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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 30 STAT. · March 3, 1899 · Chapter 427

Chapter 427. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 427.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 3, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.Executive Office. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, being for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-eight cents. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horses, to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and for miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-six dollars and ninety-three cents.
For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase of passport paper, one thousand dollars. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Wickham Hoffman.Payment to.To pay Wickham Hoffman, or his personal representative, the sum of seven thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and eleven cents, the same to be taken and receipted for in full satisfaction of his claim for services as charge d’affaires ad interim at Saint Petersburg between July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty.
Foreign missions.Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four dollars and thirty-three cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six dollars and sixty-six cents. Marshals for consular courts.Marshals for consular courts:
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Salaries, marshals for consular courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and fifty dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1215 Loss by exchange: To pay amounts found due by the accountingLoss by exchange. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Loss by exchange, diplomatic service,” for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-four cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To payConsulates. amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-seven thousand and ninety-eight dollars and forty-six cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: For one clerk of class three, one clerkSecretary’s office. of class two, and two clerks of class one, from March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars. The temporary or additional force rendered necessary because ofTemporary additional force not subject to civil-service examination.*Ante*, p. 889.*Ante*, p. 696. increased work incident to the war with Spain, provided for in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, or provided in any other Act making provisions for said temporary or additional force, rendered necessary because of increased work incident to the war with Spain, shall be appointedVol. 22, p. 403. hereafter without compliance with the condition prescribed by the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to bestow rewards uponW. T. Lopp, etc. W. T. Lopp, Artisarlook, and native herders, and other natives of Alaska, who rendered material aid to the Government expedition sent to relieve the whaling fleet in the Arctic regions in eighteen hundred and ninety seven, two thousand five hundred dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedCape Smythe Whaling and Trading Company.Adjustment of account of.—report. and required to examine and adjust the accounts of the Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Company for supplies furnished and services rendered in rescuing, housing, feeding, clothing, and caring for shipwrecked whalers in the Arctic seas in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight until they were taken in charge by officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service and report the result of such adjustment to Congress with such recommendation as he may deem proper.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, authorized andInvestigation of amounts unrefunded collected in Utah, etc., as 10 per cent tax on banknote circulation. directed to investigate, ascertain and report to Congress the amounts assessed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and collected in the district of Utah in eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine from persons, firms, and corporations as a tax of ten per centum on alleged notes used for circulation and paid out, and which have not been refunded to such persons, firms, and corporations, and of a similar class of claims which have been refunded under decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Contingent expenses: For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs,Contingent expenses. chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, three thousand dollars. 1216 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department:
Furniture, and so forth,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and nine dollars and forty-six cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand and eleven dollars and seventy-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Postage, Treasury Department,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-four cents. Public buildings.Repairs.Repairs of public buildings: For repairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, marine hospitals, and quarantine stations, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, 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, three thousand dollars. Heating apparatus.Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, fifty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Heating apparatus for public buildings,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, six hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-five cents. Furniture and repairs.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of same and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, fifty-eight thousand five hundred 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 plan for furniture or not. Assistant custodians and janitors.Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Collecting customs revenue.Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one million one hundred thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being for amounts found due by the accounting officers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars.
Local appraisers’ meetings.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-three dollars and twenty-seven cents. Tips & Wupperman.Refund to, of penal duty, etc.Refund to Tips and Wupperman: To refund to Tips and Wupperman, of Seguin, Texas, additional penal duty paid by them on an importation of certain white enameled ware at the port of New Orleans, in FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1217 eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and covered into the Treasury, but since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, seventy-five dollars and four cents. Quarantine service: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationQuarantine service. for the quarantine service, maintenance, and to continue in commission the steamer Dagmar at the Cape Charles Quarantine Station for the“Dagmar.” months of May and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ten thousand dollars.
Transportation of silver coin: To supply a deficiency in theTransporting silver coin. appropriation for “Transportation of silver coin,” twenty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand and fifty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. Paper for checks and drafts: For paper for interest, transfer,Paper for checks and drafts. redemption, pension, and other checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, five thousand dollars.
General Inspector of public buildings and supplies: ForInspector of public buildings, etc. actual necessary traveling expenses, one thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings:Inspector of furniture. For actual necessary traveling expenses, eight hundred dollars. Office of assistant treasurer, New York: For the followingAssistant Treasurer, New York.Additional employees. additional employees in the office of the assistant treasurer at New York, from March fourth until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, namely:
For four assistant tellers and one clerk, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum; four assistant tellers, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum; and one watchman, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents. Credit in accounts of certain officers, Corps of Engineers:Maj. Charles P. Powell, Capt. C. S. Biehle.Credit in accounts of. Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of certain officers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army amounts standing against them on the books of the Treasury, as follows:
Major Charles F. Powell, ninety-seven dollars and eighty-seven cents; Captain C. S. Riche, twelve dollars and eighty-one cents; in all, one hundred and ten dollars and sixty-eight cents. To pay to Mary S. Hoffman the sum of one hundred and seventy-nineMary S. Hoffman.Payment to. dollars and three cents, due, at the time of his death, to her husband, E. O. Hoffman, for salary from September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to October sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as an employee of the Light-House Board. public buildings.Public buildings.
For public building at Topeka, Kansas: For enlarging building underTopeka, Kans. present limit, seventy-one thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-three cents; and the unexpended balances, amounting to thirteen thousand six hundred and five dollars and twenty-seven cents, of former appropriations for said public building are hereby made available for the enlargement of said building. For old post-office building at Omaha, Nebraska: For the introductionOmaha, Nebr. of new plumbing, steam-heating plant, elevator with freight attachment, plastering, painting, and making such other repairs as are required and necessary to put the old post-office building, Omaha, Nebraska, in condition for occupancy as Headquarters, Department of the Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For public building at Carrollton, Kentucky: For purchase of siteCarrollton, Ky. and construction of building within present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. 1218 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. engraving and printing.Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Salaries.For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the directions of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Proviso.*Notes of larger denomination.*Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary 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, ninety thousand dollars, to be *Proviso.*Notes of larger denomination.expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
Materials.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars. Rent.For rental of building occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for storage and other purposes, at a rental of sixty dollars per month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. internal revenue.Internal Revenue. Salaries collectors, deputies, etc.Vol. 24, p. 209.For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen Vol. 24, p. 218.hundred and eighty six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government Vol. 29, p. 253.the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on filled cheese, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Stamp paper.For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, twenty-five thousand dollars. light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment. Keepers’ salaries.For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, twenty-five thousand dollars. Supplies.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Supplies of light-houses,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-nine cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
Freight on bullion and coin.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, fifty-five thousand dollars. Carson.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at Carson,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-three dollars and seventy-nine cents. San Francisco.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-seven dollars and twelve cents.
Seattle.For salaries and expenses at the assay office at Seattle, Washington, nineteen thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars. Herman Kretz.Reimbursement of.To reimburse Herman Kretz, late superintendent of the United States mint at Philadelphia, for amount paid by him into the Treasury to make FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1219 good shortage discovered during the count, by hand, of the standard silver dollars on storage in the vaults of the mint, said shortage being in no wise the result of any fault or negligence on his part, namely, one hundred and sixty-three dollars. government in the territories.Territories.
