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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 30 STAT. · July 7, 1898 · Chapter 571

Chapter 571. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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Chap. 571: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. Chapter 571 30 Stat. 652 1898-07-07 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 30 public chap. 571.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.
July 7, 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,Deficiencies appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely : EXECUTIVE OFFICE. Executive offices.
For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, two thousand five hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. That the title “eleven clerks of class four;” Department of State,Bureau of appointments created, etc. provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby amended to read:
“One chief of bureau of appointments, two thousand one hundred dollars; ten clerks of class four;” To make the salaries of the Second and Third Assistant SecretariesIncrease of salaries Second and Third Assistant Secretaries.*Ante*, p. 285. of State four thousand dollars each for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571. 1898. 653 Nothing contained in section seven of the Act making appropriationsLeaves of absence, Executive Departments.*Ante*, p. 316. for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be construed to prevent the head of any Executive Department from granting thirty days’ annual leave with pay in any one year to a clerk or employee, notwithstanding such clerk or employee may have had during such year not exceeding thirty days’ leave with pay on account of sickness as provided in said section seven.
For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horses,Contingent expenses. to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and for miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing; in all, five hundred dollars. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase of passport paper, one thousand dollars. That the joint resolution accepting the invitation of the GovernmentInternational Fisheries Exposition, Bergen. of Norway to take part in an International Fisheries Exposition to be held at the city of Bergen, Norway, from May to September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same is hereby,*Post*, p. 733, repealed. repealed.
Relief of a citizen of Mexico: To pay, out of humane consideration,Luis Moreno.Payment for heirs of. without reference to the question of liability therefor, to the Mexican Government, as full indemnity to the heirs of Luis Moreno, who was lynched in eighteen hundred and ninety-five at Yreka, California, two thousand dollars. Nicaragua Canal Commission: To continue the surveys andNicaragua Canal Commission. examinations authorized by the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year endingAppropriation for surveys, etc.Vol. 28, p. 948.
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” into the proper route, the feasibility, and cost of construction of the Nicaragua Canal, with the view of making complete plans for the entire work of construction of such canal as therein provided, fifty thousand dollars; to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Said commission is authorized to rent, uponRent. approval by the Secretary of State, office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, for such time as is necessary for the completion of its work, and to pay to the two members of the Geological SurveyMembers of Geological Survey assigned to commissions. assigned to the commission for duty such amount, not to exceed five hundred dollars in each case, in addition to their regular salary, as in the opinion of the Secretary of State is a just compensation for their expert services.
International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature: International conference on Catalogue of Scientific Literature. For expenses of a delegate to the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature to be held at London during the present year, not exceeding five hundred dollars. Canadian Commission: For the expense on the part of the UnitedCanadian commission.*Post*, p. 1117. States of a joint commission to be appointed for the adjustment of differences between the United States and Great Britain in respect to the Dominion of Canada, including the compensation of the commissioners representing the United States, the pay of expert service for preparation of papers, for the portion of joint expenses chargeable to the United States, for printing and all other incidental expenses, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifty thousand dollars, to remain available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Reimbursement of the German Trade and Plantation Company of Hamburg, at Apia, Samoa: German Trade and Plantation Company of Hamburg.Reimbursement of. To reimburse the German Trade and Plantation Company of Hamburg, in Apia, Samoa, for losses sustained by them from the payment of certain drafts illegally drawn on the Secretary of State by William Churchill, late consul-general at Apia,654 Samoa, and purporting to be on the business of the United States Government, aggregating one thousand eight hundred dollars and sixty cents, together with interest thereon at the rate of eight per centum per annum to the date of payment.
FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. Foreign intercourse. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To pay amounts foundForeign missions. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ten thousand seven hundred and one dollars and sixty-eight cents. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To payConsulates. amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents.
Salaries, marshals for consular courts: To pay amountsMarshals for consular courts. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Salaries, marshals for consular courts,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred dollars. That a competent person be employed, under the direction of theCompilation of existing treaties with foreign governments. Committee on Foreign Relations, at a compensation in full not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, to make a compilation of all the treaties now in force between the United States and any foreign Government.
Said compilation—what to contain. shall contain the full text of the treaties now in force, together with a citation of any decision which may have been made in regard to said treaties by the Supreme Court of the United States or any court of Federal jurisdiction. The said work shall also contain a list, in chronological order, of all the treaties at any time made by the United States with other foreign countries, with a reference to the page and volume where the text of the same may be found, the whole to be carefully indexed by countries and by subject-matters.
There shall be—number to be printed, etc. printed one thousand five hundred copies of said volume; one thousand for the use of the House of Representatives and five hundred for the use of the Senate. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. To make the salary of the Deputy Commissioner of Internal RevenueDeputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue, salary. four thousand dollars for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eight hundred dollars. To pay amount due T. E. Barton as assistant messenger in the officeT.
E. Barton. of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, thirty-one dollars and thirty cents. Contingent expenses: To pay the amount due The FriedenwaldFriedenwald Company, of Baltimore, payment to. Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, for stationery furnished the Treasury Department August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department:
Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars and thirteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury655 Department:
Freight, telegrams, etc.,” one thousand five hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-four cents. For the payment in full of John D. Sands, a watchman employed inJohn D. Sands. the public building at Key West, Florida, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-one cents, or so muck thereof as may be necessary. For the purchase of numbering, adding, and other similar machines,Numbering, etc., machines.*Proviso.*Recording clocks. two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no recording clocks used for recording time of clerks or other employees shall be purchased for use in any of the Executive Departments at Washington, District of Columbia, except from moneys specifically appropriated therefor.
For the maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm system now in theFire-alarm system. Treasury and Winder buildings during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For rent of premises, for photographic and other purposes, togetherRent of photographic premises. with the purchase furniture and shelving and transfer of files thereto, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
From the appropriations of three thousand five hundred dollarsSupervising Architect’s Office. made for each of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine for plans for public buildings there may be purchased law books, books of reference, and periodicals of aPurchase of books. purely technical character relating to architectural subjects and required in the transaction of the business of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.
That medical books and journals for the use of the Marine-HospitalMarine-Hospital Service.Purchase of books. Bureau may be purchased and paid for from the appropriation for the Marine-Hospital Service during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety nine. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: To pay amountsPublic buildings.Assistant custodians, etc. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay of assistant custodians and janitors,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty-two dollars and sixty-five cents.
Heating apparatus for public buildings: To pay amountsHeating apparatus. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Heating apparatus for public buildings,” for-the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-six cents. Refund of fine, steam tug James T. Martin: To refund to theThompson Towing and Wrecking Association.Refund of fine. Thompson Towing and Wrecking Association the sum of forty dollars, being that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed upon the said association in the case of the steam tug James T.
Martin for a violation of section forty-three hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes,R. S., sec. 4325, p. 836. since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, forty dollars. Refund of fine, steam tug Nellie Cotton: To refund to theTug Nellie Cotton.Refund of fine. collector of customs at Duluth, Minnesota, for repayment by him to the person or parties entitled to receive the same, the sum of thirty-five dollars, being that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed in the case of the steam tug Nellie Cotton for a violation of section forty-threeR.
S., sec. 4325, p. 836. hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, thirty-five dollars. Refund of fine, bark Tidal Wave: To refund to the collectorBark “Tidal Wave.”Refund of fine. of customs at Los Angeles, California, for repayment by him to the person or parties entitled to receive the same, the sum of two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents, being that portion of a line of two hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents imposed in the case of the bark Tidal Wave for a violation of section forty-one hundred andR.
S., sec, 4131, p. 795. thirty-one of the Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum Having been covered into the Treasury656 prior to the said remission, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Refund of fine, British steamship Costa Rican: To refundSteamship “Costa Rican.”Refund of fine. to the collector of customs at New Orleans, Louisiana, for repayment by him to the person or parties entitled to receive the same, the sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-one cents, being that portion of a line of one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents imposed in the case of the British steamer Costa Rican, for violation of section twenty-eight hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes,R.
S., sec. 2809, p. 543. since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission. Reimbursement to the colonial government of the Falkland islands: Falkland Islands.Reimbursement colonial government. To reimburse the colonial government of the Falkland Islands the sum of seventy-five pounds, or three hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents, for expenses incurred at the request of the United States consul at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, in the employment of a diver to investigate a wreck, which proved to be the City of Philadelphia, a vessel owned in the United States, but concerning which no definite tidings could be obtained, three hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Refund to Stephen A. Engelhard: To refund to Stephen A.Stephen A. Engelhard.Payment to. Engelhard, out of the appropriation for interest on the public debt, funded loan of nineteen hundred and seven, the sum of seventeen dollars erroneously paid by him and covered into the Treasury to the credit of said appropriation, seventeen dollars. Payment to Oliver Smith: To pay to Oliver Smith, of SaintOliver Smith.Payment to. Helena, California, for supplies and clothing furnished by him to certain destitute members of the crew of the sealing schooner C.
G. White, wrecked on the coast of Alaska in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and eleven dollars and eighty cents. Internal revenue: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury toInternal revenue.Wayman C. McCreepy.Payment to. pay to Wayman C. McCreery, of Saint Louis, Missouri, amount due him from the United States for services as collector of internal revenue, first district of Missouri, from March fourth to March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seventy-five dollars.
For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guiltyFor punishing violations of law. of violating the internal-revenue laws, ten thousand dollars. That gaugers employed in gauging fruit brandy, and gaugers speciallyFor gaugers of fruit brandy, etc. detailed for special duty under the direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, may be paid, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, either by fees to be determined by the quantity gauged, or by a daily compensation not to exceed five dollars per diem while actually employed; and in calculating the daily compensation of all gaugers paid by fees, the quantity gauged for which fees are paid may be determined by dividing the aggregate gallons of spirits gauged by the number of days on which the gauger was actually employed during the month.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of same and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, twenty-five 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.
Post-Office building, Washington, D. C.: To enable the SecretaryWashington, D. C.New post-office building.Furniture, etc., for. of the Treasury to provide the new post-office building, Washington, District of Columbia, with furniture, including gas and electric light fixtures, carpets, awnings, window shades, and so forth, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and to enable the same official to furnish the old Post-Office Department building, when vacated byOld building, furniture etc.*Post*, p. 882. the Postmaster-General, for the accommodation of the Indian Office657 and other offices or parts of offices or bureaus of the Interior Department, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States shall be used, soFurniture now owned to be used, etc. far as practicable, in furnishing said buildings, whether or not it corresponds in material or design with the present regulation plans for furniture. And as soon as said post-office building in the city of Washington isNew building. completed and ready for occupancy said building shall be occupied as follows: All of the first floor, including the mezzanine floors, and so—assignment of space. much of the basement as may be necessary and convenient, in the opinion of the Postmaster-General, by the city post-office, and any space in said basement not necessary therefor shall be used for the purposes of the Post-Office Department; the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh floors shall be occupied by the Post-Office Department and the Auditor for the Post-Office Department.
All assignments of space to be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General. The entire force of the Post-Office Department and the Auditor for the Post-Office Department shall be, on completion of said building, removed thereto. All the space in said building, from the second to the seventh floor, both inclusive, except the. space assigned to the executive officers of the Post-Office Department and of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, shall be assigned as aforesaid on the basis of an average of not exceeding one hundred square feet of floor space to each clerk, which space is also to accommodate current files.
All space on either or all of said floors not needed after the assignments herein provided for upon the basis fixed therefor shall hereafter be utilized, under assignments made by the Postmaster-General, to cover the increase of clerical force in the Post-Office Department and the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, The ninth floor of said building shall be used, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for the storing of files for the Post-Office Department and the Auditor for the Post-Office Department.
All the office floor space on the eighth floor of said building shall be assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury to the clerical force of offices or bureaus of the Government now occupying rented quarters in the city of Washington, on the same basis as to square feet of space indicated above as applied to the Post-Office Department and Auditor’s office; and said—to be under control of Postmaster General. building, immediately upon its occupation as herein indicated, shall be under the custody and control of the Postmaster-General.
That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars, made in the sundryReappropriation for expenses of removal.*Ante*, p. 28. civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for expense of the removal of the Post-Office Department, including the Honey-Order Office, office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, and Topographer’s Office, to the new post-office building, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
For expense of removal of the Indian Office, General Land Office,Removal of bureaus of Interior Department to old building. and such other offices or parts of offices or bureaus of the Interior Department as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct to the old Post-Office Department building as soon as the same is vacated by the Post-Office Department, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Distinctive paper for United States Securities: To supplyDistinctive paper, United States securities. a deficiency in the appropriation for distinctive paper for United States securities, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixteen thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Quarantine service: For repairs to vessels, temporary wharf atQuarantine service. Port Townsend quarantine, water supply at Angel Island, California, and unusual expenses at quarantine stations, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Quarantine service,” for the fiscal658 year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighty dollars and forty-three cents. Transportation of silver coin:
To supply a deficiency in theTransportation of silver coin. appropriation for transportation of silver coin, twelve thousand dollars. Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expensesCollecting easterns revenue. of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million dollars. Revenue-Gutter Service: To pay amounts found due by theRevenue-Cutter Service. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service.” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For rental of buildingBureau of Engraving and Printing.Rent. occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for storage and other purposes, at a rental of sixty dollars per month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, includingPaper and stamps. freight, ten thousand dollars. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President of the UnitedPrevention of epidemics. States, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to aid 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, two hundred thousand dollars.
