Chapter 1. Making appropriations to provide for certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight
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CHAP. 1.— An Act Making appropriations to provide for certain deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. December 16, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums, or soDeficiencies appropriations. much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely:
NAVAL ACADEMY.Naval Academy. For the erection of a temporary wooden building for the purposes of instruction at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. To pay the following session employees of the House of RepresentativesSession employees. during the present session of Congress, at the rates of compensation and for the period specified in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundredVol. 29, p. 541, etc. and ninety-seven, namely:
One assistant index clerk, in the office of the Clerk; thirty-three pages, two messengers, three folders, and ten laborers, under the Doorkeeper; seven messengers under the Postmaster; thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and DelegatesMileage of Members, etc. from Territories for the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. SENATE.Senate. For mileage of Senators for the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress,Mileage of Senators. forty-five thousand dollars.
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