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Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 30 public 772 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41. 1899. chap. 41.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the support of the military and naval establishments for the last six months of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes. January 5, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Deficiencies appropriations for Army, etc.*Ante*, up. 390, 437, 696.States of America in Congress assembled*, That out of the balances remaining unexpended January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved May fourth and June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, on account of war expenses under the titles “War Department,” and “Military establishment,” there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for objects hereinafter specified, the following sums, namely:
WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. Additional temporary force.For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the needs of the. service may demand, three hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus, including purchase of professional and scientific books, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture, and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by the Adjutant General’s Office, the Surgeon General’s Office, Office of Records of the Rebellion, and Record and Pension Office of the War Department; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; the employment of such temporary labor as may be required in moving bureaus and offices of the War Department between its several buildings, and other absolutely necessary expenses, thirty thousand dollars.
Stationery.For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, fifteen thousand dollars. Rent.For rent of buildings for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, ten thousand dollars. Time extended to examine monthly accounts.Vol. 28, p. 209.That the time for the examination of monthly accounts by the bureaus and offices of the War Department after the date of their actual receipt and before transmitting the same to the Auditor for the War Department, as limited by section twelve of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby extended from twenty days to sixty days for the period of one year from the date of the passage of this Act.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Army. office of the secretary of war. Office of Secretary. Emergency fund.For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, three million dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingencies of the Army, namely: For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars. 773 adjutant-general’s department.
Adjutant-General’s Department. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military departments beyond the limits of the United States, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference, professional newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War and to be expended in the discretion of the several military department commanders, one thousand five hundred dollars. pay department.
Pay Department For pay of the Army under Act approved April twenty-sixth, eighteenPay of Regular Army, war organization.*Ante*, p, 384.Officers. hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: For pay of officers of the line, namely: For fifty majors, sixty-two thousand live hundred dollars; For fifty captains, not mounted, forty-five thousand dollars; For fifty first lieutenants, not mounted, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For fifty second lieutenants, not mounted, thirty-five thousand dollars;
For twenty-eight second lieutenants, mounted, twenty-one thousand dollars; For fifty-six second lieutenants, not mounted, thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and forty thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of enlisted men, namely:Enlisted men. For two sergeant-majors, two hundred and seventy-six dollars; For two quartermaster-sergeants, two hundred and seventy-six dollars; For two chief musicians, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For four trumpeters and principal musicians, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars;
For seventy-six first sergeants, eleven thousand four hundred dollars; For four hundred and forty-eight company quartermaster-sergeants, forty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars; For one thousand four hundred and seventy-one sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars; For twenty-eight veterinary sergeants, three thousand and twenty-four dollars; For four thousand and thirty-one corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, three hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars;
For one hundred and forty-eight musicians and trumpeters, eleven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars; For one hundred and fifty artificers, farriers, and blacksmiths, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; For twenty-nine saddlers, two thousand six hundred and ten dollars; For seventy-five wagoners, six thousand three hundred dollars; For twenty-seven thousand four hundred and seventy-six privates of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, two million one hundred and forty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars; in all, two million seven hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For Engineer Battalion, namely:Engineer Battalion. For five first sergeants, one thousand and twenty dollars; For ten sergeants, two thousand and forty dollars; For ten corporals, one thousand two hundred dollars; For two musicians, trumpeters, one hundred and fifty-six dollars; For one hundred and sixteen first-class privates, eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars; For one hundred and nine second-class privates, eight thousand five774 hundred and two dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For Signal Corps, namely:Signal Corps. For ten corporals, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one hundred first-class privates, ten thousand two hundred dollars; For forty second-class privates, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For Hospital Corps, namely:Hospital Corps. For fifty hospital stewards, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; For fifty acting hospital stewards, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For five hundred and fifty privates, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eighty thousand four hundred dollars. For twenty per centum increase, six hundred and sixty-nine thousandTwenty per cent increase. six hundred and thirty-four dollars. For mileage to officers when authorized by law, fiscal year eighteenMileage. hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred thousand dollars. Total amount of pay to increased force of Regular Army under thisAmount appropriated. Act, three million nine hundred and ninety-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For pay of volunteers under Act approved April twenty-second,Pay of Volunteer Army.*Ante*, p. 301.Staff officers. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and subsequent Acts, as follows: For pay of staff officers, namely: For twelve major-generals, forty-five thousand dollars: For twenty-six brigadier-generals, seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars; For twenty-one lieutenant-colonels, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars; For eighty majors, one hundred thousand dollars; For one hundred and fourteen captains, mounted, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars;