For contingent expenses of the Territory of Oklahoma, to beOklahoma.Contingent expenses. expended by the governor for rents, private secretary, stenographer and typewriter, and typewriter supplies, janitor, messenger, fuel, lights, stationery and printing, postage, telegrams, furniture for office, express, and other incidentals, five hundred dollars. For payment of outstanding accounts set forth on page five, HouseOutstanding accounts. Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, of this session, on account of legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight hundred and twenty dollars and seventy cents.
For payment of expenditures necessarily incurred in the care andSanta Fe, N. Mex.Repairs to Adobe Palace. protection of the Adobe Palace, Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fourteen dollars and twelve cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryArizona. on account of the appropriation “Legislative expenses, Territory of Arizona,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and sixty-three dollars.
FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. For the completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesNashua, N. H. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Nashua, New Hampshire, including the construction of a dwelling for the superintendent, seven thousand dollars. For the completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesManchester, Iowa. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Manchester, Iowa, including construction of ponds and dams for the protection of the water supply, six thousand dollars.
For repair, construction, and improvement of buildings and pondsLeadville, Colo. and improvement of grounds at the fish-cultural station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Leadville, Colorado, four thousand dollars. For the construction of ponds and completion of the superintendent’sBozeman, Mont. residence at the fish-cultural station on the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Bozeman, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repair, construction, and improvement of buildings and wharvesWoods Hole, Mass. and improvement of grounds at the fish-cultural station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars.
For the construction or purchase of a steam launch for use at the—launch. fish-cultural stations of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Woods Hole and Gloucester, Massachusetts, seven thousand dollars. For the payment of outstanding liabilities incurred during the fiscalGrand Lake Stream, Me. year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight for rent of grounds and fishing privileges at Grand Lake Stream, Maine, one hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents. For building new railway car for distribution of live fishes to replaceNew railway car. car numbered four, eight thousand dollars.
For construction of a new wharf at the United States Fish CommissionWharf at Gloucester. station at Gloucester, Massachusetts, to replace one destroyed by storms, two thousand five hundred dollars. 1220 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, one hundred and sixty dollars. Free Public Library.Free Public Library: That the unused portion of the appropriation made for salaries of librarian, first and second assistant librarians, for the Free Public Library for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, are hereby made applicable for the purpose of employing necessary temporary assistance in the conduct of the said library for the current year.
Plumbing board.Plumbing board: For compensation of the members of the plumbing board, one thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-four cents. Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For amount required to properly rewire the District building and provide the necessary lamps and fixtures for electric lighting, seven hundred dollars. To pay L. W. Glazebrook for taking notes at coroner’s inquests, for service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen dollars.
To pay outstanding certificate of coroner’s jurors, for service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one dollar. To pay outstanding accounts for general advertising, as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and ten cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixteen dollars and five cents. Assessment and permit work.Assessment and permit work: To pay retent under contract seventeen hundred and twenty-three (being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three), principal, one hundred and three dollars and twenty-eight cents; and interest thereon, eighteen dollars and eighty-five cents; in all, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirteen cents.
Sewers.Sewers: To pay retent under contract seventeen hundred and twenty-three, principal, fifty-four dollars and eighty-four cents; and interest thereon, ten dollars and one cent; in all, sixty-four dollars and eighty-five cents; being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three. For condemnation of rights of way: To pay outstanding account for advertising, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-two dollars. Connecticut avenue extension.Extension of Connecticut avenue:
For amount required to pay outstanding accounts, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, twenty-three dollars and thirty cents. Grading Nineteenth street.Grading and paving Nineteenth street: For grading and paving Nineteenth street extended between Florida avenue and Columbia road twelve thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, one-half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of *Proviso.*—condition.the Treasury: *Provided,* That said street shall first have been widened to ninety feet from its present width of fifty feet.
Street railways using tracks of other companies. Limit of time to change motive power.That in the District of Columbia any street railroad company operating its cars in part over the tracks of another company along a route authorized by Congress shall be allowed until October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine in which to install an underground electric system, and pending such change shall preserve all rights now granted by its charter. Public schools.Public schools: For amount required to pay janitor of Western High School building, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred dollars.
For amount required to pay for supplies furnished manual training schools, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty cents. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1221 For amount required for fuel, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven dollars and thirty-five cents. For amount required for rent, forty-eight dollars. Metropolitan police: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses,Police. including stationery, books, telegraphing, photographing, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, bicycles, police equipments and repairs of same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulances, and patron wagons, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Telegraph and telephone service: For general supplies,Telegraph and telephone. repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, purchase of harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, and other necessary items, seven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-one cents.
For amount required to pay outstanding accounts for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven dollars and seventy-five cents. Garfield Hospital: For completing the work of inclosing, grading,Garfield Hospital. and improving the grounds immediately connected with the isolating building at Garfield Memorial Hospital, five hundred dollars. For completing the furnishing and equipping said building for use, two thousand dollars. Fire department: For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture,Fire department. fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, one thousand dollars.
To pay the Office of Public Printer for printing annual report, being for the service of the fiscal year-eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seventy-four dollars and seventy-five cents. Courts: For amount required to pay outstanding certificates of witnessCourts. fees for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twelve dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySupport of convicts. on account of the appropriation “Support of convicts, District of Columbia,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, nine hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-six cents.
Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jailSupport of prisoners. of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of prisoners, District of Columbia,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine dollars and sixty cents. Support of convicts:
For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five thousand dollars. Judgments: For the payment of judgments, including costs, againstJudgments the District of Columbia, set forth on page nine, House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five of this session, three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifteen cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until date of payment.
Defending suits in claims: For defending suits in Court ofDefending suits in claims. Claims on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand dollars. For defending suits in Court of Claims, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand dollars. 1222 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. Washington Asylum.Washington Asylum: To pay the Office of the Public Printer for printing annual report for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seven dollars and ninety-eight cents.
Girls’ Reform School.Reform School for Girls: To pay Anna F. Dean for services as treasurer, as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred dollars. Board of Children’s Guardians.Board of Children’s Guardians: For care of feeble-minded children; board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; authority to pay one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe required, of the foregoing appropriation to the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls at Baltimore is hereby granted.
Northern Liberty Market claims.Northern Liberty Market claims: For amount required to pay the allowances reported by the auditor of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in settlement of claims arising by reason of the destruction of the Northern Liberty Market, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-eight do liars and fifty cents: *Proviso.*Payment of claims.[R. S. sec. 3477, p. 689](/us/rs/s3477/p689).*Provided,* That in the payment of these claims the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-seven, Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be observed, and for that purpose the section aforesaid is hereby declared to be applicable in its requirements to the District of Columbia.
To pay James G. Payne for services rendered examining and auditing for settlement the Northern Liberty Market claims, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars. Recorder of deeds.Office of recorder of deeds: For reimbursing Henry P. Cheatham, recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, the amount paid by him to Frances Thomas for services rendered as charwoman of said office from April first to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and Amount available for sweeping, etc.ninety-eight, one hundred and three dollars.
