenworth Coal Company, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kansas, each party to advance one-half of the fee for said service, without prejudice to the rights of either party under the orders already made, two thousand dollars. 297 To Elibu Root, ex-United States Attorney southern district of NewElibu Hoot.Services.
York, for services rendered as attorney for the defendant in the suit of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company versus Thomas L. James, in March, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, by direction of the Attorney General, the sum of two thousand dollars. Payment to W. Hallett Phillips: To pay the account of W.W. Hallett Phillips.Services. Hallett Phillips, of Washington, District, of Columbia, for legal services in the ease of The United States versus Stanford, numbered seven hundred and eighty-three, under the direction of the Attorney-General, during the mouths of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and January and February, eighteen hundred and ninety six, five hundred dollars.
Reimbursement of Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company: Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company.Reimbursement. To reimburse the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and others, defendants, for costs paid by them for printing in case of the United States of America, plaintiff, versus The Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and others, defendants, in the United States circuit court for the northern district of Iowa, in pursuance of stipulation made between the parties and approved by the court in relation to said costs of printing, five hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents.
Payment to David Overmyer: To pay to David Overmyer, ofDavid Overmyer.Services. Topeka, Kansas, for services as special master in chancery in the case of the United States of America against the Black Bob band of Indians and over two hundred other defendants, the United States having been ordered by the court to pay him this amount for his said services, two thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars. judicial. United States courts. Salaries, circuit courts: To pay the salary of the additional circuitCircuit judge seventh circuit.Vol. 28, p. 643. judge for the seventh judicial circuit, under the Act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, both inclusive, at six thousand dollars per annum, one thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
To pay the salary of the additional circuit judge for the ninth judicialCircuit judge ninth circuit.Vol. 28. p. 665. circuit, under the Act approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, both inclusive, at six thousand dollars per annum, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Salaries, district judges: To pay the salary of the districtUtah.District judge. judge of the United States for the district of Utah to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at five thousand dollars per annum, estimated, two thousand and thirty-two dollars and ninety-four cents.
Salaries, district attorneys: To pay the salary of the districtDistrict attorney. attorney of the United States for the district of Utah to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, estimated, eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. Salaries, district marshals: To pay the salary of the districtMarshal. marshal of the United States for the district of Utah to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, estimated, eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. united states courts.
Special assistant attorneys: For payment of assistants toSpecial assistant attorneys. United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, thirty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. 298 For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand two hundred dollars.
Fees of clerks: Clerks’ fees.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Fees of clerks, United States courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-five cents. Fees of commissioners: Commissioners’ fees.For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand eight hundred and seven dollars and sixty-two cents. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to allow and pay to M. M. Beavers his salary as a United States commissioner for the Indian Territory from April twelfth to April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive. Fees of jurors: Jurors’ fees.For fees of jurors, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety two, twenty-five dollars and twenty cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventeen dollars and thirty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, six hundred and ninety eight dollars and eighty cents. Fees of witnesses: Witnesses’ fees.For fees of witnesses, United States courts, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-four cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight," ten dollars and ninety cents. Support of prisoners: Support of prisoners.For support of prisoners, United States courts, For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy-seven thousand and fifty-six dollars and sixty-four cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for support of prisoners, United States courts, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-three cents.
To pay accounts for support of prisoners, United States courts, as reported by the Attorney-General, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six thousand seven hundred arid fifty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents. To pay amounts reported by the Attorney-General for expenses of support of prisoners, United States courts, incurred in southern district of New York, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
Bailiffs and criers: Bailiffs, etc.For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district *Provisos*.Attendance.of New York: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And Vacation.provided further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten thousand dollars. 299 For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-three cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and eighty dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, thirty-five dollars. Miscellaneous expenses: For miscellaneous expenses, UnitedMiscellaneous.
States courts, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five thousand dollars. That the Auditor for the State and other Departments be authorizedO. P. Fitzsimmons.Payment of deputies. to certify for payment the several amounts found due to the deputies of O. P. Fitzsimmons, of Georgia, late United States marshal for the district of Georgia, per certificate of said Auditor, numbered seventy-seven hundred and eighty-one, which have not heretofore been paid; warrants to be issued in the name of and delivered to the persons now holding said claims: *Provided*, That the sum total of the warrants heretofore*Proviso*.Limit. issued and to be issued shall not exceed the sum of four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-eight cents, heretofore appropriated.
