Chapter 420. Making appropriations for sundry civil expanses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 420.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expanses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes. June 11, 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, Sundry civil expenses appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the, fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely:

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings. Public buildings. Government wharf in Alaska: For reconstructing or repairing and Alaska. Government wharf.putting in safe and proper condition the wharf tit Sitka, Alaska, five thousand dollars to be immediately available: *Provided,* That hereafter *Proviso.* Charges.the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to charge and fix the rates of dockage and wharfage to be paid by any private vessel or person allowed to use said wharf, the said receipts to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt, derived from Government property; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, Regulations.by regulation or otherwise, by whom said wharfage and dockage receipts shall be collected.

For post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: For continuation of Allegheny, Pa.building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. 414FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 420. 1896. Boise City, Idaho. Limit of cost increased. For public building at Boise City, Idaho: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars. Buffalo, N. Y. For post office at Buffalo, New York:

For continuation of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Addition. For a brick addition, one story in height, extending northerly sixteen feet from the northerly side and ten feet from the easterly end of the United States post-office building in the city of Buffalo, and seventy- three feet in depth on the northerly side, and forty-three feet on the easterly end of said building, a sum not exceeding four thousand three hundred dollars. Camden, N. J. For public building at Camden, New Jersey:

For construction of building, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building is increased one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Cheyenne, Wyo. Limit of cost increased. For public building at Cheyenne, Wyoming: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Deadwood, S. Dak. Assay office. Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota:

For establishing an assay office at Deadwood, in the State of South Dakota, fifteen thousand dollars. Detroit, Mich. For court-house and post-office at Detroit, Michigan: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand three, hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents. Fort Monroe, Va. Post-office. For post-office-at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the erection of a post office building at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, upon the Government reservation.

The said building shall be erected upon plans, specifications, and contracts to be approved, in the manner provided by law, by the Secretary of War, and to cover quarters for the postmaster and office accommodations for customs officer and United States commissioner. Limit.Nor shall any plan for the erection of said building be approved by the Secretary of War involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars. Helena, Mont. For public building at Helena, Montana:

For continuation of building, Limit of cost increased.fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to three hundred thousand dollars. Kansas City, Mo. For post-office and court-house at Kansas City, Missouri: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Kansas City, Missouri: For continuation Limit of cost increased.of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one million two hundred thousand dollars to one million three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.

Little Rock, Ark. For court-house and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas: For additional amount to construct an addition to the United States court-house and post-office and enlarging judge’s chamber and the offices of the marshal and clerk of the circuit and district courts, and tor an elevator, forty-three thousand dollars. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. For constructing a bathroom and lavatory in the basement of the post-office building at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, three hundred dollars.

Los Angeles, Cal. For court house and post-office at Los Angeles, California: For additions to and alterations in the court house and post-office building, twelve thousand dollars. Martinsburg, W. Va. For court-house and post-office at Martinsburg, West Virginia: For completion of approaches, five thousand dollars. Newark, N. J. Additional land. For custom-house and post-office at Newark, New Jersey: For completion of building and for purchase, or condemnation of additional land, under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the amount remaining unexpended under previous appropriations for 415the completion of said building shall be available either for that purpose or tor the purchase or condemnation of additional land.

For the appraiser’s warehouse at New York City, New York: For New York. Appraisers warehouse.continuation of building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars. For court-house, custom house, and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska: Omaha, Nebr. For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Saint Albans, Vermont: For Saint Albans, Vt.rebuilding and repairing same, made necessary by recent fire, seventy thousand dollars.

For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Saint Paul, Minnesota: Saint Paul, Minn.For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For court-house at Savannah, Georgia: For continuation of building, Savannah, Ga.twenty-five thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building is increased one hundred thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Salt Lake City, Utah: For purchase Salt Lake, Utah.of site and commencement of construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For court-house, post-office, and custom-house at Sioux City, Iowa: Sioux City, Iowa.For completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For post-office at Washington, District of Columbia: For continuation Washington, D. C. Post-office. Limit of cost increased.of building under present limit, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: and the limit of cost of said building is increased four hundred and ten thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia:

For Treasury buildings. Repairs.repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to submit to Congress Hall of Records, Washington, D. C. Plans to be submitted.a plan giving the size and general characteristics of a, public building to be used for a Hall of Records in the city of Washington, suitable for the storage of papers, documents, and other records which have accumulated in the various Departments and are needed only for occasional use, and also for the storage and distribution of books and other publications issued by order of Congress; and said Secretary is directed before making his report to consult with the heads of the other Departments and the proper officers of the Senate and House of Representatives; and he is also directed to consider and report upon the suitableness for a site for such a building on the public reservation at the Site.intersection of Ohio and Louisiana avenues with Tenth and Twelfth streets, and of any other public grounds located within the city of Washington within reasonable distance of the Departments to be accommodated by such a Hall of Records.

For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and Repairs and preservation.preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, post-offices, marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and other public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used for the marine hospitals and quarantine stations: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Superintendents, etc.That of the sum hereby appropriated, not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment of superintendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.

For making certain proposed alterations in the post-office building in New York City. Alterations to post-office.New York City, and for improving, arranging, and furnishing certain rooms therein in accordance with plans prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to be done under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, such sum to be immediately available. 416 marine hospitals. Marine hospitals. Boston, Maas. For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts:

For additional for elevator, one thousand five hundred dollars; board fence, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Chicago, Ill. For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For artesian and surface wells, one, thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; macadamizing, sidewalk, and curbing, two thousand three hundred dollars; boundary walls, stone or brick, five thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Cincinnati, Ohio.

For marine hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio: For area way, east ward, one thousand dollars. Detroit, Mich. For marine hospital at Detroit, Michigan: For isolation ward, one thousand three hundred dollars. Louisville, Ky. For marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky: For isolation ward, one thousand five hundred dollars. New Orleans, La. For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For laundry machinery, two thousand dollars; veranda, executive building, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Port Townsend, Wash. For marine hospital at Fort Townsend, Washington: For heating, five thousand dollars; new fence around block, seven hundred and fifty dollars; cistern, three, hundred dollars; planting trees, one hundred dollars; in all, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. San Francisco, Cal. For marine hospital at San Francisco, California: For additional to old laundry building for attendants’ quarters, three hundred dollars. Saint Louis, Mo. For marine hospital at Saint Louis, Missouri:

For isolation ward, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; disinfecting annex, five hundred and ten dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Wilmington, N. C. For marine hospital at Wilmington, North Carolina: For isolation ward, one thousand two hundred dollars. Vineyard Haven, Mass. For marine hospital at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: For fence, roadway, grading, and improvement of grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. quarantine stations.

Quarantine stations. Reedy Island. For quarantine station, Reedy Island, Delaware River: For artesian well, pipe, and sewer connections, one thousand two hundred dollars. Brunswick, Ga. For quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For additional ballast tracks and trestle, two hundred dollars; new fender piles and dolphins, one hundred dollars; small hospital buildings, five hundred dollars; in all, eight hundred dollars. Gulf station. For quarantine station, Gulf: For house on barge Zamora to protect machinery, two hundred and fifty dollars; telephone line, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars.

