Chapter 546. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes

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Chap. 546: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes. Chapter 546 30 Stat. 597 1898-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 2 public chap. 546.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes.July 1, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Appropriations for sundry civil expenses. and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, namely:

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. For public building at Boise City, Idaho: For completion of building Boise City. Idaho. under present limit, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. For post-office at Buffalo, New York: For continuation of building Buffalo, N. Y. under present limit, four hundred thousand dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Camden, New Jersey: For completion Camden, N.

J. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. 598 For rental of quarters at Chicago, Illinois: For annual rental of Chicago. Ill. Rent temporary quarters. temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. For completion of construction of a one-story annex building to the —annex building, etc. temporary post-office building at Chicago, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars.

For post-office and court-house at Chicago, Illinois: For continuation of building under present limit, one million dollars. For public building at Cheyenne, Wyoming: For completion of building Cheyenne, Wyo. under present limit, eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-nine cents. For mint building at Denver, Colorado: For completion of building Denver, Colo. under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. Old post-office building, Detroit, Michigan:

That the Secretary of Detroit, Mich. Old post-office building. Vol. 23, p. 338. the Treasury is hereby directed to disregard sections two and three of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Detroit, Michigan,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, authorizing the sale of the old post-office building located in the city of Detroit, Michigan. For immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York:

For completion of Ellis Island, N. Y. building under present limit, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For new tunnel, steam mains, sewerage, and water supply to and from buildings, eleven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For water supply from Jersey City, ten thousand dollars. For naphtha launch, four thousand dollars. For new ferry house on island, three thousand five hundred dollars. For immigrants’ disinfection bath house and laundry, fifty-five thousand two hundred dollars.

For kitchen and restaurant building, thirty thousand dollars. For repairs to crib work on northeast side of basin and ferry slip, twenty thousand dollars. That not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars of the foregoing sums for immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York, shall be paid from the immigrant fund. For post-office and custom-house at Jacksonville, Florida: For outbuilding Jacksonville, Fla. for toilet-room purposes, two thousand five hundred dollars. For court-house and post-office at New York, New York:

For removing New York, N. Y. Improving sidewalks, etc. sidewalk on the south side of Mail street, immediately adjoining the building; widening the sidewalk on the north side of Mail street between Park Row and Broadway from fifteen to thirty feet, and necessary alterations in connection therewith; repaying the roadway on Mail street, and for enlarging the mailing platform on the north side of the building and constructing a cover for same, twenty thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at San Francisco, California:

For continuation San Francisco, Cal. of building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars. For the post-office, court-house, and custom-house, Saint St. Paul, Minn. Paul, Minnesota: The limit of cost of building, including heating and ventilating apparatus, fireproof vaults, elevators, and approaches, complete, is hereby extended two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the completion of said building as aforesaid, within said limit of cost, in accordance with amended plans of said building to be prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to cause suitable accommodations to be provided in said building for all officials of the United States located in said city who are entitled to quarters in public buildings.

For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For Treasury buildings, Washington. repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. 599 For post-office at Youngstown, Ohio: The Secretary of the Treasury Youngstown, Ohio. is authorized to expend so much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation heretofore made for the erection of a public building at Youngstown, Ohio, as in his judgment may be necessary to construct a stone or granolithic sidewalk about said building.

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

For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For sewer and water Boston, Mass. connections for mortuary and autopsy room, eight hundred and fifty dollars; isolation ward, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For invalid elevator, including Chicago, Ill. dynamo, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; for new building for boiler and power plant, isolation ward, stable, and laundry, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio: For boiler house, stack, and Cleveland. Ohio. new boilers, eight thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama: For general improvements Mobile, Ala. to station, five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Port Townsend, Washington: For two verandas Port Townsend, Wash. for wards, one thousand five hundred dollars. For marine hospital at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: For fire Vinyard Haven,Mass. escapes, six hundred dollars. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations.

For quarantine station, Reedy Island, Delaware River: For bathing Reedy Island. facilities and improvement of station, three thousand five hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: For fire-extinguishing Delaware Breakwater, Del. apparatus, five hundred dollars; lavatories to barracks, one thousand two hundred dollars; cistern, one thousand dollars; baths and closets for contagious hospital, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred dollars.

For quarantine station, Cape Charles, Virginia: For sulphur furnace Cape Charles, Virginia. and appliances, eight hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Cape Fear, North Carolina: For men’s Cape Fear, North Carolina. quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars; three small cisterns, two hundred dollars; hoisting apparatus, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For attendants’ quarters, Brunswick, Ga. five hundred dollars.

For quarantine station, Gulf: For launch, steam or naphtha, four Gulf station. thousand dollars; additional building for quarters, three thousand five hundred dollars; disinfecting machinery, one thousand five hundred dollars; pavilion ward for noninfectious diseases, one thousand five hundred dollars; isolation hospital, eight hundred dollars; fence, eight hundred dollars; transfer barge and ballast lighter, two thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. 600 For quarantine station, Tortugas (Key West), Florida:

For improvement Tortugas, Key West, Fla. Improvements, etc. Floating disinfecting plant. Vol. 25, p. 356. of wharf and new pier, seven thousand dollars; contagious disease hospital, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dollars. The balance of the appropriation of August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for the quarantine station near Key West, for purchase of site, construction of disinfecting machinery, and so forth, and now amounting to ten thousand and fifty-six dollars and twenty-two cents, together with the balance, heretofore appropriated in the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred Laws 1st sess., 55th Cong., p. 13. and ninety-seven, for a floating disinfectant plant, and now amounting to nine thousand five hundred dollars, is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for a floating disinfecting plant at Tortugas Quarantine Station, together with an additional sum of one thousand dollars.

For quarantine station, South Atlantic: For telephone to mainland, South Atlantic station. two thousand five hundred dollars; disinfecting apparatus and gangway, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred dollars. For quarantine station, San Diego, California: For new engine for San Diego, Cal. quarantine launch, one thousand six hundred dollars; improvement of water service, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred dollars. For quarantine station, San Francisco, California:

For steam disinfecting San Francisco, Cal. boiler and baths for quarantine bulk Omaha, one thousand dollars; additions to disinfecting apparatus, two thousand two hundred dollars; bichloride tank and pipes, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Astoria, Oregon: For the establishment of a Astoria, Oreg. quarantine station at or near Astoria, Oregon, and for the maintenance of said station, thirty thousand dollars. Heating apparatus for public buildings:

For heating, hoisting, Heating apparatus for public buildings. and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.

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

LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. Sankaty Head Light-Station, Massachusetts: For roadway from the Sankaty Head, Massachusetts. station to the public road, three hundred dollars. Plum Beach Light and Fog-Signal Station, Rhode Island: For completing Plum Beach, Rhode Island. the station, nine thousand dollars. New Haven Harbor Breakwater Light and Fog-Signal Station, Connecticut: New Haven, Conn. For completing the light and fog-signal station on the outer breakwater, entrance to New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, fifty thousand dollars.

Hart Island Fog-Signal Station, Long Island Sound, New York: For Hart Island, New York. establishing a fog-signal station at the southern end of Hart Island, New York, two thousand five hundred dollars. Staten Island Light-House Depot, New York: For continuing the Staten Island depot, New York. construction of the sea wall, rebuilding wharves and dredging the basin, 601 at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Hooper Island Light and Fog-Signal Station, Maryland:

For establishing Hooper Island, Maryland. a light and fog-signal station on the shoals off Hooper Island, east side of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, thirty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light and fog-signal station complete, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. Cape Fear Light-Station, North Carolina: For establishment of a Cape Fear, North Carolina. first-order light station at or near the pitch of Cape Fear, North Carolina, thirty-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light-station complete, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy thousand dollars.

Egmont Key Light-Station, Florida: For building a light-keeper’s Egmont Key, Florida. dwelling at Egmont Key light-station, Florida, three thousand five hundred dollars. Apalachicola Bay Range Light-Station, Florida: For reconstructing Apalachicola Bay station, Florida. ` the front beacon of Apalachicola Bay range light-station, Florida, seven thousand dollars. Saint Joseph Point Light-Station, Florida: For establishing a light-station St. Joseph Point, Florida. at or near Saint Joseph Point, in Saint Joseph Bay, west coast of Florida, fifteen thousand dollars.

Key West Light-House and Buoy Depot, Florida: For repairing Key West depot, Florida. wharf and buildings of the depot at Key West, Florida, ten thousand dollars. Red Fish Bar Light-Station, Texas: For reestablishing Red Fish Bar Red Fish Bar, Texas. light-station, Texas, on the edge of Red Fish Bar Out, eight thousand dollars. Mermenteau River Light-Station, Louisiana: For constructing light Mermenteau River, Louisiana. and fog-signal station, seven thousand dollars. Saint Martin Island Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan:

For St. Martin Island, Michigan. establishing a light and fog-signal station on Saint Martin Island, Saint Martin Passage, entrance to Green Bay, Lake Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. Grand Traverse (Cat Head) Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan: Grand Traverse (Cat Head), Station, Michigan. For establishing a fog signal at Grand Traverse (Cat Head) light-station, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars. South Milwaukee Light-Station, Wisconsin: For establishing a light-station South Milwaukee, Wis. at or near the north Government pier at South Milwaukee, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Tail Point, Wisconsin, Light and Fog-Signal Station: For moving Tall Point, Wisconsin. the Tail Point light and fog-signal station to a point near the channel, head of Green Bay, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Ludington, Michigan, Light and Fog-Signal Station: For a keeper’s Ludington, Mich. dwelling, three thousand dollars. Poe Reef Light-Vessel, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan: For constructing, Poe Reef vessel, Michigan. equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a steam light-vessel with steam fog signal, fifteen thousand dollars.

Depot for the Ninth Light-House District, Lake Michigan: For establishing Depot, Ninth district, Lake Michigan. a light-house and depot near the northern end of Lake Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. Toledo Harbor Light and Fog-Signal Station, Ohio: For constructing a Toledo Harbor, Ohio. light and fog-signal station to mark the outer end of the main channel, entrance to Toledo Harbor, Ohio, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of said light and fog-signal station complete, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.