Protecting property in hands of receivers: To pay amountsProperty in receivers’ hands.Protecting. due on account of the appropriation for protecting property in the hands of receivers of United states courts for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-two cents. To pay amounts due on account of the appropriation for protecting property in the hands of receivers of United States courts for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture. weather bureau. Weather Bureau. To pay the account of J. S. Watson, of Titusville, Florida, for theJ.S. Watson.Payment to. total loss by wreckage of one sailboat while in the service of the Weather Bureau, repairing the United States telegraph line between Titusville and Jupiter, Florida, on October twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including expenses incurred in connection therewith, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. public printing and binding. Printing and binding. For expenditures for machinery, electric motors, cabinets, tables,Machinery, etc., new building. shelving, partitions, working furniture, and other expenses required in the occupation of the floors of the new building on the west of the Government Printing Office, to be expended by the Public Printer, sixty thousand dollars. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the lawLeaves to employees. granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office for the current fiscal year, ten thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the Department of State, five thousandDepartment of State. dollars. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, sixty-fiveTreasury Department. thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Interior Department, fifty thousandInterior Department. dollars. 300 War Department.For printing and binding for the War Department, as follows: Department of Justice.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Manual of Subsistence Stores.For printing and binding six hundred copies of the Manual of Subsistence Stores for the Army of the United States, in course of preparation, four hundred dollars. New building.Rent for office.Vol. 28, p. 961.That the officer in charge of the construction of the building on the site of the Government Printing Office stables, erected under the terms of the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby authorized to pay the rent of a budding occupied for office and storage purposes from June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at thirty dollars per month, from the appropriation of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the erection of the building.
Samuel Robinson and William Madden.Payment to.To make the daily wages of Samuel Robinson and William Madden, messengers on night duty, from December second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, three dollars and sixty cents per day each, four hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. library of congress. Library of Congress. Contingent expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Library of Congress,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents. botanic garden.
Botanic Garden. Improvement, etc.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Improving Botanic Garden” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to pay an account of William M. Galt and Company for forage for horses, one hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-one cents. senate. Senate. Senators.For compensation of Senators, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars. Henry A. Du Pont.Contested election expenses.To pay Henry A.
Du Pout, in full compensation for alt his time and expenses, including printing and counsel fees, in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the Senate of the United States as a Senator from the State of Delaware, two thousand five hundred dollars. James L. Wolcott.Payment to.To pay James L. Wolcott, for himself and associates, counsel in opposition to the claim of Henry A. Du Pont, the same to embrace all their disbursements and expenses in the prosecution of their case in such opposition, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Furniture.For material for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, two hundred dollars. Doors.To pay for doors for the Senate Chamber, the cloak rooms, and the Senate corridor, two thousand and thirty-five dollars. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. R. B. Nixon.To pay R. B. Nixon, for year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred dollars.
Folders.To provide for four additional folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Addison T. Smith.Payment to.That the Secretary of the Senate be, and be hereby is, authorized to pay Addison T. Smith as clerk to the Honorable George L. Shoup, Senator from Idaho, from March seventh to March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, and employees of the Senate, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. 301 To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Extra services. the Senate for expenses incurred during the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.
To pay Edward T. Mathews, late clerk of the Committee on NavalEdward T. Mathews.Extra services. Affairs, for extra services as acting clerk of the Joint Committee on the Personnel of the Navy during the Fifty-third Congress, compiling and indexing the testimony, and so forth, five hundred dollars. To pay Francis M. Cox for work and expenses incurred in preparingFrancis M. Cox.Services. for the printer and supervising the publication of the “Proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the statues of John Stark and Daniel Webster,” under the direction of the Committee on Printing, as provided by resolution of the Senate adopted December twenty second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred dollars.
To reimburse the clerk of the Senate Committee on Pensions forPension Committee.Expenses of clerk. moneys actually paid out by him during the first, second, and third sessions of the Fifty third Congress and first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, for stenographer and clerical hire, twenty-two months, seven hundred and seventy dollars. To pay to Benjamin Durfee, for extra services rendered to the CommitteeBenjamin Durfee.Extra services. on Finance of the Senate during the consideration of the tariff bill of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay Watson Boyle for services as clerk to the conference of theWatson Boyle.Services. minority from March fourth to March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, seventy-two dollars. To pay William A. Fields for extraordinary services in transferringWilliam A. Fields.Extraordinary services. and rearranging the papers and relettering the boxes of the files of the Senate from the Sixteenth Congress to the Forty-ninth Congress, inclusive, rendered necessary by certain changes and improvements made by the Secretary of the Senate for the better preservation and greater convenience for reference of the files, four hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the following persons,One month’s pay to discharged employees.Vol. 28, p. 418. who were excluded by decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury from the benefits of the provision in the sundry civil Act, approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, authorizing payment to the officers and employees of the Senate who were borne on the rolls of the Senate August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and who were not borne on said rolls November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of a sum equal to one month’s pay at the rate of compensation paid them at the time of their discharge, namely:
To William A. Merritt, one hundred dollars; James McBride, ninety dollars; Godfrey Beck, ninety dollars; Matthew Healey, eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; Thomas P. Mitchell, ninety dollars; Hammett S. Delaplane, sixty dollars; W. H. Bright, sixty dollars; G. W. Thomas, folder, sixty dollars; and G. W. Thomas, fifty dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by said Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. To pay Charles H.
