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Chapter 2. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes

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Chap. 2: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. Chapter 2 30 Stat. 11 1897-06-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 1 30 public FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 2. 1897. 11 chap. 2.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes.
June 4, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Appropriations for sundry civil expenses. and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely: UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings. Public buildings. For post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania:
For completion of buildingAllegheny, Pa. under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. For public building at Boise City, Idaho: For continuation of buildingBoise City, Idaho. under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Boston, Massachusetts: For construction of a two-storyBoston, Mass., money vault for subtreasury. money vault in the subtreasury portion of the post-office building, ten thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedBridgeport, Conn.*Post*, p. 112. and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such additional laud as he may deem necessary, and to cause to be erected an addition or extension to the United States custom-house and post-officeCustom-house, etc., building, addition to. building at.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the use and accommodation of the Government offices, the cost of said additional land and extension or addition not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Buffalo, New York: For continuation of buildingBuffalo, N. Y. under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Brockton, Massachusetts: For completion of buildingBrockton, Mass. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Camden, New Jersey:
That theCamden, N. J.Additional land for custom-house. sum of five thousand dollars, or so much of the appropriation as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available, out of the amounts heretofore appropriated for the erection of the building, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such land additional to the present site as in his judgment is necessary to accommodate properly a building of the character contemplated by the increased limit of cost authorized by the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six;Vol. 29, p. 414. and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter intoContracts in advance of appropriations. contracts for work on said building in advance of appropriations yet to be made under the present limit of cost.
For post-office and court-house at Charleston, South Carolina: For completing the approaches and grounds around the building, fourteenCharleston. S. C. thousand dollars. For rental of quarters at Chicago, Illinois: For annual rental of temporaryChicago. Ill.Rental of temporary quarters. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, for the year ending March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for necessary shelving and pigeon holes, nineteen thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-two cents.
For court-house and post-office at Cumberland, Maryland: For completionCumberland, Md. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For public building at Cheyenne, Wyoming: For continuation ofCheyenne, Wyo. building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For mint building at Denver, Colorado: For continuation of buildingDenver, Colo. under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. For public building at Helena, Montana: For continuation of buildingHelena, Mont. under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars, and not to exceed twenty thousand dollars of this sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be used to purchase, by condemnation12 or otherwise, additional land for the site of said building, the presentAdditional land. limit of cost of said building not to be exceeded.
For post-office and court-house at Kansas City, Missouri: For completionKansas City, Mo. of building under present limit, including not exceeding two elevators in said building, two hundred and sixty six thousand dollars. For post-office at Meridian, Mississippi: For completion of buildingMeridian, Miss. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. For completion of building under present limit, four hundred thousand dollars.
For custom house and post-office at Newark, New Jersey: For acquisitionNewark, N.J.Additional land. of additional land for site, sixty-six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the limit of cost of said building andLimit of cost increased. site therefor is hereby increased from six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to seven hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. For the appraiser’s warehouse at New York City, New York: ForNew York, N.Y. completion of building under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars.
For post-office at Newport, Kentucky: For completion of buildingNewport, Ky. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For court house, custom house, and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska:Omaha, Nebr.*Post*, p. 981. For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For court-house, custom-house, and post office at Omaha, Nebraska:Limit of cost increased. For extension of limit of cost of site and building from one million two hundred thousand dollars to one million three hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars.
For public building at Norfolk, Virginia: For extension of limit ofNorfolk, Va. cost of site and building from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Paterson, New Jersey: For completion of buildingPaterson, N. J. under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For customhouse at Portland, Oregon: For continuation of buildingPortland, Oreg. under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars.
For post-office at Pueblo, Colorado: For completion of building underPueblo, Colo. present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Pottsville, Pennsylvania: For completion of buildingPottsville, Pa. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For public building at Racine, Wisconsin: Authority is hereby givenRacine, Wis. to the Secretary of the Treasury, if he shall deem it expedient in the interest of the public service, to accept the bid of nine thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars, now tiled for the substitution of stoneSubstitution of stone for brick, etc., in public building. for brick and terra cotta in the public building now in process of construction at Racine, Wisconsin, in accordance with the amended plans for the same already prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury: *Provided*, The present limit of cost of said building shall not be*Proviso.*Limit of cost. exceeded.
For post-office at South Omaha, Nebraska: For completion of buildingSouth Omaha, Nebr. under present limit, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office, court-house, and custom house at Saint Paul, Minnesota:St. Paul, Minn. For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house, at San Francisco. California: ForSan Francisco, Cal. continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Savannah, Georgia: For completionSavannah, Ga. of building under present limit, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of additional ground at Topeka, Kansas: To enableTopeka, Kans. the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase, by condemnation or otherwise,Purchase of additional ground. fifty feet front of ground, or so much thereof as may be needed, adjacent to the ground now owned by the Government on which the public building at Topeka, Kansas, occupied as a post-office and other13Government offices, is located, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars; and to enable the Secretary to change and improve the buildingsChange of buildings to accommodate other Government offices, etc. on said newly purchased grounds so as to accommodate the United States pension agency and other Government offices, and to supply the same with vaults and other fixtures and appliances for the convenient, safe, and ready dispatch of public business, ten thousand dollars.
For post-office at Worcester, Massachusetts: To enable the stampWorcester, Mass. room to be transferred to what is now the money-order lobby, and a new lobby to be provided, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to expend the seventy-fiveSalt Lake City.Vol. 29, p. 415. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, heretofore (in eighteen hundred and ninety six) appropriated for the purchase of site for a courthouse and post office at Salt Lake City.
For post-office at Washington, District of Columbia: For completionWashington, D. C.Post-office. of building under present limit, four hundred and ten thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairsTreasury, Butler, and Winder buildings. to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. For special repairs to Treasury building, to be immediately available,Repairs, etc. twelve thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings:
Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of custom-houses, court houses, post-offices, marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof 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. marine hospitals.
Marine hospitals. For marine hospital at Baltimore, Maryland: For annex building forBaltimore, Md. disinfection and storage, two thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio: For drainage and improvementCleveland, Ohio. of grounds, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. For marine hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio: For addition to surgeon’sCincinnati, Ohio. cottage, two thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For repairs to sea wallKey West, Fla. and improvement of grounds, seven hundred dollars; storehouse and addition to steward’s quarters, one thousand dollars; in all, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For wing dam andNew Orleans, La. piling to protect water supply, and for extension of sewer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; additional cisterns for water supply, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For marine hospital at Wilmington, North Carolina: For new fence,Wilmington, N.C. two hundred dollars quarantine stations. Quarantine stations. For quarantine station, Delaware Breakwater, Delaware:
For additionDelaware Breakwater, Del. to executive building, one thousand five hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For repairs to engine,Brunswick, Ga. wharf, car tracks, and switch, and new boathouse, cars, and dolphins, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For quarantine station, Tortugas (Key West), Florida: For floatingTortugas (Key West), Fla. disinfecting plant, ten thousand dollars; sailing vessel for transportation of mail and supplies, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. 14 For quarantine station, South Atlantic:
For small hospital, twoSouth Atlantic station. thousand five hundred dollars; boathouse, one thousand dollars; landing pier, mooring dolphins and piles, and ballast gangway, one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars; quarters tor crew, bath house, and shed, one thousand dollars; hoisting engine for ballast wharf, nine hundred dollars; sulphur furnace and appliances, one thousand dollars; additional for dredging cut, five hundred dollars; mooring buoys five hundred dollars; buoys for marking quarantine limits, six hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting,Heating apparatus for public buildings. 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 hundred 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.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults,Vaults, sates, 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. Tender for the Second light house district: For finishing the constructionTender, Second district. of, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Second light-house district, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. New Haven Harbor Breakwater Light and Fog-Signal Station, Connecticut:New Haven, Conn. For establishing a light and fog-signal station on the outer breakwater, entrance to New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of establishing said light and fog-signal station, complete, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.
Fire Island Light-Vessel, New York: For finishing the constructionFire Island, N. Y., vessel. of, equipping, and outfitting a steam light ship, with steam fog signal, to be established off Fire Island, New York, forty thousand dollars. Staten Island Light-House Depot, New York: For continuing the constructionStaten Island depot, N. Y. of the sea wall, constructing oil house, rebuilding storehouse and wharves, and dredging the basin, at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
West Bank Light and Fog-Signal Station, New York: For establishingWest Bank Light, etc., station, N.Y. a light and fog-signal station on or near the west bank, New York Harbor, fifty thousand dollars. Orient Point Light and Fog Signal, New York: For erection of aOrient Point, N. Y.*Post*, p. 1078. light-house with fog signal at the site of the beacon heretofore standing at Orient Point, or Oyster Pond Beef, on the west side of Plum Gut, at the entrance of Long Island Sound, New York, thirty thousand dollars.
Overfalls Shoal Light-Vessel, New Jersey: For constructing, equipping,Overfalls Shoal, N. J., vessel. and outfitting, complete tor service, a first-class steam light-vessel, with steam fog signal, eighty thousand dollars. Bull Bay Light Station, South Carolina: For the reestablishment ofBull Bay Station, S. C. the station on a new site, ten thousand dollars. For completing the removal of Cape San Blas Light Station, Florida,Cape San Bias Station, Fla. to Blacks’ Island, four thousand five hundred dollars. 15 Tender for the Seventh and Eighth light-house districts:
For finishingTender.Seventh and Eighth districts. the construction of, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Seventh and Eighth light-house districts, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Chequamegon Point Light and Fog-Signal Station, Wisconsin: ForChequamegon Point Station, Wis. completing the work of moving and rebuilding the main Lapointe Light and establishing a harbor bell and light at or near Chequamegon Point, Lake.