South Atlantic station. For quarantine station, South Atlantic: For ballast wharf, fifteen thousand dollars; dredging cut, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. San Diego, Cal. For quarantine station, San Diego, California: For cistern and force pump, three hundred and fifty dollars. San Francisco, Cal. For quarantine station, San Francisco, California: For bath house and steam boiler to supply water for same, five thousand dollars.

Port Townsend, Wash. For quarantine station, Fort Townsend, Washington: For completion of station, three thousand five hundred dollars. Heating, etc., apparatus. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one bundled thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only. 417 vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings:

For vaults, Vaults, safes, and locks.safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury department, exclusive of personal services except for work done by contract, thirty-five thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only. Plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials, Plans, etc.and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, three thousand five hundred dollars. light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.

Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. Spring Point Ledge Light and Fog-Signal Station, Maine: For finishing Portland, Me. Spring Point Ledge.the establishment of a light and fog signal station on Spring Point Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts: For establishing four lighted beacons Lynn, Mass.in Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts, two thousand dollars. Plum Beach Light and Fog Signal Station, Rhode Island: For finishing Plum Beach, R.

I.the establishment of a light and fog-signal station at or near Plum Beach, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, forty thousand dollars. Fort Wadsworth Light and Fog-Signal Station, New York: For moving Fort Wadsworth, N. Y.the light now at Fort Tompkins to Fort Wadsworth, both in the Narrows, New York Harbor, New York, and establishing a fog signal at Fort Wadsworth, one thousand five hundred dollars. Staten Island Light-House Depot, New York: For continuing the Staten Island depot, N.

Y.construction of the sea wall, rebuilding wharves and dredging the basin, at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mahon River Light Station, Delaware: For establishing Mahon Mahon River, Del.River Light Station, Delaware, on a new site, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Smiths Point Light-House, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland: For finishing Smiths Point, Md.the reestablishment of the light-house at Smiths Point, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, carried away by the ice, forty-one thousand dollars.

Galveston Jetty Light Station, Texas: For establishing a light and Galveston, Tex., jetty.fog signal at or near the outer end of one of the jetties, Galveston Harbor, Texas, and changing the characteristic of Bolivar Point light at the entrance to Galveston Harbor, Texas, thirty-five thousand dollars. Sandusky Bay Light stations, Ohio: For establishing two range-light Sandusky Bay, Ohio.stations in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, thirty thousand dollars. Saint Joseph Pierhead Fog Signal, Michigan:

For establishing a Saint Joseph, Mich.steam fog signal on or near the north pier of Saint Joseph Harbor, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand dollars. Carlton Island Light Station, New York: For establishing a light-station Carlton Island, N. Y.at or near Carlton Island, Saint Lawrence River, New York, six thousand dollars. Galloo Island Fog Signal, New York: Establishing a steam fog signal Galloo Island, N. Y.at Galloo Island Light Station, Lake Ontario, New York, five thousand seven hundred dollars.

Maurice River Lights, New Jersey: For establishing range lights Maurice River, N. J.and keeper’s quarters at or near the entrance of Maurice River, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, four thousand five hundred dollars. Portage Lake and River lights, Michigan: For establishing lights Portage Lake and River, Mich.on Portage Lake, Portage Lake Ship Canal, and Portage River, Lake Superior, Michigan, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Big Sable Fog Signal, Michigan: For establishing a steam fog signal Big Sable, Mich.at Big Sable Light Station, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Menominee Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan: For establishing Menominee, Mich.a fog signal at Menominee Light Station, Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand dollars. Devils Island Light Station, Wisconsin: That the unexpended balance, Devils Island, Wis.or so much thereof as may be necessary, not exceeding four 418thousand dollars, of the appropriation of twenty-two thousand dollars, Vol. 28, p. 916.made in the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for constructing a permanent tower at Devils Island Light and Fog-Signal Station, Wisconsin, be applied to the construction of a Dwelling.light-keeper’s dwelling at the said Devils Island Light and Fog-Signal Station.

Yerba Buena, Cal. Yerba Buena Light-House and Buoy Depot, California: For reestablishing the wharf at Yerba Buena Light-House and Buoy Depot, California, thirty thousand dollars. Coos Bay, Oreg. Coos Bay post and range lights, Oregon: For establishing post and range lights at Coos Bay, Oregon, five hundred dollars. Fort Stevens, Oreg. Fort Stevens Light and Fog-Signal Station, mouth of Columbia River, Oregon: To discontinue the Point Adams light and to reestablish it with a fog signal at or near the outer end of the wharf at Fort Stevens, near the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, eleven thousand dollars.

Umatilla Reef, Oreg. Umatilla Reef Light-Ship, off the Straits of Fuca, Washington: For finishing the construction of, equipping, and outfitting a steam lightship, with steam fog signal to be established at or near Umatilla Reef, at the Flattery Rocks, oil the Straits of Fuca, Washington, thirty-seven thousand dollars. Oil houses. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses for *Proviso.* Cost.the storage of mineral oil, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred dollars in cost.

Fire Island, N. Y., vessel. Fire Island Light-Vessel, New York: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light-vessel with steam fog signal, forty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said Contract.steam light-vessel, with a steam fog-signal, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars. Diamond Shoal, N. C., vessel. Diamond Shoal Light-Vessel, North Carolina: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam lightvessel, with steam fog signal, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use not exceeding eighty thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars Vol. 26, p. 942.made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the establishment of a light-house on Outer Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; and the remainder of such unexpended balance of appropriation, after paying outstanding bills thereunder, if any, shall be covered into the Treasury.

San Francisco, Cal., vessel. San Francisco Harbor Light-Vessel: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light-vessel with steam Contract.fog signal, forty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said steam light-vessel, with a steam fog-signal, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars. Tender, second district. Tender for the Second light-house district: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Second light-house district, Massachusetts, Contract.thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of said steam tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.

Tender, seventh and eighth districts. Tender for the Seventh and Eighth light-house districts: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Seventh and Eighth Contracts.light-house districts, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of said steam tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars. light-house establishment.

Light-house establishment. Supplies. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as maybe required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals 419for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.

Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improving Repairs.light-houses and buildings: for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing pier head and other beacon lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, Keepers’ salaries.rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand two hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers, and laborers attending other lights, six hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, Light vessels.salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light-vessels, three hundred thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, Buoyage.and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, spindles, and day beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. To establish gas buoys at or near the following-named places in the Gas buoys.Saint Lawrence River:

One at Charity Shoals, one at Featherbed Shoals, one at Rock Island Point, one near the Sisters Island Light, one at Sunken Rock, one at Bay State Shoals, one at the Lower Narrows, and one at entrance upper harbor, Ogdensburg, four thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, Fog signals.and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, ninety thousand dollars. Lighting of rivers:

For establishing, supplying, and maintaining Lighting of rivers.post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; York River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River. Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers;

Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are tor temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.

Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, Survey of sites.and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. life-saving service. Life-saving service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: Superintendents. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one assistant superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 420 For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent of the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty one thousand seven hundred dollars. Keepers. For salaries of two hundred and sixty-two keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hundred dollars.