Payment to the State of Texas: To enable the Secretary of theState of Texas, payment to. Treasury to pay to the State of Texas the balance unexpended in the Treasury and due the State of Texas under the Acts of SeptemberVol. 9, p. 446.Vol. 10, p. 617. ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the State of Texas having, by act of its legislature approved January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, assumed all liabilities that may arise against the said unexpended balance, and released the United States from the payment of the same, one hundred and one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Payment to E. G. Zeile: To pay E. G. Zeile for storage of certainE. G. Zeile.Payment to. seized seal skins in his warehouse, from June twenty-eighth to August twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents. Reimbursement of D. N. Morgan: To reimburse D. N. Morgan,D. N. Morgan.Reimbursement of. late Treasurer of the United States, amount paid by him into the Treasury to make good a shortage discovered during the count of standard silver dollars in the transfer of the office of Treasurer of the United States to his successor, said shortage being in no wise the result of negligence or fault on his part, eight hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Credit in accounts of certain officers, Corps of Engineers: Engineer Corps, Army.Credit in accounts of certain officers of. Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of certain officers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army amounts standing against them on the books of the Treasury as follows: Captain Edward Burr, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-six cents; Major D. W. Lock wood, two hundred and fifty dollars;
Major Thomas II. Handbury, seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents; Captain H. F. Hodges, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty cents; Captain H. M, Chittenden, fifteen dollars and eighteen cents; Major W. H. Heuer, fifty-four dollars and twenty-four cents; Captain C. McD. Townsend, forty-four dollars and fifty-seven cents; Captain W. L. Fisk, twelve dollars and ninety-five cents; Lieutenant-Colonel Amos Stickney, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; and Lieutenant-Colonel W.
H. U. Benyaurd, forty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars and four cents. 659 Payment to the Venable Construction Company: The SecretaryVenable Construction Company.Payments to. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to the Venable Construction Company the amount of the duty paid on Portland cement used by it in the construction of gun emplacements at Tyhee Island, Georgia, not to exceed the sum of three thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars; and the amount required for such payment is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to pay to the Venable Construction Company the ten per centum retained on monthly payments for the construction of the gun and mortal batteries at Key West, Florida, notwithstanding the contract for such construction is included in a contract for sand-fill in front of and adjacent to said mortar batteries, the latter not being fully completed; the said gun and mortar batteries having been completed and being now in the possession and use of the United States: *Provided*, That no payment shall*Proviso*.—consent of sureties. be made hereunder until the sureties on said contract shall consent in writing to the same.
Payment to Owen N. Denny: To enable the Secretary of theOwen N. Denny. Treasury to pay Owen N. Denny, formerly consul-general at Shanghai, China, amount of unofficial fees collected by him and paid, under protest, into the Treasury of the United States, as reported by the Secretary of the Treasury in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, ninety-four dollars. Settlement with the Central Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads: Central Pacific and Western Pacific railroads.Commission to settle indebtedness to Government.
That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney-General, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby, appointed a commission with full power to settle the indebtedness to the Government growing out of the issue of bonds in aid of the construction of the Central Pacific and Western Pacific bond-aided railroads, upon such terms and in such manner as may be agreed upon by them, or by a majority of them, and the owners of said railroads: *Provided*, That any and all settlements thus made shall be*Provisos*.Approval by the President. submitted in writing to the President for his approval or disapproval, and unless approved by him shall not be binding.
That said commission shall not agree to accept a less sum in settlementMinimum sum to be accepted. of the amount due the United States than the full amount of the principal and interest and all amounts necessary to reimburse the United States for moneys paid for interest or otherwise: *And also provided*, That said commission are hereby empowered to grant such timeTime of payments. or times of payment by installment, and at such rates of interest, to be not less than three per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and with such security as to said commission may seem expedient: *Provided, however*, That in any settlement that maybe made the final paymentFinal discharge. and full discharge of said indebtedness shall not be postponed to exceed ten years and the whole amount, principal and interest, shall be paid in equal semiannual installments within the period so limited, and in any settlement made it shall be provided that if default shall beDefault in payment. made in any payment of either principal or interest or any part thereof then the whole sum and all installments, principal and interest, shall immediately become due and payable, notwithstanding any other stipulation of said settlement: *Provided further*, That unless the settlementForeclosure in default of settlement. herein authorized be perfected within one year after the passage of this Act the President of the United States shall at once proceed to foreclose all liens now held by the United States against said railroad companies and to collect the indebtedness herein sought to be settled, andNo waiver of existing liens, etc. nothing in this Act contained shall be held to waive or release any right, lieu, or cause of action already held by the United States.
That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the TreasuryAppropriation for expenses of commission. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars to defray the expenses of said commission in making the said settlement. 660 public buildings. Public buildings. For the appraiser’s warehouse at New York City, New York: ForNew York City.Appraiser’s warehouse.*Proviso*.Pneumatic tube service. completion of building, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for pneumatic tube service connected outside of said building.
For temporary building for post-office, Chicago, Illinois: To payChicago, Ill.Temporary building, etc. amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Temporary building for post office, Chicago, Illinois,” one thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars and thirty cents. For post-office and court-house at Charleston, South Carolina: ToCharleston, S. C. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fully complete the approaches and grounds around the court house and post office building at Charleston, South Carolina, in the manner provided by the specifications on which bids were originally taken, including the following items of construction :
Gilding on fence and fountain, artificial stone walks in park, stone wall coping, stone curb, and planting grass, three thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation hereby*Proviso*.Limitation. made is to be used for any purpose other than completing the approaches and grounds around said building. For the old post-office and court-house, Detroit: For changes, alterations,Detroit. Mich. and repairs to tit the building for the use of Government offices, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be paid from the unexpended balance of appropriations for the new post office and court-house at Detroit, For post office, Fremont, Nebraska:
For settlement of outstandingFremont, Nebr. contract liabilities on account of heating apparatus, fifteen dollars. For post-office and custom-house, Jacksonville, Florida: For paymentJacksonville, Fla. for additional labor and material furnished under contract for interior finish, not included therein, nine hundred and sixty-two dollars. For improving Ellis Island, New York Harbor, for immigration purposes:Ellis Island, N.Y For payment of outstanding contract liabilities on account of taking up and relaying cable, two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For post office and court house. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For paymentPhiladelphia, Pa. of water rent in building purchased by the United States for use in connection with the enlargement of site for the post-office and courthouse building during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fifteen dollars and fifty-three cents. For custom-house and post-office, Providence, Rhode Island: ForProvidence, R. I. payment of outstanding contract liabilities on account of opening and repairing safe, seventy-five dollars.
For post-office, Scranton, Pennsylvania: For the payment of gas billsScranton, Pa. for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-three and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, during the construction of the building, forty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. For marine hospital, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: For liquidationVineyard Haven, Mass., marine hospital. of contract liabilities on account of construction of sewer, one hundred and seventy-two dollars. For Government wharf, Sitka, Alaska:
For repairs of wharf in theSitka, Alaska, wharf. year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and two dollars. For repairs and preservation of marine hospitals and quarantineMarine hospitals and quarantine stations, repairs. stations, five thousand dollars. independent treasury. Independent Treasury. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryExaminations, etc. on account of the appropriation “Examinations of subtreasuries and depositories,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, independent treasury,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five cents. 661 mints and assay offices. Mints and assay offices. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight on bullion and coin. between mints and assay offices, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve thou sand dollars.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and fitly-seven cents. For contingent expenses, assay office at New York, ten thousandNew York assay office. dollars. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, ten thousand dollars.San Francisco mint. For contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, twenty-three thousandPhiladelphia mint. five hundred dollars. And refining and parting of bullion shall be carried on at the coinageRefining and parting of bullion, moneys arising from charges, etc. available for expenses. mints of the United States and at the assay office at New York, and it shall be lawful to apply the moneys arising from charges collected from depositors for these operations, and also the proceeds of sale of by-products (spent acids arising from any surplus bullion recovered in parting and refining processes), pursuant to law, so far as may be necessary, to defraying in full the expenses thereof, including labor, material, wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps.
But no part of the—New York. moneys appropriated for the support of the coinage mints and assay office at New York shall be used to defray the expenses of parting and refining bullion. For wages of workmen and contingent expenses at the mints inWages of workmen, etc. coining gold and subsidiary silver during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySan Francisco mint. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, sixty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents.
The salaries of the officers and clerks of the mint at New Orleans,New Orleans, La., salaries, etc.*Ante*, p. 296. Louisiana, shall be the same in number and amount for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine as for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for this purpose the sum of six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated in addition to the amount appropriated in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. light-house establishment.
Light House Establishment. Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rentKeepers’ salaries. 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, six thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: To pay Captain Cyrus H. Thurlow for theCyrus H. Thurlow, payment to. recovery, on August eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, of the Boone Island Ledge bell buoy, one hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryBuoyage. on account of the appropriation “Expenses of buoyage,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-six cents. That the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the StatenStaten Island, New York.Vol. 29, p. 417. Island Light-House Depot, New York, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
For repairs to light vessel numbered sixty-nine, to continue availableRepairs to vessels. during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifteen thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the EastEast Side Construction Company, Toledo, Ohio, payment to. Side Construction Company of Toledo, Ohio, on account of their contract dated January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,662 for the pile foundations for two beacons, the sum of one thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty-one cents from the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars made by the sundry civil Act forVol 28, p. 910. eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for Maumee Rauge Light Station, Ohio.
FISH COMMISSION. Fish Commission. For payment of outstanding liabilities incurred during fiscal yearO. H. Jewell Filter Company, payment to. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, account of O. H. Jewell Filter Company, three hundred dollars. For completing the construction of the fish hatchery at Spearfish,Spearfish, S. Dak., hatchery. South Dakota, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five thousand dollars. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State of NorthNorth Carolina.Establishment of station.
Carolina, purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment of same, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That not more than one thousand dollars of said sum shall*Proviso*.Limit for site. be used for the purchase of a suitable site for the purposes of said station. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES. Territories. For contingent expenses of the Territory of Oklahoma, to beOklahoma.
Contingent expenses. expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. For payment of the outstanding accounts incurred during the fiscalNorth American Ethnology. year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, under the appropriation “North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution,” and which are set forth on page five of House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, of this session, four hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.
That the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby authorizedAstrophysical Observatory. to apply any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, to the improvement of the building used for the purposes of the said observatory, and the same is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine for the object set forth.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are herebyAllowance in accounts of secretary, etc. authorized and directed to credit and allow, in the accounts of the secretary and disbursing agent of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the amounts expended by him, but disallowed by the accounting officers for want of authority of law to allow the same, and which are fully set forth on page five, House Document Numbered Two hundred and three, and in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-nine, of this session, amounting in all to one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-four cents.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. Coroner’s Office: To pay Doctor L. W. Glazebrook, deputy coroner,Coroner’s office.Dr. L. W. Glazebrook. for services during the absence of the coroner from the city, being for the service of the fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and ninety-five dollars; 663 For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighty dollars. To pay accounts set forth on page five, House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, of this session, for expenses on account of the coroner’s office for fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-five cents; For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five dollars and five cents; For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses coroner’s office, fiscalContingent expenses. year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifteen cents. Contingent expenses:
To pay account for supplies furnished theSealer of weights and measures. office of sealer of weights and measures, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents. For rent of vault in building on First street, between B and C streetsRent. northwest, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six hundred dollars. General advertising: To pay accounts for general advertisingAdvertising. set forth on page five of House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-one cents; For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four dollars and seventy-six cents. Repairs to concrete pavements: To pay for repairs to cuts inConcrete pavements. concrete pavements, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and two cents. Permit work: To pay amounts, on account of permit work, setPermit work. forth on page six, House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, of this session, all being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents.
Permanent system of highways: To pay special counsel forHighways. services, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, three thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents. To pay James Robbins for services in making estimate of damagesJames Robbins, payment to. to house in Dennison and Leighton’s division, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty-six dollars.
Extension of Connecticut Avenue: To pay jurors for servicesConnecticut avenue extension. in the condemnation of land, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seven cents. For advertising notice of condemnation of land, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, thirteen dollars and fifty cents. For payment of the awards, under condemnation, for laud taken for the extension of Connecticut avenue from Florida avenue to Waterside drive, to be charged wholly to the revenues of the District of Columbia, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Metropolitan Police: For contingent expenses, two thousandPolice. five hundred dollars. To pay to the heirs of the late Charles M. Skippon, for pay due theCharles M. Skippon, payment to heirs. said Charles M. Skippon while a member of the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia, nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Fire department: For additional story on engine house on EighthFire department. street, between D and E streets northwest, in which shall be located the permanent headquarters of the fire-alarm department, six thousand dollars. 664 For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and fifteen dollars.
For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. Authority is granted the Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaTransfer of suspended balance for use of engine company, etc., Anacostia. to transfer the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven for house, lot, and furniture, to be located in the vicinity of Brightwood, to accommodate chemical engine numbered two, so as to permit the application of such portion of said balance as may be necessary and desirable to the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the house, lot, and furniture for one engine company to be located in Anacostia.