Evans for services in preparing statistics onCharles H. Evans.Services. imports and exports, as contained in Senate Report Numbered Two hundred and fifty-nine, Fifty-third Congress, second session, one thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Mrs. Nannie Watkins, widow of Lieutenant M. F. Watkins,M. F. Watkins.Payment to widow. deceased, who died while a lieutenant of the Capitol police, six hundred dollars, being one-half of a year’s salary. To pay Mrs. Mary C. Stone, widow of Charles Stone, who died whileCharles Stone.Payment to widow. a member of the Capitol police, five hundred and fifty dollars, being one-half of a year’s salary.
To pay Mrs. Hattie Newsom, widow of James A, Newsom, who diedJames A. Newsom.Payment to widow. while a member of the Capitol police, four hundred and fifty dollars, being one-half of a year’s salary. 302 house of representatives. House of Representatives. Members and Delegates.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, on account of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty thousand dollars.
Assistant stenographer to committees.For assistant stenographer to committees, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to be appointed by the Speaker, one thousand two hundred dollars. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the Clerk, three hundred dollars; for the postmaster, fifty dollars, and for the doorkeeper, twenty-five dollars; in all, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. Stationery.For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, on account of fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and forty three dollars and eleven cents. Miscellaneous items, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Clerk hire, Members and Delegates.Payment during recess.*Ante*, p. 145.To enable the Clerk, pursuant to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to pay to each Member and Delegate who is not chairman of a committee entitled to an annual clerk, for clerk hire from the date of the adjournment of the present session of Congress to and including December sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, au amount not exceeding one hundred dollars per month, to be certified by him on the first day of each calendar month in the, manner provided in the joint Vol. 27, p. 757.resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred and thirty-four Unexpended, balances available.dollars and twenty-three cents, together with any unexpended balance, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation made in Vol. 28, p. 770.the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six to pay Members and Delegates the amount which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire necessarily employed by them in the discharge of their official and representative duties, which unexpended balance is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure under the said resolution of the House of Representatives adopted May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Furniture and repairs.For furniture and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. Andrew J. Campbell.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Andrew J. Campbell, a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress from the State of New York, but who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars. William Cogswell.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of William Cogswell, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. W.H. Crain.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of W.
H. Crain, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars. Philip S. Post.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Philip S. Post, a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars. F. Reeman.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of F. Reeman, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, five thousand dollars. Myron B. Wright.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Myron B. Wright, a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, but who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars.
Fred T. Dubois.Salary as Delegate.To pay Fred T. Dubois the salary due him as Delegate in Congress from the Territory of Idaho from July third, eighteen hundred and ninety, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, inclusive, three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. 303 For allowance to the following contestants and contestees, auditedContested election expenses. and recommended by the Committee on Elections, for expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, namely:
To H. R. Belknap, two thousand dollars;H. R. Belknap. To L. E. McGann, one thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollarsL. E. McGann. and eighty-six cents; To James E. Cobb, two thousand dollars;James E. Cobb. To W, F. Aldrich, two thousand dollars;W. F. Aldrich. To G. A. Robbins, two thousand dollars:G. A. Bobbins. To H. St. George Tucker, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-oneH. St. George Tucker. dollars and ninety-six cents; To G. W. Cornett, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;G.
W. Cornett. To J. L. McLaurin, two thousand dollars;J. L. McLaurin. To C. A. Swanson, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;C. A. Swanson. To D. B. Culberson, seven hundred and fifty dollars;D. B. Culberson. To Oscar W. Underwood, two thousand dollars;Oscar W. Underwood. To George P. Harrison, two thousand dollars;George P. Harrison. To Joshua E. Wilson, two thousand dollars;Joshua E. Wilson. To Asbury O. Latimer, two thousand dollars;Asbury C. Latimer. To Miles Crowley, two thousand dollars;Miles Crowley.