Crews. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, including the old Chicago station, during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge, and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department;

Commutation of quarters. Vol. 22, p. 57.commutation of quarters for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million two hundred and forty-eight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

New stations. For establishing new life saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. Salaries and expenses. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and tor rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, firemen, coal passers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions Anchorage.

Vol. 25. p. 151. Vol. 26, p. 431.of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, 421labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Allotment of pay by officers permitted.That the, Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit officers and others of the Revenue-Cutter Service to make allotments from their pay, under such regulations as he may prescribe, for the support of their families or relatives, for their own savings, or for other proper purposes, during such time as they may be absent at sea, on distant duty, or under other circumstances warranting such action.

For completing a revenue steamer of the first class, under the direction Steamer, Pacific coast. Vol. 28, p. 920.of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Pacific Coast, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For constructing two revenue-steamers of the first class, under the Steamers, Great Lakes. Contract.direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Great Lakes, two hundred thousand dollars; and the total cost of said revenue-steamers, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars each. engraving and printing.

Engraving and Printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all Salaries.necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Large notes.That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.

For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, five hundred and sixteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum *Proviso.* Large notes.shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.

For engravers, printers, and other materials, except distinctive paper Materials.and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriation herein *Proviso.* Not contingent expenses, Treasury Department.made shall be used for all expenditures of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the manner in which appropriations for said Bureau have heretofore been used, and no part of said appropriation shall beheld to be contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, nor be subject to the provisions of sections two hundred and forty and three R.

S., secs. 240, 3683, pp. 40, 723.thousand six hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes: *And provided further,* That all the business of the Bureau of Engraving and Director to control all business, etc.Printing shall be under the immediate control of the director of said Bureau, subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the director of the said Bureau shall report to and be responsible directly to the Secretary of the Treasury. coast and geodetic survey.

Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Expenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Alaska coasts, etc.Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States and the coast of the Territory of Alaska, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts: tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated tor, of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the 422government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury: for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the held force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels; to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the *Proviso.* Advances.Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided,*That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.

Field expenses. For field expenses: For survey of unfinished portions of the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, including Portsmouth Harbor and Piseataqua River; Hudson River to Troy; and for the necessary resurveys, including the coast from Lynn to Cape Ann, the shores of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Sound, approaches to New Bedford, Buzzards Bay, Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, and Savannah River bar, twenty-five thousand dollars; To continue the primary triangulation from the vicinity of Montgomery toward Mobile; and for triangulation, topography, and hydrography of unfinished portions of the Gulf coast, including Lake Pontchartrain and Sabine Lake, and for the necessary resurveys, seven thousand eight hundred dollars;

For offshore soundings along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, five thousand dollars; For triangulation, topography, and hydrography of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, and for necessary resurveys, San Francisco Harbor, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, twenty thousand dollars; Alaska surveys. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska and making hydrographic surveys in the same, including survey of the Aleutian Islands and examination of the mouth of Yukon River, and for the establishment of latitude, longitude, and magnetic stations, fifteen thousand dollars;

For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plottings, and for tidal and current observations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, five thousand dollars; For examination of reported dangers on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, three thousand dollars;

To continue magnetic observations in all parts of the United States, two thousand dollars; For continuing the tine of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, two thousand five hundred dollars; Points to State surveys. For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, and for surveying and distinctly marking with permanent monuments that portion of the eastern boundary of the State of California commencing at and running southeastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, and for primary triangulation along the Rio Grande, twelve thousand dollars;

For determinations of geographical positions, and to continue gravity observations, two thousand five hundred dollars; For completing the transcontinental geodetic work on the line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, seven thousand dollars; 423 For traveling expenses of officers anti men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars;

For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, six thousand dollars; For contribution to the International Geodetic Association for the International Geodetic Association.Measurement of the Earth, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended through the office of the American embassy at Berlin; and for expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the general conference of said association, five hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary: *Provided,* That such contribution and expenses of attendance shall be *Proviso.* Payment.

Interchangeable expenditures.payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named;” and ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation; In all, for field expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and Repairs of vessels, etc.maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Salaries Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, Salaries. Superintendent.five thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed either in the field or office, as Assistants.the Superintendent may direct; For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For four assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For seven assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each;

For seven assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For aids temporarily employed at a salary not greater than nine hundred dollars per annum each, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, ninety thousand four hundred dollars.

Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand Office force.two hundred dollars. For one general office assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one clerk to the Superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one clerk to the assistant in charge of the office and topography, one thousand dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each;

For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely: For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; 424 Office force—continued. For one, at six hundred dollars:

For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars: For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely:

For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;

For two, at one thousand dollars each; For additional engravers, at not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum each, four thousand one hundred dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For ten, at one thousand dollars each;

For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For six, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For three, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For four, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-five thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.

Office expenses. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions, eight thousand dollars. For copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice, and washing, six thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. 425 That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Allowances.Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law.

UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international International exchanges.exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, nineteen thousand dollars. North American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches North American ethnology.among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for rent of building.

Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory.Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, apparatus, and miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum. Furniture, etc.required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars.

For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic Heating, etc.service for the National Museum, thirteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections Preserving collections.from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including Repairs.all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars.

For rent of workshops for the National Museum, two thousand Rent.dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, Postage.five hundred dollars. For the erection of galleries in two or more halls of the National Museum New galleries.building, said galleries to be constructed of iron beams, supported by iron pillars, and protected by iron railings, and provided with suitable staircases, the work to be done under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, and in accordance with the approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, eight thousand dollars.

National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of National Zoological Park. Expenses.roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage: and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting, and repairing buildings and inclosures, care, subsistence, transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, sixty-seven thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues Half from District revenues.

Roads, etc.of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley Lane, and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the bank of Rock Creek, and five thousand dollars shall be used toward the construction of a road from the Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek. 426 FISH COMMISSION.

Fish Commission. Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars; chief cleric, two thousand four hundred dollars: stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.

Office of accounts. Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand and eighty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars. Office of architect and engineer. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

Division of fish-culture.—Office. Division of fish culture: Office—Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Central Station. Division of fish culture, station employees: Central Station, Washington, District of Columbia:

Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Aquaria. Aquaria, Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixty dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.

Green Lake, Me. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Craigs Brook, Maine. Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

Saint Johnsbury, Vt. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Custodian and fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars. Woods Holl, Mass. Woods Holl (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.