And the recorder of deeds is authorized to pay, after December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, out of the fees of his office, for the proper cleaning and sweeping of said office, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum to the janitor and for such assistance as may be necessary for said purpose, instead of two hundred and fifty-two dollars per annum now paid to said janitor. Half of appropriations from District revenues.Except as otherwise herein provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Credit accounts of disbursing clerk.Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to pass the accounts aggregating one hundred and five dollars and fifty cents set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety, of this session, to the credit of the disbursing clerk of the War Department. Advertising expenses.To enable the Secretary of War to pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-two, of this session, for publishing advertisements for fuel, recruits, horses, and so forth, for the Army during the war with Spain, one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. military establishment.Military establishment.
Contingencies.Contingencies of the Army: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1223 “Contingencies of the Army,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents. For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantlyEmergency fund. arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, three million dollars. military academy.Military Academy.
For one Superintendent (colonel), in addition to pay as captain, fourSalaries, etc. hundred and nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For one adjutant, in addition to the pay as second lieutenant (not mounted), six hundred dollars. For twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Pay of the Army: For twenty per centum increase on pay ofArmy. Pay. enlisted men, one million and fifty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty four dollars and seventy cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for payment of the HospitalHospital Corps. Corps for the six months ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For incidental expenses, namely:Quartermaster’s Department.Incidental expenses, etc. For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty in time of peace, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners; 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 to 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 for 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For barracks and quarters, namely:
For barracks and quarters forBarracks and quarters. troops, storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra duty pay, in time of peace, of enlisted men employed on the same: *Provided,* That*Proviso.* 1224 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. Appropriation not available for commutation of fuel, etc.no part of the money so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for quarters to officers or enlisted men, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transportation.For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For transportation 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 field; of horse equipments and 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; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and Repatriating Spanish prisoners.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, including not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars for transportation of Spanish prisoners held by the United States and by the insurgents in the Philippine Islands, from those islands to Spain, as provided by the Treaty Payment to landgrant railroads.of Paris; for the payment of army transportations lawfully due such 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 *Provisos.*than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided,* —computation.That such compensation shall be computed upon 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:
Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.*Provided further,* That in expending the 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 troops 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, eight million five hundred thousand dollars.
Transporting remains of officers, etc.To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1225 places outside of the limits of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. That in all cases where an officer or an enlisted man in either theReimbursement of family, etc., for bringing home dead soldiers.
Army, Navy, Marine Corps of the United States, or contract surgeon or trained nurse in the employ of the Government, has died while on duty away from home since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the remains have been taken home and buried at the expense of the family or friends of the deceased, the parties who paid the cost of transportation and burying such remains shall be repaid at the expense of the United States by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed what it would have cost the United States to have transported the remains to their homes.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely: For cloth,Clothing, camp, and garrison equipage. 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, nine hundred thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. on account of the appropriation “Headstones for graves of soldiers,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eight hundred and twelve dollars and twenty cents. For the transportation of destitute citizens from Saint Michaels,Transportation of destitute citizens from St. Michaels, Alaska. Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, California, and Port Townsend, Washington, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. medical department.Medical Department.
For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectantsSupplies. 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 cases in the armies suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. miscellaneous, war department.Miscellaneous.Engineer Department, Army.Deficiency appropriation for employees of staff officers of division, etc., commanders available for, on staff department commanders.*Ante*, p. 704.
The appropriation made in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division and corps commanders is hereby made available also for civilian employees to engineer officers on the staff of department commanders. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. on account of the appropriation “Headstones for graves of soldiers,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-three cents.
Monument to Sergeant Charles Floyd: To enable the SecretarySergt. Charles Floyd.Monument to. of War, in cooperation with the Floyd Memorial Association, to cause to be erected over the remains of Sergeant Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who died and was buried August twentieth, eighteen hundred and four, near the present site of Sioux City, Iowa, a fitting monument commemorative of that expedition and of the first soldier to lay down his life within the Louisiana purchase, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the total cost and*Proviso.*Limit of cost. expense to the United States of erecting said monument shall not exceed five thousand dollars. 1226 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. Yellowstone National Park.Yellowstone National Park: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Improvement of Yellowstone National Park,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents. Repairing roads to cemeteries.Repairing roads to national cemeteries: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Repairing roads to national cemeteries,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seven dollars and eighty-two cents.
Yellowstone River, Mont.Yellowstone River, Montana: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Improving Yellowstone River, Montana,” fifteen dollars and seventy-nine cents. Canadian Cree Indians.Deportation of refugee.Deportation of refugee Canadian Cree Indians: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Deportation of refugee Canadian Cree Indians,” eight dollars and sixty-six cents. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.
Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary-sergeants, commissary 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, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and fifty dollars.
Santa Monica, Cal.Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Northwestern Branch, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand dollars. For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the Home, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand and seventy-five dollars.
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, 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 material, 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, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Northwestern Branch, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and seventy-five dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1227 For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Pacific Branch, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-five dollars. For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and for other improvements of a permanent character, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For new barn, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten dollars. For lodge and gateway, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five dollars. Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For household,Leavenworth, Kans. including the same objects specified under this head for the Pacific Branch, seven thousand five hundred dollars. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State orState or Territorial homes.Vol. 25, p. 450. Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-eight thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes on accountDeductions. of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.State, War, and Navy Department building.Fuel, etc. For fuel, lights, miscellaneous items, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. For one pair of sixty-kilowatt dynamos, with two hundred horsepower engine, five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. To pay W. H. Michael for labor and material expended on the compilationW. H. Michael.Payment to. of Laws Relating to the Navy and Marine Corps, three thousand dollars. naval establishment.Navy.
That not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of the sum appropriatedEmergency fund.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 691. under “Naval establishment” by the deficiency appropriation Act approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, is hereby made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred. For pay, miscellaneous: For commissions and interest; transportationPay, miscellaneous. of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; 1228 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, one hundred thousand dollars.
Extra pay on discharge for temporary force.The officers and enlisted men comprising the temporary force of the Navy during the war with Spain who served creditably beyond the limits of the United States, and who have been or may hereafter be discharged, shall be paid two months’ extra pay; and all such officers and enlisted men of the Navy who have so served within the limits of the United States, and who have been or may hereafter be discharged, shall be paid one month’s extra pay.