Superior, Wisconsin, one thousand five hundred dollars. Light-vessel and two float lights at Ballards Reef, Detroit River:Ballards Reef, Detroit River, vessel, etc. For light vessel and two float lights for marking the new channel at Ballards Reef above Limekiln Crossing on the lower Detroit River, one thousand five hundred dollars. Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Light Station, Lake Superior, Michigan:Grand Marais, Mich. That the unexpended balance of the fifteen thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March second, eighteen hundred andVol. 28, p. 916. ninety-five, for a “light and bell” at this place, or so much of it not exceeding two thousand dollars as may be necessary, be made available for constructing an additional light on shore to serve as a range andAdditional light. completing the station.
San Francisco Harbor Light-Vessel, California: For finishing theSan Francisco, Cal., vessel. construction of, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a steam light ship, with steam fog signal, to be established in San Francisco Harbor, California, forty thousand dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses forOil houses.*Proviso.* the storage of mineral oil, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars inCost. cost. light-house establishment.
Light-House Establishment. Supplies of light-houses; For supplying fog signals, light-houses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be 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 for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, four hundred thousand dollars.
Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improvingRepairs. 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 seventy-five 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, seven hundred and ten 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 and twenty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, andBuoyage. maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, spindles, and day beacons, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this amount the sum of twenty-five*Proviso.*Buoys on the Great Lakes, etc. thousand dollars shall be used for the establishment of gas buoys on the Great Lakes and connecting waters.
To complete establishment of gas buoys at or near the following named places in the Saint Lawrence River: One at Charity Shoals, oneSt. Lawrence River gas buoys. 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, seven thousand six hundred dollars, to be immediately available. 16 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, one hundred thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting 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 for 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; 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. For salaries of two hundred and sixty-five keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and thirty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life saving and lifeboatCrews. stations, including the old Chicago station, during the period of actual17 employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving anti 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 for officers of the Revenue-CutterCommutation of quarters.
Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved MayVol. 22, p. 57. 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 sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries anti expenses. and one engineer in chief with relative rank and pay of captain, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, 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 of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of theAnchorage.
Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight,Vol. 25. p. 151. and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising,Vol. 27, p. 431. surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, one million one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Pay of chief engineer who has held office of engineer in chief, etc.
That any chief engineer of the Revenue-Cutter Service who has held the office of engineer in chief shall hereafter receive the pay and emoluments of a captain of said service, and shall be eligible for appointment to the office of captain of engineers in said service, with the pay and emoluments of such captain. For completing construction of two revenue steamers of the first class,Steamers.Great Lakes. under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Great Lakes, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ten eophones, at not exceeding five hundredEophones. dollars each, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For constructing and equipping a steam revenue cutter for serviceRevenue cutter for service on Atlantic coast. on the Atlantic coast of the United States, with headquarters at the port of New York, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, engraving and printing. Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing:
For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate18 printers’ assistants, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the directions of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing*Proviso.*Notes of larger denomination. 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 SecretaryWages. 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 twenty-six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be*Proviso*.Notes of larger denomination. expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials, and other materials, exceptMaterials. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter*Proviso*.Appropriations not contingent expenses, Treasury Department the appropriations made for all expenditures of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall be used in the manner in which appropriations for said Bureau have heretofore been used, and no part of said appropriations shall be held to be contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, nor be subject to the provisions of sections two hundredR.
S. secs. 240,3683. pp. 40–723. and forty and thirty-six hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes: *And provided further*, That all the business of the Bureau ofDirector to control all business, etc. Engraving and 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. For rent of office now occupied by the agent of the Post-OfficeRent, office of stamp agent.
Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a rental of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. coast and geodetic survey. Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of theExpenses of survey of Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Alaska coasts. 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 for of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government 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 field torce 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 Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties*Proviso*.Advance of money. 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:
For field expenses: For survey of unfinished portions of theField expenses. Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, including Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River; Hudson River to Troy; and for the necessary19 resurveys, including the coast from Lynn to Cape Ann, the shores of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Bound, approaches to New Bedford, Buzzards Bay, Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, and Savannah River bar, thirty 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 Pontebartrain and Sabine Lake, and for the necessary resurveys, eight thousand 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 reconnoissanee along the Pacific coast from Cape Mendocino to the Straits of Juan de Fuca, and for necessary resurveys, San Francisco Harbor, triangulation, topography, and hydrography, twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars; For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska and makingAlaska surveys. 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 the construction of a tidal indicator in the harbor of San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred 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 three hundred dollars;
To continue magnetic observations in all parts of the United States, two thousand dollars; For continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, three thousand five hundred dollars, two thousand dollars of which sum shall be immediately available; For furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicablePoints to State surveys. 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 Bio Grande, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
For determinations of geographical positions, and to continue gravity observations, two thousand five hundred dollars: For traveling expenses of officers and 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 four hundred 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, four thousand dollars;
To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through theInternational Geodetic Association. American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand five hundred dollars; For expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at theExpenses of American delegate. meetings of the International Geodetic Association, five hundred and20 fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.How payable. such expenses of attendance shall be payable out of the item “for objects not hereinbefore named;” and ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably tor expenditure on theInterchangeable expenditures. 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 twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs andRepairs 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, and including ten thousand dollars to be immediately available for boilers of the steamer Blake, thirty five thousand dollars. For constructing a steamer under the direction of the Secretary ofSteamer for service in Alaska. the Treasury for service in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contractLimit of cost. for building said vessel at a cost not to exceed one hundred and 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, asAssistants. 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 twoOffice force. 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 clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each;
For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For four, 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; 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, atone 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; 21 For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; 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 three, 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 five, 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-six thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.
Office expenses: For the purchase of now instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions, seven thousand seven hundred 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, electricity for lighting and power, 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 two hundred dollars.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. That no part of the money’ herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowance. 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. 22 UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, tinder the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, nineteen thousand dollars. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesAmerican 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 AstrophysicalAstrophysical 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 appliancesNational Museum.Furniture etc. required for the exhibition and safe keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including fifteen thousand dollars for furnishing new galleries and including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty thousand dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National Museum, fourteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collectionsPreserving 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 sixty thousand dollars, of which sum three thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum.
For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, includingRepairs. all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. For rent of workshops for the National Museum, two thousand dollars.Rent. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,Postage. five hundred dollars. For the continuation of the construction of galleries in the NationalGalleries. Museum building, said galleries to be constructed under the direction of the Superintendent of the Congressional Library in accordance with the approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution, eight thousand dollars.
For removal of the sheds from their present location south of andSheds. adjacent to the Smithsonian building, and rebuilding them, including all necessary labor and material, two thousand five hundred dollars. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; cure, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall beHalf from District revenues. paid from the revenues 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 entranceEntrance from Woodley lane, etc. into the Zoological Park from Woodley lane and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the bank of Rock Greek.
FISH COMMISSION. Fish Commission. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars;Fay of Commissioner, clerks, etc. chief clerk, 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, at one thousand dollars ; two clerks, at nine hundred23 dollars each; 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-four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundredOffice of accounts. 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: Architect and engineer,Office of 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: Assistant in charge, two thousandDivision of fish culture, office. 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. Station employees: Central Station, Washington, District of Columbia:Central station. 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, Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixtyAquaria. dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, oneFish ponds. 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 (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveGreen Lake, Me. 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) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCraigs Brook. Me. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousandSaint Johnsbury, Vt five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred debars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandGloucester, Mass. five hundred dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandWoods Hole, Mass. 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 ; one laborer, six hundred dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars: in all, seven thousand and twenty dollars.
Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousandCape Vincent, N. Y. five 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 hundredBattery Island, Md. and sixty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station:
Custodian, three hundred andBryans Point, Md. sixty dollars. 24 Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand twoWytheville, 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 hundredPut 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 fiveNorthville, Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, four 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 hundredAlpena, Mich. dollars; fish-culturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveDuluth, Minn. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, 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 fiveNeosho, Mo. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 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 hundredLeadville, Colo. dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredSan Marcos, Tex. dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty 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; laborer, six hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredClackamas, Oreg. dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredManchester, Iowa. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredBozeman, Mont. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at one thousandEmployees at large. eight hundred dollars each ; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two coxswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Three car captains, at one thousand twoDistribution employees. hundred dollars each; four car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant car 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. 25 Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant inDivision of inquiry respecting food-fishes. charge, two 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 dollars; 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 and methods of the fisheries: AssistantDivision of statistics etc. 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. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousandVessels.“Albatross.” 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. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars.“Fish Hawk.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first“Grampus.” 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. Expenses of administration: For the contingent expenses of theExpenses of administration. 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: For the maintenance, equipment,Propagation of food fishes. 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 thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vesselsMaintenance of 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: For field and contingent expensesInquiry respecting food-fishes.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 inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesStatistical inquiry. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, five thousand dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchangeable expenses. 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. Fish hatchery in New Hampshire: For the establishment of aHatchery in New Hampshire. fish-cultural station in the State of New Hampshire at some suitable point to be selected by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and its equipment, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 26 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries.Vol. 24, p. 386. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to giveExpenses.Vol. 24. p. 379.Vol. 25. p. 855.Vol. 26, p. 743. effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and ail acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and nine thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel; In all, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Miscellaneous. Omaha exposition: For construction of building or buildings andOmaha exposition.*Post*, p. 236. for Government exhibit, including each and every purpose connected therewith, at the Transmississippi and International Exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, as provided by and within the limitations and restrictions of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “An Act to authorize and encourageVol. 29, p. 382. the holding of a Transmississippi and International Exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety eight,” including the return of said Government exhibit, two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Treasury Department: That the Secretary of the Treasury shallTreasury Department.Librarian. appoint, by transfer from a clerkship of class one, a librarian for the Treasury Department, at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; and to pay the same for the remainder of the present fiscal year the sum of four hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight the further sum of one thousand two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; in all, one thousand six hundred dollars. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, includingInternal-Revenue stamp paper. freight, thirty-five thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: ForPunishment for 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 ho 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 contingentContingent expenses. Independent Treasury.R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719. 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, arid for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silverTransporting silver coin. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, eighty 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*.Deposit of equal amount. 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. 27 Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight goldRecoinage of gold coins. coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred andR. S., sec. 3512, p. 696. twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent silverRecoinage of silver coins. coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Recoinage, reissue, and transportation of minor coins: TheMinor 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 may be hereafter received at, the subtreasury offices in excess of the requirement for the current business of said offices; and the sum of six 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. Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: The Secretary of theDeadwood, S. Dak.Salary of assayer, etc. Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the salary of an assayer in charge at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum and the salary of one clerk at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum at the Deadwood assay office, out of the appropriation made therefor by the legislative appropriation Act approved February nineteenth, eighteenVol 29, p. 559. hundred and ninety-seven. Distinctive paper for united states securities: For distinctiveUnited States securities.Paper, etc. paper, 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 of destruction, etc. 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. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materialsSealing and separating. 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, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, expressExpenses of national currency. charges, and other expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: Canceling, etc. 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: For pay of custodian ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. 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. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. 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 forty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: Inspector of furniture, etc. 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;28 and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture andFurniture and repairs. 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 for public buildings: For fuel,Fuel, lights, and water. 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, eight hundred and seventy 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 by the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid for such rental or*Proviso*.Gas governor, etc. use of such gas governor, gas purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby. New post-office building, Washington, District of Columbia: Washington. D. C.New post-office building. For electric-light plant, new post-office building, Washington, District of Columbia, wiring of building, engines, dynamos, and so forth, to be immediately available, sixty five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury shall notify the Postmaster-GeneralRemoval to, of Post-Office Department, etc. as soon as the post-office building in the city of Washington is completed and ready for occupancy, and thereupon the Post-Office Department, including the Money Order Office and the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, including the records of said office now in the Union Building, and the office of the Topographer, shall be removed to said post-office building, and shall occupy therein, together with the city post-office, such rooms and other space as shall be assigned by the Postmaster-General, and thereafter said building shall be under the control of the Post-Office Department. As soon as the present Post-Office Department building is vacatedPresent Post-Office Department building. as herein provided the same shall be turned over to and thereafter be under the control of the Interior Department, to be occupied by the Indian Office, General Land Office, and such other offices or parts of offices or bureaus of the Department as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct. For expense of removal of the Post-Office. Department, including theExpense of removal.*Post*, p. 657. Money-Order Office, office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, and Topographer’s Office to the new post-office building as herein provided for, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation29 of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sicknessR. S., sec. 4718, p. 919. and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Witnesses. amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “fees of witnesses, United States courts.” Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain eases under the customs revenue laws, ten thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying theLocal 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 ofAlaskan 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, andFood 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 directionSalmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That in lieu of the three inspectors whose employment is authorized by the Act of June ninth, eighteen*Proviso*.One agent, etc., in lieu of three inspect, ors.Vol. 29, p. 317. hundred and ninety-six, there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one agent, at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and one assistant agent, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expensesFur-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. To continue the investigation of the fur-seal fisheries of the NorthFur-seal fisheries. Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, authorized by public resolution of June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for the purpose of taking such further steps as the President in his judgment may deem desirableInvestigation of, etc.Vol. 29, p. 475. to better protect seal life and the seal interests of the United States, with a view to the final settlement of the question, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. The provisions as to detail of Government officers and employees, payment of their expenses, detail of vessels,Detail of Government employees, etc. and employment and expenses of stenographers contained in said resolution of June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, are hereby extended and made applicable to the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight: *Provided, however*, That experts who may be detailed*Proviso*.Fay of experts from Government service. from the Government service on this work shall, during such detail, be paid their regular salary out of this appropriation and in addition thereto their actual expenses and five dollars per day each as extra compensation during the period of their absence from Washington while employed upon this work. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to Doctor Leonhard Stejneger the sum of nine hundred and forty dollars, and toDr. Leonhard Stejneger and F. A. Lucas.Payment to. F. A, Lucas the sum of six hundred and thirty dollars, for extra services30 and expenses while detailed to assist in the scientific investigation of the fur-seal fisheries, out of the appropriation heretofore made for such investigation. Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act: To preventChinese 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 approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “AnVol. 27, p. 25. 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 enforcementAlien contract-labor laws. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred thousand dollars. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody,Lands, etc. 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. Sections twenty-five hundred and twenty-five and twenty-five hundredVermont.Additional collection district.R. S., secs. 2525 and 2526, p. 495, amended. and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes are hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 2525. On and after October first, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, there shall be in the State of Vermont two collection districts, as follows: “First. The district of Vermont to comprise, the counties now constituting the First Congressional district of Vermont, in which district Burlington shall be the port of entry, and Saint Albans, Alburg, East Alburg, Swanton, Highgate, Franklin, West Berkshire, Windmill Point, and Richford, subports of entry. “Second. The district of Memphremagog to comprise the counties now constituting the Second Congressional district of Vermont, in which district Newport shall be the port of entry, and North Troy, Derbyline, Island Pond, Canaan, and Beecher Falls, subports of entry. “Sec. 2526. There shall be in the district of Vermont a collector,Collectors. who shall reside at Burlington, and whose salary shall be two thousand dollars per annum; and in the district of Memphremagog a collector, who shall reside at Newport, and whose salary shall be two thousand dollars per annum: *And provided further*, That the privileges of the*Proviso*.Immediate transportation privileges.Vol. 2l, p. 173. first section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise, without appraisement, are hereby extended to each of the several ports in the two districts provided for herein, and to the subports of Saint Albans, Richford, Island Pond, and Beecher Falls.” " Publication of Supplement to Revised Statutes of the United States: Supplement to Revised Statutes. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, when the work shall be completed, for preparing and editing a Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, under the Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand dollars; andVol. 27, p. 477. hereafter the Supplement to the Revised Statutes shall only be published at the expiration of a Congress, and in one volume, and all expenses of preparing and editing the same shall not exceed one thousand dollars. To enable the Attorney-General to send copies of all Acts of CongressActs of Congress for U. S. Judges. to all judges of United States courts and of the Territories, one hundred dollars. Bounty on sugar: For the purpose of paying the producers ofBounty on sugar.Payment of balance of claims, etc.Vol. 28, p. 933. sugar the balance of claims due them under the terms of the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the31 Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes," providing for the payment of eight-tenths of a cent per pound on the sugars actually manufactured and produced in the United States during that part of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, comprised in the period commencing August twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, both days inclusive, one million eighty-five thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations prescribed in the said Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Quarantine service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service.Maintenance. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, South Atlantic, Southport (hereafter to be known as Cape Fear Quarantine Station), Brunswick, Tortugas, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars. Prevention of epidemics: The President of the United States isPrevention of epidemics.*Post*, p. 617. hereby authorized, in ease of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved JuneVol. 29, p. 432. eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, 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. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay from the appropriation for forested lands of the United States, Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, such expenses not exceedingForested lands.Expenses of investigation.Vol. 29, p. 432. one thousand dollars as may have been incurred by members of the Commission from the National Academy of Sciences prior to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. public buildings. Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, five thousand dollars.Repairs. For the capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, thirty thousand dollars. To provide tings for the east and west fronts of the center of theFlags. Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in theCleaning works of art. Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. For additional bookcases and shelves to accommodate the increaseAdditional shelves law library. of law books and to protect rare and valuable books and manuscripts in the law library of Congress, four hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Improving The Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work ofCapitol Grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, and for repairs and pointing of walls and the resurfacing and repairing of artificial stone walks and driveways, twelve thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate32 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 repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house and SenateEngine house and stables. and House stables, and for repairs and paving of floors and courtyards of same, five hundred dollars. For the necessary care and repair of the steam-heating and ventilatingVentilation. apparatus of the Senate, including air ducts, elevators, legislative bell service, and all machinery relating thereto in the Senate wing ofSenate wing. the Capitol, and also the Supreme Court, and including materials and tools, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. For new boiler for House wing of the Capitol, foundation for same,House wing.New boiler, etc. enlargement of smoke line, steam piping, steam valves and connections to engine and pumps, eight thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of he venue from sales of public lands. Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForSalaries, 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,Contingent expenses of land offices. and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses ofDepositing public moneys. depositing 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 law 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*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation*Proviso*.Agents per diem. shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearingsHearings 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, six thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing 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, five thousand dollars. Transcripts of records and plats: For furnishing transcriptsTranscripts of records, etc. of records and plats, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. surveying the public lands. Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty-fiveSurveys, rates, etc. thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: Provided. That in expending this appropriation*Provisos*.Preferences. preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships33 occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteenVol. 25, p. 676.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and other surveys shall be confined to lauds adapted to agriculture, and lines of reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or coveredExtra rates for heavily timbered, etc. lands. with dense undergrowth rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficultiesExceptional difficulties. in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed 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: *Provided*, That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho,Lands in California, etc. Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the Territory of Arizona 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 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 thousandResurveys.*Post*, p. 239. 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 and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and forInspecting mineral lands, etc. 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. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada,Survey of private land claims. 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 forVol, 26, p. 854. the settlement of private land 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, fifteen thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandonedAbandoned military reservations. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth,Vol. 23, p. 103. eighteen hundred and eighty four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars.Casa Grande. For surveying that portion of the boundary line between Idaho and Montana beginning at the intersection of the thirty-ninth meridian,Survey of boundary line between Idaho and Montana.*Post*, pp. 622, 674, 1099. with a boundary line between the United States and the British Possessions, including the retracing of so much of the international boundary line as may be found necessary for the determination of said intersection, then following said meridian south until it reaches the summit of the Bitter Hoot Mountains, and for locating points on said meridian by triangulation from the Spokane base of the United States Geological Survey, and on the continuation of said boundary line along the Bitter Boot Mountains between Idaho and Montana, seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Provisos*.To be done under Director of Geological Survey. Interior shall direct that the survey shall be executed under the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey by such persons as may be employed by or under him for that purpose, and such survey shall be executed under instructions to be issued by the Secretary of34 the Interior: *Provided further*, That the plats and field notes thereofFiling of plats and field notes. prepared shall be approved and certified to by the Director of the Geological Survey, and three copies thereof shall be returned, one for filing in the surveyor-general’s office of Idaho, one in the surveyor general’s office of Montana, and the original in the General Land Office. And such surveys, field notes, and plats shall have the same legalForce and effect. force and effect as heretofore given to the acts of surveyors-general: *Provided further*, That all laws inconsistent with the provisions hereofInconsistent laws. are declared to be inoperative as respects such survey. For the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafterForest reserves.Survey of.*Post*, pp. 618, 1095. be designated as forest reserves by Executive proclamation, under section twenty-four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to repeal timber-culture laws,Vol. 26. p. 1103. and for other purposes,” and including public lands adjacent thereto, which may be designated for survey by the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That, to remove any doubt which may exist pertaining to the*Provisos*.President may revoke, etc. Executive orders. authority of the President thereunto, the President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to revoke, modify, or suspend any and all such Executive orders and proclamations, or any part thereof, from time to time as he shall deem best for the public interests: *Provided*, That the Executive orders and proclamations dated FebruaryProclamations of February 22, 1897, supended, etc.Vol 29, p. 895, etc. twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, setting apart and reserving certain lands in the States of Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and South Dakota as forest reservations, be, and they are hereby, suspended, and the lands embraced therein restored to the public domain the same as though said orders and proclamations had not been issued: *Provided further*, That lands embraced in suchLands undisposed of before March 1, 1898, again subject to proclamations, etc. reservations not otherwise disposed of before March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall again become subject to the operations of said orders and proclamations as now existing or hereafter modified by the President. The surveys herein provided for shall be made, under the supervisionSurveys to be made by Director of Geological Survey. of the Director of the Geological Survey, by such person or persons as may be employed by or under him for that purpose, and shall be executed under instructions issued by the Secretary of the Interior; and if subdivision surveys shall be found to be necessary, they shall be executed under the rectangular system, as now provided by law. The plats and field notes prepared shall be approved and certified to by thePlate and field notes, filing, etc. Director of the Geological Survey, and two copies of the field notes shall be returned, one for the files in the United States surveyor-general’s office of the State in which the reserve is situated, the other in the General Land Office; and twenty photolithographic copies of the plats shall be returned, one copy for the files in the United States surveyor general’s office of the State in which the reserve is situated; the original plat and the other copies shall be filed in the General Land Office, and shall have the facsimile signature of the Director of the Survey attached. Such surveys, field notes, and plats thus returned shall have theForce and effect. same legal force and effect as heretofore given the surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the surveyors-general; and such surveys, which include subdivision surveys under the rectangular system, shall be approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as in other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the respective land offices of the districts in which such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof areInconsistent laws.*Proviso*.Maps. hereby declared inoperative as respects such survey: Provided, how-ever, That a copy of every topographic map and other maps showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be certified thereto by the Director of the Survey and filed in the General Land Office. All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by the PresidentVol. 26, p. 1095. of the United States under the provisions of the Act approved March35 third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the orders for which shall be and remain in full force and effect, unsuspended and unrevoked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and reserved as public forest reserves under said Act, shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in accordance with the following provisions: No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improveForest reservations, when to be established. and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of the Act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes. The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protectionProvisions for protection against fire, etc. against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public forests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or which may be hereafter set aside under the said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; and he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as willRules and regulations. insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction; and any violation of the provisions of this Act or such rules and regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the Act of JunePenalty.Vol. 25, p. 166.R.S., sec. 5388, p. 1044. fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber andTimber.Appraisal and sale of dead, etc. promoting the younger growth on forest reservations, the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as lie shall prescribe, may cause to be designated and appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest reservations as may be compatible with the utilization of the forests thereon, and may sell the same for not less than the appraised value in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in the State or Territory in which such timber reservation may be situated, respectively, but not for export therefrom. Before such sale shall take place,Notice of sale. notice thereof shall be given by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for not less than sixty days, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in which the timber is situated, if any is therein published, and if not, then in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest to the reservation, and also in a newspaper of general circulation published at the capital of the State or Territory where such reservation exists; payments for such timberPayments, how made. to be made to the receiver of the local land office of the district wherein said limber may be sold, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by the receiver of such laud office to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in a separate account, and shall be covered into the Treasury. Such timber, before being sold, shall beCutting and removal. marked and designated, and shall be cut and removed under the supervision of some person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, not interested in the purchase or removal of such timber nor in the employment of the purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make report in writing to the Commissioner of the General Land Office and to the receiver in the land office in which such reservation shall be located of his doings in the premises. The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to beUse of timber, etc., by settlers, etc. prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon such reservations, free of charge, by bona tide settlers, miners, residents, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such persons for such purposes; such timber to be used within the State or Territory, respectively, where such reservations may be located. 36 Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the egress orEgress and ingress of settlers within reservations, etc. ingress of actual settlers residing within the boundaries of such reservations, or from crossing the same to and from their property or homes; and such wagon roads and other improvements may be constructed thereon as may be necessary to reach their homes and to utilize their property under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from entering upon such forest reservations for all proper and lawful purposes, including that of prospecting, locating, and developingProspecting, etc.*Proviso*.Compliance with rules.Selection of land in lieu of relinquished claim. the mineral resources thereof: *Provided*, That such persons comply with the rules and regulations covering such forest reservations. That in cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of a public forest reservation, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government, and may select in lieu thereof a tract of vacant land open to settlement not exceeding in area the tract covered by his claim or patent; and no charge shall be made in such eases for making the entry of record or issuing the patent to cover the tract selected: *Provided further*, That in cases of unperfected*Proviso*.Unperfected claims. claims the requirements of the laws respecting settlement, residence, improvements, and so forth, are complied with on the new claims, credit being allowed for the time spent on the relinquished claims. The settlers residing within the exterior boundaries of such forestSchools and churches. reservations, or in the vicinity thereof, may maintain schools and churches within such reservation, and for that purpose may occupy any part of the said forest reservation, not exceeding two acres for each schoolhouse and one acre for a church. The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within suchCivil and criminal jurisdiction. reservations shall not be affected or changed by reason of the existence of such reservations, except, so far as the punishment of offenses against the United States therein is concerned; the intent and meaning of this provision being that the State wherein any such reservation is situated shall not, by reason of the establishment thereof, lose its jurisdiction, nor the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens, or be absolved from their duties as citizens of the State. All waters on such reservations may be used for domestic, mining,Waters. milling, or irrigation purposes, under the laws of the State wherein such forest reservations are situated, or under the laws of the United States and the rules and regulations established thereunder. Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, with theRestoration of mineral or agricultural lands to public domain. approval of the President, after sixty days’ notice thereof, published in two papers of general circulation in the State or Territory wherein any forest reservation is situated, and near the said reservation, any public lands embraced within the limits of any forest reservation which, after due examination by personal inspection of a competent person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be found better adapted for mining or for agricultural purposes than for forest usage, may be restored to the public domain. And any mineral lands in any forest reservation which have been or which may be shown to be such, and subject to entry under the existing mining laws of the United States and the rules and regulations applying thereto, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained. The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any ExecutivePresident may modify any Executive order, etc. order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve. united states geological survey. Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: Scientific assistants.Salaries. For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; 37 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 theExpenses. 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, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, thirteenLaborers, etc. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, oneTopographic surveys. 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; 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 resourcesAlaska, resources. of Alaska, five thousand dollars; For paleontologie researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontologic researches. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical researches. United States, seven thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. thirteen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of theMineral resources. United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States,Maps. sixty thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of theGauging water supply. 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; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, fourRent. 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 in Montana and Idaho. For compensation of the twelve commissioners appointed underCommissioners to classify Northern Pacific lands.Vol. 28, p. 683. 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 nonmineral character of such lands, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Compensation. 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,38 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: *Provided*, Said commissioners shall hereafter beAppointment. appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: *Provided*, That not more than two members of each boardBoards, etc., how constituted politically shall belong to the same political party; For publication of the monthly reports filed by said commissionersMonthly reports. in the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and the Coeur d’Alene land district, in the State of Idaho; and for the expenses pertaining toExpenses. hearings ordered by, and conducted before, said registers and receivers, ten thousand dollars; For the, payment of stenographers employed by said commissionersStenographers. 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, forty-one thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. Miscellaneous objects. Supreme Court reports: To pay the reporter of decisions of theSupreme Court reports. Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and sixty seven and one hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act ofVol. 25, p. 661. February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred and four dollars. Publishing Biennial Register of the United States: ForOfficial Register.Preparation. preparation of the Official Register of the United States for eighteen hundred and ninety seven, including editing, proof reading, and indexing, four thousand dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expensesGovernment Hospital for The Insane.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, Revenue-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 seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and four cents; 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 theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows; For general repairs and improvements, fifteen thousand dollars. For special improvements as follows: To construct additional accommodations at the Government Hospital for the Insane for the insane received from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, seventy five thousand dollars. For new laundry, eighteen thousand dollars. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: Columbia Institution for 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 to provide forRepairs, etc. increased water supply and protection against fire, three thousand dollars. Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University,Howard University.Maintenance. to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors,39 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, fuel, 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 no*Provisos*.Use for theological department, etc., forbidden. 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 instructionInspection. therein: *And provided further*, That no part thereof shall be paid to said 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: For the industrial and elementary educationEducation in Alaska. of children in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand dollars. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of the reindeer station at FortReindeer for Alaska. Clarence, Alaska, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, the reindeer to be transported by a vessel of the Revenue Cutter Service, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Domestic Sugar Production: To enable the Secretary of AgricultureDomestic sugar production.Investigation of. to continue inquiry and ascertain the progress made in the production of domestic sugar from beets and sorghum, including the area of available lands adapted thereto by irrigation or otherwise, and to investigate all other matters concerning the same, for cost of labor, traveling and other expenses, five thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establishDuluth, Minn., Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., Buffalo, N. Y.Branch hydrographic offices. branch hydrographic offices at Duluth, in the State of Minnesota, Sault Sainte Marie, in the State of Michigan, and Buffalo, in the State of New York, the same to be conducted under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a hydrographic office in the Navy Department,”Vol. 14, p. 69. approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to secure sufficientAccommodations, etc. accommodations in said cities of Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, and Buffalo for said hydrographic offices, and to provide the same with the necessary furniture, apparatus, supplies, and services allowed existing branch hydrographic offices, at a cost not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for these purposes. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars.Machinery, etc. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting andCare. etc. care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. For extraordinary repairs of the Rock Island Arsenal water power,Water power, etc. especially necessary for securing the same against destructive accident or injury during high water and freshets in the Mississippi River, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That before work is commenced under this appropriation the*Provisos*.40 Moline Water Power Company shall secure the United States, to theUnited States to be secured against action for damages, etc. satisfaction of the Secretary of War, against interference or action for damages from the city of Moline, or others, for interfering with the flow or discharge of sewage and water from the city of Moline through the old tailrace in rear of the upper or Moline dam by the construction of the proposed earth embankment in rear of said wall and in said old tailrace. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:Rock Inland bridges. 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. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For wrought-iron waterBenicia, Cal. pipe, four hundred dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For newFrankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa. iron roof on blacksmith shop, one thousand five hundred dollars. For steam heating apparatus for office, eight hundred and ten dollars. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building andSandy Hook Proving Ground, N.J. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops, storehouses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For generalSpringfield, Mass. care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars. For completing the macadamizing of Federal street, the property of the United States, forming a highway of the city of Springfield, two thousand dollars. For macadamizing that portion of Byers street, the property of the United States, forming a highway of the city of Springfield, one thousand dollars. Testing machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor, and materialTesting machine, Watertown. 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. And the appropriation of five thousand dollars for an impact testing machine, made in the sundry civil Act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, isVol. 29, p. 439. hereby continued and made available until expended. Powder Depot, Dover, New Jersey: For constructing waterworksPowder Depot, Dover, N. J. and laying main over the post, with fire hydrants and necessary connections, five thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenalsRepairs, 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. Washington, D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows:Buildings and grounds.Improvement and care. For improvement and maintenance 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 improvement and 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 andOld canal, etc. site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging*Proviso*.Expenditure. 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. 41 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 beLimit for concrete, etc., pavements. made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents perReduction. 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. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, one hundred dollars. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing the ExecutiveExecutive Mansion.Repairs, fuel, etc. 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 the Executive Mansion and public grounds: ForLighting of Mansion and grounds. 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 green houses at the nursery, thirteen thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Maximum per lamp. That for each five 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 said lamps shall burn every night on the average from forty-five minutesTo burn every night. 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 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, soSelf-regulating burners. 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-fiveElectric lights, etc. nights from seven posts, at twenty cents per light per night, on grounds south of the Executive Mansion, five hundred and eleven dollars. For lighting thirty-two arc electric lights in Lafayette, Franklin,Parks. Judiciary, and Lincoln parks three hundred and sixty-five nights, at twenty-five cents per light per night, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said parks, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Until Congress shall provide for a conduit system it shall beConduit system.42 unlawful to lay conduits or erect overhead wires for electric lighting purposes in any road, street, avenue, highway, park, or reservation, except as hereafter specifically authorized by law: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.Connections with existing conduits, etc. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to issue permits for house connections with conduits and overhead wires now existing adjacent to the premises with which such connection is to be made; and also permits for public lighting connections with conduits already in the portion of the street proposed to be lighted. And nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect in any way any pending litigation involving the validity or invalidity or legalityPending litigation not affected, etc. of the construction of any conduits made since June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nor to prevent the United States Electric Lighting Company from extending conduits into Columbia Heights,Conduits in Columbia Heights, etc. Washington Heights, and Mount Pleasant within the fire limits as specifically provided in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 29, p. 401. ninety-six, making appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia; and the existing overhead wires of theOverhead wires west of Rock Creek. Potomac Electric Power Company west of Rock Creek and outside the fire limits are hereby authorized to be maintained for a period of one year from the passage of this Act and no longer. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes,Waterpipes, repairs, etc. 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 to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: Telegraph, Capitol, Departments, and Printing Office. For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument.Maintenance. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one 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 floor, 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. military posts. Military Posts. For the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement of, suchConstruction. military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, of which not less than fifty thousand dollars shall be expended at the military post at Spokane, Washington. And the Secretary of War may, in his discretion,Spokane, Wash. use not to exceed twenty thousand dollars of said sum to purchase the former post traders’ buildings at Fort Assinniboine, in Montana.Fort Assinniboine, Mont. Target range, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: That the appropriation of eighteen thousand dollars made for the purchase of landTarget range, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. for a target range for the use of troops stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, is hereby made available for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: *Provided*, That any land purchased thereunder shall be unencumbered by any private or public*Proviso*.Lands. ways or roads. 43 Fort Monroe, Virginia: Repair and maintenance of wharf: ForFort Monroe, Virginia.Repair, etc., of wharf. fender piles, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fuel for heating waiting rooms, sixty dollars; electric lights on wharf, freight house, and waiting rooms, and cost of maintenance, three hundred and fifty dollars; repairs of water-closets, fifty dollars; repairs of side landings, four hundred and fifty dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, policing wharf, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all three thousand five hundred and forty dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, one thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. Repairs and maintenance of roads, pavements, streets, lights, andRoads. general police: For bricks for sidewalks, two hundred and seventy dollars; boards for sidewalks, one hundred and five dollars; scantling for sidewalks, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; cut nails for sidewalks, eight dollars; rakes, shovels, and brooms for street police, thirty dollars; one driver of police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; wire, poles, lamps, and so forth, for lighting streets, and cost of maintaining same, two thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars; oil and supplies for street lamps, two hundred dollars; one lamplighter and cleaner, three hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty cents; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand and seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents. Maintenance of sewer system: For two engineers, at nine hundredSewer system, maintenance. dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; three laborers, at five hundred dollars each; coal, eight hundred and forty dollars; waste, oil, and pump repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; sewer pipe, cement, and supplies, three hundred dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars; for one half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For theYellowstone National Park.Improvement. repair and maintenance of existing roads and bridges and improvement and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, including not exceeding five thousand dollars to be immediately available, thirty-five thousand dollars. military parks. Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For compensationChickamauga and Chattanooga.Expenses. 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. Foundations for State monuments, wire fencing, cutting out underbrush and mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; and iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized bylaw; in all, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. And State memorials shall be placed on brigade lines of battle under the direction of the Park Commission. To enable the Secretary of War, through the Commissioners of theLafayette or State road, Georgia, improvement. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, to improve the Lafayette or State road in Georgia from Lee and Gordon’s Mill, in that State, to the town of Lafayette, eighteen thousand dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work ofShiloh.Expenses. establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, historical tablets, maps and surveys, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, including the erection of temporary buildings for the use of the commission and employees, sixty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of all the lands to be embraced in the said park is hereby increased from twenty thousand dollars to not to exceed fifty thousand dollars. 44 Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingGettysburg.Expenses. the National Park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys and maps; 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 commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; 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. And the Secretary of War may lease the lands of the park atLeases. his discretion either to former owners or other persons for agricultural purposes, the proceeds to be applied by the Secretary of War, through the proper disbursing officer, to the maintenance of the park. engineer department. Engineer Department. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers under contractsRiver and harbor improvements. or otherwise and within the limits authorized by law, namely: For completing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Philadelphia, Pa. Completing improvement, removal of Smiths Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, six hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Completing improvement,Galveston, Tex. including repairs to jetties, and dredging, five hundred thousand dollars, of which amount ten thousand dollars may be expended for making a resurvey and chart for Galveston Bay and Harbor. For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing improvement,Hudson River, N. V. four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For completing improvement of channel connecting the waters of theGreat Lakes. Great Lakes between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, including necessary observations and investigations in connection with the preservation of such channel depth, one million and ninety thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: CompletingPoint Judith, R.I. improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: ContinuingHumboldt, Cal. improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For improving BayGowanus Bay, N. Y. Ridge Channel, the triangular area between Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, and Red Hook and Buttermilk channels in the harbor of New York, New York: Continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement,Savannah, Ga. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuingCumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla. improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Newtown Creek, New York: For completing improvement,New town Creek, K. Y. one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: For continuing improvement,Portland, Me. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: For continuing improvement,Rockland, Me. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement,Boston, Mass. four hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For continuing improvement,Buffalo, N. Y. four hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: For completing improvement,Dunkirk, N. Y. three hundred and ninety-eight thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. 45 Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continuing construction,Delaware Bay, Del. three hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars. Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvementWinyah Bay, S. C. of harbor at Winyah Bay, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improvement of harborSabine Pass, Tex. at Sabine Pass, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement,Cleveland, Ohio. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause to be made a surveyMaumee River and Bay. and estimate of cost of deepening and widening the straight channel in Maumee River and Bay, with a view to obtaining and permanently securing a channel of a uniform width of four hundred feet and twenty feet deep at low water, the cost of said survey to be paid out of money already appropriated tor the improvement of said channel. Harbor of refuge at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin: For completingMilwaukee Bay, Wis. improvement, one hundred and sixty eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin:Duluth, Minn., Superior, Wis. For continuing improvement, four hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvementOakland, Cal. under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. And the provision of the "Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved June third, eighteen hundred andVol. 29, p. 213. ninety-six, relating to improving harbor at Oakland, California, is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Improving harbor at Oakland, California: Continuing improvementContinuing harbor improvement.*Provisos*.Contracts. under existing project, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred and sixty-six thousandLimit. dollars: *Provided further*, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in anyLimit for fiscal year. one fiscal year, beginning July first, eighteen bundled and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount hereby authorized to be expended.” " The officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey detailed to serve on theBoard to locate deep-water harbor at Port Los Angeles, etc., allowance to member of. Board to locate a deep-water harbor for commerce and of refuge at Port Los Angeles, in Santa Monica Bay, California, or at San Pedro, in said State, which Board was created by an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approvedVol. 29, p. 213. June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, United States Statutes at Large, page two hundred and thirteen, shall receive from the appropriation in said Act provided with relation to said harbor, in addition to his mileage provided for in section fifteen hundred and sixty-six ofR. S., sec. 1566, p. 269. the Revised Statutes, and notwithstanding its provisions, such a per diem allowance for subsistence as the Secretary of War may deem proper. Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvementGrays Harbor, Wash. of harbor and bar entrance, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island:Providence River and Narragansett Bay, R.I. For continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuingAllegheny River, Pa. improvement by construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six-Mile Island, and at Springdale, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 46 Improving the Great Kanawha River, West Virginia: CompletingGreat Kanawha River. W. Va. improvement, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars. Improving upper Monongahela River, West Virginia: For continuingMonongahela River, W. Va. improvement by the construction of six locks and dams, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving the Ohio River: For continuing construction of DamsOhio River. Numbered Two, Three, and Four, between Davis Island Dam and Dam Numbered Six, four hundred thousand dollars; and the provision in the river and harbor appropriation Act of June third, eighteen hundredDams Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5.Vol 29, p. 225. amended. and ninety-six, authorizing contracts to be made for improving Ohio River by the construction of Dams Numbered Two, Three, Four, and Five is hereby amended to read as follows: " “*Provided*, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of*Proviso*.Contracts. War for the whole or any part of the material and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars,Limit. exclusive of the amount herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That in making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in any one fiscal year, beginning JulyLimit for fiscal year. first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount authorized to be expended.” " Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing the constructionKentucky River, Ky. of Locks and Dams Numbered Seven and Eight, two hundred thousand dollars; and the provision of the “Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain publicVol. 29. p. 224. amended. works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, relating to improving Kentucky River, Kentucky, is hereby amended to read as follows: “*Provided*, That*Provisos*.Contracts. contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute work on said improvement in accordance with the present project for same, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not exceeding in the aggregate one million three hundred and forty-nine thousandLimit. dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated: *Provided*, That of the amount authorized to be expended eighty-threeLock and dam No. 7. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in addition to the fifty thousand dollars herein appropriated in continuing construction and completion of Lock and Dam Numbered Seven, by contract or otherwise, and said eighty-three thousand dollars shall be immediately available: *Provided further*, That inLimit for fiscal year. making such contract or contracts the Secretary of War shall not obligate the Government to pay in any one fiscal year, beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, more than twenty-five per centum of the whole amount authorized to be expended.” Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For continuing improvement ofYazoo River, Miss. mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For continuing improvement,Bayou Plaquemine, La. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For continuingCumberland River, Tenn. improvement by construction of Locks Numbered Five, Six, and Seven, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Falls of Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky: For continuingOhio River Falls anti Indiana Chute. improvement, including Indiana Chute Falls, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may*Proviso*.Completion of improvement by contract or otherwise, etc. carry to completion the present project of improving the falls of the Ohio River and Indiana Chute Falls, Ohio River, by contract, as provided in the “Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” which became a law June third, eighteen hundredVol. 29, p. 224. and ninety-six; or the necessary materials may be purchased and the work done otherwise than by contract, in his discretion, if more economical and advantageous to the United States. 47 Locks and dams in Ohio River: For completing construction of DamOhio River.Dam No. 6. Numbered Six, at or below the mouth of Beaver River, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing improvement fromChicago River, Ill. its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch, and to Belmont avenue on the North Branch, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, in pursuance of the provisions of “An Act making appropriations forVol. 29. p. 228. the construction, repair, and improvement of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the said provisions of said Act relating to theIntent. improvement of said Chicago River that all of the work in the improvement at said river which was recommended or suggested to be done in the interest of commerce by Captain William L. Marshall, of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, in his report of August ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, may be done: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Total cost. total cost of such improvement, or work shall not exceed the limit provided for in said Act. Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For continuing construction, eightIllinois and Mississippi Canal. hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Michigan:Waterway, Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior. For continuing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River toMississippi River.Mouth of Ohio River to St. Paul. Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri RiverMouth of Missouri River to St. Paul. to Saint Paul, eight hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents: *Provided*, That thirty thousand*Provisos*.Removal of sand bars at Dubuque and Muscatine, Iowa. dollars of said sum, or as much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in removing the sand bar which obstructs the channel of the Mississippi River in front of Dubuque, Iowa, and the entrance to the harbor of refuge at Dubuque, Iowa, and that fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in removing the sand bar which obstructs the channel of the Mississippi River in front of Muscatine, Iowa: *Provided further*, That the sum of fifty thousandArtificial banks from mouth of Flint to mouth of Iowa rivers. dollars of said sum shall be expended for continuing the work of constructing artificial banks between the mouth of Flint River and running along the west bank of the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Iowa River. Improving Willamette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon: For completingWillamette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon. improvement, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of MississippiMississippi River Commission.Head of Passes to the Ohio.Expenses, etc. River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million nine hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars; which sum, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, may be immediately available for expenditure under contract or otherwise. And of the sum hereby appropriated, six hundred thousand dollars shall be deducted from the sum of two million five hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars authorized to be appropriated and expended for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, by the “Act making appropriationsVol. 29, p. 230. for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” which became a law on June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. For the purpose of preventing the Mississippi River from breakingPrevention of break into Cache River, etc. through into the Cache River at or near a point known as Beach Ridge, a few miles north of Cairo, whereby the National Cemetery at Mound City, at the mouth of the Cache River, and the Marine Hospital at Cairo would be in imminent danger of destruction, the sum of one48 hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be immediately available. Improving Missouri River from mouth to Sioux City, Iowa: For continuingMissouri River Commission.Expenses, etc. improvement of Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks, and gauges, three hundred thousand dollars; of the sum heretofore appropriated for improving the Missouri River, the Secretary of War is directed to expend not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars to repair and protect the works in the neighborhood of Nebraska City,Nebraska City, Nebr. in the State of Nebraska. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the improvementSuwanee River, Fla. of the Suwanee River, Florida, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended for deepening the West Pass of the Suwanee River at its mouth. A sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof asGull Lake, Minn. may be necessary, of the money heretofore appropriated for the construction of reservoirs at the head waters of the Mississippi River may be used and is hereby made available for the payment of damages for lands and tenements overflowed or injured by the construction of a reservoir and dam at Gull Lake, Minnesota. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to investigateThe water hyacinth, investigation of, etc. the extent of the obstruction of the navigable waters of Florida, Louisiana, and other South Atlantic and Gulf States by the aquatic plant known as the water hyacinth, and to perform such experimental work as he shall deem necessary to determine some suitable and feasible plan or method of checking and removing such obstacle, so far as it is a hindrance to interstate or foreign commerce, and to report the results of such investigation and experimental work; and the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the cost thereof. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause aWaterway from Warrior River to Five Mile Creek, etc. survey to be made to examine into the feasibility and advisability of the improvement of the waterway beginning at a point at or near the site selected for Lock Numbered Thirteen, on the Warrior River, and continuing up Valley River from its mouth, following the general course of said stream, to Bessemer, Alabama; thence up the Valley to Birmingham and beyond to Five Mile Creek, at a point where sufficient head can be obtained to supply water for that part of said route between Five Mile Creek and Bessemer, Alabama, so as to secure a channel to have a minimum depth of six feet and be at least fifty feet in width at the water line, and to ascertain the cost of such improvement, and the cost of such survey shall be defrayed from the unexpended balance of the funds heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the Black Warrior River from Tuscaloosa to Daniels Creek. For the purchase of a dredge boat for use in the harbor improvementSabine Pass, Tex.Dredge boat, etc. at Sabine Pass, Texas, one hundred thousand dollars, and for the expense of operating the same during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Improvement of Pearl Harbor: For expense of necessary surveyPearl Harbor.Survey, etc.