Cape Vincent, N. Y. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand 427five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and Battery Island, Md.sixty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station;

Custodian, three hundred and Bryans Point, Md.sixty dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand two Wytheville, Va.hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Put in Bay

(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Put-in-Bay, Ohio.dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand and sixty dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Northville, Mich.hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, tour hundred and eighty dollars; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred Alpena, Mich.dollars; fish-culturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Duluth, Minn.dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; machinist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Neosho, Mo.dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Leadville, Colo.dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: Superintendent, Baird, Cal.one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand and eighty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Clackamas, Oreg.hundred dollars; one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish-culture—employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, Employees at large.at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fishculturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fishculturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; one coxswain, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one coxswain, at five hundred and forty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Distribution employees: Three car captains, at one thousand two Distribution employees.hundred dollars each; four car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant ear messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; three car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant in charge, two Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes.thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty 428dollars; one clerk class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Division of statistics, etc. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk class four; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one. hundred and forty dollars. Vessels. “Albatross.” Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. “Fish Hawk.” Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars. “Grampus.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Administration expenses. Expenses of administration: For the contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to, and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, nine thousand dollars. Propagation of food-fishes. Propagation of food-fishes: For the maintenance, equipment, and operations of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, and contingent expenses, thirty thousand five hundred dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes. Expenses. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish-culture; for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, including the expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Statistical inquiries. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expenses in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, five thousand dollars. Interchangeable expenses. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Hatchery, South Dakota. Fish hatchery in South Dakota: For the establishment of a fish-culture station in the Black Hills, in the State of South Dakota, at a point to be selected by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, ten thousand dollars. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission. Salaries. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Vol. 24, p. 386. For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; 429 For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to Expenses. Vol. 24, p. 379.give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel; In all, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Miscellaneous. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, freight, Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc.and salaries of superintendent, counters, messengers, and watchmen, fifty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For Punishing violations of internal-revenue laws.detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent Contingent-expenses, Independent Treasury.expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver Transporting silver coin.coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, fifty-five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been *Proviso.* Deposits.deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins Recoinage gold coins.in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve R. S., sec. 3512, p. 690.of the Revised Statutes of the United States, five thousand dollars. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent fractional Recoinage silver coins.silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars. Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins: The Minor coins. Recoinage, etc.Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the United States mint at Philadelphia, for cleaning and reissue, any minor coins now in, or which maybe hereafter received at, the subtreasury offices, in excess of the Requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of four 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. Distinctive taper for United States securities: For distinctive United States securities. 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, sixty-five thousand dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities: Witness, destruction.For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. 430 Sealing and separating. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. National currency expenses. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, express charges, and other expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Canceling, etc. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; distributor of stock, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. six thousand eight hundred dollars. Public buildings. Assistant custodians and janitors. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, eight hundred and ten thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of furniture, etc. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs. Furniture and repairs of furniture: 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, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. 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. Fuel, lights, and water. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, lights, and water, electric current for light and power purposes, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, electric-light wiring, and miscellaneous items required for the use of the janitors, firemen, or engineers, in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, marine hospitals, included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, nine hundred thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia, under the control of the Treasury Department, shall include the rental or use of any gas governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved *Proviso.* Gas governor, etc.by the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be paid for such rental or use of such gas governor, gas purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses 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 431United 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 R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919.sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of *Proviso.* Witnesses.this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpœnaed 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.” Publication of Supplement to Revised Statutes: To enable Supplement to Revised Statutes.the Secretary of the Treasury to pay William A. Richardson, when the work shall be completed, for preparing and editing a Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, under the Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen Vol. 27, p. 477.hundred and ninety-three, one thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of Compensation in lieu of moieties.moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisees’ meetings: For defraying the Local appraisers’ meetings.necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, eight hundred dollars. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses of Alaskan seal fisheries. Agents’ salaries, etc.agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, and Food to natives.clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the direction Salmon fisheries. *Ante,* p. 316.of the Secretary of the Treasury, four thousand dollars. For publishing the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheries Publishing proclamation, etc.of Bering Sea, and for protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, Vol. 25, p. 1009.“to provide for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses of carrying out lease of and protecting seal life on islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sections nineteen hundred R. S., secs. 1950, 1971, pp. 344, 340.and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one, Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expenses Fur-sealing log books, etc. Vol. 28. p.54.of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand five hundred dollars. Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent Chinese exclusion.unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act Vol. 27, p. 25.approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcement Alien contract-labor laws.of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of 432convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred thousand dollars. Lands, etc. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. John Lampman. Payment to. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to John Lampman, of Alexandria, Minnesota, for capturing, arresting, and procuring the conviction of Thomas F. Truman and John Martin tor breaking into the United States post-office at Alexandria, Minnesota, on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and stealing therefrom money of the United States to the amount of one hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-one cents, together with a large number of postage stamps of the United States, one hundred and fifty dollars. quarantine service. Quarantine service. Maintenance. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, South Atlantic Station, Southport, Brunswick, Key West, hereafter to be known as the Tortugas Quarantine Station, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. prevention of epidemics. Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, or Chinese plague or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Vol. 28. p. 934.Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. Forested lands. Investigation. Forested Lands of the United States: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of an investigation and report by the National Academy of Sciences on the inauguration of a national forestry policy for the forested lands of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. public buildings. Public buildings. Repairs. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, five thousand dollars. Capitol. Repairs. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, thirty thousand dollars. Flags. To provide Hags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Cleaning works of art. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Heating, etc., Senate. For necessary repairs and improvements to the steam-heating and ventilating apparatus of the Senate, including air duets, elevators, legislative bell service, and all machinery relating thereto in the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Architect, of the Capitol, four thousand six hundred dollars. Capitol grounds. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of 433the improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds; one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for artificial stone pavement, twelve thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol: For lighting the Capitol, including the Lighting.Capitol grounds, the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars. For the extension of the electric-light plants in the Capitol and to the grounds about the Capitol: Electric lights, Capitol and grounds.For additional engine and generator, running of conduits, wiring, lamps and fixtures, steam pipe and fitting, cables for feeder system, and for the pay of electricians, wire men, and laborers, said work to be done by the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules, in accordance with the plan adopted by said committee, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Ventilation, Senate wing of the Capitol: For the improvement Ventilation, Senate wing.of the ventilation of the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the installation of refrigerating apparatus, in accordance with the plans submitted by Professor S. H, Woodbridge to the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, said work to be done by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of said Woodbridge and the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules, fifty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For Salaries, registers and receivers.salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, four hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses, land offices.other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing Depositing moneys.money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swamp-land indemnity: Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp land claims. To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands and for the more efficient execution of the la w and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, ninety thousand dollars: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Agent’s per diem.That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the interior may prescribe, in lien of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation: Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings Hearings in land entries.held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, ten thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of Reproducing plats of surveys.the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, ten thousand dollars. Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing transcripts Transcripts from records.of records and plats, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. 434 surveying the public lands. Surveying. Surveys, rates. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and *Provisos.* Preferences.five dollars for section lines: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted Vol. 25, p. 676. Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, and lines of reservations except that Extra rates for heavily timbered. etc., lands.the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile Exceptional difficulties.for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, when the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: Lands in California, etc.*Provided,* that in the States of California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Arizona, Wyoming, Washington, Colorado, and Utah there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for Resurveys, etc.township and twenty dollars for section lines. And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for resurveys, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be expended for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made Inspecting mineral lands, etc.and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. Survey of private land claims. Vol. 26, p. 854. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims, and to provide for the settlement of private Lind claims, in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private, land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, twenty thousand dollars. Abandoned military reservations. Vol. 23, p. 103. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, Casa Grande.including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, five thousand dollars. Arid lands. That under any law heretofore or hereafter enacted by any State, providing for the reclamation of arid lands, in pursuance and acceptance Vol. 28, p. 422.of the terms of the grant made in section four of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and Lien for expenses of reclaiming.ninety-four, a lien or liens is hereby authorized to be created by the State to which such lands are granted and by no other authority whatever, and when created shall be valid on and against the separate legal 435subdivisions of land reclaimed, for the actual cost and necessary expenses of reclamation and reasonable interest thereon from the date of reclamation until disposed of to actual settlers: and when an ample Patents to States.supply of water is actually furnished in a substantial ditch or canal, or by artesian wells or reservoirs, to reclaim a particular tract or tracts of such lands, then patents shall issue for the same to such State without. regard to settlement or cultivation: *Provided,* That in no event, in *Proviso.* United States not liable.no contingency, and under no circumstances shall the United States be in any manner directly or indirectly liable for any amount of any such lien or liability, in whole or in part. That the city of Bismarck, in the State of North Dakota, by and Sibley Island, N. Dak. Lease to Bismarck for park.through its regular city council, shall have authority to use, upon lease from the government by the Secretary of the Interior, Sibley Island, an island in the Missouri River near said city of Bismarck, for a public park: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed to *Proviso.* Timber.authorize the felling of timber on said island for sale or consumption, nor shall any timber be cut save for the purpose of improving or beautifying the grounds. united states geological survey. Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: Scientific assistants. For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Expenses.Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, thirteen Laborers, etc.thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surveys.one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; thirty-five thousand dollars of which shall be expended west of the ninety-seventh meridian in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and the Territory of Oklahoma, and at least one-third of the remainder shall be expended west of the one hundred and third meridian: *Provided,* That hereafter in such surveys *Proviso.* Marks of surveys.west of the ninety-fifth meridian elevations above a base level located in each area under survey shall be determined and marked on the ground by iron or stone posts or permanent bench marks, at least two such posts or bench marks to be established in each township or equivalent area, except in the forest-clad and mountain areas, where at least one shall be established, and these shall be placed, whenever practicable, near the township corners of the public land surveys; and in the areas east of the ninety fifth meridian at least one such post or bench mark shall be similarly established in each area equivalent to the area of a township of the public-land surveys; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geological surveys.one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For continuation of the investigation of the coal and gold resources Alaska resources.of Alaska, five thousand dollars; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United Paleontologic researches.States, ten thousand dollars; 436 Chemical researches. For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, seven thousand dollars; Illustrations. For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, thirteen thousand dollars; Mineral resources. For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; Books. For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; Maps. For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, sixty thousand dollars; and hereafter the Director of the Geological Survey, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to sell copies of topographical maps with text at cost and ten per centum added; Gauging water supply. For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, including the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, fifty thousand dollars; Rent. For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, four thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, four hundred and eighty-nine thousand one hundred dollars. mineral lands in montana and idaho. Mineral lands, Montana and Idaho. Commissioners to classify Northern Pacific lands. Vol. 28. p. 683. For compensation of the twelve commissioners appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to examine and classify certain lands within the land-grant and indemnity land-grant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in the States of Montana and Idaho, with special reference to the mineral or *Proviso.* Compensation.nonmineral character of such lands, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said commissioners shall be paid at the rate of ten dollars a day each while actually engaged in the performance of their duties, which amount shall include their transportation and subsistence expenses, and that the total amount of compensation to be paid to each commissioner annually shall in no case exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars; Monthly reports. For publication of the monthly reports filed by said commissioners in the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and the Cœur d’Alene Expenses.land district, in the State of Idaho; and for the expenses pertaining to hearings ordered by, and conducted before, said registers and receivers, ten thousand dollars; Stenographers. For the payment of stenographers employed by said commissioners when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of reducing testimony to writing in cases where it is found necessary to examine witnesses in order to establish the character of lands examined by said commissioners, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand dollars. supreme court reports. Supreme Court reports. To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and sixty- four to one hundred and sixty-six, inclusive, of the United States Vol. 25, p. 661.Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and fifty-six dollars. government hospital for the insane. Government Hospital for Insane. Expenses. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, 437Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and sixty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Buildings and grounds.Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, fifteen thousand dollars. For special improvements as follows: For heating apparatus for new buildings, four thousand five hundred dollars. For renewing and fireproofing floors, two thousand four hundred dollars. For laboratory extension, one thousand five hundred dollars. For electric fans and resistance coils, six thousand dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: Current expenses.For support, of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution and for the furnishing Repairs, etc. Vol. 28, p. 941.of the new buildings provided for by Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand dollars. howard university. Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment Maintenance.of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books for library, law library, bookcases, shelving, and fixtures, nine hundred dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical and natural history, and laboratory, two hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Use for theological department, etc., forbidden.no part of this appropriation shall be used, directly or indirectly, for the support of the theological department of said university, nor for the support of any sectarian, denominational, or religious instruction therein: *And provided further,* That no part thereof shall be paid to said Inspection, etc.university until it shall accord to the Secretary of the Interior, or to his designated agent or agents, authority to visit and inspect such university and to control and supervise the expenditure therein of all moneys paid under this appropriation. education in alaska. Education in Alaska. For the industrial and elementary education of children in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand dollars. reindeer for alaska. Reindeer for Alaska. For support of the reindeer station at Port Clarence, Alaska, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twelve thousand dollars. 438 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. International Prison Commission. For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission and the expenses of a commissioner to be appointed by the President, to be immediately available, two thousand dollars. International Exposition, Belgium. To enable the Government to take official part in the international exhibition to be held at Brussels, Belgium, during the year eighteen *Proviso.* Expense limited.hundred and ninety-seven, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no expenditure exceeding this appropriation shall be made or liability incurred, and no person shall be paid salary or compensation therefrom. Alexandretta. Consul. For salary of consul at Alexandretta, Turkish Dominions, one thousand five hundred dollars. Venezuela Boundary Commission. Rent. *Ante,* p. 1. Authority is hereby given to expend from the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars, made by the Act approved December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the expenses of the Commission to Investigate and Report Upon the True Divisional Line Between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana, such amount for rent of building or part of building in the District of Columbia as may be deemed necessary by the Commission. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals. Rock Island, Ill. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: Machinery. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. Care, etc. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. Moline Bridge. For renewing wood floor of the Moline Bridge, one thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty cents. For painting Moline Bridge and Rock Island Wagon Bridge, two thousand dollars. Rock Island bridges. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, twelve thousand dollars. For protecting Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. Reconstructing. Vol. 28, p. 492. For additional amount for the reconstruction of the Rock Island Bridge, as authorized by the Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand two hundred dollars. Benicia, Cal. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For erection of a fireproof boiler house at the new shops, two thousand five hundred dollars. Columbia, Tenn. Columbia Arsenal, Columbia, Tennessee: For improvement of grounds, constructing roads and walks, purchase and setting out of shade trees, one thousand dollars. For shop fixtures, shafting, bangers, pulleys, gearing, and belting connected therewith, for use with shop engine, five hundred dollars. Frankford, Pa. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For purchase or manufacture of new machinery, ten thousand dollars. Sandy Hook, N. J. proving ground. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops, storehouses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield, Mass. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds and of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. Testing machine, Watertown. Testing machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor, and material in caring for. preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, ten thousand dollars. 439 Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For Watertown, Mass. Impact testing machine. *Proviso.* Patents.manufacture and erection of an impact testing machine, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no patented machine shall be erected unless the patentee shall first authorize its use by the Government without compensation to said patentee. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For necessary Watervliet, West Troy, N. Y.fire protection, including a new main pump, seven thousand and twenty dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals Repairs, etc.and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty-five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington. Buildings and grounds, D. C. For purchase of the house on Tenth street, northwest, between E and Death place of Abraham Lincoln. Purchase.F streets, in the city of Washington, where Abraham Lincoln died, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for repairs of said building, after purchase, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand dollars. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: Improvement and care. For improvement of grounds north and south of Executive Mansion, five thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, three thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and Old canal, etc. *Proviso.* Expenditure.site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, and constructing stone coping about reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, two thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made Limit for concrete pavements.for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and fifteen cents per square yard for a. quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. 440 For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, one hundred dollars. For improvement of Hancock Place, corner Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street northwest, three thousand dollars. Executive Mansion. Repairs, fuel, etc. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Lighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars: *Provisos.* Maximum per lamp.*Provided,* That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and To burn every night.said lamps shall burn every night on the average from forty five minutes after sunset to forty five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be Self-regulating burners.necessary for that purpose: *Provided,* That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour. Electric lights. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from seven Executive Mansion grounds.posts, at twenty cents per light per night, on grounds south of Executive Mansion, five hundred and eleven dollars. Parks. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights for not exceeding thirty-two posts in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln Parks, at twenty-eight cents per light per night, three thousand *Proviso.* Underground wires.two hundred and seventy dollars and forty cents: *Provided,* That all wires shall be placed underground, and that the conduits, wires, lamp-posts complete, shall be furnished by the electric light company without expense to the United States, and that twenty-eight cents per lamp per night shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in the parks mentioned. Repair of water pipes. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph, Capitol, Departments, and Printing Office. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Replacing poles, etc. For replacing the present old poles with new and taller poles; and the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds is hereby authorized to remove the old and erect, new poles, replace the wires, and to change the route of the line from the north to the south side of G street between Ninth and Eleventh streets northwest, one thousand six hundred dollars. Washington Monument. Maintenance. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; 441one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy five dollars per month; one attendant on door, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month ; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses.brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric, lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Branch printing office, War Department: For repairs to the Branch printing office.main building, rebuilding the annex, and providing heating apparatus for both main building and annex at number seventeen hundred and twenty-five F street northwest, the property of the United States, and occupied as the War Department branch of the Government Printing Office, five thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. military posts. Military posts. For the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement of, such Construction.military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, three hundred thousand dollars. For beginning the construction of permanent buildings, providing Spokane, Wash.for sewerage, water supply, roads and other means of communication, and other necessary improvements at the military posts at Spokane, Washington, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars. To continue construction of buildings at the Fort Riley, Kansas, Fort Riley, Kans.military post, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, seventy five thousand dollars. To continue construction of buildings at the Fort Harrison Military Fort-Harrison, Monk.Post, in Montana, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. To extend the barracks and make necessary sanitary improvements Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. For beginning the construction of permanent buildings, providing Bismarck, N. Dak.for sewerage, water supply, roads and other means of communication and other necessary improvements at the military post at Bismarck, North Dakota, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. Fort Wayne Military Reservation: For improving the Fort Fort Wayne Reservation.Wayne Military Reservation, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Fort Ethan Allen Military Reservation: To enable the Secretary Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.of War to acquire the title, for military purposes, to additional lands, not exceeding one hundred and ninety acres, required to extend the military reservation of Fort Ethan Allen, near Essex Junction, Vermont, to the Winooski River, subject to the right of way through said lands of the Winooski and Essex highway and the right of way of the Central Vermont Railway: *Provided,* That in acquiring the land *Proviso.* Condemnation. Vol. 26. p. 978.for the purpose the Secretary of War is authorized to proceed in accordance with the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses, under the title “Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park,” three thousand dollars. Target Range, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: For the purchase Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Target range. *Proviso.*of land for a target range for the use of troops stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, eighteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That 442Lands.any land purchased hereunder shall be unincumbered by any private or public, ways or roads. Yellowstone National Park. Improvement. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For the improvement and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, not more than five thousand dollars of which may be expended within the limits Vol. 27. p. 989.of the forest reservation in Wyoming established by Executive proclamation September tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-one, thirty-five thousand dollars. military parks. Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Expenses. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners and the assistant in historical work; maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses. For foundations for State monuments, wire fencing, cutting out underbrush and mowing; historical tablets and iron gun carriages, for roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized by law; in all, seventy-five thousand dollars. Gettysburg. Expenses. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing the National Park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, providing surveys and maps; opening, constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates, marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the park commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; offices, expenses, and labor: the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, fifty thousand dollars. Shiloh. Condemned cannon. Shiloh National Military Park: And the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are hereby authorized to deliver to the Commissioners of the Shiloh National Military Park, at the park, upon the requisition of said Commissioners, such condemned cannon, cannon balls, and shells as may be needed for the purposes of the park. engineer department. Engineer Department. River mid harbor improvements. Philadelphia, Pa. For continuing-improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement, removal of Smiths Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, six hundred thousand dollars. Galveston, Tex. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing improvement, eight hundred and forty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars of which may be expended for dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the United States. Hudson River, N. Y. For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Mobile, Ala. Dredging. For improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: To enable the National Dredging Company, the contractor under the continuing contract for the improvement of the harbor at Mobile, Alabama, to proceed with the work of dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, as *Post,* p. 467.authorized by the joint resolution of Congress passed the present session, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: this sum to be in full of any authorization or appropriation under said joint resolution. Great Lakes. For improving channel connecting the waters of the Great Lakes between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, five hundred thousand dollars. Cascades, Columbia River, Oreg. For improving canal at the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon: Continuing improvement, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars. 443 For harbor of refuge at Point Judith. Rhode Island: Continuing Point Judith, R. I.improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing Humboldt, Cal.improvement, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. national cemeteries. National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving Maintenance.national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of Superintendents.seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work Headstones for soldiers’ graves.of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and Vol. 17, p. 545. Vol. 20, p. 281.seventy-nine, twenty thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to Roadways.roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: *Provided,* That no railroad shall be permitted *Proviso.* Encroachments by railroads forbidden.upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, eight thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Burial of indigent soldiers.