Thaddeus S. K. Freeman, J. C. Breckinridge, and Worth Bagley. Payment of funeral expenses of, authorized.General account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to allow, in the accounts of pay officers of the Navy ordered to pay the same, the funeral expenses incurred in the cases of Chaplain Thaddeus S. K. Freeman and Ensigns Joseph C. Breckinridge and Worth Bagley. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “General account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:
Pay.For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-four cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-one dollars and two cents; Marine Corps. Pay.For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ten thousand and forty-one dollars and forty-two cents; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, sixty-five dollars and seventeen cents; —provisions.For provisions, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eighty-five dollars and thirty-three cents; —transportation and recruiting.For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents; —contingent.For contingent, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixteen dollars and eighty-two cents;
Bureau of Navigation.For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-five cents; For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four dollars and sixty cents; For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents; Bureau of Ordnance.For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eighty-two dollars and twenty-three cents;
Bureau of Equipment.For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand two hundred and eight dollars and nineteen cents; For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-six cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and one dollars and thirty-eight cents; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight dollars and fifty-eight cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eight dollars and twenty-eight cents; FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1229 For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundredBureau of Supplies and Accounts. and ninety-eight, fifty-one dollars and twenty-six cents; in all, one hundred and seventy-six thousand six hundred and eight dollars and fifty-four cents. marine corps.Marine Corps.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryTransportation, etc. on account of the appropriation “Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. To pay accounts on file for freight transportation and advertising on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, forty dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fifty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and six cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-three cents. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, to restore steam engineering buildings destroyed by fire February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of S team Engineering. To replace necessary machine tools, power plant, and experimental implements and outfit for the Bureau of Steam Engineering shops at the Brooklyn, New York, Navy-Yard, destroyed by fire February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows:
For machine tools, traveling cranes and lifts, with installation for new machine shop, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For power plant with steam, electric, and pneumatic installation, ninety-five thousand dollars. For boiler and blacksmith shops, partial rehabilitation, and installation of extensions, ninety-five thousand dollars. For implements and outfit for experimental and testing laboratories, drafting rooms, and offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. Out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the sixReappropriation. months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for labor and materials in outfitting and repairing steam machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers, distilling, refrig- 1230 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. erating, and auxiliary machinery, with necessary supplies and stores, and transportation; and for repair of tools and appliances at navy-yards necessary for expeditious repair of machinery of naval vessels, there is hereby authorized to be expended for said objects during the last half of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau, of Medicine and Surgery.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ninety-five dollars and forty-eight cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, forty-five dollars and seventy-four cents. To pay the accounts on file on account of “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and eleven dollars and thirteen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-two cents. naval academy.Naval Academy.
Allowance in accounts of A. J. Pritchard.To pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-three of this session, and suspended in the accounts of Pay Director A. J. Pritchard, on account of repairs, Naval Academy, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-two cents. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Board of Pension Appeals.—payment of additional members of.Office of the Secretary: For three additional members of the Board of Pension Appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to be selected from the force of the Pension Office, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, from March fourth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents.
Indian division.*Ante*, p. 495.For the following for the division in charge of Indian affairs under the Act of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, from March fourth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Pay of Chief, etc.inclusive: One chief of division, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; and one copyist; in all, two thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-six cents.
Stationery.For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Survey, seven thousand dollars. Indian Office.Additional employees.Indian Office: For the following additional employees in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the balance of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, namely: For two clerks of class three; two clerks of class one; one clerk at the rate of one thousand dollars; and five clerks at the rate of nine hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighteen cents.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1231 Patent Office: For producing the Official Gazette, includingPatent Office.Official Gazette. weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, five thousand dollars. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents, forWeekly issues of patents. producing copies of designs, trade marks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph toVol. 28, p. 620. be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided,* That*Proviso.*Work at Government Printing Office. the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office, if in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, twelve thousand dollars.
Capitol building: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol. thereof, including work of restoration caused by explosion November sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, wages of mechanics and laborers, twenty-eight thousand dollars. To pay Professor Charles E. Munroe for services as an expert in investigating the causes of the explosion in the Capitol building on November sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred dollars. For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol grounds,—grounds. one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, for changing entrances to north side of grounds, and paving same and entrance to New Jersey avenue southeast, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including theLighting. Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, including the repairs to conduits, manholes, and so forth, caused by the storm of August twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five thousand dollars.
For payment of the balance due the Washington Gas Light CompanyWashington Gas Light Company.Payment to. for gas service for the months of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and January, February, March, April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy cents. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expensesHospital for insane. 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, being for the service of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-two thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve thousand and three dollars and sixty-six cents. public lands service.Public lands service. For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receiversSalaries of registers and receivers. of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. 1232 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight ten thousand dollars. John C. W. Rhode.Payment to.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to pay to John C. W. Rhode, receiver of public moneys for the Weare (late Nulato), Alaska, land district, salary as such receiver, at the statutory rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to the present time, out of the current appropriation for salaries and commissions, registers and receivers; also reimbursement for his transportation and for freight charges upon Government property for said land office in such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may deem just and equitable, payable out of current appropriation for contingent expenses, land offices.
Incidental expenses.For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. General Land Office.Additional employees.General Land Office: For the following additional employees in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the balance of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the same having been heretofore provided by law for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, namely: For four clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each, and three laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, two thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty cents.
Bismarck, N. Dak.Reproduction of records, office of surveyor-general, destroyed by fire.Reproduction of the official plats of United States surveys, diagrams, field notes, and correspondence, constituting the records and files of the office of surveyor-general and register and receiver at Bismarck, North Dakota, which were destroyed by fire on the eighth day of Safes and typewriters.August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; also for safes and typewriters for surveyor-generals’ offices and local land offices; the work to be done and purchases made under the direction of the Commissioner *Proviso.*Furniture, surveyor-general, North Dakota.of the General Land Office, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That two thousand dollars of this amount may be expended in the purchase of furniture, fixtures, and instruments in the office of the surveyor-general of North Dakota which were destroyed by fire.
George W. Evans.Allowance in accounts of.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit on the accounts of George W. Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, the sum of one hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-six cents, being the amount disbursed by him under the authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior from the above-mentioned appropriation in payment of the salaries of W. S. Tancre from May twenty-third to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, seventy-seven dollars and ten cents; and O.
H. Gates from May tenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, at six hundred dollars per annum, eighty-five dollars and seventy-six cents; in all, one hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-six cents, employees in the Gainesville (Florida) land office, temporarily detailed by the Secretary Vol. 29, p. 179.of the Interior, under the provisions of section three of the Act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for duty in the office of surveyor-general at Tallahassee, to assist in bringing up to date the work of that office.
Swamp-land claims, timber depredations, and protecting public lands.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, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars: *Proviso.*Agents’ per diem.*Provided,* That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation.
Graphic Publishing Company.To pay the accounts fully set forth on page twenty of House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, and in House Document FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1233 Numbered. Two hundred and forty-three, both of this session, of theLewis Wolfley, etc. Payment to. Graphic Publishing Company, of Monte Vista, Colorado, and of Lewis Wolfley, Thomas H. Croswell, Max J. Meyer, and Edward F. Stable, deputy surveyors, five hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-five cents. geological survey.Geological Survey.
To supply a deficiency in the following appropriations of the Geological Survey for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, required to pay vouchers which were not received until after the appropriations were exhausted, as follows, namely: For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographical surveys. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and six dollars and six cents.
For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-one cents. That in the form provided by existing law the Secretary of the InteriorSecretary of the Interior may approve surveys, etc., of rights of way across forest reserves, etc. may file and approve surveys and plats of any right of way for a wagon road, railroad, or other highway over and across any forest reservation or reservoir site when in his judgment the public interests will not be injuriously affected thereby.
For geological and topograpical surveys in Alaska, eighteen hundredAlaska. and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven thousand and eighty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For the payment of the transmission of public documents throughTransmission of documents. the Smithsonian Exchange, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. indian affairs.Indian Affairs. For expenses under the “Act for the protection of the people of theIndian Territory.Protecting people, etc., expenses.*Ante*, 495.
Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the balance of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, namely: For pay of employees in the Indian Territory, four thousand dollars; For salaries and expenses of town-site commissioners, to continue available until expended, thirty thousand dollars; For locating the ninety-eighth meridian, under the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey, six thousand three hundred dollars;
To begin allotments, thirty thousand dollars; In all, seventy-one thousand eight hundred dollars. Traveling expenses of eight Indian inspectors, at three dollars perIndian Inspectors.Traveling expenses. day, when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses of Indian inspectors,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryIndian school superintendent.Traveling expenses. on account of the appropriation for “Traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five dollars and forty cents.