For twenty-six first lieutenants, mounted, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with currentLongevity. monthly pay, thirty-eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For pay of officers of the line, namely:Line officers. For seventy-eight colonels, one hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars; For seventy-eight lieutenant-colonels, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars;
For one hundred and fifty-six majors, one-hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; For seventy-eight adjutants, extra lieutenants, seventy thousand two hundred dollars; For seventy-eight quartermasters, extra lieutenants, seventy thousand two hundred dollars; For seventy-eight surgeons, ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For one hundred and fifty-six assistant surgeons, one hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars; For seventy-eight chaplains, seventy-eight, thousand dollars; in all, eight hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with currentLongevity. monthly pay, eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For pay to enlisted men, namely:Enlisted men. For seventy-eight sergeant-majors, ten thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars; For seventy eight quartermaster-sergeants, ten thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars; 775 For seventy eight chief musicians, twenty-eight thousand and eighty dollars; For one hundred and fifty-six principal musicians, twenty thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars;
For two hundred and twenty-four hospital stewards, sixty thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; For nine hundred and thirty-six first sergeants, one hundred and forty thousand four hundred dollars; For nine hundred and thirty-six quartermaster-sergeants, one hundred and one thousand and eighty-eight dollars; For three thousand seven hundred and forty-four sergeants, four hundred and four thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars; For eleven thousand two hundred and thirty-two corporals, one million ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two musicians, one hundred and forty-six thousand and sixteen dollars and nine cents; For nine hundred and thirty-six artificers, eighty-four thousand two hundred and forty dollars; For nine hundred and thirty-six wagoners, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars; For seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-four privates, six million one hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars; in all, eight million two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and twelve dollars.
For additional pay for length of service, two hundred and fifty thousandLongevity. dollars. For miscellaneous, namely: For eighty-four paymasters, one hundred and five thousand dollars.Paymasters and clerks. For one hundred paymasters’ clerks, seventy thousand dollars. For three hundred contract surgeons, two hundred and seventy thousandContract surgeons. dollars. For mileage to officers traveling without troops and to contract surgeons,Mileage, etc. three hundred thousand dollars.
For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, twenty-five thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops, oneCommutation of quarters. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For traveling allowance to enlisted men on discharge, seven hundredTraveling allowance men on discharge. and fifty thousand dollars. For clothing not drawn, due enlisted men on discharge, sevenUndrawn clothing. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For additional pay for increased rank when in command byAdditional pay, increased rank. competent authority, fifty thousand dollars.
For twenty per centum increase on the pay of enlisted men to be paidTwenty per cent increase. during the time of war, one million six hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars and forty cents. For twelve per centum increase on pay of the line and enlisted men,Twelve per cent increase, changes to other branches. to meet any changes that may be made from infantry to other branches of the service, one million ninety-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-four cents.
Total amount of pay to volunteers, fifteen million one hundred andAmount appropriated. fifty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-four cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated under “Pay Department,” except for “Mileage to officers,” shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence department. Subsistence Department. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops,Supplies. civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, general pris-776oners at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but tor whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians Payments.employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts.
For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephone, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, Commutation in lieu of rations.sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army.
For the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, eleven million eight hundred and seventy-six thousand and twenty-five dollars. quartermaster’s department.
Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies.For regular supplies, namely: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and light for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers ; for post bakeries ; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper and equipments for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess Forage, etc.halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books, for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders and reports, five million six hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred dollars.
Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses, namely: For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to777 the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen tor such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For horses for cavalry and artillery, namely:
For the purchase ofPurchase of horses. horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, two hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For transportationTransportation. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses of recruiting;” of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster stores from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots and from those depots to the troops in the Geld; of horse equipments anti subsistence stores, from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees;—transports, etc. transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportationsPayments to landgrant railroads. lawfully due suck land grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service—maximum. be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon*Provisos*.—rates. the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending theFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops778 and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amounts so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, twelve million two hundred and ninety-four thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely : For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations ; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothes, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, six million four hundred and one thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars. medical department.