Telegraph and telephone service: For the complete equipmentTelegraph and telephone service. of the central station of the fire-alarm system, including provision for thirty box circuits and ten alarm circuits, equipped with all modern appliances, to take the place of the present system, twenty-oneEquipment of ventral station, etc. thousand five hundred dollars; necessary cabinetwork for mounting the same, three thousand dollars; storage-battery system, to take the place of the gravity-battery system now in use, three thousand five hundred dollars; replacing sixty old fire-alarm boxes, which have been worn out, with sixty-new, modern boxes, six thousand dollars; placing in eighty boxes standard cut-outs, to prevent their being destroyed by lightning or other electrical disturbances, one thousand dollars; for twenty visual indicators, to be placed in the engine houses for recording visually alarms received, to prevent any errors in responding to fires, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all existing conduits within the fire*Provisos*.Existing conduits, etc., legalized, etc. limits, and all existing overhead electric-light wires without the fire limits in the District of Columbia are hereby-legalized until otherwise provided by law, and house connections may be made with such overhead electric-light wires outside such fire limits: *Provided further*, ThatPostal Telegraph Company.Connection of cable with wires on Aqueduct Bridge. the cable of the Postal Telegraph Company now in the ducts of the Potomac Electric Power Company may be connected with the existing wires of said telegraph company on the Aqueduct Bridge by a connection not exceeding three hundred feet in length.
Health department: For one sanitary and food inspector, whoHealth department. shall act as inspector of live stock and dairy-farms, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand two hundred dollars. Public schools: Public schools.Miner building. For amount required to pay janitor of Miner School building, eight hundred dollars. For amount required to pay janitor of Western High School building,Western High school. one hundred dollars. For amount required to pay janitor of Chevy Chase School building,Chevy Chase building. forty dollars.
For amount required to pay janitor of Stevens School building, beingSteven’s building. for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, forty-eight dollars. For amount required to pay the rent of Miner School building, twoMiner building. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For amount required for fuel, two thousand seven hundred dollars.Fuel. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are*Ante*, p. 118. hereby, authorized to use the unexpended balance of the appropriation for fuel for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Payment of referees, Court of Claims: To pay Frank W.Frank W. Hackett, payment to. Hackett for services as referee in sundry cases, two hundred and five dollars. Defending suits in claims: For defending suits in Court of Claims,Defense, Court, of Claims. one thousand dollars. Judgments: For the payment of judgments, including costs, againstJudgments. the District of Columbia, set forth on page seven, House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, and in House Document Numbered Four hundred and sixty, and in Senate Document Numbered Two665 hundred and ninety-nine and three hundred and nineteen of this session, eight thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and twenty cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until date of payment.
Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: To pay the accounts set forthFreedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. on page seven, House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen of this session, being for the fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one dollar and thirty-two cents. Police court: To pay Samuel C. Mills for services as judge duringPolice court.Samuel C. Mills, payment to. the illness of the late Judge Thomas F.
Miller, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, tour hundred dollars. To pay Samuel C. Mills for services as judge during the absence and illness of the late Judge Thomas F. Miller, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Samuel C. Mills for services as judge, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten dollars. To pay Anson S. Taylor for services as judge, fiscal year eighteenAnson S.
Taylor, payment to. hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-dollars. For witness fees, one thousand dollars. For amount required to pay outstanding certificates for witness fees,Witness fees. being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, thirty dollars. For police court, addition to cells and other improvements, oneRepairs, etc. thousand two hundred dollars. Industrial Home School: For amount required for sewerage forIndustrial Home School. new building, to continue available during fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand six hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents.
Board Of Children’s Guardians: For administrative expenses,Board of Children’s Guardians. for fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six hundred dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seventeen dollars and eighteen cents. For care of feebleminded children; board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and tor the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, six thousand seven hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.
To reimburse B. Pickman Mann amount paid by him to the FidelityB. Pickman Mann, payment to. and Deposit Company, premium on his bond as disbursing officer of the Board of Children’s Guardians, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, said Mann having served in that capacity without compensation, fifty dollars. Contractors’ guarantee fund: To pay the ten per centumAndrew Gleeson, payment to. retained under contract numbered twelve hundred and eighty-seven with Andrew Gleeson, twenty-two dollars and twenty-four cents.
Refunding unused building permits: To pay F. T. Nash forF. T. Nash, payment to. five unused building permits, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, ten dollars. Refunding erroneously paid water rents: To pay ErnestErnest A. A. Dunn, payment to. A. A. Dunn for erroneous payment of water-main tax on lot twenty-two, square nine hundred and fifty three, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the water department, fifteen dollars. Support of convicts: To pay amount found due by the accountingSupport of convicts. officers of the Treasury to the Albany County Penitentiary, at Albany, New York, for support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts from the District of Columbia, on account of the fiscal year eighteen666 hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand seven hundred and fifty seven dollars and six cents.
Support of prisoners: For expenses of maintenance of the, jail ofSupport of prisoners. the District of Columbia and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionWrits of lunacy. of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the ActVol. 19, p. 347. approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Hereafter in all proceedings by the Commissioners of the District of—impaneling Jurors from those attending criminal courts. Columbia to commit resident indigent insane persons to the Government Hospital for the Insane, it shall be the duty of the marshal to impanel juries in such cases from the jurors in attendance upon the criminal courts of said District, who shall perform such service in addition to and as part of their duties in said courts: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.—police court. during such time as jurors are not in attendance upon said criminal courts, the marshal may in such cases impanel the jurors in attendance upon the police court, who shall perform such duties in addition to and as part of their duties in said police court.
Militia: To reimburse the General commanding the District MilitiaMilitia. for payments made from private funds on account of the District of Columbia National Guard, as set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-seven, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, one thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-one cents. That except as otherwise herein provided one-half of the foregoingHalf of appropriations from District revenues. amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Hereafter the District of Columbia shall not be required in judicialDistrict may prosecute suits in local courts without paying fees. proceedings to pay fees to the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia or of the court of appeals of said District, orto the United States marshal for said District for the service of process, but the said District of Columbia and its Commissioners shall be entitled to institute and prosecute judicial proceedings in said courts without the payment of fees, and shall also be entitled to the services of said marshal in the service of alt civil process without the payment of fees.
Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall notEmployment in excess of authority restricted, etc. accept volunteer service for the government of the District of Columbia or employ personal services in excess of that authorized by law except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property. That the assessor of the District of Columbia shall give bond to theassessor, bond of fixed. District of Columbia for the faithful and efficient performance of all the duties of his office in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the Commissioners of said District.
WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. To reimburse the Sheboygan Tug Boat Line, of Sheboygan, Wisconsin,Sheboygan Tug Boat Line, payment to. for repairs to tug Sheboygan, damaged in a collision with the United States tug Lorena, through the fault of the latter, thirty five dollars. Payment to owners of canal boat W. H. Smith: That theWhitehead Brothers Company, payment to. supervisor of the harbor of New York is authorized to pay to the Whitehead Brothers Company of the city of New York the sum of two hundred and twenty-eight dollars for damages to the canal boat W.
H. Smith owned by the said company, which said canal boat was injured in collision with the United States steam tug Argus, May twenty-ninth,667 eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, said collision being without fault on the part of said company or any of its employees; the said amount to be paid from any funds appropriated for the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City. Army Gun Factory, Watervliet Arsenal, New York:
ToPond Machine Tool Company, payment to. reimburse the Pond Machine Tool Company for extra work on ten chuck rings for back rests for gun lathes, two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars. Artificial limbs: To pay amounts found due by the accountingArtificial limbs. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Artificial limbs,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. Headstones for graves of soldiers: To pay amounts foundHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Headstones for graves of soldiers,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one dollar and thirty-two cents.
Target range, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: That the appropriationTarget range, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. of eighteen thousand dollars made for the purchase of land for a target range for the use of troops stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: *Provided*, That any*Proviso*.Lands. land purchased thereunder shall be unencumbered by any private or public ways or roads.
Publication of Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: Records of the rebellion. For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Rebellion, and to complete the publication of volume fifty-three of series one and volume three of series two before June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen thousand dollars. Reservoirs at head waters of the Mississippi River: AllMississippi River.Reservoire at head waters. unexpended balances of money heretofore appropriated for the construction of reservoirs at the head waters of the Mississippi River are hereby made available and may be expended for the necessary renewal and repair of the reservoir dams heretofore constructed at the head waters of the Mississippi River.
Yellowstone National Park: To pay amounts found due by theYellowstone National Park. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Improvement of Yellowstone National Park,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For payment of the heirs of Margaret Kennedy, widow and soleMargaret Kennedy, payment to heirs. executrix of John Kennedy, deceased, the sum of one thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-six cents, said amount to be in full compensation for all claim or demand of said Margaret Kennedy as the executrix of John Kennedy, deceased, or of the claim or demand of the heirs or representatives of said John Kennedy by reason of timber, fences, fruit trees, and other property taken and used by the Army of the United States during the late war of the rebellion from the farm of said John Kennedy, in the District of Columbia, being the farm on which Fort Sedgwick was erected. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio: To reimburse the treasurer of theDayton, Ohio. Central Branch for moneys advanced from his personal funds for liabilities incurred for pay of officers, noncommissioned officers, and so forth, advertising, legal advice, and so forth, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and ten dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five hundred dollars. 668 Western Branch at Leavenworth, Kansas:
For current expenses,Leavenworth, Kans. namely: For legal and other services rendered the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and in lull for other expenses incurred in suit of the United States against Joseph W. Oliver, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For transportation, namely:Marion, Ind. For transportation of members of the Home, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
That the jurisdiction over the places purchased for the location of theBranch Homes, Grant County, Ind., and Danville, Ill.Jurisdiction over sites relinquished, etc. Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under and by authority of an Act of Congress approved July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in Grant County, State of Indiana, and upon which said Branch Home is located, and by authority of an Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, “at the town of Danville, in the County of Vermilion, State ofVol. 25, p. 341.*Ante*, p. 54.
Illinois,” and upon which said Branch is now located, is hereby ceded to the respective States in which said Branches are located and relinquished by the United States, and the United States shall claim or exercise no jurisdiction over said places after the passage of this Act: *Provided*, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to impair*Proviso*.—powers Board of Managers not impaired. the powers and rights heretofore conferred upon the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in and over said places.
State or Territorial homes For continuing aid to State or TerritorialState or Territorial Homes. homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,Vol. 25, p. 450. on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or*Proviso*.Deductions. sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON. Washington, D. C., buildings and grounds. For an assistant surveyor and draftsman for the fiscal year eighteenAssistant surveyor and draftsman. hundred and ninety-nine, fifteen hundred dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. To reimburse Assistant Paymaster Joseph J. Cheatham: ToJoseph J. Cheatham, credit in accounts of. enable the accounting officers of the Treasury to credit and allow, in the accounts of Assistant Paymaster Joseph J.
Cheatham, United States Navy, the amount paid by him to the owners of the coal hulk La Hogue, damaged through fault of the United States steamer Alliance in the harbor of Funchal, Madeira, October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as per finding of board of officers appointed to investigate and report thereupon, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. Payment to the Vallejo Land and Improvement Company: Vallejo Land etc., Company, payment to. To compensate the Vallejo Laud and Improvement Company for damages done to their wharf at South Vallejo by the United States tug Unadilla, as estimated by a board of naval officers, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents. naval establishment.
Naval establishment. Pay of the Navy: To pay balance due on certificate of the AuditorGeorge H. Griding, reimbursement of. for the Navy Department numbered fifty-eight, volume twenty-two, in favor of Albert Garrin, being a part of said certificate paid by Pay Inspector George H. Grilling, United States Navy, and now required for his reimbursement, payable from the appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty-seven dollars and nineteen cents. 669 To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act ofAdvances.Vol. 20, p. 167.
June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighty-fivePay. thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents;
For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight thousand eight hundred and seven dollars and nine cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-one cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-two cents; For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousandContingent. nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and four cents;
For pay of the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,Pay, Marine Corps. eighteen thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventeen cents; For pay of the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-one cents; For pay of the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, three dollars and seventy-eightBureau of Ordnance. cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,Bureau of Equipment. sixty-three dollars and ninety cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-four dollars and forty-nine cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-six cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery. and ninety-seven, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-two cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteenBureau of Supply and Accounts. hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ten cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-three cents; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents. bureau of navigation.
Bureau of Navigation. To pay the Old Colony Steamboat Company, for transportation ofOld Colony Steamboat Company, payment to. sixty-one men from New York to Newport, Rhode Island, at two dollars, being tor the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and twenty two dollars. bureau of equipment. Bureau of Equipment. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand four hundred and three dollars and eighty-nine cents. 670 For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty-six cents. To pay for equipment of vessels, approved vouchers in hand and obligationsEquipment. incurred prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for which vouchers have not yet been received, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, seven thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twenty-five dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officer of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and thirty two dollars and sixty-two cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty-four dollars and three cents. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: To pay approved billsContingent on file and obligations incurred prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for which vouchers have not yet been received, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMachinery. on account of the appropriation for “Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For the payment of approved vouchers on file and obligations incurred prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for which bills have not yet been received, on account of the appropriation for “Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering,” eight thousand dollars. bureau of ordnance. Burean of Ordnance. To pay approved vouchers on file in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and obligations incurred prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for which bills have not yet been rendered, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents. navy-yards and stations. Navy-yards and stations. For removal of construction and repair tools, and so forth, fromBrooklyn yard. building numbered fourteen and installation in other buildings at navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars. 671 marine corps.
Marine Corps. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryPay. on account of the appropriation “Pay, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifteen dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and two cents. To pay accounts on file for repairs of buildings used for rifle range atPortsmonth, N.