Cheboygan River Front Range Light Station, Michigan: For the purchase of Cheboygan River, Michigan. additional lands for the Cheboygan River front range light station, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Lake Saint Clair, Michigan, Light and Fog-Signal Stations: For Lake St. Clair, Michigan. light and fog-signal stations to mark the new twenty-foot channel, twenty thousand dollars. 602 Mud Lake, Michigan, Light Station: For establishing a light to mark Mud Lake, Michigan. the turning point in the channel through Mud Lake, Saint Marys River, Michigan, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Head of Saint Marys River, Michigan, Range Lights: For establishing St. Marys River, Michigan. an additional set of range lights to mark the channel at the entrance to Saint Marys River, one thousand dollars. Depot for the Eleventh Light-House District, Lakes Superior, Huron, Depot, Eleventh district, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. and Saint Clair: For establishing a light-house and buoy depot in the vicinity of Saint Saints Marie, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. Point Arena, California:

For establishing telephonic communication Point Arena, California. between Point Arena light and the town of Point Arena, Mendocino County, California, eight hundred and sixty dollars. Point No Point Light-Station, Washington: For establishing a fog Point No Point, Washington. signal at Point No Point light-station, Puget Sound, Washington, six thousand dollars. Relief Light-Vessel for the Fourth and Fifth Light-House Districts: Fourth and Fifth districts, vessel. For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light-vessel, with steam fog signal, ninety-five thousand dollars.

Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses for Oil houses. *Proviso.* Cost. the storage of mineral oil, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Light-House Establishment.Light-House Establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and other incidental expenses, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

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

Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light-vessels, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, Buoyage. and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for incidental expenses relating thereto, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, Fog signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining Lighting of rivers. post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; York River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns River and Indian River, Florida; at Chicot Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Ten-603nessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers;

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

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

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

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

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

For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat Crews. stations, including the old Chicago station, and at the building authorized to be erected at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha Exposition. *Post,* p. 732. Omaha, Nebraska, by joint resolution approved December eighteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service during the period of actual employment; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses 604 of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation Commutation of quarters. of quarters for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred Vol. 22, p. 57. and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that can not be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million two hundred and ninety-four thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the New stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, forty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to establish Nahant, Mass. a life-saving station at or near Nahant, Massachusetts, at such point as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend. revenue-cutter service.Revenue Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service:

For pay of captains, Salaries and expenses. lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineer and assistant engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal passers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to Anchorage.

Vol. 25, p. 151. Vol. 27, p. 431. the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which can not be included under special heads, one million one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,**Provisos.* Constructor.

Clothing for enlisted men. —cost deducted from pay. That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one constructor in and for the Revenue-Cutter Service, who shall have the relative rank and pay of a first lieutenant in said service, as prescribed in section twenty-seven hundred and fifty-three, Revised Statutes: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to purchase from the appropriation for the maintenance of the Revenue-Cutter Service uniform clothing for the enlisted men of said service, the same to be sold to the crews of vessels in service: *Provided,* That the actual cost of the clothing thus sold to enlisted persons shall be withheld from their pay and repaid to said appropriation.

For the purchase of six foghorns, at not exceeding five hundred Eophones. dollars each, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of Salaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing *Proviso.* Notes of larger denomination.

United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired. 605 For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be *Provisos.* Notes of larger denomination.

Hand-roller presses. expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired: *Provided further,* That hereafter all bonds, notes, and checks shall be printed from hand-roller presses. For engravers’ and printers’ materials, and other materials, except Materials, etc. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. For rent of office now occupied by the agent of the Post-Office Rent, office of stamp agent.

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

For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Field expenses. Atlantic and Gulf coasts, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars. For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including Alaska, etc. Alaska and the survey of the passes at the head of Lynn Canal, fifty-four thousand four hundred dollars, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, including computations and plotting, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, five thousand dollars;

For off-shore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, ten thousand one hundred dollars; 606 For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts, for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied, as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished, and for determinations of geographical positions and for continuing gravity observations, twenty-two thousand dollars;

For surveying and temporarily marking that portion of the eastern California boundary line. boundary of the State of California commencing at and running south-eastward from the intersection of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude with the one hundred and twentieth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, ten thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and Traveling expenses, naval officers, etc. for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand four hundred dollars;

For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, and for the expenses of International Geodetic association. the attendance of the American delegate at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars; *Provided,* That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be *Proviso.* Interchangeable expenditures. available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation;

In all, for field expenses, one hundred and fifty-three thousand three hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and Repairs of vessels etc. maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the travelling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-five thousand dollars. For completing the steamer for service in Alaska and the Aleutian Steamer for Alaskan service. Islands, fifty thousand dollars. For equipment and outfit of such vessel, thirty thousand dollars.

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

For seven assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For four aids, at nine hundred dollars each; For four aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Pay of office force:

For one disbursing agent, two thousand Office force. two hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each;607 For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, type-writers, and copyists, namely:

For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;

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

For three, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; For electrotypes and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely:

For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For nine, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For five, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each;

For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For two, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-six thousand and ninety dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials Office expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, 608 lighting and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Allowances. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law.

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

Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including twenty thousand dollars for furnishing new galleries and including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, fourteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum.

For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand five hundred dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. For the continuation of the construction of galleries in the National Museum building, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Congressional Library building and grounds, in accordance with the approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and for the building of skylights above galleries in the four courts, and the erection of a ventilator upon the roof of the Lecture Hall, ten thousand dollars.

For purchase of two thousand nine hundred volumes, eighteen Purchase of library of G. Brown Goode. thousand pamphlets, and one thousand eight hundred portraits, auto-609graphs, and engravings relating to museums, exhibitions, and natural history, library of the late G. Brown Goode, five thousand dollars. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of National Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, sixty-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues —half from District revenues. —entrance from Woodley Lane. of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley Lane, and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the bank of Rock Creek.

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

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

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

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

Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Green Lake, Me. dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Craigs Brook, Maine. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; one laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. 610 Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station:

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

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

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

(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Put-in-Bay, Ohio. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand and sixty dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Northville, Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred Alpena, Mich. dollars; fish-culturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Duluth, Minn. dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Neosho, Mo. dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Leadville, Colo. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred San Marcos, Tex. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: Superintendent, Baird and Fort Gaston, Cal. one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Clackamas, Oreg. dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, 611at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester

(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Manchester, Iowa. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Bozeman, Mont. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Erwin, Tenn. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand Employees at large. eight hundred dollars each; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two crosswalks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Three car captains, at one thousand two Distribution employees. hundred dollars each; four car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; three car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant in charge, two Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in Division of statistics, etc. charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand Vessels. “Albatross.” eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars; Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars.“Fish Hawk.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first “Grampus.” mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the office Expenses of administration. of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, nine thousand dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations Propagation of food-fishes. of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. 612 Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, Maintenance of vessels. including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, and contingent expenses, thirty thousand five hundred dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses of Inquiry respecting food-fishes. the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the Expenses. waters of the interior in the interest of fish-culture: for the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, including the expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expenses Statistical inquiry. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, five thousand dollars; And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous Interchangeable expenditures. expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. For construction of buildings, and repair and improvement of buildings Duluth, Minn. and grounds, at the United States fish-cultural station at Duluth, Minnesota, one thousand dollars. For the completion of the fish-cultural station at Erwin, Tennessee, Erwin, Tenn. including construction of ponds, buildings, roads, grading, and other necessary constructions and equipment, four thousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars. For the purchase of forty acres of land (known as Grow Farm) adjoining —purchase of Crow Farm. the fish-cultural station at Erwin, Tennessee, one thousand two hundred dollars. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station at Cold Spring, Cold Spring, Meriwether County, Ga. Station established. Meriwether County, in the State of Georgia, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment of the same, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided,* That the site for the same, to be *Proviso.* Donation of site. selected by the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, consisting of about sixteen acres, shall be donated to the Government for the purpose of the said station before any expenditure hereunder. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State of Washington Washington, station established in. for the propagation of salmon and other fishes, and construction and equipment of station, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.* Donation of site. site for the same, to be selected by the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, shall be donated to the Government for the purpose of the said station before any expenditure hereunder. For construction and installation of new boilers, dynamo, and engine, “Albatross.” new boilers, etc. rebuilding pilot house, and other general repairs for steamer Albatross, twenty-six thousand dollars. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulate Salaries. Vol. 24, p. 386. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to Expenses. Vol. 24, p. 379. Vol. 25, p. 855. Vol. 26, p. 743. give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and nine thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office. In all, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 613 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including Internal-revenue stamp paper. freight, thirty-five thousand dollars. Reimbursement of S. Bolton’s Sons: To enable the Secretary of S. Bolton’s Sons, reimbursement of. the Treasury to pay to S. Bolton’s Sons the amount paid to the late collector of internal revenue for the Fourteenth District of New York in advance for internal-revenue stamps, which stamps were never delivered to said parties, thirteen thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act: *Provided,* That necessary books of reference and *Proviso.* Purchase of books for chemical laboratory. periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed one hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury. R. S., sec, 3653, p. 719. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver Transporting silver coin. —free of charge on request. coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, eighty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been *Proviso.* —deposit of equal amount. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins Recoinage of gold coins. R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, five thousand dollars. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent silver Recoinage of silver coins. coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin, Minor coins. —free transportation. twenty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been *Proviso.* —deposit of equal amount. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, United States securities. —distinctive paper. including transportation, salaries of register, two counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, eighty thousand dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:—witness of destruction, etc. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five 614 dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For —sealing and separating. materials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printer’s varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, express Expenses, national currency. charges, and other expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive Canceling, etc. paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of Custody of dies, rolls, and plates. dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, two thousand four hundred dollars; two subcustodians, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two distributors of stock, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant Public buildings. Assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, nine hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. That all court-houses, custom-houses, post-offices, appraiser’s stores, Secretary of the Treasury to have control of public buildings, etc. barge offices, subtreasuries, and other public buildings outside of the District of Columbia and outside of military reservations which have been heretofore purchased or erected, or are at present in course of construction, or which may hereafter be erected or purchased out of any appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the site or sites thereof, are hereby expressly declared to be under the exclusive jurisdiction and control and in the custody of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall have full power to take possession of and assign and reassign rooms therein to such Federal officials, clerks, and employees as in his judgment and discretion should be furnished with offices or rooms therein. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public Inspector of furniture. buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars. For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars, and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and Furniture and repairs. repairs of same and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used, as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, lights, Fuel, lights, and water. and water, electric current for light and power purposes, electric-light plants, including repairs thereto, in such buildings as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, electric-light wiring, and 615 miscellaneous items required for the use of the janitors, firemen, or engineers, in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, eight hundred and seventy thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas in any of the public buildings in the District of Columbia, under the control of the Treasury Department, shall include the rental or use of any gas governor, gas purifier, or other device for reducing the expenses of gas, when first approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and ordered by him in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be paid for such rental or use of such *Proviso.* Gas governor, etc. gas governor, gas purifier, or device greater than the one-half part of the amount of money actually saved thereby. Operation of pneumatic tubes: For supplying necessary power, Pneumatic tubes. and repairs to power plants, for operating pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter, court-house and post-office buildings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York City and Brooklyn, New York, and the post-office and subtreasury building, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. Boiler and other appurtenances, pneumatic-tube system, Boston, Maas. post-office and subtreasury building, Boston, Massachusetts: For the installation of one boiler and necessary appurtenances thereto in the post-office and subtreasury building, Boston, Massachusetts, for the operation of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter, five thousand dollars. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919. hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part *Proviso.* Witnesses. of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpœnaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “fees of witnesses, United States courts.” Publication of Supplement to Revised Statutes: To enable Supplement to Revised Statutes. Vol. 27, p. 477. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, when the work shall be completed, for preparing and editing a Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the Fifty-fifth Congress, under the Act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of Compensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, ten thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the Local appraiser’s meetings. necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses of Alaskan seal fisheries. Agents’ salaries, etc. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from 616 Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, and Food to natives. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the direction Salmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expenses of Fur-sealing log books, etc. Vol. 28, p. 54. enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred dollars. Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent Chinese exclusion. unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or sea-board for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Vol. 27, p. 25. Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” one hundred thousand dollars, and of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the collector of customs at Port Townsend, as additional compensation. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcement Alien contract-labor laws. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred thousand dollars. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, Lands, etc. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. Numbering and adding machines: For purchase of registering Numbering and adding machines. accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, for use in the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. District of Columbia: For the purpose of opening Cathedral avenue District of Columbia. Opening Cathedral avenue. in accordance with the highway extension plans, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to convey all right and title of the United States in and to a parcel of land bounded on the north by block two of the subdivision called Meridian Hill, and on the east by the east line of said block two extended southward, and on the west by the east line of Sixteenth street west as said line is now extended and laid down through said block two, and on the south by a line parallel to W street of the city of Washington and distant ninety feet north from the south line of said W street, to the parties owning a good and unincumbered title in fee simple to lots numbered twenty-two to twenty-nine, both inclusive, in block numbered five of the subdivision called Woodley Park, in the District of Columbia, containing about one hundred and three thousand five hundred square feet of land, and adjoining the land of the United States embraced in the Zoological Park, upon the conveyance by said parties of the said lots to the United States: *Provided,* That said lots in said Woodley Park, when so conveyed *Proviso.* Woodley Park lots to become part of Zoological Park, etc. to the United States, as aforesaid, shall become part of the said Zoological Park and shall be subject to the inclusion of so much of the same on said Cathedral avenue as may be necessary for the purpose of opening the said avenue. quarantine service.Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers Maintenance. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, South 617 Atlantic, Brunswick, Gulf, Tortugas, San Diego, San Francisco and Port Townsend, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and *Ante,* ., 31. ninety-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Repairs. Interior Department and Pension buildings, seven thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Capitol. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, thirty thousand dollars. For repairs to the plant cases, including coating same on the interior Plant cases. with asphaltic cement mastic, two thousand five hundred dollars For taking up the present Limmer asphalt roof over the committee Replacing asphalt roof. rooms and corridors adjacent, and replacing same with Val de Travers asphalt mastic from the mines at Neuchatel, Switzerland, eight thousand dollars. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Flags. Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Cleaning works of art. the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary repairs and improvements to the steam heating and Senate heating apparatus. ventilating apparatus of the Senate, including increased boiler-fine service, kitchen ventilation, and all machinery pertaining thereto in the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the Supreme Court, under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, four thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars. That the unexpended balance, amounting to two thousand one hundred Unexpended balance for ventilation reappropriated, etc. and seventy-three dollars and fifty-four cents, of the appropriation of fifty-five thousand dollars for the improvement of the ventilation of the Senate wing of the Capitol made by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby Vol. 29, p. 433. made available, and may be used for a ventilating exhaust fan for the attic story near the Supreme Court and the ventilation of the public closet in the basement story of the north wing, and for such other purposes in connection with the work as the Architect of the Capitol may deem necessary. Improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of Capitol grounds. the improvement of the Capitol Grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walls, and driveways, twelve thousand dollars. For resurfacing the roadway in the southwestern portion of the Capitol grounds and resetting the curbing, eight thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol Lighting. and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of 618 superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house and Senate Engine house and stables. and House stables, and for repairs and paving of floors and courtyards of same, five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For Salaries, registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, four hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* —at Sitka, Alaska. That the salary of the register and receiver at Sitka, Alaska, shall not be less than one thousand five hundred and with fees and commissions not more than three thousand dollars a year each until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, from and after the passage of this Act. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of two additional —additional registers, etc., Alaska. land districts in the District of Alaska, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the salary of each of said registers and receivers shall *Proviso.* —salaries of. not be less than one thousand five hundred and with fees and commissions not more than three thousand dollars a year until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, from and after the passage of this Act. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses of land offices. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing Depositing public moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swampland claims. and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swamp-land indemnity: 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, one hundred and ten thousand dollars: *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. Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet Forest reserves. Protection and administration of. *Ante,* p. 34. the expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations: *Provided,* That forestry agents and supervisors, and other persons *Proviso.* Per diem to employees in lieu of subsistence, etc. to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior for duty under this appropriation, shall be 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, seventy-five thousand dollars. That section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to repeal the timber Permits to citizens of Idaho and Wyoming to cut timber in Wyoming, etc. culture laws, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to grant permits, under the provisions of the eighth section of the Act of March Vol. 26, p. 1097.619 third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to citizens of Idaho and Wyoming to cut and timber in the State of Wyoming west of the continental duvude, on the Snake River and its tributaries to the, boundary line of Idaho for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove the timber so cut to the State of Idaho. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings Hearings in land entries. held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, three thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of Reproducing plats of surveys. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Maps of public land States: For the publication of maps of Maps of public-land States. public land States, to be distributed under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, one thousand dollars. Mineral lands in Montana and Idaho: For compensation of Mineral lands, Montana and Idaho. Compensation of commissioners to classify Northern Pacific Railroad land grant, etc. Vol. 28, p. 683. the twelve commissioners appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to examine and classify certain lands within the land-grant and indemnity land-grant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in the States of Montana and Idaho, with special reference to the mineral or nonmineral character of such lands, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said commissioners *Proviso.* Rate of pay, etc. shall be paid at the rate of ten dollars a day each while actually engaged in the performance of their duties, which amount shall include their transportation and subsistence expenses, and that the total amount of compensation to be paid to each commissioner annually shall in no case exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars; For publication of the monthly reports filed by said commissioners in Reports, publication of, etc. the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and the Cœur d’Alene land district, in the State of Idaho; and for the expenses pertaining to hearings ordered by, and conducted before, said registers and receivers, ten thousand dollars; For the payment of stenographers employed by said commissioners Stenographers. when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of reducing testimony to writing in cases where it is found necessary to examine witnesses in order to establish the character of lands examined by said commissioners, one thousand dollars; In all, forty-one thousand dollars. Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of the Examination of desert lands. Vol. 28, p. 422. Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars. surveying the public lands.Surveying public lands. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty-five Surveys, rates, etc. thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation *Provisos.* Preferences. Vol. 25, p. 676. Vol. 26, p. 215, 222. preference shall be given first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and second, to surveying under such other acts as provide for land grants to the several States, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reserva-620tion or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, and lines of reservations, except that the Extra rates for heavily timbered, etc. lands. Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the Exceptional difficulties. surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided,* That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Lands in California, etc. Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the Territory of Arizona, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines: *And provided further,* And of the sum hereby appropriated there may Resurveys. be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting Inspecting mineral lands, etc. mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Survey of private land claims. Wyoming, and Utah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to provide Vol. 28, p. 854. for the settlement of private land claims, in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, fifteen thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned Abandoned military reservations. Vol. 23, p. 103. Casa Grande. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. That where, prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Northern Pacific Railroad. —settlement on land grant of. the whole or any part of an odd-numbered section, in either the granted or the indemnity limits of the land grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to which the right of the grantee or its lawful successor is claimed to have attached by definite location or selection, has been purchased directly from the United States or settled upon or claimed in good faith by any qualified settler under color of title or claim of right under any law of the United States or any ruling of the Interior Department, and where purchaser, settler, or claimant refuses —refusal of settler to transfer his entry. —relinquishment of land by railroad and selection of lieu land. to transfer his entry as hereinafter provided, the railroad grantee or its successor in interest, upon a proper relinquishment thereof, shall be entitled to select in lieu of the land relinquished an equal quantity of public lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, not mineral or reserved, and not valuable for stone, iron, or coal, and free from valid adverse claim or not occupied by settlers at the time of such selection, situated within any State or Territory into which such railroad grant extends, and patents shall issue for the land so selected as though it had been originally —selection of odd numbered sections. granted; but all selections of unsurveyed lands shall be of odd-621numbered sections, to be identified by the survey when made, and patent therefor shall issue to and in the name of the corporation surrendering the lands before mentioned, and such patents shall not issue until after the survey: *Provided, however,* That the Secretary of the *Provisos.* List of settled tracts to be delivered to company. Interior shall from time to time ascertain and, as soon as conveniently may be done, cause to be prepared and delivered to the said railroad grantee or its successor in interest a list or lists of the several tracts which have been purchased or settled upon or occupied as aforesaid, and are now claimed by said purchasers or occupants, their heirs or assigns, according to the smallest Government subdivisions. And Title to relinquished lands to revert, to United Status, etc. all right, title, and interest of the said railroad grantee or its successor in interest in and to any of such tracts, which the said railroad grantee or its successor in interest may relinquish hereunder shall revert to the United States, and such tracts shall be treated, under the laws thereof, in the same manner as if no rights thereto had ever vested in the said railroad grantee, and all qualified persons who have occupied and may —settlers to prove title, etc. be on said lands as herein provided, or who have purchased said lands in good faith as aforesaid, their heirs and assigns, shall be permitted to prove their titles to said lands according to law, as if said grant had never been made; and upon such relinquishment said Northern Pacific Selection of lieu lands. Railroad Company or its lawful successor in interest may proceed to select, in the manner hereinbefore provided, lands in lieu of those relinquished, and patents shall issue therefor: *Provided further,* That the List, force of, etc. railroad grantee or its successor in interest shall accept the said list or lists so to be made by the Secretary of the Interior as conclusive with respect to the particular lands to be relinquished by it, but it shall not be bound to relinquish lands sold or contracted by it or lands which it uses or needs for railroad purposes, or lands valuable for stone, iron, or coal: *And provided further,* That whenever any qualified settler Settlements in good faith, etc. shall in good faith make settlement in pursuance of existing law upon any odd-numbered sections of unsurveyed public lands within the said railroad grant to which the right of such railroad grantee or its successor in interest has attached, then upon proof thereof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, and a due relinquishment of the prior railroad right, other lands may be selected in lieu thereof by said railroad grantee or its successor in interest, as hereinbefore provided, and patents shall issue therefor: *And provided further,* That nothing herein Northern Pacific Railway not recognized as lawful successor of Northern Pacific Railroad, etc. contained shall be construed as intended or having the effect to recognize the Northern Pacific Railway Company as the lawful successor of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the ownership of the lands granted by the United States to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, under and by virtue of foreclosure proceedings against said Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the courts of the United States, but the legal question whether the said Northern Pacific Railway Company is such lawful successor of the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company, should the question be raised, shall be determined wholly without reference to the provisions of this Act, and nothing in this Act shall be construed as enlarging the quantity of land which the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company is entitled to under laws heretofore enacted: *And provided further,* That all qualified settlers, Transfer of settlers’ claims and selection of lieu lands. their heirs or assigns, who, prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, purchased or settled upon or claimed in good faith, under color of title or claim of right under any law of the United States or any ruling of the Interior Department, any part of an odd-numbered section in either the granted or indemnity limits of the land grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to which the right of such grantee or its lawful successor is claimed to have attached by definite location or selection, may in lieu thereof transfer their claims to an equal quantity of public lands surveyed or unsurveyed, not mineral or reserved, and not valuable for stone, iron, or coal, and free from valid adverse claim, or not occupied by a settler at the time of such entry, situated in any State or Territory into which such railroad grant extends, and make proof therefor as in other cases provided; and in —proof, credits, etc.622 making such proof, credit shall be given for the period of their bona fide residence and amount of their improvements upon their respective claims in the said granted or indemnity limits of the land grant to the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company the same as if made upon the tract to which the transfer is made; and before the Secretary of —notice to settler. the Interior shall cause to be prepared and delivered to said railroad grantee or its successor in interest any list or lists of the several tracts which have been purchased or settled upon or occupied as hereinbefore provided, he shall notify the purchaser, settler, or claimant, his heirs or assigns, claiming against said railroad company, of his right to transfer his entry or claim, as herein provided, and shall give him or them option to take lieu lands for those claimed by him or them or hold his claim and allow the said railroad company to do so under the terms of this Act. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Scientific assistants. Salaries. Survey: for two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Expenses. Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, thirteen Laborers. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, one Topographic surveys. hundred and eighty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; thirty-five thousand dollars of which shall be expended west of the ninety-seventh meridian in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and the Territory of Oklahoma, and at least one-third of the remainder shall be expended west of the one hundred and third meridian; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geological surveys. one hundred and ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available; That any balance of the appropriation of seven thousand six hundred Survey of boundary line between Montana and Idaho. *Ante,* p. 33. and fifty dollars provided for in the sundry civil Act, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for surveying the boundary line between Idaho and Montana that may remain unexpended on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby reappropriated for the next fiscal year; For continuation of the investigation of the coal and gold resources Alaska, resources. of Alaska, five thousand dollars; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United Paleontologic researches. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical researches. United States, seven thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, Illustrations. fourteen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mineral resources. United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment Books, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; 623 For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, Maps. sixty thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the Gauging water supply. United States, including the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, fifty thousand dollars; For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been Survey of forest reserves. or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, six Rent. thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, six hundred and fifty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.Miscellaneous objects. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court Reports. Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and sixty-nine to one hundred and seventy-two, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of Vol. 25, p. 661. February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six hundred and eight dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses Government Hospital for the 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, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends, and not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital. The superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane shall Deposit in Treasury of funds of patients. deposit in the Treasury of the United States, in his name as agent, all funds now in his hands or which may hereafter be intrusted to him by or for the use of patients, which shall be kept as a separate account; —use of, etc. and he is hereby authorized to draw therefrom on his order, from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, for the use of such patients, but not to exceed for any one patient the amount intrusted to the superintendent on account of such patient; and he shall give a separate bond, satisfactory to the said Secretary, for the faithful performance of his duties in respect to these funds as herein provided. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Buildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, fifteen thousand dollars. For special improvements as follows: That not exceeding three thousand dollars of the appropriation for additional accommodations at the Government Hospital for the Insane, for the insane received from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, may be expended for furniture and bedding for said additional accommodations. For sewer to the river, fifteen thousand dollars. For dormitory addition to West Lodge, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For new machinery for laundry, including steam boiler, three thousand five hundred dollars. 624 For refitting old laundry as shop and dormitory, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For tubular boiler, two hundred horsepower, for power house, two thousand dollars. For increasing water supply at Godding Croft, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Current expenses. Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That directors appointed under the provisions of section *Proviso.* Senators, etc., who are director, term of office of. R. S., sec. 4863, p. 942. Directors to control disbursements; accounts. R. S., sec. 236, p. 39. forty-eight hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall remain in office until the appointment and acceptance of office of their successors; and the directors of the institution shall have control of the disbursement of all moneys appropriated by Congress for the benefit of said institution, accounts for which shall be settled and adjusted at the Treasury Department as required by the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing Repairs. and steam heating apparatus, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. qHoward University. For maintenance of the Howard University, Howard University. Maintenance. to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books for library, law library, bookcases, shelving, and fixtures, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history and laboratory, two hundred dollars; In all, thirty-three thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no *Provisos.