To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the IndianSupplies. service and pay of necessary employees; advertising at rates not 1234 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, three thousand five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-three cents. —transporting.Necessary expenses of transportation of such goods, provisions, and other articles for the various tribes, including pay and expenses of transportation agents and rent of warehouses, fifty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and forty-one dollars and five cents. Contingencies.Contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and of the Commissioner Special agents.of Indian Affairs ; also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, two thousand dollars.
Sioux Indians, Yankton tribe.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Sioux, Yankton tribe,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-eight dollars and five cents. Support, etc.Digger Indians of California.Devils Lake Sioux, North Dakota.For support and civilization of Digger Indians of California, and for locating them on lands purchased for them by the Government, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and prior years, five hundred dollars.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas.For the relief of the Devils Lake Sioux, of North Dakota, upon the Devils Lake Indian Reservation, ten thousand dollars. For the relief of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, in North Dakota, for subsistence and other necessaries, and for the expenses incurred by them and their delegates to Washington, District of Columbia, regarding their claim for unceded lands, as the Secretary of the Interior may deem proper, fifteen thousand dollars. J.
A. Gilfillan.For payment of J. A. Gilfillan amount expended by him in the purchase and shipment of three hundred and twenty-two bushels of seed potatoes for planting in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the Leech Lake, Cass Lake, and Wiunibigoshish bands of Chippewa Indians, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-one cents. Dr. George I. Leavitt.For additional amount for compensation of Doctor George I. Leavitt, physician for the Indians on the Walker River Reservation in Nevada, one hundred and twenty dollars.
Support of Kickapoos.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Kickapoos,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, forty dollars. Indian schools.The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the support and Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.education of five hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Flandreau, S. Dak.For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at Flandreau, South Dakota, at the rate of one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, being a deficiency for fiscal year eighteen and ninety-eight, two hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Flandreau, South Dakota,” for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five dollars and forty-eight cents.
Otis Staples.Payment to.*Ante*, p. 576.The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to pay to Otis Staples the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents, appropriated in the deficiency appropriation Act FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1235 approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for completing the necessary surveys within the Chippewa Indian Reservation, in Minnesota, including expenses of examining and appraising pine lands under the provisions of the Act approved January fourteenth,Vol. 25, p. 642. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be reimbursed to the United States out of proceeds of the sale of their lands.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryIncidentals, New Mexico. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in New Mexico,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-one dollars and twenty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury—Utah. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Utah, including support and civilization,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySurveys, etc., Indian reservations. on account of the appropriation “Surveying and allotting Indian reservations,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-seven cents. For continuing the work of the commission under the Act of CongressCrow, Flathead, etc., Indian commission. Continuance of. approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indians, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be available for the payment of salary and proper expenses of said commission from and after the date when the*Ante*, p. 592. appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by the Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, was exhausted, and the said commission shall continue its work until, and make its final report thereon—report. to the Secretary of the Interior on, the first day of April, nineteen hundred, and upon that date the commission shall cease.
That the sum of twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollarsWestern Cherokee Indians.Payment of interest on award. and seventy-four cents, being the interest at five per centum per annum from June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, due the Western Cherokee Indians under the award of the United States Senate of September fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty, on the principal sum of two hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-four cents found to be due them under the decision of the Supreme Court of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the authorized agent of the council of the Western Cherokee Indians.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to allowCommission to Five Civilized Tribes.Office rent. office rent to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes while remaining at the seat of government, under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, not to exceed one hundred dollars and ninety-seven cents. army and navy pensions.Pensions. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for fees and expenses ofExamining surgeons’ fees. examining surgeons, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fourteen thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For furniture and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars.Furniture, etc. For stationery for the fiscal years as follows:Stationery. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six hundred dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-two dollars and fifty-six cents.
For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing ofOfficial transportation. animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand six hundred dollars. 1236 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. Law books.For law books for library of the Department, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
Court-house, D. C.Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs, eight hundred dollars. Alaska.Rent, etc.Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, thirty-one dollars and ninety-five cents. —judicial expenses.For the actual and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney of the Territory of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars.
Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, three thousand dollars. Defending suits in claims.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For 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 under the direction of the Attorney-General, six thousand dollars.
John H. Koogler.Payment to.Payment to John H. Koogler: To pay John H. Koogler for preparing and conducting prosecution against Tillman C. Chance in the Indian Territory by direction of the United States court, twenty-five dollars. J. S. Lunsford.Payment to.Payment to J. S. Lunsford: To pay J. S. Lunsford, deputy United States marshal for the western district of Arkansas, for services rendered and expenses incurred in connection with the arrest of M. M. Smith, Thomqs Bolden, and Nathan Conner, in Polk County, Arkansas, fifty-three dollars and seventy cents.
Tyre Glenn.Payment to.Reimbursement of Tyre Glenn: For reimbursement of Tyre Glenn, late United States marshal for the western district of North Carolina, for expenses incurred and paid by him in guarding and arresting persons concerned in the killing of Deputy Marshal Brockus, in February, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the amounts paid to James M. Baley and I. K. Buckner for capturing Frank Lewallen, charged with said killing, four hundred and nine dollars. Horatio Crain.Payment to.Payment to Horatio Crain:
For the payment of Horatio Crain for expenses of subsistence and for services rendered at Dry Tortugas from October eighteenth to October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-six dollars. James M Beck.Payment to.Payment to James M. Beck: For the payment of James M. Beck for legal services in the case of Herman Keck versus The United States, seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents. William H. White.Payment to.Payment to William H. White: For the payment of William H.
White for legal services rendered, under the direction of the Attorney-General, in the case of John Anderson versus Morgan Treat, five hundred dollars. Circuit courts of appeals.Legal services in.Payment for legal services in circuit courts of appeals: For the payment, upon accounts approved by the Attorney-General, of claims for compensation on account of legal services rendered and expenses incurred in cases before the United States circuit courts of FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.
III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1237 appeals, the amount of said compensation to be determined by the Attorney-General, twenty thousand dollars. Reimbursement to I. Wheeler Brandow and C. V. A. Blauvelt:I. Wheeler Brandow,C. V. A. Blauvelt.[R. S., sec. 1042, p, 192](/us/rs/s1042/p192). For the reimbursement of Sheriffs I. Wheeler Brandow and C. V. A. Blauvelt for expenses incurred in the transportation to New York City of United States prisoners to be discharged under section one thousand and forty-two, Revised Statutes, nine dollars and nine cents and twelve dollars and forty-five cents, respectively, twenty-one dollars and fifty-four cents.