H., Barracks. marine barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, repair of band instruments, and so forth, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay accounts on file for freight, cartage, oil, ice, water, gas, straw,Contingent expenses. burial expenses of marines, telegrams, and so forth, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand four hundred and ten dollars and eighty-seven cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twenty-four dollars and thirty-nine, cents. That the Auditor for the Navy Department be, and is hereby,Auditor Navy Department tn credit vouchers in favor of:—Charles H. Payrow. authorized and directed to credit vouchers numbered four hundred and thirty-one and four hundred and thirty-two, in favor of Charles H.
Payrow, amounting to forty-five dollars, for painting at marine barracks at Boston, Massachusetts; voucher numbered four hundred and thirty-three, in favor of Richard Long, amounting to sixty dollars, for repairing—Richard Long. roof at marine barracks, Boston. Massachusetts; vouchers numbered six hundred and thirty-four, six hundred and thirty-five, and six hundred and thirty-six, in favor of R. Long, amounting to three hundred—R. Long. and ninety dollars, for repairing bedsteads, plumbing, and repairing water-closets at marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts: voucher numbered six hundred and fifty, in favor of T.
McSweeny, amounting—T. McSweeny. to twelve dollars, for table tops at marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; all the above-named vouchers being embraced in payments made during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. INTER1OR DEPARTMENT. Interior Department. Office of the Assistant Attorney-General: For sufficientOffice of Assistant Attorney-General.Additional employees.*Ante*, p. 317. additional employees for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to bring and keep the work of the office up to date, as required by section seven of the Act of March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,” namely:
Three assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each, and one clerk, who shall also be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand six hundred dollars. Contingent expenses: To pay amounts found due by the accountingContingent expenses officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents.
To pay amounts set forth on page ten, House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, of this session, on account of contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and itsPostage. bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, eight hundred dollars. 672 Reimbursement to Edward F.
Waite: To reimburse Edward F.Edward F. Waite, reimbursement of. Waite, late a special examiner in the Pension Office, for expenses actually incurred by him in defending himself in a criminal prosecution in a State court in Iowa in eighteen hundred ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and fifty nine dollars and nine cents. Payment to Samuel J. Crawford: For payment to Samuel J.Samuel J. Crawford, payment to. Crawford, of Topeka, Kansas, for rent of rear room, fourth door of Crawford Building, Topeka, Kansas, occupied by the United States pension agency from November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to November fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at twenty-five dollars per month, three hundred and twelve dollars and filly cents.
Expenses of Eleventh Census: To pay William Haydon, forExpenses Eleventh Census.William Haydon, payment to. services rendered in March, April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety three, correcting eight hundred and fifty-six pages of plate proof for Indian Report of Eleventh Census, six hundred dollars. To pay John Donaldson, being amount found due him as specialJohn Donaldson, payment to. agent of Eleventh Census for salary, per diem, and traveling expenses for the month of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three hundred and forty-three dollars.
To pay Walter G. Mormon, being amount found due him as specialWalter G, Marmon, payment to agent Eleventh Census in taking the census of Navajo Indians, per diem and subsistence from June first to twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety one, inclusive, one hundred and ninety-two dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryExpenses, etc. on account of the appropriation for “expenses of the Eleventh Census,” one hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-two cents.
To pay Adolph Willing for services as enumerator of district numberedAdolph Willing, payment to. three hundred and fifty, supervisor’s district of Massachusetts, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents. For rent of building for June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forRent. preservation of the records of the Eleventh and previous censuses, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. For salary of clerk in charge of census records for month of June,Clerk. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty cents.
Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds aboutCapitol and grounds, lighting. 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 superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, four thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For the payment of the balance due the Washington Gaslight CompanyWashington Gaslight Company, payment to. for gas service for the months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty cents. For a public elevator, to be located at some suitable place in theElevator, Senate wing. northeast corner of the Senate wing of the Capitol, eight thousand dollars; for electrical engine, generator, and switchboard, twelve thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars.
That hereafter in case of the absence or disability of the ArchitectArchitect of Capitol.—in absence of, chief clerk may act. of the United States Capitol, the chief clerk to the Architect shall have full power and authority to do and perform all the acts which the Architect of the United States Capitol might himself do and in case of a vacancy the chief clerk shall perform the duties of the Architect until the vacancy shall be filled according to law. patent office. Patent Office.
For the following additional employees for the fiscal year eighteenAdditional force.*Ante*, p. 440. hundred and ninety-nine, authorized by the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely: For three principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars673 each: two first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; six third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; five fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four clerks of class one; four copyists; six laborers, at six hundred dollars each; six assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and six messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, forty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly,Official Gazette, expenses. and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, twelve thousand six hundred and seventy eight dollars and three cents. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents, forDrawings, etc. producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printingVol, 28, p. 619. and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided*, That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office, if in*Proviso*.Work may be done at Government Printing Office. the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, ten thousand dollars. public lands service.
Public lands service. For continuing the work of rearranging, indexing, and preserving theIndexing, etc. recorder’s office. records of the recorder’s office of the General Land Office, one thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any balance remaining to the credit of this appropriation and uncontracted for on June thirtieth, eighteen hundred*Proviso*.Balance of appropriation available, etc. and ninety eight, may be used during the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and ninety nine for the purposes indicated.
To pay the bills set forth on pages eleven and twelve, House DocumentPublishing lists of lands classified in Montana and Idaho.Vol. 29, p. 436. Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, for publishing lists of lands classified by the several boards of mineral land commissioners for the States of Montana and Idaho, being a deficiency in the appropriation providing for the publication of such lists for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy cents.
To reimburse Albert R. Greene, inspector of surveyors-general andAlbert R. Greene, reimbursement of. district land offices, for amount expended by him during the months of May and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for services of a stenographer and assistant, while engaged in making an official investigation ordered by this office, forty-seven dollars and six cents. To pay the amounts set forth on pages twelve, and thirteen of HousePayment to certain deputy surveyors. Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen, and in House Documents Numbered Three hundred and eighty-six and Four hundred and thirty-three, of this session, to certain deputy surveyors, or so much thereof as may be found due in the settlement of the account by the Auditor for the Interior Department in accordance with the rates authorized by Congress in the Act making appropriation for the surveyVol. 28, p. 394. of public lands for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand and forty-three dollars and sixteen cents.
For compensation of forest inspectors, superintendents, supervisors,Forest reservations, compensation of inspectors, etc. surveyors, rangers, and fire patrol, to be hereafter appointed by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations, to inspect or survey said reservations, report to the Secretary of the Interior the portions which should be excluded, and generally to perform such duties in the preservation of such forest reservations and the appraisal and sale of timber as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, one hundred thousand dollars.
To pay Winfield S. Collins for services and expenses in the surveyWinfield S. Collins, payment to. of the town site of Basin, Wyoming, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents. 674 Boundary line between Idaho and Montana: That any balanceIdaho And Montana boundary line.Reappropriation for survey, etc.*Ante*, p. 33. of the appropriation of seven thousand six hundred 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 and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Payment to boards on town-site entries in Oklahoma: ToOklahoma.Boards on town-site entries, payment to. pay the amounts which shall be found due, after proper audit in each instance, to the persons constituting the boards appointed to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of Congress approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page one hundredVol. 26, p. 109. and nine), entitled “An Act to provide for town-site entries of lands in Oklahoma, and for other purposes,” and the joint resolution of Congress making the provisions of said Act applicable to town sites in the Cherokee Outlet, approved September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page eleven), three thousandVol. 28. p. 11.*Proviso*.Adjustment of accounts disbursing officers. eight hundred and fifty-four dollars and ninety-five cents: *Provided*, That no payments shall be made hereunder to the disbursing agents of said boards until after the accounts of said agents shall have in each instance been satisfactorily adjusted by the Commissioner of the General Land Office: *Provided further*, That on January first, eighteenAbolition of boards, etc. hundred and ninety-nine, the boards of trustees for town sites, and each of them in said Territory, shall cease and be abolished, and no compensation shall be allowed or paid to anyone, member, or trustee, or disbursing agent on or after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
And so much of the trust vested in said boards and heretofore initiated as shall remain unexecuted on said date shall be vested in the Commissioner of the General Land Office, who is hereby authorized and empowered to complete the same. pensions. Pensions. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons for services renderedFees, etc., examining surgeons. within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. geological survey. Geological Survey.
For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs andMonographs and bulletins. bulletins, under the direction of the Public Printer, to remain available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, under the direction of the Public Printer, to remain available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty thousand dollars. To pay the accounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seventy-nine, of this session, on account of the Geological Survey, as follows:
For preparation of illustrations, fiscal year eighteen hundred andIllustrations. ninety five, three dollars and fifty cents. For geologic surveys, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,Surveys. three hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. For gauging streams, thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.Gauging streams. That any balance of the appropriation of one hundred and forty-oneDiversion of balance of appropriation for surveys, Texas.*Ante*, p. 86. thousand five hundred dollars provided for in the Indian Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for resurveying the lands of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, that may not be necessary for the completion of said resurvey may be used for topographic surveys in the State of Texas, in order to complete the topographic sheets of the Indian Territory extending into Texas, and to continue available until the close of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. 675 The purchase of professional and scientific books and periodicalsBooks, etc. needed for statistical purposes by the scientific divisions of the United States Geological Survey is hereby authorized to be made and paid for during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine out of appropriations made for the said survey.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Geological Survey,” fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents. indian affairs. Indian affairs The disbursing agent of the Commission to the Five Civilized TribesHenry Stroup. is hereby authorized to pay, out of the appropriation for expenses of said commissioners and employees for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to Henry Stroup, for services heretofore performed, sixty-four dollars and fifty-two cents; and to H.
V. V. Smith, to equalize per diem for expenses, six hundredH. V. V. Smith.Payment to. and sixty-one dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryInspectors, traveling expenses. on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses, Indian inspectors,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySuperintendent, traveling expenses. on account of the appropriation for traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent, fifty-six cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twelve dollars and forty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryIndian commissioners’ expenses. on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Indian commissioners,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one dollar and fifty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySupplies, transportation. on account of the appropriation “Transportation of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryApaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. on account of the appropriation “Support of Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches: Employees,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryApaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas. on account of the appropriation “Support of Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eighty dollars and forty eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryKickapoos. on account of the appropriation “Support of Kickapoos,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, sixty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryColorado, incidentals. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Colorado,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryFlandreau, S. Dak., school. on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryPhoenix, Ariz., school. on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ninety-three dollars and twenty six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryTomah, Wis., school. on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin,”676 for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seventy-four dollars and two cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifteen cents. To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the IndianPurchasing supplies, etc. service, and pay of necessary employees, advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, five thousand dollars.
For traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors, at three dollars perInspectors, traveling expenses. day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior for a period not to exceed twenty days, two thousand dollars.
For necessary expenses of transportation of goods, provisions, andTransporting supplies. other articles for the various tribes of Indians, including pay and expense of transportation agents and rent of warehouse, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-five thousand dollars. That from and after the passage of this Act, Indian goods and supplies—contracts, etc. shall be transported under contract as provided in the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, or in open marketVol. 19. p. 291. by common carriers, as the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion shall determine.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of Indian supplies,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-six cents. For completing the necessary surveys within the Chippewa IndianChippewa Reservation, Minn.Surveys, etc.Vol. 25, p. 643. Reservation, in Minnesota, including expenses of examining and appraising pine lands under the provisions of the Act approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be reimbursed to the United States out of proceeds of the sale of their lauds, one hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For additional pay of physician employed by contract for the IndiansWalker River Reservation, Nev.Physician. of the Walker River Indian Reservation in Nevada, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred dollars. That the paragraph in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscalJ. Montgomery Smith.Payment to. etc.*Ante*, p. 90. year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, providing for the adjustment of the account of J. Montgomery Smith, late a member of the Chippewa Indian Commission, is hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the account of said Smith, and pay him, out of the sum therein appropriated, for his services and expenses as member of said commission from the eleventh day of June to the twenty-third day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the last named being the date when his services on said commission terminated.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryNew Mexico, incidentals. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in New Mexico,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirteen dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay amounts found cine by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCarlisle, Pa., school. on account of the appropriation for “Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryIrrigation, reservations. on account of the appropriation “Irrigation, Indian reservations,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-seven cents. 677 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCommission, Crow, Flatheads, etc. on account of the appropriation “Commission, Crow, Flatheads, and other Indians,” two hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-five cents, POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Post-Office Department. For telegraphing, being for the fiscal years as follows:Telegraphing. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, seventeen dollars and ninety-two cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twelve dollars and eighty-seven cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seven dollars and twenty-two cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifty dollars and fifty-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six fifty-two cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-six cents. out of the postal revenue. Postal service. Advertising: For advertising, on account of the fiscal years asAdvertising. follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-four cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ten dollars and sixty-four cents. Free delivery: For free-delivery service for the fiscal years asFree delivery. follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to pay amounts set forth in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and three and Three hundred and nineteen and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and two of this session, nine thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-two cents. To pay Richard N. McAllister, letter carrier at Vicksburg, Mississippi,R. N. McAllister.Payment to. the difference between his pay for the mouth of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, and that to which he was entitled under promotion by the Post-Office Department, namely, eight hundred and fifty dollars per annum, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-one dollars and fifty-three cents.