To William Elliot, two thousand dollars;William Elliot. To J. W. Stokes, two thousand dollars;J. W. Stokes. To John I. Rinaker, two thousand dollars;John I. Rinaker. To W. C. Owens, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollarsW. C. Owens. and five cents; To John W. Maddox, two thousand dollars;John W. Maddox. To Truman H. Aldrich, two thousand dollars;Truman H. Aldrich. To Albert T. Goodwyn, two thousand dollars;Albert T. Goodwyn. To James C. Spencer, five hundred and fifty dollars;James C.
Spencer. To A. M. Newman, three hundred and fifty dollars;A. M. Newman. To John S. Williams, one hundred and seventy-five dollars;John S. Williams. To Peter J. Otey, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;Peter J. Otey. To Jerome C. Kearby, two thousand dollars;Jerome C. Kearby. To A. J. Rosenthal, two thousand dollars;A. J. Rosenthal. To William H. Felton, two thousand dollars;William H. Felton. To Finis E. Downing, two thousand dollars;Finis E. Downing. To N. T. Hopkins, two thousand dollars;N.
T. Hopkins. To W. R. McKenney, two thousand dollars;W. R. McKenney. To Jacob Yost, two thousand dollars;Jacob Yost. To T. B. Johnston, two thousand dollars;T. B. Johnston. To Robert Moorman, two thousand dollars;Robert Moorman. To J. Hampton Hoge, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars:J. Hampton Hoge. To J. H. Davis, four hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty cents;J. H. Davis. To George B. McClellan, five hundred dollars;George B. McClellan. To John C. Tarsney, two thousand dollars;John C.
Tarsney. To Robert T. Van Horn, two thousand dollars;Robert T. Van Horn. To Charles F. Buck, two thousand dollars;Charles F. Buck. To William S. Booze, two thousand dollars;William S. Booze. To Henry P. Cheatham, two thousand dollars;Henry P. Cheatham. To Cyrus W. Thompson, two thousand dollars;Cyrus W. Thompson. To Alexis Benoit, two thousand dollars;Alexis Benoit. To J. Murray Mitchell, two thousand dollars;J. Murray Michell. To James A. Lockhart, two thousand dollars;James A.
Lockhart. To Charles H. Martin, two thousand dollars;Charles H. Martin. To Fred A. Woodard, two thousand dollars;Fred A. Woodard. To Timothy J. Campbell, two thousand dollars;Timothy J. Campbell. To H. Dudley Coleman, two thousand dollars;H. Dudley Coleman. To J. G. Shaw, two thousand dollars;J, G. Shaw. To C. J. Boatner, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollarsC. J. Boatner. and seventy-five cents; To R. T. Thorp, two thousand dollars;R. T. Thorp. To W. C. Robinson, two thousand dollars;W.
C. Robinson. 304 James J. Walsh.To James J. Walsh, two thousand dollars; George W. Murray.To George W. Murray, two thousand dollars; John A. Brown.To John A. Brown, four hundred dollars; Henry C. Miner.To Henry C. Miner, two thousand dollars; Harry W. Rusk.To Harry W. Rusk, two thousand dollars; George Denny, jr.To George Denny, jr., two thousand dollars; Jo Abbott.To Jo Abbott, two thousand dollars: in all, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-two cents.
James Kerr.Extra services, contested-election cases.To pay James Kerr, Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-third Congress, the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, and indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested-election Vol. 24, p. 445.cases to the Fifty-fourth Congress, as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, the sum of two thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, and an additional sum of two thousand dollars, to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said James Kerr, and in such proportion as he may deem just, for assistance rendered in the work; in all, the sum of four thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Charles Carter and Erastus Green.To pay Charles Carter and Erastus Green for caring for subcommittee rooms of the Committees on Appropriations and Ways and Means, seventy-five dollars each, one hundred and fifty dollars. H. W. Blanchard.To pay H. W. Blanchard as extra compensation for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions during the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, five hundred dollars. D. S. Porter.To pay D. S. Porter for extra services as assistant clerk Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars.
To pay the following, which have been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: Folders.To pay Joseph H. Hawley two hundred dollars; P. E. Cox and George L. Browning, one hundred and fifty dollars each; Richard Dalton, one hundred and fifteen dollars, and J. M. McKay, two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifteen cents, for extra services rendered in the folding room; in all, eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifteen cents. James J. Corridon.To pay James J.