* Use for theological department forbidden. Inspection. part of this appropriation shall be used, directly or indirectly, for the support of the theological department of said university, nor for the support of any sectarian, denominational, or religious instruction therein: *And provided further,* That no part thereof shall be paid to said university until it shall accord to the Secretary of the Interior, or to his designated agent or agents, authority to visit and inspect such university and to control and supervise the expenditure therein of all moneys paid under this appropriation. The president and directors of the Howard University shall report Report on condition of university. to the Secretary of the Interior the condition of the institution on the first of July of each year, embracing therein the number of pupils received and discharged or leaving the same for any cause during the preceding year, and the number remaining; also, the branches of knowledge and industry taught and the progress made therein, together with a statement showing the receipts of the institution and from what sources, and its disbursements and for what objects. Education in Alaska: For the industrial and elementary education Alaska. —education. of children in Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand dollars. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of the reindeer station at Port —reindeer. Clarence, Alaska, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improvement of the Yosemite National Park: For protection Yosemite National Park. of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to 625 be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars. Indian Affairs: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause Investigation of alleged injuries of Seminole Indians. an examination and investigation to be made of outrages and Vol. 11, p. 704. injuries alleged to have been perpetrated on individual Indians belonging to the Seminole tribe by an armed mob or band of lawless persons who invaded the Seminole country during the months of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and if, upon such examination and investigation, it shall appear that outrages and injuries have been so perpetrated, and that the United States is under treaty obligations to pay for such outrages and injuries, he shall ascertain the amount which should be properly paid said Indian or Indians, or their legal heirs or representatives, and pay such sum or sums as he may deem just and reasonable, and for such purpose a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated. Des Moines River Lands Settlers: To enable the Secretary of Des Moines River land settlers. Adjustment of claims of. Vol. 28, p. 396. *Post,* p. 1101. the Interior to expend any balance of money appropriated under the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, remaining unexpended, which sum is hereby reappropriated, to pay such sums as may be found due to duly qualified settlers who have in good faith filed preemption or homestead claims, made settlement, resided upon for a period of not less than five years, unless sooner evicted, cultivated and made valuable improvements on the land claimed, and in cases where such persons made actual settlement in good faith, under the preemption and homestead laws, at a time when others were permitted to file on like lands and in good faith resided upon same for a period of not less than five years, unless sooner evicted, cultivated and made valuable improvements upon the land so occupied, and duly offered to file for the land settled upon within the time prescribed by law, but were not permitted to do so by the officers of the Land Department, and did not abandon said lands or procure title to other public lands under any law of the United States, and the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary to make such payments: *Provided,* That no part of the aforesaid sums shall be paid *Provisos.* Further examination of evidence of amount due. until the Secretary of the Interior shall find and determine, upon the evidence heretofore taken by the special commissioner appointed under said Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and upon such other and further evidence as he may in his discretion take, all of which shall be preserved in his office, what sum, if anything, is justly due to such persons, their heirs and assigns, and the measure of damages shall be in all respects as was provided for claims under said Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the foregoing sums two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in making such further examination: *Provided Proofs of settlement, etc. further,* That no claim of any preemptor or homesteader shall be considered or allowed except upon proofs of settlement, residence, and improvements, as herein required: *Provided further,* That nothing Certain claims not to be reopened. herein shall be construed as authorizing the reopening or further consideration of any claim reported in lists A and B of the special commissioner’s report as the same appears in Senate document numbered two hundred and fifty-eight, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session. For the construction of a pedestal for a statue of Daniel Webster, Daniel Webster. Pedestal for statue of, etc. to be presented to the city of Washington by Mr. Stilson Hutchins, the site for said pedestal and statue to be selected by the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars. But said statue shall not be placed on the Capitol or Congressional Library grounds. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars.626 For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. For machines suitable for manufacture of siege carriages and limbers, and for installing same in shop “G,” twenty-eight thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For extending the electric lighting plant, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available. For replacing floor stringers and planking of the Rock Island wagon bridge and viaduct, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For repairs to the arsenal railway, one thousand five hundred dollars. For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For improving the water power at Rock Island Arsenal, by extending the present wing dam or by deepening the channel, as the Secretary of War may direct, forty-five thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For the Frankford Arsenal. transfer of the small cartridge factory to the rolling-mill building, including boiler house, chimney, boilers, engines, annealing house, dry house, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars. For electric lighting of the workshops, two thousand four hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Saint Louis Powder Depot, Saint Louis, Missouri: For repair St. Louis powder depot. of fifteen washouts in the slopes of magazines one, two, three, and four, and filling the same with masonry, to prevent future injury; for the construction of new copper gutters and spouting for all the magazines; for repairing, and in some cases rebuilding, retaining walls around magazines numbered one, two, three, and five, and placing stone copings on the same, and constructing a new retaining wall at magazine numbered four, nine thousand dollars. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building and Sandy Hook proving ground. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs to shops, storehouses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For general Springfield Arsenal. care, repair of quarters, of buildings and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. For completing one set of officers’ quarters, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, three thousand five hundred dollars. For introducing electric light into the water shops, including purchase of dynamo, wires, lamps, and so forth, and installing, all complete, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For an extension to the case-hardening and tempering room at the armory, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For macadamizing Lincoln street, the property of the United States, forming a highway of the city of Springfield, two thousand dollars. Testing Machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and material in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, ten thousand dollars. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For one Watertown Arsenal. magazine for the storage of explosives, fifteen thousand dollars. For constructing a sewer to connect the Watertown Arsenal sewer system with the Massachusetts State metropolitan sewer, nine thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals Repairs of arsenals. and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, fifty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Washington, D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows:Buildings and grounds. For improvement and maintenance of grounds north and south of Improvement and care. Executive Mansion, five thousand dollars. 627 For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, three thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and Old canal, etc. *Proviso.* Expenditure. site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, two thousand five hundred dollars. For manure and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice, five thousand two hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of seats and tools, three thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, three thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, six hundred dollars. For improvements, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the continuation of the concrete or asphalt pavement of E street northwest through said park, from Fourth street to Fifth street northwest, two thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made Limit for concrete, etc., pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For a steam road roller, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Executive Mansion. Mansion, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three Repairs, fuel, etc. thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For Lighting of Mansion and grounds. gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* Maximum per lamp. That for each five-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said To burn every night. lamps shall burn every night on the average from forty-five minutes 628 after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided,* That before any expenditures *Proviso.* Self-regulating burners. are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour. Electric lights: For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five Electric lights. nights from seven posts, at twenty cents per light per night, on grounds south of the Executive Mansion, five hundred and eleven dollars. For lighting thirty-two arc electric lights in Lafayette, Franklin, —parks. Judiciary, and Lincoln parks three hundred and sixty-five nights, at twenty-five cents per light per night, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For lighting twenty arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds —grounds, Executive Mansion. and Monument Park, three hundred and sixty-five nights, at not exceeding twenty-five cents per light per night, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds and park, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes, Repair of water pipes. purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments Telegraph, Capitol, Departments, etc. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument. Maintenance. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, —fuel, lights, etc. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. military establishment.Military establishment. Pay of the Army: To provide for payments made necessary by Pay of two additional artillery regiments. *Ante,* p. 261. the “Act to authorize two additional regiments of artillery,” approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely: Pay of officers of the line; pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay; pay of enlisted men; and additional pay for length of service, four hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty cents. military posts.Military posts. For the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement of, such Construction. military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be nec-629essary, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defense, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and of this sum fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the purchase of suitable building sites: *Provided,* That for the erection of barracks and *Proviso.* Limit for one-battery, etc., posts. quarters for artillery in connection with the project adopted for seacoast defense there shall not hereafter be expended at any one point more than sixty thousand dollars for a one-battery post and twenty thousand dollars additional for each additional battery, from any appropriation made by Congress, unless special authority of Congress be granted for a greater expenditure. For continuing construction and improvements at the military post Spokane, Wash. at Spokane, Washington, forty thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of buildings at the military post at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Fort Meade, South Dakota, thirty thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of buildings at the military post at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, thirty thousand dollars. That the appropriation of forty thousand dollars for beginning the Bismarck, N. Dak. Reappropriation for construction, etc. construction of buildings, providing for sewerage, water supply, roads, and other means of communication and other necessary improvements at the military post at Bismarck, North Dakota, made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred Vol. 29, p. 441. and ninety-six, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, Fort Monroe, Va. Repair, etc., wharf. including all necessary material therefor, and repairs of and necessary supplies, fixtures, and furniture for freight house and waiting rooms, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Repairs and maintenance of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and Roads. general police: For bricks for sidewalks; granolithic pavement; terra cotta pipe; rakes, shovels, and brooms; stone for macadamizing streets; electric lights for streets, or expense of other street lighting when necessary; repairs to roads, pavements, walks, and street crossings, three thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, one thousand eight hundred and seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and Sewer system, maintenance. pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. For continuing improvement of the harbor of Wilmington and Christiana Wilmington and Christiana River, Delaware, harbor. River, Delaware, two hundred and five thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For the Yellowstone Park. repair and maintenance of existing roads and bridges and improvement and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, including not exceeding five thousand dollars to be immediately available, forty thousand dollars. military parks.Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For compensation Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Expenses. and expenses of two civilian commissioners and the assistant in historical work; maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, mes-630senger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments, cutting out underbrush, and mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized by law; in all, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. To enable the Secretary of War to complete the battlefield of Lookout Purchase of Point Park, etc. Vol. 27, p. 598. Mountain, in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, by the purchase of the Point Park at the north point of Lookout Mountain, heretofore authorized by Act of Congress, thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of Shiloh. Expenses. establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, iron gun carriages and historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, fifty-five thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing Gettysburg. Expenses. the National Park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates, marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, fifty thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers under contracts River and harbor improvements. or otherwise and within the limits authorized by law, namely: For improving Hudson River, New York: Completing improvement, Hudson River, New York. one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and six dollars and fifty-six cents. For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing Humboldt, Cal. improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For completing Gowanus Bay, New York. improvement of Bay Ridge Channel, the triangular area between Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, and Red Hook and Buttermilk channels in the harbor of New York, New York, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement, Savannah, Ga. four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida. improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: For continuing improvement, Portland, Me. two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: For continuing improvement, Rockland, Me. three hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement, Boston, Mass. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Providence River and Naragansett Bay, Rhode Island. For continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. The provision in the river and harbor Act of June third, eighteen Bridgeport Harbor, Yellow Mill Pond. Vol. 29, p. 204. hundred and ninety-six, authorizing the expenditure of ten thousand dollars upon Yellow Mill Pond, so called, in Bridgeport Harbor, conditioned upon the construction by the city of Bridgeport of a drawbridge upon plans approved by the Secretary of War, is hereby so amended as to permit the immediate expenditure of said sum in the discretion of 631 the Secretary of War, the plans for said bridge having been approved by him and the sum of twenty thousand dollars appropriated therefor by the city of Bridgeport. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For continuing improvement, Buffalo, N. Y. four hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars. Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continuing construction, Delaware Bay, harbor of refuge. eight hundred thousand dollars. Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement Winyaw Bay, South Carolina. of harbor at Winyaw Bay, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improvement of Sabine Pass, Tex. harbor at Sabine Pass, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: Duluth, Minn. Superior, Wis. For continuing improvement, seven hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and thirty-eight dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement, Oakland, Cal. under existing project, one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. For the purpose of carrying out the following provision of the river Sacramento and Feather rivers, California. Restraining barriers, etc. Vol. 29, p. 232. and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: “For the construction of restraining barriers for the protection of the Sacramento and Feather rivers in California, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, such restraining barriers to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the recommendations of the California Debris Commission, pursuant to the provisions of, and for the purposes set forth in, section twenty-five of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, ‘An Act to create the California Debris Vol. 27, p. 511. Commission and regulate hydraulic mining in the State of California,’ approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three: *Provided,**Proviso.* Receipt and use of State appropriations. That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to receive from the State of California, through the debris commission of said State, or other officer thereunto duly authorized, any and all sums of money that have been, or may hereafter be, appropriated by said State for the purposes herein set forth. And said sums when so received and hereby appropriated for the purposes above named, to be expended in the manner above provided,” and for the further purpose of making available to the United States the appropriation, or any part thereof, made by the provisions of an act of the legislature of the State of California, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the appointment, duties, and compensation of a debris commissioner, and to make appropriation to be expended under his directions in the discharge of his duties as such commissioner, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,’” and of said amended act, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in the preparation for and construction of the proposed works authorized and appropriated for by the aforesaid provisions, to enter into an agreement that Agreement that contractor shall look solely to State tor half expenses etc. *Post,* p. 1148. the contractor shall look solely to the State of California for one-half of such expense, to be paid out of said State appropriation, and the United States shall in no manner be liable for said one-half. Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For construction of a San Pedro, Cal. deep-water harbor for commerce and of refuge at San Pedro, California, in accordance with the plans and specifications of the board appointed by the President, as provided in the Act of June third, eighteen hundred Vol. 29, p. 213. and ninety-six, four hundred thousand dollars; but nothing herein shall be construed to extend the limit of cost of improvement of the harbor at San Pedro, California, as authorized by said Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. That the provisions of the river and harbor Acts of August eighteenth, Coos Bay, Oregon. Vol. 28, p. 346. Vol. 29, p. 214. eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and June three, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, making appropriations for improving harbor at Coos Bay, Oregon, by deepening harbor and removing obstructions, 632 therefrom, are hereby so amended as to authorize the Secretary of War, Secretary of War may contract for work, etc. in his discretion, to expend any or all of the funds so appropriated in carrying on the required dredging and other work by contract, or in any manner that in his judgment may be most economical and advantageous to the Government. Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuing Allegheny River, Pennsylvania. improvement by construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six-Mile Island, and at Springdale, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving upper Monongahela River, West Virginia: For continuing Monongahela River, West Virginia. improvement by the construction of six locks and dams, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For continuing Cumberland River. improvement by construction of locks numbered five, six, and seven, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement, Kentucky River, Kentucky. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Falls of Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky: For completing Falls of Ohio at Louisville, Ky. improvement, including Indiana Chute Falls, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be used for restoring the levee and banks of the Ohio River at or near Shawneetown, Illinois, recently swept away by the high waters in said river, such sum to be immediately available. For continuing construction of dams numbered two, three, four, and Dams Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5. five, between Davis Island Dam and dam numbered six, five hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing improvement from Chicago River, Illinois. its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch, and to Belmont avenue on the North Branch, four hundred thousand dollars. Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For continuing construction, one million Illinois and Mississippi Canal. four hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars: *Provided,* That twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall *Proviso.* Bridge over Rock River, etc. be used under the direction of the Secretary of War for the purpose of constructing a high bridge across Rock River on the line of said canal, in lieu of the one known as the Moline bridge in the county of Rock Island. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Cleveland, Ohio. *Proviso.* Levee of Muskingum River. three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That six thousand dollars of said sum may be used for the repair and extension of the levee of the Muskingum River at Zanesville, Ohio, in the discretion of the Secretary of War. Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Michigan: Waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior. For continuing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to Mississippi River. Mouth of Ohio to St. Paul. Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri River Mouth of Missouri to St. Paul. to Saint Paul, eight hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, of which sum forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended to complete the construction of the levee from Flint Creek to the Iowa River, according to the existing project of improvement. Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi Mississippi River Commission. Head of Passes to the Ohio. Expenses, etc. River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, one million nine hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, of which the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be nec-633essary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in protecting the bank at and near the town of Caruthersville, Missouri; the Caruthersville, Mo. sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in the rectification of the banks at Greenville, Mississippi; the sum Greenville, Miss. of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the completion of the revertment work at or near the town of Helena, Arkansas; the Helena, Ark. sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much Memphis, Tenn. thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the completion of the revertment work along the bluff at the harbor of Memphis, Tennessee; the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for repairing the damage which was done by the flood of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to the revertment work which was built by the United States Government in eighteen hundred and ninety-five along the bluff at said harbor of Memphis, Tennessee; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for continuing improvement of the Mississippi River at New Madrid, Missouri, revertment New Madrid, Mo. of the banks, and preventing destruction of the same. Improving Missouri River from mouth to Sioux City, Iowa: For continuing Missouri River Commission. Expenses, etc. improvement of Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks, and gauges, three hundred thousand dollars, of which the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in protecting the bank in Pelican Bend, Missouri River, Pelican Bend, etc. and improvement of river in that vicinity, to be immediately available, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in improving the river and protecting the north bank thereof from erosion at and near Huntsdale, in Boone County, Missouri, the sum of fifteen Huntsdale, Mo. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in protecting the channel and the shore line above Glasgow from the foot of Bowling Glasgow, etc. Green Bend to the head of Harrison Island, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of War, shall be expended in protecting the banks and existing Government works at and near the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri, St. Joseph, M. and the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall, in the discretion of the Little Blue, Missouri. Kaw River. Secretary of War, be expended in protecting the right bank of said river at and near the mouth of the Little Blue, in Jackson County, Missouri, and in the discretion of the Secretary of War the further sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in widening and cleaning out the mouth of the Kaw river where it empties into the Missouri river at Kansas City. For maintenance of the channel in Mobile Harbor, by dredging, Mobile Harbor. thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national Maintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of Superintendents. seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. 634 Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work Headstones for soldiers’ graves. Vol. 17, p. 545. Vol. 20, p. 281. of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to Roadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: *Provided,* That no railroad shall be permitted *Proviso.* Encroachments by railroads forbidden. upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, eight thousand dollars. For completing repair of damages caused by the recent floods to the Mound City, Ill. roadway leading from the Mound City National Cemetery to Mound City and Mounds, Illinois, and to widen the road and elevate the grade, two thousand five hundred dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of three thousand five hundred dollars made for this object in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved July nineteenth, *Ante,* p. 121. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Road to National Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi: For the Natchez, Miss. improvement and completion of the road and sidewalks from the city of Natchez, Mississippi, to the National Cemetery near that city, four thousand dollars. That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars made by the sundry Pensacola, Fla. civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for shelling or otherwise improving to completion the roadway from Pensacola, Florida, to the national cemetery near that city, is *Ante,* p. 49. hereby reappropriated and made available for such improvements on said roadway as may be found most advantageous. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Burial of indigent soldiers. Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. California: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, between Lombard street and First avenue, five thousand dollars. Improving Oak Hill Cemetery, at Evansville, Indiana:Evansville, Ind. For inclosing that part of Oak Hill Cemetery in which Union soldiers are buried, improving the ground and walks thereof, and for the purchase and erection of a suitable flagstaff on said lot, one thousand dollars; said sum to be expended on the condition that the city of Evansville will hereafter properly care for and preserve the same. Antietam Battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments Antietam battlefield., tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, war department.Miscellaneous. Survey of Northern, and Northwestern Lakes: For printing Surrey of northern, etc., lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, three thousand dollars. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting maps. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. 635 Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus Artificial limbs. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical Appliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients:Providence Hospital. Destitute patients. For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars. For construction and completion by the Commissioners of the District Isolating building. of Columbia of an isolating building for minor contagious diseases on the grounds of the Providence Hospital, including sewer, water, and gas connections, twenty-five thousand dollars; for furnishing and equipping said building for use, five thousand dollars; and for the maintenance of said isolating building, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That said hospital shall receive at *Proviso.* —to receive contagious cases, etc. any time such patients suffering with minor contagious diseases as may be sent to it by the said Commissioners at the request of the health officer of said District. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to Garfield Hospital. Maintenance. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars. For construction and completion of an isolating building for minor Isolating building. contagious diseases on the grounds of the Garfield Memorial Hospital, including sewer, water, and gas connections, twenty-five thousand dollars; for furnishing and equipping said building for use, five thousand dollars; for inclosing, grading, and improving the grounds immediately connected with said building, one thousand dollars; and for the maintenance of said isolating building, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That said hospital shall *Proviso.* —to receive contagious cases, etc. receive at any time such patients suffering with minor contagious diseases as may be sent to it by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia at the request of the health officer of said District. That the provision in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act Repeal, etc. Vol. 29, p. 679. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, making an appropriation of thirty thousand dollars for two isolating buildings to be constructed in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the grounds of two hospitals, and to be operated as a part of such hospitals, is hereby repealed. Publication of Official Records of War of the Rebellion:Records of War of the Rebellion. Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War, August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the Board of Publication, appointed in accordance with the Act of March second, eighteen hundred Vol. 25, p. 970. Employees. and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, not to exceed one agent at two thousand dollars, five clerks at eighteen hundred dollars each, two clerks at sixteen hundred dollars each, two clerks at fourteen hundred dollars each, four clerks at twelve hundred dollars each, two copyists at nine hundred dollars each, four assistant messengers, or watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one laborer at six hundred dollars, in all not to exceed twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars for such temporary expert services per annum, and for the purchase of 636 stationery, for contingent expenses and additional rent, not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, ninety-four thousand and eighty dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended *Proviso.