Mail transportation: For inland mail transportation by railroadTransportation.Railroad routes. routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and nineteen of this session, thirteen thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-five cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to pay amounts set forth in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and three and Three hundred and nineteen and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and two of this session, one thousand and three dollars and eighty-four cents. For inland transportation by steamboat routes on account of theSteamboat routes. fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-four thousand dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-two cents. 678 For railway post office car service for the fiscal years as follows:Railway post-office cars.
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred and two dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars and forty cents. For regulation screen or other wagon service, twenty-five thousandWagon service. dollars. To pay the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company forSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.Payment to. amounts heretofore erroneously deducted from its lawful compensation for transportation of United States mails in the Indian Territory, over railroad mail routes numbered one hundred and forty-five thousand and three and one hundred and fifty-three thousand and two, thirty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty cents, said sum having been so erroneously deducted on account of a supposed land grant attaching to said railroad in the Indian Territory, but which land grant the United States Supreme Court has since decided has no existence as to said line of railroad in said Territory.
That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed toMotile and Ohio Railroad, payment to. state an account with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, a corporation chartered by the Slate of Alabama, for transporting the mails of the United States over its lines during the period between July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and January twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, both inclusive; and in stating said account credit shall be given to said railroad company for all sums to which it, was justly entitled.
And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed, upon stating the said account, to certify the amount found to be due to said company to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment; and a sufficient sum of money is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for he payment of the sum so certified. Manufacture of stamps: For manufacture of adhesive postageStamps. and special-delivery stamps, twenty thousand dollars. Advertising:
For advertising, fiscal year eighteen hundred andAdvertising. ninety-seven, eighty eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse thePostmasters.Compensation. postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and three and Three hundred and nineteen and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and two of this session, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six hundred and sixty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents. To pay Horace A. W. Tabor the sum of three thousand eight hundredH.A.W. Tabor, payment to. and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents, or so much thereof as shall appear to the proper accounting officer of the Government to have been paid by said Horace A.
W. Tabor for necessary expenses in the Leadville post-office over and above the allowances made for that purpose. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. For law books for library of the Department, fiscal year eighteenContingent expenses. hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and five cents. For miscellaneous expenditures, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, and prior years, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, three thousand dollars. 679 For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing ofTransportation, etc. animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery for the fiscal years as follows:Stationery. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, six hundred dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. For furniture and repairs, six hundred dollars.Furniture. For payment to Nathan Plummer for services as accountant duringNathan Plummer. the mouth of April, eighteen hundred and eighty three, one hundred and fifty dollars. Court of Private Land Claims: To enable the Attorney-GeneralCourt of Private Land Claims.Expenses, etc. to employ such assistant attorneys, agents, stenographers, and experts to aid the United States attorney for said court as may be necessary to dispose of the business of the Court of Private Land Claims on or before March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under section nineteen, Act February nineteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 29, p. 577. and ninety-seven, and to continue available until March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of services and expenses of special assistants to theSpecial assistants in cases on appeal. Attorney General, in cases appealed from the Court of Private Laud Claims to the Supreme Court, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, Court of Private Land Claims,” for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety eight, four hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty cents.
Suits against Benjamin Weil and La Abra Mining Company: Weil and La Abra claims.Expenses of suits. For fees and expenses in suits of the United States against Benjamin Weil and others, and the same against La Abra Silver Mining Company and others, the said suits having been brought in obedience to the two Acts of Congress, approved, respectively, on December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and entitled “An Act to amendVol. 27. pp. 409, 410. and enlarge the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,” entitled “An Act to provide for the distribution of theVol. 20, p. 144. awards made under the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eighty” ten thousand dollars.
Indian Territory Jails: To establish sites to be selected by theIndian Territory.Establishment of jails. Attorney-General and for the erection thereon complete of three United States jails, one each in the northern, central, and southern districts of the, Indian Territory, and for other purposes incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to be available until expended, sixty thousand dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska:
ForAlaska.Rent, etc. rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, four thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventeen cents. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska:
For the actual—traveling expenses. and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, nine hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. Court-house and jail, Territory of Alaska: To establish sites—court house and jail. and for the erection thereon complete of a United States court-house and a United States jail at .Juneau, Alaska, and for other purposes incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to be available until expended, forty thousand dollars. 680 Defending suits in claims against the United States:
ForDefending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended underFrench spoliation. the direction of the Attorney-General for the fiscal years, as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, ten thousand dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-five dollars. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. For the reimbursement of Silas W. Day, special inspector of customs,Silas W. Day, reimbursement of. for expenses incurred in the suit of Alice Le Page against himself, four hundred and ten dollars and twenty-nine cents. For payment of physicians who rendered medical and surgical aidMedical aid to S. B. Lawrence and H.
C. Renfroe. to United States Deputy Marshals S. B. Lawrence and H. C. Renfroe, who were wounded while in the discharge of official duty, seventy-six dollars. For payment of John H. Kent, town sergeant of Houston, Virginia,John H. Kent, payment to. for arresting and conveying to prison parties charged with robbing the United States mail, in the absence of Federal officers qualified to act in the premises, eighteen dollars. For payment of the Kansas Patron for publication of notice in theKansas Patron, payment to. case of the United States against the Black Bob Band of Shawnee Indians, in November and December, eighteen hundred and ninety, and in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and ten dollars and seventy cents.
For payment of Hugh T. Taggart for services rendered as specialHugh T. Taggart, payment to. assistant to the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, under appointment of the Department of Justice, in the Potomac Flats eases and others, said services having been rendered in the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eighteen hundred and ninety three, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryEastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees, litigation. on account of the appropriation “Expenses of litigation for Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees,” two dollars. To reimburse Henry Rechtin, disbursing clerk of the Department ofHenry Rechtin, reimbursement. Justice, the amount paid by him for the use of rooms for the commissioners appointed to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States for the month ending August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixty-five dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryDefense, Indian depredation claims. on account of the appropriation “Defense in Indian depredation claims,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two dollars and eighty-nine cents. For the construction of a fence around the United States jail at FortFort Smith, Ark., jail. Smith, Arkansas, and for other purposes incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to be available until expended, five thousand dollars.
For repairs to the United States penitentiary at McNeils Island,McNeils Island, Washington, penitentiary. Washington, and for other purposes incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to be available until expended, five thousand dollars. To pay S. P. Hardwicke for services as special assistant attorney forS. P. Hardwicke, payment to. the northern district of Texas from October eighteenth to November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred dollars. 681 To pay George E.
Bird for services as special assistant attorney forGeorge E. Bird, payment to. the district of Maine from November twenty-sixth to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. For payment of Lenoir M. Erwin for expenses incurred during theLenoir M. Erwin, payment to. quarter ended September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in traveling from Macon, Georgia, to Brunswick, Georgia, and returning, in connection with the case of The United States against Leo Lumm and others, for violation of the neutrality laws of the United States, thirteen dollars.
For payment, as approved by the Attorney-General, to the estate ofGeorge P. Sanger, payment to estate. George P. Sanger, deceased, late United States attorney for the district of Massachusetts, for professional services performed and expenses incurred by said Sanger during the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and eighteen hundred and eighty-three, while such attorney, under the instructions of the Department of Justice, at the request of the late Professor Spencer F.
Baird, United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, in the matter of certain premises leased by the Fish Commission at Fort Wharf, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and also in the matter of the acquisition of certain premises at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, for the use of said commission, six hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-eight cents. united states courts. United States courts. That when upon the expiration of a United States marshal’s term ofAd interim appointments of marshals. four years he received an ad interim appointment by the circuit justice for the proper circuit, and when a marshal was appointed during a recess of the Senate and his appointment was afterwards confirmed by the Senate and he was recommissioned, the acts and services rendered—ratification of office deputies’ acts. by persons acting as his office or field deputies between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in pursuance of law and in good faith, are hereby ratified and confirmed, although such services were rendered after the expiration of the marshal’s term of four years and before the persons so acting were appointed office or field deputies, and took the oath of office as such subsequent to the qualification of the marshal under his ad interim appointment, or although such services were rendered after the expiration of the marshal’s recess appointment and before the persons so acting were appointed office or field deputies, and took the oath of office as such subsequent to the qualification of the marshal under his appointment after confirmation by the Senate; and for all payments—credit in accounts of disbursing officers. heretofore made on account of compensation and expenses of such persons so acting, the disbursing officer or marshal by whom such payments are in good faith made shall receive credit therefor in his accounts, notwithstanding any decision or opinion of the Comptroller of the Treasury to the contrary; and such disbursing officer or marshal is authorized to pay for such services so rendered and expenses incurred by any person so acting as a deputy between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: *Provided further*, Then when, between June thirtieth, eighteen hundred*Proviso*. and ninety-six, and July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon the expiration of a United States marshal’s term of four years,—salaries of marshals under ad interim appointments. he received an ad interim appointment by the circuit justice for the proper circuit, and afterwards qualified under such ad interim appointment, he shall be allowed and paid salary at the rate provided for his district from the date of such appointment until the date on which he qualified, and shall be allowed and paid his official expenses as provided—expenses.Vol. 29, p. 183. by the Act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six notwithstanding any decision or opinion of the Comptroller of the Treasury to the contrary; and all acts and services rendered by him—acts ratified. in pursuance of law and in good faith during said period are hereby ratified and confirmed. 682 That the proper accounting officers of the Government, in the settlementJohn S.
Hammer.Credited with certain disbursements without furnishing vouchers. of the accounts of John S. Hammer, United States marshal for the southern district of the Indian Territory, are authorized and directed to credit him with the amounts of his disbursements under the several judiciary appropriations between October first and December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, without furnishing the ordinary and proper vouchers showing such disbursements, upon proof satisfactory to the Attorney-General of the United States that said disbursements were lawfully and in good faith made, and that said vouchers were destroyed by fire when the building used for United States court purposes at Ardmore, Indian Territory, was destroyed by tire, on or about the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: *Provided further*, That said accounting officers, in the*Proviso*.Creighton M.
Foraker.Credited with disbursements without furnishing vouchers. settlement of the accounts of Creighton M. Foraker, United States marshal for the district of New Mexico, are authorized and directed to credit him with certain disbursements, amounting to about the sum of nine hundred and fifty seven dollars and ninety cents, under the appropriation for fees of witnesses, United States courts, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and certain disbursements amounting to about the sum of three thousand six hundred and seventy nine dollars and forty cents, under the appropriation for fees of jurors, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, without furnishing the proper vouchers showing such disbursements, on proof satisfactory to the Attorney-General of the United States that said disbursements were lawfully and in good faith made by him as United States marshal, and that he took proper vouchers for such disbursements, and that said vouchers were, without fault on his part, stolen from him on or about the tenth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
That the salaries of John E. Foley, Jerome C. Foley, and C. P. Taylor,John E. Foley, Jerome C. Foley, and C. P. Taylor.Allowance of salaries and expenses. late office deputy marshals of the district of Indiana, for the period from June fifteenth to September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, or so much thereof as remains unpaid, shall be paid; and the expenses of said deputy marshals for said period, actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties, shall be allowed, the same as if said deputy marshals had been recommissioned and had taken the oath of office required by law after the expiration of the term of office of the marshal who appointed them and the qualification of his successor.
That the salaries of Berry L. Priddie, Wilton Randolph, and EdwardBerry L. Priddie. Wilton Randolph, and Edward S. Aleshire, Jr.Allowance of salaries and expenses. S. Aleshire, junior, late office deputy marshals of the district of West Virginia, for the period from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, or so much thereof as remains unpaid, shall be paid; and the expenses of said deputy marshals for said period, actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties, shall be allowed the same as if said deputy marshals had been recommissioned and had taken the oath of office required by law after the expiration of the term of office of the marshal who appointed them and the qualification of his successor.
To pay to W. T, Manning, late United States deputy marshal, Juneau,W. T. Manning.Payment to. Alaska, amount of fifteen days’ salary in August, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty dollars and fifty-seven cents. To pay J. B. Fortune for fees earned as clerk of the United StatesJ. B. Fortune.Payment to. district court of the eastern district of North Carolina from the seventeenth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, such service being rendered under a mistaken view of the law applying to such service, such sum as may be found to be equitably due under the law authorizing fees and compensation to the clerks of the United States district courts, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to audit the said account accordingly.
That an additional clerk of the district court and an additional clerkTexarkana, Ark.Additional clerk of district and circuit courts authorized. of the circuit court for the western district of Arkansas shall be appointed to be clerks of said courts at Texarkana; that the acts and683 doings of the acting clerk of each of said courts at Texarkana since—acts of acting clerks validated. February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, are hereby validated, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized—fees, etc. and directed to allow said acting clerks the same fees and compensation for services rendered for the United States as they would have been entitled to if they had been lawfully appointed and held said offices in strict compliance with law.
To pay Frank P. Flint for services as a special deputy United StatesFrank P. Flint.Payment to. marshal in the southern district of California during the mouths of June and July, eighteen hundred and ninety four, four hundred dollars. That the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice is authorizedT. F. Green.Payment to. and directed to pay T. F. Breen salary as deputy clerk at Purcell, Indian Territory, from the day he entered upon duty, to wit, October sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, both days inclusive, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, notwithstanding said T.