*Post*, p. 302. of entrance to and of Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to ascertain and report to Congress the amount of land necessary to be acquired in said harbor and the probable cost thereof for a coaling and repair station, ten thousand dollars. For maintaining and keeping open the channel in Mobile Bay, in theMobile Bay, Ala. State of Alabama, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight. And hereafter the Secretary of War shall annually submit estimatesEstimates, etc. in detail for river and harbor improvements required for the ensuing49 fiscal year to the Secretary of the Treasury to be included in, and carried into the sum total of, the Book of Estimates. national cemeteries. National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improvingMaintenance. 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 ofSuperintendents. seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the workHeadstones for graves of soldiers. 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 hundredVol. 17. p. 545.Vol. 20, p. 281. and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs toRoadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the*Proviso*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. 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 theBurial 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, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, two thousand dollars, Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California: Road to The Presidio, Cal. For continuing the work of improving the reservation at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, 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, five thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Pensacola, Florida: For theRoad to Pensacola, Fla.*Post*, p. 634. purpose of shelling or otherwise improving to completion the roadway from Pensacola, Florida, to the national cemetery near that city, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Road to national cemetery, Springfield, Missouri: ForRoad to Springfield, Mo. the construction and completion of an extension of Phelps boulevard, the Government road from Springfield, Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, beginning at the north end of said boulevard and extending north to East Walnut street, a distance of about eight hundred and thirty-four feet, two thousand seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That a right of way*Proviso*.Right of way. twenty-five feet in width is donated to the Government. miscellaneous objects, war department. Miscellaneous. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printingSurvey of northern, etc., lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dollars. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: Transporting maps. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. 50 Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. 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. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: Providence Hospital.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 Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it toGarfield Hospital.Maintenance. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars. Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: Official Records War of the Rebellion.Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate armies, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the board of publication, appointed in accordance with the Act of March second, eighteenVol. 25, p. 970. 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 six hundred dollars, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized*Proviso*.Complete set to be furnished Senators, etc., 54th Congress, etc. and directed to furnish a complete set of Official Records of the war of the rebellion to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in the Fifty-fourth Congress who is not already entitled by law to receive the same; and he is further authorized to use for this purpose such incomplete sets as remain on hand uncalled for by the beneficiaries designated to receive them under the authority contained in the Acts approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and March tenth,Vol. 22. p. 326.Vol. 25, p. 613. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses ofCalifornia Débris Commission.Expenses.Vol. 27, p. 507. the Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesInspectors, etc. of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of four steam tugs and threeVessels. launches, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand dollars. Military road, Wyoming: For the construction of a militaryMilitary road, Wyo. road from Fort Washakie, Wyoming, by the most practicable route near the Wind River and to the mouth of the Buffalo Fork of Snake River, near Jacksons Lake, in Uinta County, Wyoming, to be expended under the direction of the War Department, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Deep Waterways Commission: For surveys and examinationsDeep waterways between Great Lakes and Atlantic tide waters.*Post*, p. 636. (including estimate of cost) of deep waterways and the routes thereof, between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tide Maters, as recommended by the report of the Deep Waterways Commission transmitted by the President to Congress January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Such examinations andBoard to survey, etc.*Post*, p. 1109. surveys shall be made by a board of three engineers, to be designated by the President, one of whom may be detailed from the Engineer51 Corps of the Army, one from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and one shall be appointed from civil life. That for the purpose of ascertaining the character and value of thePass of Aransas, Texas.Board to examine improvements. improvements made at the Pass of Aransas, on the Gulf coast of Texas, by the Aransas Pass Harbor Company, a board of three engineers shall be appointed by the President, from the Engineer Corps of the Army; and such board shall personally make examination of the work done by said company for the purpose of deepening the channel and removing the bar at or near said Pass of Aransas. It shall be the duty of the board so constituted to report the depthDuties. of water upon the bar at the time of their examination; the character of the work done and the cost of same; the character and cost of any unfinished work contracted to be done by said company; the probable result upon the deepening of the channel across the bar of any work contracted for or contemplated by said company, but not then finished; the value to the Government of all work done or contracted to be done by said company for the purpose of deepening said channel or removing said bar, and such other information as they may deem essential to be known to Congress in making future provision for the purchase of said works by the United States Government. Said board shall report the result of their investigation to the SecretaryReport. of War on or before the first Monday in December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the Secretary shall immediately transmit the report to Congress; and five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the said board and for the services of the said engineers, the amount of such compensation for said services to be fixed by the Secretary of War. Memorial bridge across Potomac River: To enable the ChiefMemorial bridge, Potomac River. of Engineers of the Army to make the necessary surveys, soundings, and borings, and for securing designs and estimates for a memorial bridge from the most convenient point of the Naval Observatory grounds, or adjacent thereto, across the Potomac River to the most convenient point of the Arlington estate property, two thousand five hundred 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 currentDayton, Ohio. 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, commissarySubsistence. 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 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 they52 are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light: for engineers and firemen, bathhouse 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; 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; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Repairs, construction, etc. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tin-smiths wire-workers, steam litters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers; and for all appliances and materials used under this head, also for repairs of roads and of other improvements of a permanent character, fifty thousand dollars; For brick water-closet building, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For building for out-ward of hospital, six thousand dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Farm. 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 sixty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headheadHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-nine thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundredTransportation. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs, etc. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm. Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine; For current expenses,Togus, Me. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars; 53 For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundredTransportation. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs, etc. the Central Branch, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; For new mess hall and refrigerator, fifteen thousand dollars; For reimbursement for amount advanced for rebuilding coal shed and wharf, four thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and sixty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For currentHampton, Va. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred anti ninety thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs, etc. for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For enlarging ice plant, five thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for theFarm. Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars: In all, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For currentLeavenworth. Kans. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundredTransportation. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand dollars; For steam boilers, six hundred horsepower, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For guardhouse, two thousand five hundred dollars; For addition to paint shop, one thousand six hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and ninety-five thousand one hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal. 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 headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, ninety thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty three thousand dollars; For quarters for women nurses, three thousand five hundred dollars;*Post*, p. 639. For two additional boilers, three thousand dollars; For additional water supply, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; 54 In all, two hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For currentMarion, Ind. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, ninety thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For transportation, including the same objects specified under thisTransportation. head for the Central Brunch, one thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs, construction. etc. the Central Branch, and three hundred dollars for rent of leased land, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations*Proviso*.New buildings. for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, six thousand dollars; For new barn, three thousand five hundred dollars; For electric-light plant, ten thousand dollars; For lodge and gateway, two thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing,Clothing for all branches. 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. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, andSalaries, etc., Board of Managers. for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretaryR. S., sec. 4827, p. 936. 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, two thousand four hundred dollars; agents, two thousand four hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, elevenExpenses. thousand five hundred dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars; in all, forty thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars. To enable the Board of Managers of the National Home for DisabledDanville, Ill.Branch Home.*Post*, p. 668. Volunteer Soldiers to locate, establish, and construct a Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers within the limits of the town of Danville, in the County of Vermilion, State of Illinois, and for each and every purpose connected with such erection, establishment, and construction, to be immediately available, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In all, two million five hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars. All supplies for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be purchased, shipped, and distributed as may be directed by the Board of Managers. Soldiers’ Home, District of Columbia: That hereafter, uponSoldiers’ Home, D. C.Medical, etc., supplies. proper application therefor, the Medical Department of the Army is authorized to sell medical and hospital supplies at its contract prices to the Soldiers’ Home in the District of Columbia. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State orState or Territorial Homes. Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in55 conformity with the Act approved August twenty seventh, eighteen hundredVol. 25, p. 450. and eighty-eight, eight hundred and twenty five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one half of any sum or sums retained by State homes*Proviso*.Deductions. on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofArrears of pay. 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-eight, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widowsBounty. 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-eight, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth,Additional bounty.Vol. 14. p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-two thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation of rations. 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 eight, four thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Court house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt-house, D. C. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. For repairing vault, procuring and placing metallic shelving, file holders, and so forth, office of the register of wills, as per estimate of Architect of the Capitol, two thousand dollars. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending 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 for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended underFrench 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 ofProsecution 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 his agents at any time, thirty-five thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecutionProsecution and collection of 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 andAlaska.Traveling expenses. necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars. 56 Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: ForRent, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expensesDefence in Indian depredation claims. in defense of the Indian depredation claims, fifty-two thousand dollars. Counsel for Mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-GeneralMission Indians, special attorney. to employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized toWalla Walla, Wash.Wing to penitentiary building. apply the sum of twenty-five thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and ninety-three cents, being balance remaining unexpended of the appropriation made by the “Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,Vol. 27. p. 661. for the purchase of a site in the Slate of Washington and for the erection of a penitentiary thereon, to the construction of a wing to the penitentiary building at Walla Walla, in the State of Washington. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to convey the land already purchased under the said Act to the State of Washington and to transfer to the said State of Washington the penitentiary building when completed. JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. United States courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying theExpenses. 