Corridon for services rendered as clerk to the late W. II. Crain from the first to the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, sixty-two dollars and six cents. Official reporters and stenographers.Extra services.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House of Representatives and the official stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid by them during the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, for clerical hire and extra clerical services, six hundred and fifty dollars each; and to J.
J. Cameron two hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars. John T. Ross.To pay John T. Ross the difference between his pay as assistant postmaster and that of postmaster of the House, from March twenty-fourth un til December second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-one cents. Elevator conductors.To pay L. B. Cook, George Winters, R. W. Goudelock, C. L. Williams, Edwin Giddings, and Ralph M.
Dale, each, the difference between one thousand two hundred dollars and one thousand one hundred dollars per annum, as conductors of the elevators, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight hundred dollars. Guy Underwood.To pay Guy Underwood the difference between the pay of a laborer and that of a messenger in the Hall Library, House of Representatives, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from the fourteenth of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen and ninety-six, inclusive, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and ninety-two cents.
William J. Assman.To pay William J. Assman the difference between the pay of a laborer and that of a messenger in the Hall Library, at the rate of three dollars305 and sixty cents per day from July first to December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, two hundred and seventy dollars and eight cents. To pay T. O. Towles for compiling and arranging for the PublicT. O. Towles. Printer eulogies delivered in the House and Senate upon deceased members of the House in the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty seventh Congresses, three hundred dollars.
To pay Harris A. Watters the difference between the pay of a folderHarris A. Walters. and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from the tenth of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-two cents. To pay Henry H. Moler for extra services as assistant clerk to theHenry H. Moler. House Committees on Invalid Pensions and on Pensions, five hundred dollars.
To pay C. M. Beach the difference between his salary and seven hundredC. M. Beach. and twenty dollars per annum from February twentieth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, under resolution of the House, one hundred and sixteen dollars and four cents. To pay W. P. Scott the difference between his salary and one thousandW. P. Scott. dollars per annum from April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, under resolution of the House, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay William C. Crawley the difference between his pay as a messengerWilliam C. Crawley. and that of assistant postmaster of the House, from March twenty-fourth until December second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy cents. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act ofVol. 24, p. 505.
March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-nine, and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-nine, and which have not been appealed, three thousand and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided*Proviso*.Appeal. for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
For payment of the judgment rendered by the United States circuitJames Lucy. court for the eastern district of Wisconsin in favor of James Lucy against the United States, four hundred dollars. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered three hundred and forty-four, except judgment numbered eighteenException. thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in favor of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company for twenty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-eight cents, withdrawn by request of the Attorney-General, and in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-seven, one million one hundred and thirty-seven thousand anti eighty-two dollars and fifty-four cents: *Provided*, That none of the*Proviso*.Appeal. judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. 306 JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.
Judgments, Indian depredation claims.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Documents Numbered Fifty and Two hundred and seventy-five and House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty eight of this session, forty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.eighty-six cents, after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to Reimbursement.the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service: *Proviso*.Examination of judgments. etc.*Provided*, That no one of the said judgments shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that he has caused to be examined the evidence heretofore presented to the Court of Claims in support of said judgment and such other pertinent evidence as he shall be able to procure as to whether fraud, wrong, or injustice has been done to the United States or whether exorbitant sums have been allowed, and finds upon such evidence no grounds sufficient in his opinion to support a new trial of said case; or until there shall have been filed with said Secretary a duly certified transcript of the proceedings of the Court of Claims denying the motion made by the Attorney-General for a new trial in any one of said judgments.
Sec. 2. Claims certified by recounting officers.That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-two, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Treasury Department. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Binding, newspapers, and so forth, eighteen dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, five hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty-two cents. Examinations, national banks.For examinations of national banks and bank plates, eighty-four cents. Assistant custodians.For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, one hundred and forty dollars and eighty-four cents.
Fuel, lights, etc.For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, twenty-one dollars and ninety-five cents. Heating apparatus.For heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-seven dollars. Repairs, etc.For repairs and preservation of public buildings, thirty-six dollars and eighty-five cents. Steamboat inspection.For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, nine dollars and seventy-one cents. 307 For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, one thousand oneCoast and Geodetic Survey. hundred and twenty one dollars and sixty-six cents.
For North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, four dollarsEthnology. and seventy-seven cents. For contingent expenses, mint at Carson, one hundred and ninety-twoCarson, mint. dollars and twenty-eight cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalInternal-revenue agents. revenue, seven dollars and ninety-two cents. For punishment tor violation of internal revenue laws, three hundredViolating internal-revenue laws. and seventy-eight dollars and fifty six cents.