F. Green did not take the oath of office required by section seventeen hundredR. S., sec. 1757, p. 313. and fifty-seven, Revised Statutes of the United States, until November first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and said disbursing clerk shall be allowed credit for such disbursement in the settlement of his account. For salaries of United States district attorneys, and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.Salaries and expenses. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, for the fiscal years as follows;
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twenty-four thousand fix hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents. That the disbursing officer of the Department of Justice is authorizedSalaries of clerks pending qualification of succeeding district attorney. and required to pay each person who was appointed a clerk in the office of a United States district attorney, and between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, acted as such clerk from the expiration of the term of office of one United States district attorney until the qualification of the next succeeding United States district attorney, the payment to be in accordance with the salary previously fixed by the Attorney-General; and said disbursing officer shall receive credit for such disbursements in his accounts.
For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants to district attorneys. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, six thousand dollars. For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York,District attorney, southern district of New York.R. S., sec. 825. p. 154. under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, sixty-six dollars and five cents. For rent of United States court rooms, ten thousand dollars.Rent.
To pay Mrs. H. S. Barfield, executrix, for cleaning and repairingMrs. H. S. Barfield, executrix. the building formerly occupied for United States court purposes in Columbus, Georgia, fifty-one dollars. For fees of jurors on account of the fiscal years as follows:Jurors’ fees. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and thirty-two dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixteen dollars.
For fees of witnesses on account of the fiscal years as follows:Witnesses’ fees. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eighty-four dollars and seventy cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty cents. 684 For fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, thirty-nine dollars and eighty cents.
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, twenty-five dollars and forty cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, ten dollars and ninety cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryClerks’ fees. on account of the appropriation “Fees of clerks, United States courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCommissioners’ fees. on account of the appropriation “Fees of commissioners, United States courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars and forty-five cents.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners. and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars and one cent.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two hundred and two dollars and twenty-nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, eighty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs and criers. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*,*Provisos*.
That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendanceAttendance.R. S., sec. 715, p. 136. when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judgesVacation. directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges,Expenses of judges, etc. and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States: expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United StatesMeals for jurors and bailiffs. cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars perJury commission era. day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the reimbursement of Joseph A. Manson, late United StatesJoseph A. Manson.Reimbursement. marshal for the western district of Tennessee, for the pay and board of extra bailiffs employed in the trial of G. F, B. Howard at Jackson, Tennessee, during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records for the fiscal years as follows:
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-five thousand dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and eight cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-three cents. 685 For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-four cents.
For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-two dollars. To pay three deputy clerks of the United States district courts inIndian Territory.Payment to deputy clerks at Muscogee, etc. the Indian Territory, one at Muscogee, one at South McAlester, and one at Ardmore, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each, for services performed and to be performed, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
That hereafter, and until otherwise provided by law, regular termsMontana judicial district. of the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of Montana shall be held at Butte, Montana, on the first Tuesday inTerms of court at Butte. February and on the first Tuesday in September in each year, and causes civil or criminal may be transferred by the court or the judgeTransfer of cases from Helena, etc. thereof from Helena to Butte or from Butte to Helena, in said district, when the convenience of parties or the ends of justice would be promoted by the transfer, and any interlocutory order may be made by the court or judge thereof in either place.
That an Act entitled “An Act to provide for holding terms of courtChap. 208, vol. 27, p. 252, repealed. in the district of Montana,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofCongressional employees, payment for extra services. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-fifth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. For expenses connected with collecting statistics relating to the useAlcohol in the arts.Collecting statistics on use of. of alcohol in the manufactures and arts free of tax, from October, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, to be paid by the Secretary of the Senate to the parties designated by the chairman of the joint select committee created by joint resolution of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, onVol. 29. p. 195. vouchers to be approved by him, two thousand dollars.
Improving Botanic Garden: To pay amounts found due by theBotanic Garden. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Improving Botanic Garden,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and one dollars and twenty-two cents: *Provided*,*Proviso*.—rates of pay assistant custodians, etc., not applicable to, etc.*Ante*, p. 316. That section two of the legislative appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred anti ninety-eight, shall not apply to the Library of Congress or the Botanic Garden. senate.
Senate. For compensation of the officers, clerks, and messengers, and othersPages. in the service of the Senate, namely: Sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, one thousand two hundred and forty dollars, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste and advertising, for the heating apparatus,Heating apparatus, expenses. exclusive of labor, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, forty-five dollars and forty-seven cents.
To pay for doors and glass for Senate galleries, Press gallery, Secretary’sRepairs, etc., galleries, etc. office, and Senators’ lavatory, and for seats around the walls of686 the Senate galleries, one thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-three cents. For purchase of furniture, seven thousand three hundred and twoFurniture. dollars and twenty cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, five thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Extra services. the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.
For payment to Clarence W, De Knight, for compiling and indexingClarence W. De Knight. for the Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate the debates on the cost and price of armor for naval vessels, from the Fifty-third Congress, third session, to the Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, inclusive, three hundred dollars. To pay to Thomas Williams, for injuries received while in the dischargeThomas Williams, payment to. of his duties as an employee of the Senate, in eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay to John Brady, for injuries received while in the discharge ofJohn Brady, payment to. his duties as a laborer in the Capitol Grounds in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. To pay to the clerk and the assistant clerk of the Senate CommitteeClerk, etc., Committee on Claims, payment to. on Claims for the preparation of the omnibus claims bill and report on the same, together with an index of both, in addition to the work authorized by the general deficiency appropriation Act of the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, one thousand dollars.
To pay Robert Bowman, junior, late clerk of the Committee on RevolutionaryRobert Bowman Jr., payment to. Claims, of which Senator E. C. Walthall was chairman, one month’s salary. house of representatives. House of Representatives. For compensation and mileage of Members of the House of RepresentativesMembers and Delegates. and Delegates from the Territories, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty cents. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, two hundredStationery. and fifty dollars.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. ten thousand dollars. For allowances to the following contestants and contestees, auditedContested election expenses. and recommended by the Committees on Elections, for expenses incurred by them in contested election cases, namely: To John R. Brown, two thousand dollars:John R. Brown. To C. A. Swanson, two thousand dollars;C. A. Swanson. To B. P. Chatfield, two thousand dollars;B.
P. Chatfield. To W. J. Talbert, two thousand dollars;W. J. Talbert. To E. W. Carmack, two thousand dollars;E. W. Carmack. To R. T. Thorp, two thousand dollars;R. T. Thorp. To S. P. Epes, two thousand dollars;S. P. Epes. To G. W. Murray, two thousand dollars;G. W. Murray. To T. B. Johnston, two thousand dollars;T. B. Johnston, To J. William Stokes, two thousand dollars;J. William Stokes. To R. A. Wise, two thousand dollars;R. A. Wise. To William Elliott, two thousand dollars:William Elliott.
To A. C. Latimer, nine hundred and thirteen dollars;A. C. Latimer. To T. J. Strait, one thousand dollars;T. J. Strait. To T. H. Clark, five hundred dollars;T.H. Clark. To Jesse F. Stallings, seven hundred and fifty dollars;Jesse F. Stallings. To G. L. Comer, one thousand and thirty-one dollars and fifty-nineG. L. Comer. cents; To Henry D. Clayton, one thousand three hundred and sixty-eightHenry D. Clayton. dollars and seventy-five cents; To William F. Aldrich, two thousand dollars;William F.
Aldrich. 687 To Thomas S. Plowman, two thousand dollars;Thomas S. Plowman. To A. T. Goodwyn, two thousand dollars;A. T. Goodwyn. To Willis Brewer, two thousand dollars;Willis Brewer. To G. B. Crowe, two thousand dollars;G. B. Crowe. To O. W. Underwood, two thousand dollars;O. W. Underwood. To J. S. Willis, five hundred dollars;J. S. Willis. To L. Irving Handy, seven hundred and eighty dollars;L. Irving Handy. To W. Godfrey Hunter, two thousand dollars;W. Godfrey Hunter. To John S.
Rhea, two thousand dollars;John S. Rhea. To W. A. Young, two thousand dollars;W. A. Young. To Josiah Patterson, two thousand dollars;Josiah Patterson. To T. C. Catchings, two thousand dollars;T. C. Catchings. To Armand Romain, two thousand dollars;Armand Romain. To B. L. Fairchild, two thousand dollars;B. L. Fairchild. To Joseph Gazin, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-fourJoseph Gazin. dollars and seventy-five cents; To W. E. Ryan, two thousand dollars;W. E. Ryan. To W. S.
Vanderburg, one thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-fiveW. S. Vanderburg. cents; To William McAleer, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-oneWilliam McAleer. dollars and eighty cents; To Samuel E, Hudson, one thousand nine hundred and forty-oneSamuel E. Hudson. dollars and sixty three cents; To Cornelius J. Jones, two thousand dollars;Cornelius J. Jones. To Thomas H. Tongue, one hundred dollars;Thomas H. Tongue. To D. Gardiner Tyler, five hundred and ninety-three dollars;D.
Gardiner Tyler To Adolph Meyer, in case of Romain against Meyer, two thousandAdolph Meyer. dollars; To Adolph Meyer, in case of Gazin against Meyer, two thousand dollars; To William L. Ward, two thousand dollars; in all, seventy-four thousandWilliam L. Ward. three hundred and four dollars and forty-seven cents. That hereafter Members of the House of Representatives who areAllowance of clerk hire for chairmen of committees during vacation. chairmen of committees entitled to annual clerks shall be entitled to the same allowance for clerk hire as is authorized to other Members of the House of Representatives who are not. chairmen of committees by the Joint Resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 27. p. 757. ninety-three, and by House Resolution passed May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and the appropriation for clerk hire to Members and Delegates made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine*Ante*, p. 282. is hereby made available to pay such clerk-hire as herein provided: *Provided*, That this provision shall apply to members of committees*Post*, pp. 852, 1242. entitled to annual clerks, during the vacation of Congress only.
To pay the widow of Ashley H. Wright, late a Representative inMrs. Ashley B. Wright.Payment to. Congress from the State of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. To pay Harry Parker and Charles Carter for caring for subcommitteeHarry Parker and Charles Carter.Payment to. rooms of Committees on Ways and Means and Appropriations, first and second sessions of the Fifty-fifth Congress, one hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, three hundred dollars. To reimburse the Clerk of the House for expenses incurred and to beStenographer to Clerk. incurred for services of a clerk and stenographer, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars.
To pay Alexander McDowell, Clerk of the House of Representatives,Alexander McDow, ell.Extra services, contested election cases. the amount due for services in compiling, arranging, and preparing for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, as authorized by the ActVol. 24. p. 445. entitled “An Act relative to contested elections,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, three thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents: and the additional sum of—additional for clerks, etc. two thousand dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the688 work, designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, five thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents.
To pay the assistant index clerk for forty-four days’ continuous serviceAssistant index clerk.Payment to. after the close of the first session of the present Congress, and to continue him in employment for three months after the, close of the second session of the present Congress, at six dollars per day, eight hundred and sixteen dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Extra clerical services. the House of Representatives and the official stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid by them from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for clerical hire and extra clerical services, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, except that there shall be paid to Andrew DevineAndrew Devine.Reuel Small. four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, and to Reuel Small two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, and to John J.
Cameron two hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand fourJohn J. Cameron. hundred and ninety dollars. To reimburse the assistant stenographer of committees for moneysAssistant stenographer of committees. actually paid by him for clerical hire and extra clerical services, two hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay D. S. Porter for extra services as assistant clerk to the CommitteeD. S. Porter. on Pensions, five hundred dollars. To pay H. W. Blanchard for extra services as assistant clerk to theH.
W. Blanchard. Committee on Invalid Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For payment to Clarence W. De Knight, for compiling and indexingClarence W. De Knight. for the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House the debates on the cost and price of armor for naval vessels, from the Fifty-third Congress, third session, to the Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, inclusive, and furnishing fourteen bound copies thereof, three hundred dollars. To pay the following, which have been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely:
To pay Noah L. Hawk for extra services as assistant deputy sergeant-at-arms,Noah L. Hawk. three hundred dollars. To reimburse Thomas fl. McKee, journal clerk of the House, forThomas H. McKee. expenses incurred for service of a typewriter from January ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and ten dollars. To pay Robert A. Stickney for services rendered in the office of theRobert A. Stickney. Clerk of the House of Representatives from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, and from December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, one thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and eight cents.
To pay Charles N. Thomas for extra services in the office of the disbursingCharles N. Thomas. clerk of the House of Representatives, three hundred dollars. To pay Kendall Lee for caring for the room of the Committee onKendall Lee. Accounts, one hundred dollars. To pay Guy Underwood the difference between the pay of a laborerGuy Underwood. and that of a messenger in the Hall Library, House of Representatives, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents a day from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, five hundred and ninety-four dollars.
To pay Walter P. Scott the difference between seven hundred andWalter P. Scott. twenty dollars and one thousand dollars per annum during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and eighty dollars. To pay John II. Hollingworth for services performed under the DoorkeeperJohn H. Hollingworth. of the House from December sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month, five hundred and ten dollars. 689 To pay Henry G, Disch for additional services from March fifteenth,Henry G.
Disch. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, three hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Harry J. Cone balance of salary as messenger from JulyHarry J. Cone. seventh to November tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Charles J. Stevenson the difference between his salary as aCharles J. Stevenson. laborer at seven hundred and twenty dollars and that of a messenger at one thousand dollars per annum, two hundred and eighty dollars.