Expenses of litigation for Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees:Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokee Indians.Expenses of litigation. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of litigation for Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees,” forty-five cents. united states courts.United States Courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsM arshals. and their deputies, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter all unserved process remaining in*Provisos.*—unserved process to be delivered to succeeding marshal. the hands of a United States marshal or his deputies, when the marshal ceases to be such, shall be immediately delivered to the succeeding marshal upon request; and when a deputy United States marshal resigns or is removed he shall, upon request, deliver to the United States marshal for the district all process remaining in his hands: *Provided,* That an Act entitled “An Act to authorize United StatesIndian Territory.Execution in of process by marshals; repeal.Vol. 25, p. 167.Abner Gaines.Payment to, of salary. marshals to arrest offenders and fugitives from justice in Indian Territory,” approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby repealed: *Provided,* That the salary of Abner Gaines, late United States marshal for the eastern district of Arkansas, for services as marshal of said district from March twenty-seventh to April ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, both dates inclusive, in amount one hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-four cents, or so much thereof as remains unpaid, shall be paid the same as if said marshal had received an ad interim appointment and qualified thereunder: *Provided,* That the salaries of the office deputy marshals appointed byPayment of salaries certain deputy marshals, Maryland, authorized.
Charles H. Evans, late United States marshal for the district of Maryland, from and after July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and until their successors were duly appointed and entered upon their duties, or until their services as said office deputies actually ceased, shall be paid in all respects the same as if they had been duly appointed by the present United States marshal and had qualified: *Provided,* That credit shall be allowed to Zoeth Houser, United StatesZoeth Houser.Credit in accounts of. marshal for the district of Oregon, in the settlement of his accounts, for payments heretofore made by him to his deputies on account of fees earned by them during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on the basis of double the fees allowed by law for United States marshals and their deputies in other districts: *Provided,* That credit shall be allowed in the settlement of the accounts of Barry Baldwin,Barry Baldwin.Credit in accounts of. late United States marshal for the northern district of California, for the expenses of Deputy Marshal James H.
Lyndon in returning from Boston, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, California, after having transported a United States prisoner to Boston upon a warrant of removal. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys and regular assistants.*Proviso.*—appropriations available for attendance on Supreme Court. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, six thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation and the like appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred shall be available for the payment, upon the approval of the Attorney-General, of the expenses of the United States district attorneys while absent from their respective districts in connection with services heretofore rendered, or to be rendered, before the Supreme Court of the United States. 1238 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty cents. Regular assistants to district attorneys.For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, fifteen thousand dollars. Fees of jurors.For fees of jurors for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine dollars and seventy cents. —witnesses.For fees of witnesses for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and sixty nine dollars and eighty cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, nine dollars and fifty cents. —witnesses. Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction, or place of bona 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, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, thirty-five dollars and twenty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fifteen dollars and thirty cents. United States Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, 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, four thousand dollars.
Fuel, forage, etc.For fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, advertising, and 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; 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 materials for construction and repair of buildings; 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, blankets, bedsacks, iron bunks, 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; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General; and for miscellaneous expenditures which can not properly be included under the heads of expenditures, one thousand dollars;
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1239 For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medicalHospital. and surgical supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, four hundred dollars; For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiff’s and oneBailiffs and criers. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,**Provisos.*Attendance.[R.
S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136). That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided further,* That no such person shall be employed during vacation; ofVacation.Expenses of judges, etc. reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United StatesMeals for jurors, etc. cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation by jury commissioners, five dollarsJury commissioners. per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty-five dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty-five dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ten dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. 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 of records, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and seven dollars and forty-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-one dollars and thirty-two cents. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employedSpecial assistant district attorneys. by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, six thousand one hundred and sixty six dollars and four cents. For salaries and expenses of United States courts in the Indian Territory,Indian Territory, expenses. fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department.
For telegraphing for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,Telegraphing. two thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventeen cents. out of the postal revenue.Postal service. Free delivery: To pay the amounts set forth in House DocumentFree delivery. Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, of this session, for free-delivery service for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-seven thousand and eight dollars and seventy-two cents. 1240 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-five cents. To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, of this session, for experimental rural free delivery, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-five cents. Clerks in post-offices.Clerks in post-offices: For compensation of clerks in post-offices, eight thousand one hundred dollars.
Rent, light, and fuel.Rent, light, and fuel: For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices, four thousand dollars. Post-offices, military camps.ePost-offices at military posts: For establishment and maintenance during the existing war, and during the military occupation of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, of temporary post-offices at military posts or camps for the purpose of supplying the officers and troops there encamped with mails, the location of any such post-office to be changed to any other post or camp, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Mail transportation.Mail transportation; For inland transportation by steamboat routes, fifteen thousand dollars. For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one million and twenty-nine thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventeen cents. Railway post-office cars.For railway post-office cars, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and eleven cents. —clerks.For railway post-office clerks, forty-two thousand dollars.
Special transfer, St. Louis, etc.For special transfer and terminal service between the Union Station at East Saint Louis, Illinois, and the Union Station at Saint Louis, Missouri, including the use, lighting, and heating of mail building, and the transfer service at Saint Louis, fifty thousand dollars. Advertising.Advertising: To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, of this session, for advertising, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents.
Plimpton Manufacturing Company.Payment to.Official envelopes: To pay the Plimpton Manufacturing Company and Morgan Envelope Company for registered-package, tag, official, and dead letter envelopes for June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-four cents. Postmasters.Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five of this session, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven hundred and seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-one dollars and one cent. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventeen cents. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. library of congress.Congressional Library. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Library, including the copyright business, five hundred dollars. under the public printer.Government Printing Office.
Leaves of absence,To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Govern- FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1241 ment Printing Office, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes,Samuel Robinson, etc.Payment to. messengers on night duty during the third session of the present Congress, for extra services, one hundred dollars each; in all, three hundred dollars.
For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, seventyPrinting, etc., Treasury Department. thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Interior Department, including the—Interior Department. Civil Service Commission, eighteen thousand dollars. senate and house.Senate and House. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofPayment to employees for extra services. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-fifth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. That the expenses necessarily incurred by the Postal Service Commission,Postal Service Commission.Laws, 2d sess. 55th Cong., p. 445.Expenses. appointed under the Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, approved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, between February first and March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety nine, be paid from the appropriations made by the above-mentioned Act. senate.Senate.
To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Payment to, for extra services. the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. For five annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees,Clerks to Senators, etc. at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
To pay La Fayette Grover the amount expended by him in defendingLa Fayette Grover.Payment to. his title to a seat in the Senate from the State of Oregon, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Hawkins Taylor, assistant clerk to the Committee on ForeignHawkins Taylor.Payment to. Relations, the difference between the pay of assistant clerk and clerk to said committee, seven hundred and eighty dollars. To pay Michael Conlan the difference between the compensation ofMichael Conlan.Payment to. a laborer and that of a messenger from December second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety, under resolutions of the Senate March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
To pay H. R. Cunningham for additional services rendered in theH. R. Cunningham.Payment to. office of the Secretary of the Senate as acting assistant minute and journal clerk from March twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and eighty-five dollars. To pay Robert P. Troy for services rendered on the floor of theRobert P. Troy.Payment to. Senate from August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who performedPayment for preparing index of private claims. the work of arranging and preparing the index of private claims introduced in the Senate during the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty- 1242 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, under Senate resolution of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States, to be immediately available, and to be paid only upon vouchers signed by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims.