For repayment of taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty,Repaying taxes. five hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety cents. For drawback on stills exported, one hundred dollars.Drawback on stills. For collecting the revenue from customs, one hundred and forty-sixCollecting customs. dollars and forty-eight cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, three hundred andRepaying in reporters. ninety-five dollars and thirty-five cents. For debentures or drawbacks, bounties or allowances, three hundredDrawbacks. and five dollars anti eighty-nine cents.
For Marine-Hospital Service, ninety-three cents.Marine hospitals. For Quarantine Service, fourteen dollars and twenty-seven cents.Quarantine. For Life-Saving Service, five hundred and eighty-five dollars andLife-Saving Services. sixty-seven cents. For supplies of light-houses, sixteen dollars and fifty-six cents.Light house supplies. For expenses of buoyage, ninety-six dollars and ninety-five cents.Buoyage. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOB THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for War Department.
For contingencies of the Army, fifty-seven cents.Army.Contingencies. For expenses of recruiting, six hundred and fifty-one dollars and twelve cents.Recruiting. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four thousand eight hundred andPay. thirty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents. For pay of Military Academy, thirty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents.Military Academy. For pay of two and three year volunteers, four thousand four hundredPay, volunteers. and forty dollars and forty-six cents.
For bounties to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, five thousandBounty, volunteers. six hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy-four cents. For bounty under Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred andAdditional bounty. sixty-six, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For subsistence of the Army, three hundred and fifty-one dollars andSubsistence. sixty-one cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred andSupplies, Quartermasters Department. seven dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For incidental expenses, (Quartermaster’s Department, one thousandExpenses. and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-four cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, two thousand sevenTransportation. hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, two bundled and fifty dollars.Horses. For barracks and quarters, one thousand and fifty-eight dollars.Barracks and quarters. For Medical and Hospital Department, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.Medical Department.
For artificial limbs, thirty dollars.Artificial limbs. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, twenty-seven dollarsOrdnance. and thirty cents. For Signal Service, transportation, two dollars and twenty-four cents.Signal Service. For military telegraph lines, twenty-five dollars and forty-three cents.Telegraph lines. For support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, oneVolunteer Soldiers’ Home. hundred and seventy-two dollars and forty cents. For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States andCommutation of rations. to soldiers on furlough, fifty-nine dollars. 308 Horses, etc., claims.For horses and other property lost in the military service, six thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Refund to States.For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, five thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-eight cents. Preventing Indian hostilities.For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, twenty-two dollars and eighty-two cents. Mexican war volunteers.For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty one cents. California and Nevada volunteers.For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Oregon and Washington volunteers.For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty-five dollars and twelve cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Navy Department. Navy.Pay.For pay of the Navy, fifteen thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents. Miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and forty-eight cents.
Mileage claims.For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, twelve thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-three cents. Marine Corps.Pay.For pay, Marine Corps, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and five cents. Transportation, etc.For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, twenty-five cents. Contingent.For contingent, Marine Corps, ninety-five dollars and ninety-six cents. Naval Academy.For contingent, Naval Academy, thirty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. Bureau of Navigation.For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, two hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty cents.
Bureau of Ordnance.For torpedo station, Bureau of Ordnance, thirty-one dollars and nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, two thousand and seventy-four dollars and thirty-eight cents. Bureau of Equipment.For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, three dollars. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, two thousand one hundred and five dollars and twenty-three cents. Bureau of Yards and Docks.For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, thirty dollars and thirty-one cents.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, two hundred and forty-six dollars and four cents. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, four thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-three cents. Bureau of Construction and Repair.For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, seventeen dollars and six cents.
Bureau of Steam Engingering.For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighty-one dollars and sixteen cents. Destruction of clothing, etc.For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. Lost clothing.For indemnity for lost clothing, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-four cents. Twenty per cent.For twenty per centum additional compensation, Navy, eighty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents.
Gratuities.For gratuity to seamen, one hundred dollars. Enlistment bounties.For enlistment bounties to seamen, two thousand four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty nine cents. Destroying enemies’ vessels.For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-seven cents. 309 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOK THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, four hundredContingent expenses. and thirteen dollars and fifty-four cents.