To pay the conductors of the elevators in the House wing of the Capitol the difference between the amounts received by them and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, inclusive, each, as follows: L.B. Cook, two hundredL. B. Cook.George Winters.John S. Logan.M. F. O’Donnell. dollars; George Winters, two hundred dollars; John S. Logan, one hundred and eleven dollars and seventy cents;
M. F. O’Donnell, one hundred and five dollars and thirty cents; in all, six hundred and seventeen dollars. To pay George F. Evers balance of salary from July tenth to DecemberGeorge F. Evers. first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and seventy dollars. To pay George Jenison for services as special messenger from DecemberGeorge Jenison. first to December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay John H.
Barnsley the difference between the pay of a folderJohn H. Barnsley. and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, three hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Harris A. Walters the difference between the pay of a folderHarris A. Walters. and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay Henry A. Dumont for services as folder from July twenty-fifthHenry A. Dumont to December sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and eighty dollars. To pay P. L. Coultry the difference between his salary as folder andP. L. Coultry. that of acting assistant foreman of the folding room from April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six hundred dollars. library of congress. Library of Congress. That the title “Three clerks at one thousand four hundred dollarsClerks, etc.*Ante*, p. 284. each,” copyright department, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby amended to read:
“One clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each.” office of public printer. Public Printer. To enable the Public Printer to pay to J. S. Green, for services renderedJ. S. Green, payment to. by him as a laborer in the Government Printing Office from January twenty-fifth to February first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twelve dollars and eighty-seven cents.
To pay Samuel Robinson and William Madden, messengers on nightSamuel Robinson.William Madden. duty, during the first and second sessions of the present Congress for extra services, four hundred dollars each; in all, eight hundred dollars. To enable the Public Printer to pay to Wright Rives, executor ofWright Rives, executor. estate of John C. Rives, balance due for rent for storage of documents, eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. 690 To pay to John G. Ames the amount found due to him by the AuditorJohn G.
Amea for the State and other Departments for preparing the index to the documents of the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, as provided for by the Joint Resolution approved March third, eighteen hundredVol. 29. p. 704. and ninety-seven, one thousand dollars. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act ofVol. 24, p. 505. March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-five, and which have not been appealed, and Senate Documents Numbered Three hundred and Three hundred and eight, eighteen thousand and sixteen dollars and sixty-three cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments*Proviso*.Appeal. herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-five, except the judgment in favor ofException. Theodore Majtheny, and in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and three, seven hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-six cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments*Provisos*.Appeal. herein provided tor shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired: *And provided further*, That in the case of the judgment in favor of the commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of Louisville,Judgment in favor of commissioners of the sinking fund, Louisville, Ky.
Kentucky, the warrant therefor shall be delivered to said commissioners or to one of their number duly authorized to receive the same. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Ninety-two of this session, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars, and in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and one, two hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-five cents, and the further sum of seventy-five thousand dollars to pay certain judgments of the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases rendered in eighteen hundred and ninety-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and reported to Congress in Senate Executive Documents Numbered Seven, parts one and two, and Numbered Eighty-two and One hundred and twenty-eight, Fifty-third Congress, second session; in all, three hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-five cents; said judgments to be paid after the deductionsDeductions. required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitledVol. 26, p. 853.
“An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes691 affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the UnitedReimbursement.
States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That no one of the said judgments provided for in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified toCertificate of lack of ground for new trial, etc. the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient to his opinion to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said case.
Sec. 2. To supply deficiencies in appropriations on account of war expenses, there is appropriated as follows: NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, newspapers,Contingent expenses. plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand dollars.
Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the NavyPrinting and binding. Department, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty thousand dollars. Hydrographic office: For purchase of copperplates, steel plates,Hydrographic Office. chart paper, electrotyping copperplates; cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; data for charts and sailing directions; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; expert marine, meteorological, and other work in the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of, compiling, and arranging data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, and surveying, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five thousand five hundred dollars.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Naval establishment. navy department emergency fund. For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantlyEmergency fund.*Post*, p. 1227. arising under existing conditions, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen million dollars. That not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of the sum appropriatedEquipment auxiliary vessels, etc.*Post*, p. 744. by the Joint Resolution “Providing for the organisation and enrollment of the United States Auxiliary Naval Force” may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be expended for the repair and equipment of such vessels as may be purchased under said Joint Resolution. marine corps.
Marine Corps. For clothing for four thousand seven hundred and thirteen noncommissionedClothing enlisted men. officers, musicians, and privates, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eighty-two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge boxes, bayonetEquipments, etc. scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase of ammunition, and purchase and repair of instruments692 for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, incidental expenses in connection with the school of application, signal equipment and stores, binocular glasses, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense ofTransportation. recruiting service, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight thousand dollars. For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising! washing of bed sacks, mattressContingent expenses. covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, and forks; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire band grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government houses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of navigation.
Bureau of Navigation. For continuing the coast signal system during May and June, eighteenCoast signal system. hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-five thousand dollars. For establishing, extending, and maintaining the naval coast signal system during the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred thousand dollars. For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvousRecruiting, etc. and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on lettersContingent expenses. sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training ships, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen, and impossible to classify, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred thousand dollars.
For bounties for outfits of two hundred and fifty apprentices, beingNaval apprentices’ outfits.*Ante*, p. 371. the difference between seven hundred and fifty apprentices estimated for and one thousand allowed by naval appropriation act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 693 bureau of ordnance. Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For labor, munitions of war, and otherOrdnance and ordnance stores. material at navy-yards and stations, and necessary expenses incident to improving and increasing the efficiency of ships and the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, four hundred thousand dollars.
For labor and material at navy-yards and stations, production and purchase of munitions of war, and necessary expenses incident to improving and increasing the efficiency of ships and the Ordnance Department for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six million dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For the manufacture ofNewport, R. I.Torpedo station. smokeless powder, twenty-two thousand dollars, to be available for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. bureau of equipment.
Bureau of Equipment. For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expensesEquipment of vessels. of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for steaming purposes; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing Hags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, being for the following periods:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million three hundred thousand dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five million dollars. For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxesContingent expenses. and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; Stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighter age of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty thousand dollars.
For one writer at navy yard, New York, for the six monthsNew York Navy-Yard. beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four hundred and seventy-five dollars. For one clerk at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, for the six monthsMare Island Navy-Yard. beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred dollars. For ocean and lake surveys; the publication and care of the resultsOcean and lake surveys. thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions,694 and freight and express charges on same; preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines,Provisions. which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storehouses and paymasters offices in navy-yards, yards, including expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund, being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
For freight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks,Contingent expenses. stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval supply fund, and other incidental expenses, being for the following periods: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars.
For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred thousand dollars. bureau of construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary;Preservation, repair, etc., of vessels. purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room; including urgent repairs to vessels in ordinary, and work now being done under “national defense” at navy-yards and by outside firms, and including present estimated obligations, being for the following periods:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering. For labor and materials in outfitting and repairing steam machineryRepairing machinery, etc. and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers, distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery, with necessary supplies and stores, and transportation; and for repair of tools and appliances at navy-yards necessary for expeditious repair of machinery of naval vessels; being for the following periods:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. 695 For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, four million and five thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards,Surgeons’ necessaries. naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts : For coal sheds and appliances,Public works.Busion. repairs to, seven thousand dollars; for repairing and extending wharves, thirty-five thousand dollars; for electric-light plant, extension of, fifty thousand dollars; for dredging, thirty-five thousand dollars; for alterations in building numbered forty-two (southeast machine shop) and foundations for machinery, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars.
Naval station, New London, Connecticut: For coal-storage pocketsNew London. or sheds and coal-handling machinery, two hundred thousand dollars. Navy-yard, New York, New York: For repairs to entrance of timberNew York. dry dock numbered two, three hundred thousand dollars; for locomotive, three thousand five hundred dollars; for reconstruction and extension of railroad system, twenty-five thousand dollars; for one-hundred-ton crane and foundations, one hundred thousand dollars; for extension of electric-light system, fifty thousand dollars; for building for electric-light plant, thirty thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, League island, Pennsylvania: For electric lighting,League Island. increase of plant, ten thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For electric lighting,Washington, D. C. increase of plant, twenty thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For repairs to timber dry dock, fifteenNorfolk. thousand dollars; for increase of electric light and power for yards and docks, thirty thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina:
For coal-storage housesPort Royal. for ten thousand tons, fifty thousand dollars; for repairs and extensions of wharf, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For electric-lighting plant, ten thousandPensacola. dollars; for repairs to buildings and wharves, twenty-five thousand dollars; for dredging, fifty thousand dollars; for repairs to coal-storage sheds and coal-handling machinery, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: For dredging and filling in, twenty-fiveKey West. thousand dollars. Floating dry docks: For two floating dry docks for use on the GulfGulf coast, dry docks. coast, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Maintenance yards and docks: For general maintenance of yards andMaintenance. docks at navy-yards and stations for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation, navy-yards:
For repairs and preservationRepairs, etc. at navy-yards and stations for the six mouths beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy may employ, and pay out of the appropriationAdditional employees. for public works, herein authorized under Bureau of Yards and Docks, such additional temporary expert aids, draughts men, writers and copyists as may be necessary for the preparation of plans and specifications. 696 WAR DEPARTMENT.
War Department. For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks,Additional temporary force. messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and seven thousand dollars.
The temporary force authorized by this section of this Act and theAdditional temporary employees not subject to civil-service examination.*Ante*, p. 450.*Ante*, p. 422.*Post*, pp. 889, 1216. clerical force and other employees appropriated for in the Act to provide ways and means to meet, war expenditures, and for other purposes, approved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions and for other objects for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes, approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be appointed for a term not exceeding one year, as authorized, respectively, without compliance with the conditions prescribed by the Act entitled “An ActVol. 22, p. 403. to regulate and improve the civil service,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
That any balance of the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars made for the foregoing purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight by the Act approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and*Ante*, p. 422. ninety-eight, shall remain available for the payment of liabilities which maybe incurred to and including December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. For contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus,Contingent expenses. including purchase of professional and scientific books, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture, and repairs do same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by the Adjutant-General’s Office, the Surgeon-General’s Office, Office of Records of the Rebellion, and Record and Pension Office of the War Department; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, and other absolutely necessary expenses, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, thirty thousand dollars.
For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and officesStationery. for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen thousand dollars. For rent for the War Department for the six months beginning JulyRent. first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus,Printing and binding. to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred thousand dollars.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Military establishment. commanding general’s office. Commanding General’s Office. To defray the contingent expenses of the Commanding General’sContingent expenses. Office for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand dollars. inspector-general’s department. Inspector General’s Department. Contingent expenses for inspectors-general at the various department headquarters, and at headquarters of army corps and divisions in the697 field, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand dollars. office of the chief signal officer.
Signal Service. For the expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows:Expenses. Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges, war balloons, telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same, electrical installations and maintenance of military posts, maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars. pay department.
Pay Department. For pay of the Army under Act approved April twenty-sixth, eighteenPay of Regular Army, war organization.*Ante*, p. 364. hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: For pay of officers of the line, namely:Officers. For fifty majors, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For fifty captains, not mounted, forty-five thousand dollars; For fifty first lieutenants, not mounted, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For fifty second lieutenants, not mounted, thirty-five thousand dollars; For twenty-eight second lieutenants, mounted, twenty one thousand dollars; For fifty-six second lieutenants, not mounted, thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and forty thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of enlisted men, namely:Enlisted men. For two sergeant-majors, two hundred and seventy six dollars; For two quartermaster-sergeants, two hundred and seventy-six dollars; For two chief musicians, seven hundred and twenty dollars;
For four trumpeters and principal musicians, five hundred and twenty eight dollars; For seventy-six first, sergeants, eleven thousand four hundred dollars; For four hundred and forty eight company quartermaster-sergeants, forty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars; For one thousand four hundred and seventy-one sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, one hundred and fifty eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars; For twenty-eight veterinary sergeants, three thousand and twenty-four dollars;
For four thousand and thirty-one corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, three hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars; For one hundred and forty-eight musicians and trumpeters, eleven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars; For one hundred and fifty artificers, farriers, and blacksmiths, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; For twenty-nine saddlers, two thousand six hundred and ten dollars; For seventy five wagoners, six thousand three hundred dollars;
For thirty thousand three hundred and sixty privates of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, two million three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and eighty dollars; in all, two million nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred dollars. For Engineer Battalion, namely:Engineer battalion. For five first sergeants, one thousand and twenty dollars; 698 For ten sergeants, two thousand and forty dollars; For ten corporals, one thousand two hundred dollars; For two musicians, trumpeters, one hundred and fifty-six dollars;
For one hundred and sixteen first-class privates, eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars; For one hundred and nine second-class privates, eight thousand five hundred and two dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For Signal Corps, namely:Signal Corps. For ten corporals, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one hundred first-class privates, ten thousand two hundred dollars; For forty second-class privates, three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For Hospital Corps, namely:Hospital Corps. For fifty hospital stewards, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; For fifty acting hospital stewards, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For five hundred and fifty privates, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eighty thousand four hundred dollars. For twenty per centum increase, six hundred and sixty-nine thousandTwenty percent increase. six hundred and thirty-four dollars. Total amount of pay to increased force of Regular Army, under this Act, four million seventeen thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For pay of volunteers under Act approved April twenty-second,Pay of Volunteer Army.*Ante*, p. 361. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and subsequent Acts, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: For pay of officers of the line (staff), nine hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred dollars; For eight regimental staff officers for ninety-six unassigned organizations, one hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred dollars; For one hundred and nineteen regiments of infantry, fourteen million nine hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars;
For thirteen battalions of infantry, four hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and four dollars; For two regiments of cavalry, two hundred and fifty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars; For eighteen troops of cavalry, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; For eighteen light batteries, artillery, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For one regiment of heavy artillery, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
For eight batteries of heavy artillery, one hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; For three regiments, specials, three hundred and seventy-six thousandSpecials. six hundred and ninety-eight dollars; For ten regiments, immunes, one million two hundred and fifty-fiveImmunes. thousand six hundred and sixty dollars; For three regiments engineers, four hundred and ninety-seven thousandEngineers. three hundred and seventy dollars; For Signal Service, volunteers, two hundred and seventy-six thousandSignal Service. five hundred dollars;
For one hospital corps, three hundred and sixty-one thousand twoHospital Corps. hundred dollars; For fifty paymasters, additional, sixty-two thousand five hundredAdditional paymasters. dollars; For fifty paymasters’ clerks, additional, thirty-five thousand dollars;Clerks. For one hundred and fifty contract surgeons, one hundred and thirty-fiveSurgeons, contract. thousand dollars; For mileage to officers traveling without troops and to contract surgeons,Mileage, etc. at seven cents per mile, fifty thousand dollars; 699 For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, ten thousand dollars;
For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops, oneCommutation of quarters. hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, one hundred thousand dollars; For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, one hundredUndrawn clothing. thousand dollars; For twenty per cent increase, four million one hundred and twenty-nineTwenty percent increase. thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars; in all, twenty-five million twenty-six thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For pay of volunteers, under Act approved April twenty second,*Ante*, pp. 361, 364, etc. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and subsequent Acts, mustered into the service of the United States under the President’s call dated*Post*, p. 1772. May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to be available from June first to December thirty-first, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: For pay of officers of the line (staff), six hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For one regiment of heavy artillery, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars; For four regiments of cavalry, five hundred and eighty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-two cents; For twenty-eight regiments of infantry, three million nine hundred and sixty eight thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars; For pay of forty-two thousand enlisted men to complete regiments already organized, five million nine hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-one cents.