* —limitation. for the compensation of any person not actually and necessarily employed in the said work of preparation, publication and distribution. California Debris Commission: For defraying the expenses of California Débris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507. the Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City. For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force and expenses Inspectors, etc. of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of four steam tugs and three Vessels. launches, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand dollars. Deep Waterways Commission: For surveys, examinations, and Deep waterways between Great Lakes and Atlantic tide waters. investigations (including estimate of cost) of deep waterways, and the routes thereof, between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tide waters, as recommended by the report of the Deep Waterways Commission transmitted by the President to Congress January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; such surveys, examinations, and investigations Board to survey, etc. *Ante,* p. 50. to be made by the board of three engineers designated and appointed by the President for this purpose July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in compliance with the provisions of the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and said board shall make a report of —report. the progress of the work to the Secretary of War for transmission by him to Congress at the commencement of its next session, and submit in their report the probable and relative cost of various depths for said waterway, respectively, as follows: twenty-one and thirty feet, with a statement of the relative advantages thereof. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current Dayton, Ohio. expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, clerks, and orderlies, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members, and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary Subsistence. 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, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; Household. for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath house keepers, ball cleaners, 637 laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital kitchen and dining room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining room employees; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-five thousand dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Transportation. Home, two thousand dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, Repairs, construction, etc. 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 of other improvements of a permanent character, fifty thousand dollars; For one barrack and furniture to replace three unserviceable barracks, twenty-five thousand dollars; For completion of brick water-closet, three thousand three hundred dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, Farm. farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park, for rent of leased land, and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, five hundred and ninety-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:Milwaukee, Wis. For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred Transportation. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For conversion of old hospital building into a convalescent barrack, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For steam boilers, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Farm. Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, Togus, Me. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars;638 For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital. the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five Transportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; For convalescent ward and mess hall for hospital, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm. the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current Hampton, Va. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For two barracks and furniture, in lieu of old hospital building, thirty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Farm. for the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: for Leavenworth, Kans. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding seven thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for household expenses for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight may be expended for extending the electric-light plant; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand dollars; For cottage for women nurses, four thousand dollars; For quartermaster and commissary building, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Farm. Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: for Santa Monica, Cal. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, ninety-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, thirty-eight thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital. the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation.639 For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs, etc. the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; The appropriation of three thousand five hundred dollars for quarters Quarters for women nurses. for women nurses at the Pacific Branch, made by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, *Ante,* p. 53. may be expended for such alterations in the hospital buildings as may be necessary to furnish the accommodations required for that purpose; For bakery, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For oil tanks and foundations, two thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Farm. Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current Marion, Ind. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital. the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation, including the same objects specified under this Transportation. head for the Central Branch, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs, etc. *Proviso.* New buildings. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriations for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For chapel, ten thousand dollars; For gas well and connections, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seven thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current Danville, Ill. Subsistence, etc. expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under these heads for the Central Branch, one hundred and one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available; For construction, namely: For the objects specified under this head Construction. in Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes, approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, toward which *Ante,* p. 237. there is hereby appropriated the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, Clothing for all Branches. underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops, in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, two hundred and forty thousand dollars; For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and Salaries, etc., Board of Managers. for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; R. S., sec.4827, p. 936. secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, three thousand dollars; one inspector-general, two thousand five hundred 640 dollars; one assistant inspector-general, two thousand dollars; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the general treasurer may hereafter Clerk to act in absence of general treasurer. designate a clerk in his office who, in the necessary absence or inability of the general treasurer from any cause whatever, shall perform his duties, and the general treasurer may require the said clerk, when so designated, to give bonds for the faithful performance of such duties —bond, etc. during the absence or inability of the general treasurer, but the general treasurer shall in every respect be responsible, on his bond, to the United States for any defaults of such clerk; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; messenger service for secretary’s office, fifty-two dollars; clerical services for managers, two thousand four hundred dollars; agents, two thousand four hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, Expenses. their officers and employees, eleven thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-two thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars. In all, two million eight hundred and twenty-one thousand and twenty-one dollars. Hereafter all supplies for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be purchased, shipped, and distributed as may be directed by the Board of Managers. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State or State 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, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes *Proviso.* Deductions. on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears Arrears of pay. of pay of two and three year volunteers that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. That so much of the sundry civil appropriation Act of March third, Payments to colored soldiers. Repeal of requirement of separate certificate, etc., for attorney’s fees. Vol. 20, p. 403. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, as requires in the settlement of claims for pay, bounty, prize money, or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors, or marines, or their legal representatives, that the amount allowed as attorney’s fees be stated in a separate certificate in favor of the agent or attorney, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteers and their widows Bounty. and legal heirs that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eight, Additional bounty. Vol. 14, p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of Commutation of rations. war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual Court-house, District of Columbia. repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. For fireproof record case, double door for vault, metallic window frame and shutters, office of the register of wills, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, five hundred dollars. 641 miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For stenographer to the Solicitor-General, one thousand six hundred Stenographer to Solicitor-General. dollars. To enable the Attorney-General and the Secretary of the Interior to Selection of prison site, etc. have prepared plans, specifications, and estimates, and for expenses connected with the selection of a prison site south of the thirty ninth degree of north latitude and east of the Rocky Mountains, under the provisions of the “Act for the erection of United States prisons and for the imprisonment of United States prisoners, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to be Vol. 26, p. 839. immediately available, fifteen thousand dollars. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including French spoliation claims. 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, forty thousand dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds:Punishing violations of intercourse acts, Indian service. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, ten thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of Prosecution of crimes. crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; and for the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution Prosecution, etc., of claims. and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual Alaska. Traveling expenses. and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For Rent, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, six thousand dollars. Buildings for United States courts, Alaska: For repairs Court buildings. and preservation of buildings in the custody of the United States marshal for the District of Alaska, and for the construction of a fireproof vault in Juneau, Alaska, for the preservation of court records, to be expended by the Attorney-General, and to be available until expended, five thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and Defense, Indian depredation claims. expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, fifty-two thousand dollars; and any unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight may be used for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Counsel for mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-General Counsel for mission Indians. to employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, five hundred dollars. 642 Opinions of the Attorney-General: To enable the Attorney-General Opinions of Attorney-General. Publication, etc., twenty-first volume. to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the twenty-first volume of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, to be expended by the Attorney-General in such manner as will, in his judgment, best accomplish the work, five hundred dollars; the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes.R. S., sec. 383, p. 63. Payment to the widow of Samuel F. Miller: To enable the Samuel F. Miller, payment to widow of. Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the widow of the late Samuel F. Miller, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars, being a sum equal to the balance of his salary for the year in which he died, to be immediately available. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the Expenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals Marshals’ salaries. Vol. 29, p. 181. and their deputies, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys. Vol. 29, p. 180. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, three hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, United States attorney, District of Columbia. twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employed Special assistants. by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, sixty thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars of which may be expended in the discretion of the Attorney-General. For fees of clerks, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,*Clerks’ fees. *Proviso.* Returns of clerks, Arizona, etc. That hereafter the clerks of the district courts in the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma shall be required to report in their semiannual emolument reports all fees earned in United States cases only; and that the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are directed to settle all unadjusted emolument accounts of said clerks accordingly. For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peace United States commissioners. R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189. acting under section ten hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, six hundred thousand dollars.Jurors’ fees. For fees of witnesses, eight hundred thousand dollars.Witnesses’ fees. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners. and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 643 The commissioners appointed by the President to revise and codify Commissioners to codify criminal laws, etc. —to act jointly, etc. —expenses. the criminal and penal laws of the United States shall, in the execution of their work, act jointly as a commission, and the expenses of the commissioners heretofore appropriated, including compensation of assistants and necessary office rent, shall be paid by the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice, on vouchers certified by the chairman of said commission and approved by the Attorney-General. The said commissioners shall prepare, as a part of their work, a brief —to prepare code of criminal procedure, etc. code of criminal procedure of the United States circuit and district courts, the same to be submitted to Congress for final action thereon. The work of said commission shall, under the direction of the chairman Printing, etc. thereof, be printed at the Government Printing Office, and when completed shall, together with the stereotyped plates, be the property of the United States. For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, United State Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and superintendent of industries, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, twenty-six thousand one hundred dollars; For clothing, transportation, rewards, and traveling expenses, including Clothing, etc. such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, for expenses of prison officials while traveling on duty, for expenses incurred pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, thirteen thousand dollars; For fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, advertising, and so forth, Fuel, forage, light, etc. including purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals and hay or straw for bedding; stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies for use in offices and prisoner’s school, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant and water circulation, and drainage; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bed sacks, 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 extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for miscellaneous expenditures which can not properly be included under the heads of expenditures, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and Hospital. surgical supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Salaries. Warden, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, three hundred dollars; physician, nine hundred dollars; hospital steward, nine hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; storekeeper and steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, one thousand dollars; superintendent of industries, one thousand five hundred dollars; organist at chapel, fifty-two dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-six thousand dollars; two team-644sters, nine hundred and sixty dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve dollars; For industries and repairs, including employment of foremen, Repairs, etc. machinist, shoemaker, harness maker, brickmaker, carpenter, blacksmith, stone mason, tailor, and tinner, when necessary; and for the purchase of materials for construction and repair of prison buildings, eight thousand three hundred dollars; For the erection of two hundred cells, including the purchase of material and necessary labor, to be immediately available, ten thousand dollars. In all, one hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent of courtrooms. one hundred thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one Bailiffs and criers. *Provisos.* Actual attendance. R. S., sec. 715, p. 136. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,* That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided further,* That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of Vacation, etc. reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Miscellaneous. 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, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of clerks, commissioners, and constables, Salaries, Indian Territory. and expenses of judges, in the Indian Territory, seventy-four thousand dollars. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be Supplies. expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty-five thousand dollars. Authority is hereby given to the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, Irwin B. Linton, payment to. out of the appropriation for stenographic clerks for associate justices of the Supreme Court, to Irwin B. Linton for services as such clerk to Stephen J. Field, retired associate justice, for the months of December, January, and February last past, the sum of three hundred and ninety-seven dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter no allowance or compensation *Proviso.* No elerks for retired officials. for clerks or secretaries of officials of the United States retired from active service shall be authorized. Fees of district attorney, southern district of New York:District attorney, southern district of New York. R. S., sec. 825, p. 154. For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. International Industrial Conference: For representation of International Industrial Conference. the United States at the Brussels conference, under the convention for the protection of industrial property, concluded at Paris, March twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. 645 Nicaragua Canal Commission: Each member of the Nicaragua Nicaragua Canal Commission, compensation of. Canal Commission shall receive such compensation and allowance for mileage and expenses as the Secretary of State, with the approval of the President, may deem proper, and the engineer member appointed from the Corps of Engineers shall be entitled to receive compensation, in addition to his regular Army pay and allowances, equal to the differences between such annual Army pay and allowances and the compensation of the other two members of the commission. Office of the Secretary: For temporary typewriters and stenographers Temporary force, Secretary’s office. in the Department of State, to be selected by the Secretary, two thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Paris Exposition: The President, by and with the advice and consent Paris Exposition. *Post,* p. 1117. Commissioner-general, duties, etc. of the Senate, shall appoint a commissioner-general to represent the United States at the exposition to be held in Paris, France, commencing April fifteenth and closing November fifth, nineteen hundred, and, under the general direction of the President to make all needful rules and regulations in reference to the contributions from the United States, subject to the approval of the President, and to control the expenditures incident to and necessary for the proper installation and exhibit thereof; and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall also appoint an assistant commissioner-general, Assistant commissioner-general, duties, etc. who shall assist and act under the direction of the commissioner-general, and shall perform the duties of the commissioner-general in case of his death, disability, or temporary absence; and a secretary, Secretary, duties, etc. who shall act as disbursing agent and shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the commissioner-general, shall render his accounts quarterly to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, and shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may require. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall also appoint twelve commissioners, who shall be subject Twelve commissioners. to the direction and control of the commissioner-general and perform from time to time such service as he shall require. The commissioner-general shall employ such number of experts as may be needed, having Experts. special attainments in regard to the subjects of the group or groups in said exposition to which they may be assigned, respectively, and he may employ from time to time such other experts as he may deem necessary in the preparation and installation of such exhibits. The commissioner-general shall be paid a salary of eight thousand Salaries. dollars per annum; the assistant commissioner-general a salary of six thousand dollars per annum; and the secretary a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum; which said sums shall be in lieu of all personal expenses other than actual traveling expenses while engaged in exposition work; and the terms of service of the commissioner-general, assistant commissioner-general, and secretary shall not exceed three years. The commissioners herein provided for shall serve Terms of service. during the entire calendar year nineteen hundred, and they shall be paid for such service three thousand dollars each, which payments shall be in full for all compensation and personal and traveling expenses. The necessary expenses herein authorized, and expenses for the proper Limit of expenses. installation and care of exhibits, together with all other expenses that may be authorized by the commissioner-general incident to the participation of the United States in said exposition, are hereby limited to the sum of not exceeding six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, including not exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars for clerk hire in the United States and in Paris. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby Agricultural exhibit. authorized to prepare suitable exhibits of agricultural products of the States and Territories of the United States, including those mentioned in groups seven, eight, and ten of the plan of said exposition, and shall exhibit the same under the direction and control of the commissioner-general, the total expenses of the said exhibits not to exceed in the aggregate seventy-five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the aforesaid sum of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and reports —reports. respecting such exhibits, printed in the English, French, and German 646 languages, shall accompany such exhibits, as the commissioner-general may direct. All officers and employees of the Executive Department Authority to withdraw exhibits from Executive Departments, etc. and of the Fish Commission and of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of or responsible for the safe-keeping of exhibits belonging to the United States, may permit such exhibits to pass out of their possession for the purpose of being transported to and from and exhibited at said exposition, as may be requested by the commissioner-general, whenever authorized to do so, respectively, by the heads of the Departments and the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries and the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; such exhibits and articles to be returned —return of. to the said respective departments to which they belong at the close of the exposition. It shall be the duty of the commissioner-general to Reports. report to the President, for transmission to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a detailed statement of the expenditures incurred hereunder during the twelve months preceding; and the commissioner-general is hereby required, within four months after the close of said exposition, to make full report of the results thereof, as herein required, which report shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and convenient reference, and when printed shall not exceed six volumes octavo, containing an average of not exceeding one thousand pages. Toward the expenses herein authorized, incident Appropriation. —for agricultural exhibit. to the participation of the United States in said exposition, there is hereby appropriated the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to remain available until expended, of which amount the sum of twenty thousand dollars may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture in the preparation of the agricultural exhibit herein provided for. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. For necessary repairs to buildings and grounds, making connection Bismarck, N. Dak. with the city water system, building new fence and making other urgent improvements, for the United States at Bismarck, North Dakota, three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Botanic Garden: For reconstructing roofs of plant houses numbered Botanic Garden. one and two with iron sills and rafters and apertures, and for replacing roof of east end of main conservatory; new tin roof on potting and packing shed, new roof on plant house numbered four, new boiler for propagating house, south side Maryland avenue; repairs to heating apparatus and for painting and general repairs to buildings and foot walks, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. senate.Senate. For payment to the heirs at law of the Honorable James Z. George, James Z. George, payment to heirs of. late a Senator of the United States from the State of Mississippi, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For payment to the heirs at law of the Honorable Isham G. Harris, Isham G. Harris, payment to heirs of. late a Senator of the United States from the State of Tennessee, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. 647 The Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, authorized and Hernan D. Money, payment to. directed to pay Hernan D. Money for services rendered as clerk to the Honorable H. D. Money, Senator from the State of Mississippi, from the eighth day of October to the sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and other employees in the service of the Senate for the current fiscal year. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public Printing and Binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for rents, books of reference, and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, three million three hundred Amount. and ninety-two thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotment of appropriation. and debates, and for rents, one million eight hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the War Department, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, ninety thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks for the “Bulletins” and annual volumes of the “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, seventeen thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, seven thousand dollars. For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, twelve thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, one hundred thousand dollars. 648 For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars. And hereafter one bound copy of the Congressional Record shall be furnished gratuitously to the Department of Labor. The Commissioner of Labor is authorized to compile and publish annually, as a part of the Bulletin of the Department of Labor, an abstract of the main features of the official statistics of the cities of the United States having over thirty thousand population. For the Supreme Court of the United States, nine thousand dollars. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For printing and binding the annual report of the Secretary of Agricultural report. Vol. 28, p. 612. Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated Division of appropriation. shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided,* That so much as may *Proviso.* Agricultural report excepted. be necessary for printing and binding the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotments. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Government Printing Office. Leaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, two hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to acquire by Site for addition to building. *Post,* p. 1120. condemnation, for the purpose of providing a site for an addition to the Government Printing Office building, the following described real estate embraced in square numbered six hundred and twenty-four in the city —property to be acquired. of Washington, District of Columbia, and containing fifty-seven thousand and five square feet, more or less, to wit: All of lots A, B, one, two, three, four, five, and six in J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, as recorded in book B, folio ninety-seven, in the office of the surveyor of said District; the west eight feet of lot seven, all of lot eight, and the east six feet of lot nine of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of the said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, being lots eighty-one and eighty-two, as per plat of Michael Brady’s subdivision of the west eight feet of said lot seven, all of said lot eight, and the east six feet of said lot nine, as recorded in book eleven, folio eighty, in the office of the surveyor of said District; the west eighteen feet of lot nine of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, as recorded in book B, folio ninety-seven in the office of the surveyor of said District; all of lot ten and the east eight feet of lot eleven of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of the said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, being lots sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy, and seventy-one, as per plat of John R. Condon’s subdivision of the said lot ten and the east eight feet of said lot eleven, as recorded in book C H B, folio three hundred and eighty-four, in the office of the surveyor of said District; the west sixteen feet of lot eleven and all of lot twelve of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, as recorded in book B, folio ninety-seven, in the office of the surveyor of said District; the south ninety-five feet three inches of each of lots thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, as recorded in book B, folio ninety-seven, in the office of the surveyor of said District: the south one hundred 649 and ten feet three inches of lot seventeen of the said J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of the said square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, being lot eighty-three as per plat of Thomas Donnelly and Joseph Anthony’s subdivision of the said lot seventeen, as recorded in book eleven, folio one hundred and fifty-four, in the office of the surveyor of said District, and a sum sufficient, not to exceed two hundred and —limit of cost. twenty-five thousand dollars, to pay for said real estate in the manner hereinafter provided is hereby appropriated. The Attorney-General, upon request of the said Public Printer, is Petition for assessment of value of property. authorized and directed to make application to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, by petition, at a general or special term of said court, for an assessment of the value of said parcels of real estate, —form of. and said petition shall contain a particular description of the property required, with the name of the owner or owners thereof; and his, her, or their residence, as far as the same can be ascertained, and the said court is hereby authorized and required, upon such application, without delay, to notify the owners and occupants of each such parcel, and to ascertain and assess the value of the same by appointing three commissioners Commissioners to appraise. to appraise the values thereof and to return the assessment to the court, and when the values of such parcels are thus ascertained, and the said Public Printer shall deem the same reasonable, the sum or sums so ascertained shall be paid into said court for their use. That the fee simple of all premises so appropriated for public use Fee simple to vest in United States. under the provisions hereof, and of which an appraisement shall have been made under the order and by direction of said court, shall, upon payment into the said court as aforesaid of the amount so ascertained and assessed as to each parcel, be thereupon vested fully in the United States and the right of possession thereof. That the said court may direct the time and manner in which possession Possession of property condemned. of the property condemned shall be taken or delivered, and may, if necessary, enforce any order or issue any process for giving possession. The cost occasioned by the inquiry and assessment shall be paid Costs. by the United States; and as to other costs which may arise, they shall be charged or taxed as the court may direct. That whenever, and as, title to the several parcels of such real estate Payment for property as title is acquired. shall be acquired as aforesaid, and the same shall be ready for delivery, and the sufficiency thereof shall be certified by the Attorney-General of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, upon the requisition of the said Public Printer, to pay into court the condemnation price of such property, parcel by parcel. That the alley, fourteen feet wide, running north from the north side Closing of alley. of G street, for a distance of one hundred and seventy-five feet three inches (being the alley in the rear of lots A, B, one, two, three, four, five, and six, and running parallel with lot seven, in J. C. McGuire’s subdivision of square numbered six hundred and twenty-four, city of Washington, District of Columbia, as recorded in book B, folio ninety-seven, in the office of the surveyor of said District) be, and the same is hereby, closed and made a part of the land which the said Public Printer is herein directed to acquire for a site for a building for the Government Printing Office. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers Sums for salaries to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and all laws or parts Repeal. of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 3. That section one of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred Court of Claims.

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