For surveying the public lands, twenty-seven thousand six hundredSurveying. and sixty-seven dollars and twenty five cents. For pay of Indian agents, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars andIndian Department.Agents. twenty-nine cents. For buildings at agencies, and repairs, sixty-one dollars and seventy-fiveRepairs to buildings. cents. For telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies, seven dollars andPurchasing supplies. nineteen cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, five hundred and eighty-nineTransportation, supplies. dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For pay of Indian police, thirty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.Police. For contingencies, Indian Department, thirty-eight dollars and twentyContingencies. cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization,Sioux. five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seven cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, beneficial objects, six dollarsSupport, etc. and ninety-eight cents. For support of Indians of Fort Hall Reservation, three dollars andFort Hall Indians. sixty-seven cents.
For Indian schools support, one hundred and sixty-one dollars andSchools. thirty seven cents. For Indian school transportation, four hundred and sixty-four dollarsTransportation. and seventy-five cents. For Indian school, Chilocco, Indian Territory, twelve dollars andChilocco. sixteen cents. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, fifty-five dollars and forty-fiveGenoa. cents. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, one hundred and forty-six dollarsSalem. and seventy-seven cents. For incidentals in Arizona, including support and civilization, twenty-fiveIncidentals.Arizona. dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For incidentals in Montana, three dollars and eighty-eight cents.Montana. For incidentals in South Dakota, five hundred and seventy-nine dollarsSouth Dakota. and seventy-five cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, three thousand fourSurveying, etc., reservations. hundred and fifteen dollars and one cent. For army pensions, six hundred and fifty-five dollars and twentyPensions.Army. cents. For navy pensions, twelve dollars.Navy. For fees of examining surgeons, army pensions, twenty-five dollars.Examining surgeons.
For fees of examining surgeons, navy pensions, ten dollars. For contingent expenses, pension agencies, twenty-eight cents.Contingent expenses. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Claims, Auditor for State, etc., Departments. department of state. Department of State. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, two hundred and fifty-twoForeign intercourse.Chargés d’affaires. dollars and eighty cents. For salaries, secretaries of legations, nine dollars and seventy-nineSecretaries of legations. cents.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, one hundred and thirty-sevenContingent expenses.Missions. dollars and three cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, thirty-five dollarsConsulates. and sixteen cents. For water boundary, United States and Mexico, fifty-six dollars andMexican boundary. fifteen cents. 310 department of justice. Department of Justice. Defending suits.For defending suits in claims against the United States, fifteen dollars and fifty cents.
Utah courts.For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, seventeen dollar’s and fifty-five cents. Indian Territory courts.For expenses of United States courts at Smith McAlester and Ardmore, Indian Territory, eighty-seven dollars and three cents. Marshals.For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, three hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty cents. Attorneys.For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, eight hundred and ten dollars. Special assistants.For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, three thousand six hundred and thirty five dollars and ninety-two cents.
Clerks’ fees.For fees of clerks, United States courts, two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty cents. Commissioners’ fees.For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one thousand six hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-one cents. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty cents. department of agriculture. Department of Agriculture. Animal Industry Bureau.For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, ninety-two cents.
Weather Bureau.For general expenses, Weather Bureau, fourteen thousand and forty-three dollars and sixty cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Post-Office Department. Postal service.Advertising.For advertising, thirty-eight dollars and fifty-four cents. Depredations.For mail depredation and post-office inspectors, two dollars and eighty-two cents. Postal cars.For post-office ears, twenty-five dollars and eighty-four cents. Foreign mails.For foreign mail transportation, one thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Star routes.For star transportation, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-seven cents. Railroad routes.For railroad transportation, twenty thousand two hundred and eight dollars and ninety-seven cents. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Stationery.For stationery, two dollars. Special delivery.For special-delivery fees, one dollar and eighty-four cents. Free delivery.For free delivery, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty cents.
Railway postal clerks.For railway postal clerks, sixty-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents. Clerk hire.For clerk hire, four hundred and forty-four dollars and five cents. Rent, etc.For rent, light, and fuel, five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and six cents. Postmasters.For compensation of postmasters, five thousand and sixty-one dollars and seventy-one cents. Sec. 3. Claims certified by accounting of officers.That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress311 under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-four, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Treasury Department. For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, six hundred andChinese exclusion. thirty-six dollars and thirty-five cents. For Life-Saving Service, four hundred and one dollars and sixty-oneLife-Saving Service. cents. Internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors ofInternal Revenue.Collectors, etc. internal revenue, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-six cents.