Furniture.For purchase of furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. Maltby Building.For repairs of Maltby Building, two thousand dollars. Richard Gay.Payment to.To pay Richard Gay as conductor of elevator from January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and ten dollars. Elevator conductors.For pay of two elevator conductors from March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Stables.For paving at Senate stable, one thousand five hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirteen dollars and sixty cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-two cents. Heirs of Lemuel J. Bowden.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifteen thousand dollars.
Payment to.To pay Martha E. Bowden and Zenobia Porter, the heirs of Lemuel J. Bowden, formerly a Senator from the State of Virginia, three thou sand dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Clerk hire to Members and Delegates.To pay Members and Delegates the amount which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire necessarily employed by them Vol. 27, p. 757.in the discharge of their official and representative duties, as provided in the joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, during the session of Congress, and when Congress is not in session, as provided in House resolution passed May eighth, eighteen *Ante*, p. 687.hundred and ninety-six, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen thousand Clerks for Members elect.[R.
S., sec. 31, p. 6](/us/rs/s31/p6).dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised. Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this appropriation. Compensation and mileage.For compensation and mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from the Territories, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight thousand dollars.
Packing boxes.For packing boxes, three thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and forty cents. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, fifteen thousand dollars. Clara Nor th way Williams.To pay Clara Northway Williams, daughter of Stephen A. Northway, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio, two thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. William F. Love.Payment to widow.To pay the widow of William F.
Love, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Mississippi, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and forty cents. Nelson Dingley.Payment to widow.To pay the widow of Nelson Dingley, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Maine, six hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-four cents. Denis M. Hurley.Payment to heirs.To pay to the legal heirs of Denis M. Hurley, late a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, sixty eight dollars and fifty cents.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1243 To pay to the minor children of John W. Cranford, deceased, lateJohn W. Cranford.Payment to minor children. member of the House of Representatives from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars. For allowance to the following contestee, audited and recommended byContested election expenses. the Committees on Elections, for expenses incurred by him in contested election case, namely: To Mason S. Peters, five hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirtyMason S.
Peters. cents. To pay Henry D. Clayton for expenses in contested election case asHenry D. Clayton. recommended by the Committee on Elections, three hundred dollars. To pay J. C. Courts for services as clerk to the committee, authorizedJ. C. Courts.Payment to. by resolution of the House, to inquire into charges for gas and telephone service in the District of Columbia, eight hundred and four dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Payment to, for extra services. the House of Representatives and the official stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid by them from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for clerical hire and extra clerical services, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, and to John J.
Cameron two hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. To pay and reimburse Joel Grayson and C. W. De Knight in full forJoel Grayson and C. W. De Knight.Payment to. services and actual expenses for clerical assistance in indexing and preparing marginal notes for the bankruptcy law, five hundred dollars. To pay Harry Parker for services as janitor to the room of the CommitteeHarry Parker.Payment to. on Ways and Means, from January fourth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty cents.
For a messenger and assistant clerk, at the rate of one thousand twoCommittee on Appropriations’ messenger and assistant clerk. hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of a messenger, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, to the Committee on Appropriations, from March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. To pay Charles Carter for caring for subcommittee room of CommitteeCharles Carter. on Appropriations, seventy-five dollars.
For clerk to Committee on Elections Numbered Two, and clerk toClerks to Committees on Elections. Committee on Elections Numbered Three, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, from July first to December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, one thousand six hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty cents. To pay J. B. Holloway for the preparation of the House omnibusJ. B. Holloway.Payment to. claims bill and statistics relating to war claims, one thousand dollars.
To pay the following, which have been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: To pay P. L. Coultry the difference between his salary as folder andP. L. Coultry. that of acting assistant foreman of the folding room, at rate of three dollars and eighty-five cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty cents. To pay Noah L. Hawk for extra services as assistant deputy sergeant-at-arms,Noah L.
Hawk. three hundred dollars. To pay William A. Slenker for extra services, four hundred andWilliam A. Slenker. eighty dollars. To pay Edward F. Beckman the difference between his salary as aEdward F. Beckman. folder and that of a clerk at one thousand dollars per annum from March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, five hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-four cents. To pay John H. Hollingworth for services performed under the DoorkeeperJohn H.
Hollingsworth. of the House from December fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month, five hundred and twenty dollars. 1244 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. Walter P. Scott.To pay Walter P. Scott the difference between seven hundred and twenty dollars and one thousand dollars per annum during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and eighty dollars.
Kendal Lee.To pay Kendal Lee for services in caring for room of Committee on Accounts, one hundred dollars. Minot Reed Stewart.To pay Minot Reed Stewart for services as page during the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. Guy Underwood.To pay Guy Underwood for services in the hall library, five hundred and ninety-four dollars. Harris A. Walters.To pay Harris A. Walters the difference between the pay of a folder and that of a messenger and assistant clerk to the Rivers and Harbors Committee, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred and ninety-four dollars.
Thomas F. Tracy.To pay Thomas F. Tracy the difference between seven hundred and twenty dollars and one thousand dollars per annum during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and eighty dollars. Charles N. Thomas.To pay Charles N. Thomas for extra services in the office of the disbursing clerk of the House of Representatives, three hundred dollars. W. P. Jerdone.To pay W. P. Jerdone for clerical services rendered to John W. Cranford, deceased, late a member of the House from the State of Texas, one hundred and nine dollars and sixty-seven cents.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States Courts. Vol. 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney- General, in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-four, and which have not been appealed, twenty-four thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this *Proviso.*Appeal.appropriation is made: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Groome v. Cohurn.Payment of judgment.To pay a judgment in the case of John C. Groome against Fredrick S. Coburn and others, in equity, Numbered Eighteen thousand two hundred and twenty-four, in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in which the United States was the intervener, said judgment being affirmed by the court of appeals of said District, the proceeds thereof having been improperly covered into the Treasury of the United States by the clerk of the supreme court of said District, contrary to a stipulation with the United States district attorney for said District, eight hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-two cents.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims reported to Congress at its present session, in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-seven and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-seven cents; for payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, as follows: To Thomas R. Morgan ninety-nine dollars, and to Henry I.
Hayden one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty eight dollars and forty-seven *Provisos.*cents: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein provided for FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1245 shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired: *Provided further,*Appeal.Judgment of Anthony F. Navarre.Certain attorneys’ fees to be withheld. That in the case of the appropriation for the judgment in favor of Anthony F.
Navarre and others, as set out in Number Seventeen thousand three hundred and five of Senate Document Numbered Cue hundred and fifty-three, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to withhold from distribution among the said Indians so much of any moneys due them by reason of said judgment as he may find to be just and reasonable for attorney’s fees for services rendered said claimants and for advances in said litigation, and to pay the same on account of the prosecution and recovery of the moneys aforesaid to the attorney of record in said cause as required by the decree of the court.
To pay the balance due on judgment of the Court of Claims in favorSouthern Pacific Company.Payment of balance of judgment. of the Southern Pacific Company, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Fifty-nine, Fifty-second Congress, second session, one million three hundred and ten thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eight cents. And authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of the Treasury, inCentral Pacific Railroad.Disposition of notes of, etc., authorized. his discretion, to dispose of, without commission, at not less than par and accrued interest, any notes or other evidence in his possession touching the indebtedness of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to the United States.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-three of this session, three hundred and sixty eight thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents; said judgments to be paid after the deductions requiredDeductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service: *Provided,* That no one of said*Proviso.*Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient in his opinion to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-one, Fifty-fifth Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department.Salaries, Secretary’s office.