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 District 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: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals’ salaries, etc.Vol. 29, p. 181. and their deputies, one million two hundred thousand dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. For salaries of UnitedDistrict attorneys, etc.Vol. 29, p. 180. States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia,U. S. attorney, D.C. twenty-three thousand eight, hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants to U. S. attorneys. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employedSpecial assistants. by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, fifty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees. For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peaceU.S. Commissioners.R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189. acting under section ten hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, three hundred thousand dollars. The President shall appoint not more than four additional commissionersAlaska.Additional commissioners.*Post*, p. 114. in and for the District of Alaska, who shall reside at points designated by him for the purpose, respectively, and who shall have57 the same powers, duties, fees, and salaries as the present commissioners for that District. The marshal for the District of Alaska shall appoint one additionalAdditional deputy marshals. deputy marshal to reside at each point where an additional commissioner shall be located by the President as aforesaid, said deputies to*Post*, p. 114. have the same powers, duties, fees, and salary as the present deputy marshals for that District. For fees of jurors, five hundred thousand dollars, of which sum oneJurors’ fees. hundred thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For fees of witnesses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Witnesses’ fees. For support, of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners. and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, or place of bona fide 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, seven hundred thousand dollars. For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth,U. S. penitentiary.Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Subsistence. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and superintendent of industries, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For clothing, transportation, rewards, and traveling expenses, includingClothing, etc. such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary, and for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duly, for expenses incurred pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, thirteen thousand dollars; For fuel, forage, hay, light and water, stationery, advertising, andFuel, light, water miscellaneous, etc. so forth, including purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime, forage for issue to public, animals and hay or straw for bedding; stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies for use in offices and prisoners’ school, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant and water circulation and drainage; for general supplies, machinery and tools for use in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, 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, stoves, iron bunks, blankets, bed sacks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers, proposals for supplies, and other necessary advertisements, and for miscellaneous expenditures which can not properly be included under the heads of expenditures, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical andHospital. surgical 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 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; bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; storekeeper and steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, one thousand dollars; superintendent of industries, one thousand five hundred 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;58 two teamsters, nine hundred and sixty dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand six 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 penitentiary buildings, eight thousand six hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars. To establish a site and for the erection of a penitentiary on the militarySite for new buildings on military reservation. etc.Vol. 28, p. 380. reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and for other purposes incident thereto, under the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars. For rent of United States court rooms, ninety thousand dollars.Rent. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and*Proviso*.Actual attendance.R. S., sec. 715, p. 130. 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 reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directedVacation, etc. 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 fifty thousand dollars. That the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shallCommissioners to revise and codify criminal, etc., laws, U.S. appoint three commissioners whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the Attorney-General, to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States. That they shall proceed with their work as rapidly as may be consistentReports. with thoroughness, and shall report the result of their labors to the Attorney-General when completed, to be by him laid before Congress, and shall make such other reports during the progress of their work as they shall see lit to the Attorney-General, to be laid before Congress at his discretion. That their report shall be so made as to indicate any proposed changeChange in existing law, etc. in the substance of existing law, and shall be accompanied by notes which shall briefly and clearly state the reasons tor any proposed change. That each of said commissioners shall receive a salary of five thousandSalary and expenses. dollars a year, which, as also a sum sufficient to pay the expenses of the commissioners, to be approved and certified to by the Attorney General, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving the records, two hundred thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of clerks, commissioners, and constables,Indian Territory.Salaries, etc. and expenses of judges, in the Indian Territory, seventy-five thousand dollars. UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT. State Department. To pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirementsPrinting certified copies electoral vote.Vol. 24, p. 373. of the Act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for59 President anti Vice-President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Publication of International Catalogue of Exports and Imports: International catalogue of exports and imports. For completion of the compilation and publication, under the direction of the Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of merchandise; exported and imported, in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, as provided by the International American Conference, five thousand dollars. Nicaragua Canal Commission: TO continue the surveys andNicaragua Canal.Commission to continue surveys, etc.Vol. 23, p. 948. examinations authorized by the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes," into the proper route, the feasibility and cost of construction of the Nicaragua Canal, with the view of making complete plans for the entire work of construction of such canal as therein provided, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and to carry out this purpose the President of the United States is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a commission to consist of one engineer from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, one officer of the Navy, who may be taken from the active or retired lists, and one engineer from civil life, said commission to have all the powers and duties conferred upon the commission provided for in said Act. International Conference of the Red Cross: For necessaryInternational Conference of the Red Cross. expenses of delegates to represent the United States at the International Conference of the Red Cross to be held at Vienna, Austria, between the twentieth and thirtieth days of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars, and for contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses of said conference, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State. UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department. The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed to pay toW. B. Cooley and James R. Ash, payment to. W. B. Cooley, late chief clerk of the Post-Office Department, and James It. Ash, chief of the division of correspondence therein, out of the appropriation of forty thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars, made by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,Vol. 26, p. 880. for a new edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations, the sum of two thousand dollars, in such shares as he may deem proper, for preparing, compiling, codifying, and editing the said edition of Postal Laws and Regulations, and for making a new index thereto, the work having been done outside of office hours and at night, by direction of the Postmaster-General, and for this purpose said sum of two thousand dollars is hereby reappropriated. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatement of appropriations. 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 second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteenVol. 25, p. 587. 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. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofOne month’s extra pay to employees Senate and House of Representatives. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of February,60 eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W. A. Smith,W. A. Smith. Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-fourth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. Senate: For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, andSenate.Compensation, etc. others in the service of the Senate, namely: Sixteen pages for the Senate Chandler, at the, rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, four thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. House of Representatives: To enable the Clerk of the House ofHouse of Representatives.J. B. Holloway, payment to. Representatives to pay J. B. Holloway for services rendered the Committee on War Claims in compiling and arranging for the printer, laws and decisions of the courts relating to war claims, and indexing the same, two thousand dollars. Botanic Garden: For glazing with plate glass the eastern portionBotanic Garden. of roof of main conservatory, and for granolithic pavement, and for repairs to asphalt pavements, and for Seneca pavement; and for general repairs to buildings and heating apparatus of the same under theRepairs. direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. Public printing and binding: For the public printing, for thePublic printing and binding. 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 His day, piece, or contract), and for rents and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million nine hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars; and fromAmount. the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding tor Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, and for rents, one million five hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred 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. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks 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. 61 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; In the sundry civil Act approved March second, eighteen hundredVol, 28, p. 980. and ninety-five, under the head of engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, and for printing advance copies of papers on economic resources, that provision which restricts the amount to be expended for the paper, printing, and binding of the pamphlets therein mentioned, in the following words: “Shall not exceed two thousandIncrease of appropriation for certain pamphlets U. S. Geological Survey. dollars,” is hereby amended by striking out “two thousand dollars” and inserting “three thousand five hundred dollars,” so that the clause shall read: “The entire cost of paper, printing, and binding of said pamphlets shall hereafter not exceed three thousand five hundred dollars.” 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. There shall be printed fifteen thousand copies of each issue of the bulletin of the Department of Labor, authorized March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. For the Supreme Court of the United States, nine thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of that court, of which sum two thousand dollars to be immediately available; and the printing for that court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order, 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 Agriculture,Agricultural Report. as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteenVol. 28, p. 612. hundred and ninety-five, 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 appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year,Division of appropriation. 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 may be expended: *Provided*, That so much as*Proviso*.Agricultural Report excepted. may be necessary 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 theGovernment Printing Office.Leaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, two hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For two additional boilers, to be placed in the new boiler house, toAdditional boilers. be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars. That the Joint Committee on Printing shall cause to be preparedPlans for additions. requisite plans for the necessary additions and improvements to the Government Printing Office which shall be fully adequate to meet all the present and future requirements of the Government. That there be printed of the compilation known as Messages and“Messages and Papers of the Presidents.” Papers of the Presidents, by James D. Richardson, a Representative from the State of Tennessee, fifteen thousand copies, of which five thousand copies shall be for the Senate and ten thousand copies for the62FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 2–3. 1897. House of Representatives. The distribution of the same shall be madeDistribution. as heretofore by the superintendent of documents, and to persons designated to receive them by the Members and Delegates of the present Congress. In making the distribution the fraction, or remainder, in each case shall be delivered by the superintendent of documents to the compiler. The Public Printer shall bind the personal copy for Senators and Members and Delegates in full morocco with gilt edges; and this order shall include the volumes already issued, that their sets may be uniform: *Provided*, That said personal copies not delivered to Senators,*Provisos*.Undelivered personal copies of Senators, etc., 54th Congress, etc., to be forwarded to their addresses. Members, or Delegates of the Fifty-fourth Congress who retired from Congress on March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, prior to their retirement shall be sent by the superintendent of documents, as rapidly as they are printed, to their addresses; and the compiler shall prepare a full table of contents and a complete index for such compilation: *And provided further*, That the time within which MembersExtension of time to Members 54th and 55th Congresses to designate persons to receive, etc. of the Fifty-fourth Congress who are reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress are required to designate persons to whom said compilation shall be sent be, and same is, extended to include the term of the Fifty-fifth Congress; and that the time within which Members of the Fifty-fourth Congress who are not reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress are required to designate persons to whom said compilation shall be sent be, and is hereby, extended to the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. That the time allowed Members of the Fifty-fourth Congress to distribute public documents to their credit, orPublic documents to credit of Members 54th Congress, etc. Time extended for distribution, etc. the credit of their respective districts in the Interior or other Departments and Bureaus, and in the Government Printing Office, on March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and to present the names of libraries, public institutions, and individuals to receive such documents, be, and the same is hereby, extended to December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and hereafter the time for such distribution by Members of Congress reelected shall continue during their successive terms and until their right to frank documents shall end. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to makeDuplicate electrotype plates to James D. Richardson, etc. and deliver to James D. Richardson, the compiler of “Messages and Papers of the Presidents,” without cost to him, duplicate electrotype plates from which the compilation “Messages and Papers of the Presidents” is published. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officersSums for salaries to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 4, 1897.
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