For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalAgents, etc. revenue, three hundred and eleven dollars. For refunding taxes illegally collected, four thousand nine hundredRefunding taxes. and sixty-three dollars and ninety cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, nine hundred and eighty-twoArmy.Pay. dollars and fifty-nine cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, two thousand four hundredPay, volunteers. and seventy-nine dollars and ninety cents.
For bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, three thousandBounty, volunteers. five hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-one cents. For bounty under Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred andAdditional bounty. sixty-six, six hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents. For subsistence of the Army, three hundred and thirteen dollars andSubsistence. seventy two cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster s Department, twenty-eightQuartermaster’s Department. dollars and seventy cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, five thousand fourTransportation. hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-two cents. For barracks and quarters, one hundred and twenty-two dollars andBarracks and quarters. twenty-two cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, forty-eight dollars and thirtyMedical Department. cents. For Signal Service of the Army, one hundred and ninety-two dollarsSignal Service. and thirty-eight cents. For military telegraph lines, fifteen cents.Telegraphs.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, four hundredHorses, etc., claims. and seventy-tour dollars and eighty-five cents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, twenty-eight dollars and ninety-threeMexican war volunteers. cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonOregon and Washington volunteers. volunteers in eighteen hundred awl fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-six cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, seven thousand six hundred and ninety-sevenNavy.Pay. dollars and sixty-nine cents. For pay, miscellaneous, fifty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.Miscellaneous. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, five thousand five hundred andMileage claims. forty-six dollars and ninety-four cents. 312 Marine Corps.For pay, Marine Corps, eleven dollars and forty cents. Bureau of Navigation.For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, four dollars and forty-six cents.
Bureau of Ordnance.For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighty-four dollars and seventy cents. Bureau of EquipmentFor equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, one thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-four cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents. Bureau of Yards and Docks.For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, twenty one cents. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eight hundred and sixty dollars and thirteen cents.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, forty-six dollars and sixteen cents Bureau of Steam Engineering.For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, thirty-five cents. Frigates.For six first-class frigates, two dollars and sixty-five cents. Destroyed clothing.For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, forty-three dollars. Enlistment bounties.For enlistment bounties to seamen, five hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents.
Pacific Coast service.Vol. 16, p. 220.For extra pay to officers and men who served on the Pacific Coast, Act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-five cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims, Auditor for Interior Department. Receivers.For repayment to receivers of public moneys for excess of deposits, twenty cents. Surveying.For surveying the public lands, twelve thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-three cents.
Indian supplies.For telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies, three thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars and one cent. Transportation.For transportation of Indian supplies, three hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents. Incidentals, South Dakota.For incidentals in South Dakota, eight dollars and fifty cents. Pensions.For army pensions, thirty-six dollars. Examining surgeons.For fees of examining surgeons, navy pensions, four dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
Claims, Auditor for State, etc., Departments. department of state. Department of State. Secretaries of legations.For salaries, secretaries of legations, ten dollars and thirty cents. Contingent expenses, consulates.For contingent expenses, United States consulates, seventy-nine dollars and seventy-four cents. Services to American vessels.For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, twelve dollars and fifty cents. department of agriculture. Department of Agriculture.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, six hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-three cents. Weather Bureau.For general expenses, Weather Bureau, one hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-seven cents. department of justice. Department of Justice. Marshals.For salaries, district marshals, nine dollars and thirty-four cents. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, four thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty cents.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 373, 386. 1896. 313 For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, oneSpecial assistant attorneys. thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one thousand threeCommissioners. hundred and fifty-five dollars and five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, fifty-six dollars andWitness fees. seventy-five cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Claims, Auditor for Post-Office Department.Postal services. For advertising, seventy one dollars and twenty-four cents.Advertising. For mail depredation and post office inspectors, twenty-six dollars.Depredations. For star transportation, thirty-four dollars and seventy-six cents.Star routes. For railroad transportation, sixty-four dollars and seventy-three cents.Railroad routes. For railway postal clerks, twenty-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents.Railway postal clerks. For clerk hire, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.Clerk hire.
For rent, light, and fuel, sixty-one dollars.Rent, etc. For compensation of postmasters, two hundred and fifty-four dollars and ninety-one cents.Postmasters. To enable the Post-Master General to pay to Mary M. Force, postmasterMary M. Force.Reimbursement. at Selma, Alabama, the sum advanced by her in eighteen hundred and ninety, in payment of horse hire and the increased salary of B. M. Russell, a carrier of said office, when said account has been audited by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, if the same is found to be just, one hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-two cents, and said Auditor is empowered and required to audit said account.
Approved, June 8, 1896.
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