For salaries, office of Secretary of the Treasury, nine dollars and thirteen cents. 1246 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. Public buildings.For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, one hundred and eighty dollars. For furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings, thirty-four dollars and seventy-one cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, five dollars and ninety-nine cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings., four dollars and ninety cents.
Suppressing counterfeiting.For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, three dollars and sixty-four cents. Customs.For collecting the revenue from customs, six hundred and five dollars. For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, sixty-three dollars and ten cents. Life-Saving Service.For Life-Saving Service, nine dollars. Internal revenue.For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, three hundred and fifty dollars. For redemption of stamps, fourteen dollars and forty-five cents.
For drawback on stills exported, Act March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department.Recruiting.Contingencies, Army.Pay, Army. For expenses of recruiting, fifteen dollars and twenty cents. For contingencies of the Army, twelve dollars and ninety-four cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-two cents.
Quartermaster’s Department.For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and twelve cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, three hundred and forty-six dollars and thirteen cents. For barracks and quarters, six dollars and forty-two cents. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.For headstones for graves of soldiers, seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents. East River, etc., N. Y.For removing obstructions from East River and Hell Gate, New York, sixteen dollars.
Lost horses, etc.For horses and other property lost in the military service, five hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-nine cents. California, etc., volunteers.For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, eight hundred and forty dollars and twelve cents. Transportation of officers.For transportation of officers and their baggage, twenty-three dollars and forty-eight cents. Mexican volunteers.For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, forty-two dollars and six cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department.Pay, Navy.
For pay of the Navy, two thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars and thirty-six cents. Mileage.For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, three hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty cents. Pay, Marine Corps.For pay, Marine Corps, two hundred and ninety-one dollars and eight cents. —clothing.For clothing, Marine Corps, eight dollars. Bureau of Navigation.For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, ninety dollars. Bureau of Equipment.For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, thirteen dollars and eighty-six cents.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one dollar and two cents. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, five thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, one thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty cents.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1247 For enlistment bounties to seamen, two thousand three hundred and seven dollars and one cent. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, seventy-seven dollars and fourteen cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, one dollar andContingent expenses. one cent. For surveying the public lands, fourteen thousand and forty-sevenSurveys, public lands. dollars and thirty-two cents.
For surveying private land claims, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-six cents. For Geological Survey, one dollar and fifty-one cents.Geological Survey. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess ofReimbursing receivers. deposits, thirty dollars and forty-nine cents. For five per centum fund to States, lands, four hundred and oneFive per cent fund to States. dollars and ninety-five cents. For pay of interpreters, thirty-one dollars. For transportation of Indian supplies, nine dollars and thirty-oneIndian department. cents.
For support of Kickapoos, thirteen dollars and ninety cents. For Indian schools, support, forty-four cents. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, four dollars and eleven cents. For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, eighty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. For Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. For removal and subsistence of Eastern Band of Cherokees, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For army pensions, one hundred and thirty-four dollars.Pensions. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, three hundred and forty-five dollars. For salaries, pension agents, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State, etc., Departments. For public printing and binding, one thousand one hundred and sixty-fivePrinting and binding. dollars and fifty-three cents.
For salaries of consular officers while receiving instructions and inDiplomatic and consular. transit, eight dollars and twenty-four cents. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, six dollars and twenty-five cents. For salaries, consular service, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, one hundred and three dollars and eighteen cents. For loss by exchange, consular service, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and eleven cents.
For relief and protection of American seamen, sixteen dollars and eighty-one cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-four cents. For allowance for clerks at consulates, ninety-nine cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, seventy-two dollars andWeather Bureau. twenty cents. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, eight thousandUnited States courts. five hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-seven cents. 1248 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. For fees of clerks, United States courts, five hundred and sixty-five dollars and twelve cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, two thousand one hundred and twenty five dollars and forty cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, ten dollars. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, eight dollars and ninety cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one hundred and sixteen dollars. For rent of court rooms, United States courts, two hundred dollars.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, fifteen dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, one hundred and nine dollars and five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department.First Assistant Postmaster-General. For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Free delivery.For free-delivery service, eighteen dollars and fifty-nine cents.
Rent etc.For rent, light, and fuel, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents. Postmasters.For compensation of postmasters, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-five cents. Rewards.For rewards, six hundred dollars. Transportation.For steamboat transportation, three hundred dollars. For star transportation, thirty-five cents. For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, one dollar and seventy-two cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-nine, Fifty-fifth Congress, third session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. Public buildings.For heating apparatus for public buildings, seventy-two dollars and sixty-one cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, one dollar and thirty-six cents. Customs.Customs: For repayment to importers excess of deposits, fourteen dollars and thirty-four cents. Revenue-Cutter Service.For expenses of Revenue Cutter Service, twelve dollars.
Life-Saving Service.For Life-Saving Service, two hundred and thirty dollars. Internal Revenue.Internal Revenue: For refunding taxes illegally collected, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty cents, and this amount shall be paid to Selina Pulsifer, the widow of John W. Pulsifer, the deceased claimant. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. Pay, Army.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, five hundred and forty-three dollars and twenty cents.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 427. 1899. 1249 For pay of two and three year volunteers, two hundred and twenty-fourArrears of pay. dollars and ninety-two cents. For bounty to volunteers, their widows, and legal heirs, two hundredBounty. and seventy dollars. For subsistence of the Army, twenty-three dollars.Subsistence, Army. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, two thousand twoQuartermaster’s Department. hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-three cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, seventy-five dollars and seventeen cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, forty-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, five thousand and two hundred dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, one thousand two hundred and forty-eightPay, Navy. dollars and eighty-two cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two thousandBureau of Supplies and Accounts. and seventy-three dollars and fifty-four cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, eight hundred and eight dollarsBounties. and thirty-four cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifty-oneDestruction of clothing. dollars and fifty-two cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, fifty-seven dollars andBounties. seventy cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For surveying the public lands, five thousand seven hundred andSurveys. seventy-five dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Indians: For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence andIndian Department. civilization, one dollar and two cents. For support of Flatheads and other confederated tribes, forty-six dollars and seventy-five cents. For incidentals in Montana, forty-six dollars and fifteen cents. For Indian schools: Support, fifteen dollars. For substation, Flathead Agency, Montana, twenty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. Pensions: For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, sixteen dollarsPensions. and fifty cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State, etc., Department. state department. For salaries of consular officers while receiving instructions and inDiplomatic and consular. transit, five dollars and forty-three cents. For salaries, consular service, one thousand and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents. department of justice. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, two hundredUnited States courts. and forty dollars.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, eight dollars and fifteen cents. 1250 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 427, 428. 1899. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Depart ment. First Assistant Postmaster-General, miscellaneous.Payment, claims.For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents. To pay the audited claims certified in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-five, two thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-nine cents.
Sec. 4. Roger A. Hiern.Vol. 20, p. 651.Payment to administrator of. That the appropriation made by Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to be paid to Robert Otis, as administrator of the estate of Roger A. Hiern, be, and hereby is, made available for payment to the administrator de bonis non of said estate, said Robert Otis having died. Approved, March 3, 1899.
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