Medical Department. Supplies, etc.For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post sanitation, expenses of medical-supply depots, pay of employees, including civilian nurses, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Regular and Volunteer armies on duties at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of eases in the armies suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, two million three hundred thousand dollars. signal service.
Signal Service. Military telegraphs, etc.For the installation, operation, and maintenance of military telegraphs and cable lines, one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. Expenses.For the expense of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance of military posts; maintenance and repairs of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, thirty-five thousand dollars. ordnance department.
Ordnance Department. Current expenses.For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Ammunition for small arms.For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice; ammunition for burials779 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, four hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdnance stores. of troops, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments and horse equipments;Equipments. equipments of all kinds for field and siege artillery, and for miscellaneous war material, and articles and implements for war purposes, including machinery and tools for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in thePreserving, etc., ordnance. hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, six thousand dollars.
For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance on hand at the arsenals and depots, twenty-five thousand dollars. For manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at theManufacture of arms, etc. national armories, including machinery and tools for their manufacture, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. engineer department. Engineer Department. For pontoon trains, in trenching tools, instruments, and drawingTools, etc. materials, thirty thousand dollars.
For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, and clerks toEmployees. engineer officers on the staff of division and corps commanders, thirty thousand dollars. That out of the balances remaining unexpended January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,*Ante*, pp. 439, 697. and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses under the title “Naval establishment,” there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for objects hereinafter specified, the following sums, namely:
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantlyEmergency fund. arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, one million dollars. bureau or navigation. Bureau of Navigation. For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training ships, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For labor, munitions of war, and other material at navy-yards and stations, and necessary expenses incident to improving and increasing the efficiency of ships and the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred thousand dollars. 780 bureau of equipment. Burean of Equipment. Equipment of vessels.For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for steaming purposes; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, three hundred and eighty-five thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
Contingent expenses.For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighter age of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment, unforeseen and impossible to classify, two thousand and seventy-four dollars. Ocean and lake surveys.For ocean and lake surveys; the publication and care of the results thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on same; preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, twenty thousand dollars.
Clerk New York Navy-Yard.For one writer at navy-yard, New York, four hundred and seventy-five dollars. —Mare Island.For one clerk at navy-yard. Mare Island, California, five hundred dollars. bureau of construction and repair. Burean of Construction and Repair. Preservation, etc., vessels.For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase, of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers. steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, one million five hundred thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Contingent expenses.For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical781 records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington ; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations; washing for medical departmental museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and all other necessary contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance yards and docks: For maintenance of yards and docks at navy-yards and stations, one hundred thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation, navy-yards; For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, five thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized andTransfer of funds. directed to transfer from the emergency fund, Navy, January first, eighteen hundred and ninety nine, to the clothing and small stores fund, one million dollars, and to the naval supply fund, one million dollars.
That if the balances remaining unexpended January first, eighteenAppropriation for possible deficiencies.*Ante*, pp. 390, 437, 696. hundred and ninety-nine, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved May fourth and June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses, under the titles “War Department,” “Military Establishment,” and “Naval Establishment,” shall be insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of said balances is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to change,*Proviso*.Permanent increase of army not affected.*Ante*, p, 361. extend, or modify the provisions of section four of the Act of April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and subsequent Acts.
NATIONAL DEFENSE. National defense. That the balance remaining unexpended January first, eighteen hundredReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 274. and ninety-nine, of the appropriation of fifty million dollars for the national defense, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, and to remain available until January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, made by the Act approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure for the same purposes during the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
The following sums are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: MISSOURI RIVER. Missouri River. For continuing and completing the work of protecting the bank inImprovement of Pelican Bend.Deduction.Vol. 29, p. 231. Pelican Bend, .Missouri River, one hundred thousand dollars. And this sum shall be deducted from the sum of three hundred thousand782FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41, 42. 1899. dollars authorized to be appropriated and expended for continuing improvement of the Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, by 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 on June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
CAPITOL POLICE. Capitol Police. To continue the employment during the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, of not exceeding eighteen additional Capitol policemen (privates), at the rate of nine hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. House of Representatives. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five thousand dollars.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Supreme Court, U.S. Clerk’s office.For fireproof cases for the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, six thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Approved, January 5, 1899.
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Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the support of the military and naval establishments for the last six months of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes
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