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, tube 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, three thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California: Road to Presidio, Cal.For continuing the work of improving the reservation at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, by developing and perfecting the water supply, the reclaiming of sand dunes, the planting of trees and shrubs, and construction of new roads, the erection of a permanent fence or wall on the south and east lines of the reservation, the erection of permanent gateways, the reclamation of the marsh, and other general and much needed improvements, ten thousand dollars. Military Cemetery at Key West, Florida: For the purchase and use Key West, Fla.of land included in the military cemetery adjacent to the reservation of Key West Barracks, Florida, as recommended in a letter from the Secretary of War, dated February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session), two thousand and fifty-eight dollars. Battlefield of Antietam: For completing the work of locating, Antietam, Md.preserving, and marking the positions of troops and lines of battle of the Union and Confederate armies at Antietam, and the closely related battles of Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Cramptons Gap, and Shepherdstown, the said lines and positions tube marked with cast-iron tablets, each bearing a. brief historical legend compiled without praise and without censure; for improvement of roads owned by the United States at Antietam; for monuments of cannon balls and bases therefor to mark the localities where six general officers were killed; for completing the observatory towers; for guideposts: for preparing and publishing maps indicating the movements and positions of troops engaged in the battles and in the Antietam campaign; and for services and materials incidental to the foregoing, seventeen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. 444 Guilford battle grounds. For repairs to the Guilford battle grounds: To enable the Guilford Battle Ground Company to repair the grounds and public buildings of said company on said battle grounds, one thousand dollars; said amount to be disbursed on the order of the president of the said company; and the United States shall be at no further expense in the future for repairs or other expenses relating to said battle grounds. miscellaneous objects, war department. Miscellaneous. Survey of Northern, etc., lakes. Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dollars. Additions. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. Transporting maps. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one bundled dollars. Artificial limbs. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Providence Hospital, D. C. Destitute patients. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars. Garfield Hospital, D. C. Maintenance. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars. Military convicts. Expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, five hundred dollars, to be expended in the current support of military convicts. Official Records War of the Rebellion. Continuing publication. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: For continuing the publication of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, including the atlas of maps and plans, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War August third, Civilian board.eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordance with the Vol. 25, p. 970.Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication, and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, and for the purchase of stationery and for additional rent, not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, and for traveling expenses of the agent for collection of records, to be disbursed under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, not exceeding five hundred dollars, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Artillery school, Fort Monroe. Va. Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia: To provide for means of instruction, such as text-books, instruments, drawing materials, and stationery required in the courses of artillery, engineering, law, and the art and science of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. Infantry, etc., school, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For text-books, books of reference, instruments and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars. 445 Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor.deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses Inspectors, etc.of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of four steam tugs and three Vessels.launches, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand dollars. California Débris Commission: To defray the expenses of the California Débris Commission. Vol. 27. p. 507.California Débris Commission, authorized by the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, Dayton, O. Current expenses.namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, clerks and orderlies, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-eight, thousand dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary Subsistence.clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, their freight, preparation, and serving: aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; Household.for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, Hospital.hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture, and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining-room employees; for carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-five thousand dollars; That hereafter upon proper application therefor, the Medical Department Supplies from Army.of the Army is authorized to sell medical and hospital supplies at its contract prices to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; 446 Transportation. For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; Construction. For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashes, and laborers: and for all appliances, and materials used under this head, also for repair of roads and of other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-five thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars; Farm. For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, five hundred and seventy thousand and sixty eight dollars. Milwaukee, Wis. Current expenses. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this bead for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-seven thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; Construction. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Togus, Me. Current expenses. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; Construction. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; For new barn, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred dollars. Hampton, Va. Current expenses. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the, same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty five thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; 447 For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred Transportation.dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Construction.the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For addition to present latrine, three thousand five, hundred dollars; For reimbursement of amount advanced for additional boilers, four thousand two hundred dollars; For new gasoline lighting machine plant, six thousand dollars; For construction of sewage pumping works, including building, reservoir, machinery, pipes, ventilating chimney, and other items necessary for the purpose, twenty-six thousand dollars to be immediately available; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Farm.Central Branch, thirteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and sixty-six thousand two hundred dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For Leavenworth, Kans. Current expenses.current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital.the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five Transportation.hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Construction.the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand dollars; For new building for insane ward, five thousand three hundred dollars; For materials and labor necessary to renew the steam and other pipes to cover the same, with their necessary connections, seven thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Farm.Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For Santa Monica, Cal. Current expenses.current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, eighty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital.the Central Branch, nineteen thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Construction. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For additional barracks, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For new boiler house and stack, nine thousand two hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, Marion, Ind. Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand six hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same, objects specified under this head for Hospital.the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; 448 Transportation. For transportation, including the same objects specified under tins head for the Central Branch, one thousand five hundred dollars; Construction. *Proviso.* Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriations for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For additional barracks, sixty-six thousand dollars; For new boiler house, two thousand five hundred dollars; For gas well and connections, five thousand dollars; For leasing additional ground, one thousand three hundred dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, six thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred dollars. Clothing for all branches. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops, in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Salaries, etc., Board of Managers. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: R. S., sec. 4827, p. 938. For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; one general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, three thousand dollars; one inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant inspector-general, two thousand dollars; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, five thousand five hundred dollars; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars: messenger service for secretary’s office, fifty-two dollars; clerical services for managers, one thousand Expenses.five hundred dollars; agents, two thousand four hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars. In all, two million four hundred and seventy thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. State and Territorial homes. Vol. 25, p. 450. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Proviso.* Deductions.*Provided,* That one half of any sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Arrears of pay. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred thousand dollars. Bounty. For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Additional bounty. Vol. 14, p. 322. For payment of amounts for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that maybe certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twenty-two thousand dollars. Commutation of rations. For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four thousand dollars. 449 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual Court-house, D. C.repairs per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending suits in claims.defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense tor the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under French spoliation claims.the direction of the Attorney-General, forty thousand dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: Punishing violations of intercourse acts, Indian service.For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of Prosecution of crimes.crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by bis agents at any time, thirty-five thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution Prosecuting and collecting claims.and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and Alaska. Traveling expenses.necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For Rent, etc.rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of buildings in the custody of the Repairs.United States marshal for the district of Alaska, to be expended by the Attorney-General, one thousand five hundred dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and Defense in Indian depredation claims.expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Court of Private Land Claims: To enable the Attorney-General Court of Private Land Claims. Expenses.to employ such assistant attorneys, agents, stenographers, and experts to aid the United States attorney for said court as may be necessary, on or after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to dispose of the business of the Court of Private Land Claims on or before December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under section Vol. 28. p. 805.nineteen, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand dollars. JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the United States courts. Expenses.expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the 450District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: Marshals, salaries, etc. *Ante,* p. 181. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, one million dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. District attorneys, salaries, etc. *Ante,* p. 180. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Regular assistants. For payment of salaries of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed animal compensation, eighty-five thousand dollars. Special assistants. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty-five thousand dollars. Clerks’ fees. For fees of clerks, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Commissioners’ fees, etc. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Jurors’ fees. For fees of jurors, five hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. Witnesses’ fees. For fees of witnesses, one million and sixty-six thousand dollars. Support of prisoners. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, or place of bona tide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. United States Penitentiary. Subsistence. For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, and deputy warden, and employees, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, twenty-two thousand dollars; Forage, etc. For forage, including hay and feed for public animals, and hay or straw for prisoners’ bedding, two thousand dollars; Stationery, etc. For stationery, including blank books, typewriters and typewriting supplies for use in offices and prisoners’ school, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel and school, letter paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners, one thousand dollars; Clothing, etc. For clothing and transportation, including material for making such clothing as can be made at the prison, and for the usual discharged gratuities provided by law, and for the expenses of prison officials while traveling on duty, ten thousand dollars; Rewards, etc. For the recapture of prisoners, including expenses of pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards as authorized by the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars; Fuel, lights, and water. For fuel, light, and water, including purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus and burning brick, for materials for repairing steam-heating plant and water circulation, for general supplies, machinery and tools for use in shops, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds, for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, bunks, blankets, bed sacks, paints, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies, for the payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services, and for miscellaneous expenditures which can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty-two thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and 451surgical supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment: of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand dollars; For advertising in newspapers, including proposals for supplies and Advertising.other necessary advertisements, one hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Salaries.Warden, three thousand five hundred dollars: deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; physician, nine hundred dollars; hospital steward, nine hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; book keeper, one thousand two hundred dollars: stenographer, nine hundred dollars; storekeeper and steward of prison, tune hundred dollars: superintendent of industries, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of transportation, animals, and farm, one thousand dollars; janitor and messenger, six hundred dollars: organist at chapel, fifty-two dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-six thousand dollars; teamsters, nine hundred and sixty dollars: one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars: one assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars; For industries and repairs, including employment of foremen, machinist, Repairs, etc.shoemaker, harness maker, brickmaker, carpenter, blacksmith, stone mason, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, and for the purchase of materials for construction and repair of prison buildings, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and twelve dollars. For rent of United States court rooms, eighty thousand dollars. Rent. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one Bailiffs, etc. *Provisos.* Actual attendance. R. S., sec. 715, p. 136.crier in each court, except in the southern district 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 provided further,* That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of Vacation, etc.reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of 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, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Miscellaneous.by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations. Vol. 25, p. 587.of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Conveying votes of Electors for President and Vice-President: Electoral vote. Payment to messengers.For payment of the messengers of the respective States 452for conveying to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President, of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual road traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for the one distance only, twelve thousand and seventy-seven dollars. Senate official reporters. That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay for reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate from March twenty-sixth to March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive; the payment to be made to the Official Reporters appointed by resolution of the Senate of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the service having been performed by them. Maltby Building. Maltby Building: For repairs to building, three thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Rent of warehouse. Rent of warehouse: For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Repairs to stables, etc. For repairs and improvements to the Senate stables and grounds, two thousand dollars. Botanic Garden. Repairs, etc. Botanic Garden: For glazing with plate glass the western portion of roof of main conservatory, and for granolithic pavement, and for repairs to asphalt pavements; and for general repairs to buildings and heating apparatus of the same, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for rents and all the necessary materials which may be needed in Amount.the prosecution of the work, two million nine hundred and seventeen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Allotment of appropriation. For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, and for rents, one million four hundred and fifty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, eighteen thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the War Department, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, seventy thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, two hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. 453 For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletins’’ and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twelve thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, seven thousand dollars; For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, ten thousand dollars; For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter the reports of the Geological *Proviso.* Gauging streams reports.Survey in relation to the gauging of streams and to the methods of utilizing the water resources may be printed in octavo form, not to exceed one hundred pages in length and five thousand copies in number; one thousand copies of which shall be for the official use of the Distribution.Geological Survey, one thousand five hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate, and two thousand five hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, for distribution. For the Department of Justice, nine thousand dollars. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Labor, seven thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand dollars. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, twelve thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For printing and binding the annual report of the Secretary of Agricultural Report. Vol. 28, p. 612.Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And no more than an allotment of one half of the sum hereby Division of appropriation.appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters maybe expended: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Agricultural Report excepted.the amount herein specified for printing and binding the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotments. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law Leaves of absence.granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The employees of the Government Printing Office, whether employed Regulation of leaves.by the piece or otherwise, shall be allowed leaves of absence with pay to the extent of not exceeding thirty days in any one fiscal year under such regulations and at such times as the Public Printer may designate at the rate of pay received by them during the time in which said leave was earned; but such leaves of absence shall not be allowed to accumulate No accumulation allowed.from year to year. Such employees as are engaged on piecework shall receive the same rate of pay for the said thirty days’ leave as will be paid to day hands: *Provided,* That those regularly employed on the *Provisos.* Congressional Record employees.Congressional Record shall receive leave, with pay, at the close of each session, pro rata for the time of such employment: *And provided further,* That it shall be lawful to allow pay for pro rata leave to those serving Pro rata leaves.fractional parts of a year; also to allow pay for pro rata leave of absence 454to employees of the Government Printing Office in any fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that thirty days’ leave of absence, with pay, may have been granted to such employees in that fiscal year on account of Payment to legal representatives.service rendered in a previous fiscal year. And the Public Printer is hereby authorized to pay to the legal representatives of any employees who have died during the fiscal years of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, or may hereafter die, who have or hereafter may have any accrued leave of absence due them as such employees, and said claims to be paid out of any unexpended balances of appropriations for the payment of leaves of absence to the employees of the Government Printing Office, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and out of any future appropriations for leaves of absence. Congressional Record. Allotment to Members changed. Vol. 28, p. 617. That paragraph forty-six, section seventy-three, of an Act entitled “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same hereby is, amended by striking out the following words: “Of which number eight copies shall be sent by the Superintendent of Documents, one each to such public or school libraries other than designated depositories as shall be designated for this purpose by each Representative and Delegate in Congress.” Government Printing Office. Boiler house. Purchase of land, etc. To enable the Public Printer, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to purchase two lots of land immediately adjoining the site of the Government Printing Office on the west, said lots miming north and south from H street to Jackson alley, and containing eight thousand four hundred and twelve square feet, more or less; and to purchase in addition a site in the vicinity of the Government Printing Office, within that part of square six hundred and twenty-four, bounded on the south by G street northwest, on the east by North Capitol street, and on the north by Jackson alley, and containing eight thousand tour hundred and twelve square feet, more or less, and to erect thereon a boiler house and coal sheds; and for the purchase and erection of two three-hundred horsepower steel steam boilers, with all necessary fittings and connections to connect said boilers to the Government Printing Office, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Condemnation proceedings. If from any cause the Public Printer, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be unable to purchase said land at a satisfactory price from the owners, he is hereby directed and empowered, within thirty days after the passage of this Act. to secure the same by Vol. 26, p. 174.condemnation proceedings, as provided in the Act approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to authorize the acquisition of certain parcels of real estate embraced in square numbered three hundred and twenty-three of the city of Washington, to provide an eligible site for a city post-office,” and the amendment to Vol. 28, p.413.said Act contained in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes,” approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety. Cotton States Exposition. Government Building expenses. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, authorized and directed to pay over to the Cotton States and International Exposition Company to reimburse said company for expenses incurred and paid in connection with the Government Building and exhibit all those portions Vol. 28, p. 421.of the appropriations heretofore made under the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the building and for the exhibit by the Government at the Cotton States and International Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia, which shall remain unexpended after all the liabilities incurred by the Government on account of said building and exhibit shall have, been fully paid off and discharged. Sums for salaries to be in full. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 420, 421. 1896.455the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and all laws or Repeal.parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act he, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 11, 1896.