For thirty eight additional paymasters, fifty-five thousand four hundredAdditional paymasters. and sixteen dollars and sixty-two cents; For thirty-eight paymasters’ clerks, thirty-one thousand and thirty-three—clerks. dollars and thirty-one cents; For mileage to officers traveling without troops, and to contractMileage, etc. surgeons, at seven cents per mile, forty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-two cents; For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-two cents;
For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops, fifty-eightCommutation of quarters. thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-one cents; For traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, seventy-twoAllowances to enlisted men. thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-two cents; For clothing not drawn, due to enlisted men on discharge, fifty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty one cents; For expenses of courts-martial, twenty-nine thousand one hundredCourts-martial expenses. and sixty-six dollars and sixty-five cents;
For twenty per cent increase, two million three hundred and forty-nineTwenty per cent increase. thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and nineteen cents; in all, fourteen million ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighteen cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated under “Pay Department,” except for “Mileage to officers,” shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence department.
Subsistence Department. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, civilSupplies. employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, general prisoners at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting pub-700lic fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts.
For payments: ForPayments. meals for recruiting parties and recruits ; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army.
For the payment of the regulationCommutation in lieu of rations. allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, for the six mouths beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen million three hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-eight cents. quartermaster’s department.
Quarter master’s Department. For regular supplies, namely: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations ; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances ; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipments for the post schools and libraries; for the. tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forageForage, etc. in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders and reports, for the following periods :
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eleven million five hundred thousand dollars. For incidental expenses, namely: For postage; cost of telegrams onIncidental expenses. official business received and sent by officers of the Army; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and701 incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and black smiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, for the following periods: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five million dollars. For horses for cavalry and artillery, namely: For the purchase ofPurchase of horses. horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, for the following periods: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million dollars;
For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three million dollars. For barracks and quarters, namely: For barracks and quarters forBarracks and quarters. troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts: *Provided*, That no part of the*Proviso*.Not available for commutation of fuel, etc. money so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for quarters to officers or enlisted men, for the following periods:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For transportationTransportation. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses of recruiting;” of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster stores from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores, from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports—transports, etc. on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific702 oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportations lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aidPayments to land grant railroads. in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of fullMaximum. amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be*Provisos*.Rates. computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That inFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amounts so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service for the following periods:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, nine million dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-four million dollars. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely: For cloth,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothes, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-six million dollars.
For contingencies of the Army, namely: For all contingent expensesContingent expenses. of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred thousand dollars. medical department. Medical Department. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectantsSupplies, etc. for general post sanitation, expenses of medical supply depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the regular and volunteer armies on duties at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of eases in the armies suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred thousand dollars. 703 For pay of three hundred civilian nurses at thirty dollars per month,Civilian nurses. during the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-four thousand dollars.
For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post sanitation, expenses of medical-supply depots, pay of employees, civilian nurses, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the regular and volunteer armies on duties at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the armies suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ordnance department.
Ordnance Department. For current expenses of the ordnance service, required to defray theCurrent expenses. current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunitionAmmunition for small arms. for reloading cartridges and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice; ammunition for burials at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four million two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For ammunition for infantry, cavalry, field and siege artillery, one—artillery. million one hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdnance stores. of troops, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments and horse equipments,Equipments. equipments of all kinds for field and siege artillery, and for miscellaneous war material, and articles and implements for war purposes, including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture at the arsenals, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three million seven hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in thePreserving, etc., stores. hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance and ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars. To enable payment to be made for an emergency purchase of ten thousandWinchester Repeating Arms Company.Payment to.
Winchester repeating infantry rifles, caliber thirty, with knife bayonets and bayonet scabbards, which the Chief of Ordnance has ordered from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, at twenty dollars and seventy cents each, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and seven thousand dollars. For manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at theManufacture of arms, etc. national armories, including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture, all being for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two million five hundred thousand dollars. 704 For machines, fixtures, tools, and so forth, and installing the same,Springfield Armory. at Springfield Armory, the same to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, forty thousand dollars.
To pay for six two and one-half inch Sims-Dudley dynamite gunsSims-Dudley dynamite guns. purchased by order of the Secretary of War, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For purchase of ten Sims-Dudley dynamite guns of two and one-half inch caliber, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventeen thousand dollars. For one thousand projectiles and charges for same, twenty-eight—projectiles. thousand four hundred dollars. armament of fortifications.
Armament of fortifications. For coast-defense guns of eight, ten, and twelve inch caliber, manufacturedCoast-defense guns. by contract under the provisions of the fortification Acts approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and FebruaryVol. 26, pp. 319, 770. twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand and ninety-eight dollars. For providing and procuring field and siege artillery ammunition ofAmmunition. all kinds, five hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
For telescopic sights for cannon, twenty five thousand dollars.Telescopic sights. For powder and explosives for cannon, one hundred and fiftyPowder, etc. thousand dollars. For inspecting instruments for cannon, projectiles, and carriages, fiveInspection, etc. thousand dollars. For steel seacoast projectiles for eight, ten, and twelve inch guns andProjectiles. twelve-inch mortar, including expenses of test of the projectiles and explosives for filling the same, two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. engineer department.
Engineer Department. For pontoon trains, in trenching tools, instruments, drawing materials,Tools, etc. for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, clerks to engineerEmployees.*Post*, p. 1225. officers on the staff of division and corps commanders, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, sixty thousand dollars. Improvement of Elizabeth River:
The Secretary of War be,Elizabeth River.Improvement of channel. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to proceed immediately to cause the channel of Elizabeth River, from Hampton Roads to the United States Navy-Yard near Norfolk, Virginia, to be improved, widened, and deepened to a width of not less than four hundred and fifty feet and to a depth of twenty-eight feet, opening first a channel one hundred and fifty feet wide so as to admit to the Norfolk Navy Yard the largest vessels in the Navy, and thereafter, as soon as possible, completing the said channel to the full width of four hundred and fifty feet as aforesaid.
The said work may be let under contract after a ten days’ advertisement for bids, or, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, without any advertisement. And for the purposes aforesaid the sum of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. gun and mortar batteries. Gun and mortar batteries. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, two million five hundred and sixty two thousand dollars.
For pneumatic dynamite battery at San Francisco Harbor, California,Dynamite battery, San Francisco. to be available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 705 For installation of range and position tinders, to be available untilRange tinders, etc. expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. torpedoes for harbor defense. Torpedoes for harbor defense. For care and maintenance of mine fields during the six months beginningCare of mine fields. July first, eighteen hundred and ninety eight, seven hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars.
For additional material for submarine-mine defense, including searchMaterial. lights and necessary supplies for operating electric-light plants, during the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That all appropriations made by this section for the naval and militaryAvailability of appropriations. establishments for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall remain available for payment of liabilities which may be incurred to and including December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; and so much of the appropriations made herein for the military establishment for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as may be necessary on account of volunteers mustered in under the President’s call issued May twenty-fifth,*Post*, p. 1772. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be available for expenditure during the month of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. collection of internal revenue. Collecting internal revenue. For such additional temporary force in the Internal-Revenue ServiceAdditional temporary force. as, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, may be necessary to carry into effect the Act “To provide ways and means to*Ante*, p.450. meet war expenditures, and for other purposes”; the office force in the Internal-Revenue Bureau to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue; and internal-revenue agents and deputy collectors of internal revenue paid from this appropriation shall be selected and appointed, respectively, under the provisions of section thirty-one hundred and fifty-twoR.S., secs. 3152, 3143, pp. 603, 604. and section thirty-one hundred and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes, to be available from the date of the approval of the foregoing Act and to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred thousand dollars.
That so much of section thirty-three of the Act “To provide waysTemporary force to prepare bond issue.*Ante*, p. 467. and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes,” approved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as makes an indefinite appropriation to pay the expenses of preparing, advertising, and issuing bonds and certificates shall be construed to authorize, from the date of the approval of said Act, the temporary employment of such clerical and personal services as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be necessary in the execution of the provisions of said section. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. For publishing charts, and for extra labor required in printing andCharts, etc. issuing charts of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five thousand dollars, to continue available during fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. printing and binding. Printing and binding. For printing and binding tor the Treasury Department, twenty-fiveTreasury Department. thousand dollars. 706 engraving and printing.
Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary clerks and employees other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each, when employed, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars.
For engravers’, printers’, and other materials, except distinctiveMaterials. paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture. For establishing, equipping, and maintaining, at such places as theMeteorological stations for public defense. President may direct, meteorological observation stations in connection with the public defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended under the direction of the President, seventy-five thousand dollars.
CAPITOL POLICE. Capitol police. For employment until not later than December thirty-first, eighteenAdditional privates hundred and ninety-eight, of not exceeding eighteen additional Capitol policemen (privates), at the rate of nine hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-four, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams,Contingent expenses. and so forth, one dollar and seventy-nine cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, two dollars and sixtyPublic buildings.—assistant custodians. etc. cents. For furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings, one hundred—furniture, etc. and forty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, nineteen dollars and—fuel, light, etc. forty-eight cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, forty-four dollars.—beating apparatus. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, one hundred and—repairs, etc. fifty-one dollars and forty cents. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, four dollars andSuppressing counterfeiting. seventeen cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, sixty-five dollars and twenty-threeCustoms revenue. cents.
For repayment to importers excess of deposits, three thousand sixRepayment to importers excess of deposits. hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-two cents. 707 For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, eighty-eight dollars andRevenue-Cutter Service. sixteen cents. For Life-Saving Service, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and fiftyLife-Saving Service. cents. For salaries, keepers of light-houses, thirty-eight dollars and eighty—keepers’ salaries. cents. For Staten Island Light-House Depot, twenty-two dollars and fifty—Stat Island, New York. cents.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, fiveInternal revenue.—salaries. dollars and fifteen cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, one dollar and seventy-seven cents. For paper for internal-revenue stamps, twenty dollars and forty cents.—stamp paper. For drawback on stills exported, Act March first, eighteen hundred—drawback on stills. and seventy-nine, twenty dollars. For refunding taxes illegally collected, thirty-four dollars and ninety-two—refunding taxes. cents.
For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, two dollarsCoast and Geodetic Survey. and thirty cents. For wages and contingent expenses, assay office at Boise, seventy-oneAssay office, Boise. cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. For prevention of deposits, harbor of New York, thirteen cents.New York Harbor, etc. For bridge across Eastern Branch of Potomac River, two dollars andBridge, Eastern Branch. two cents.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand eight hundred andArmy.—pay seventy-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. For mileage to officers traveling without troops, five dollars and eight—mileage. cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, one thousand one hundred—arrears of pay. and fifty-two dollars and six cents. For bounties to volunteers, their widows, and legal heirs, one thousand—bounties. five hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirteen cents. For bounty under Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, eighteen dollarsQuartermaster’s Department. and ten cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, two hundred andTransportation.—Army. seventy-eight dollars and thirteen cents. For Signal Service: Transportation, sixty-seven cents.—Signal Service, For improving Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona, one dollar and twoColorado River. cents.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, one hundredLost property. and forty-six dollars and seventy-three cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, two hundredCalifornia, etc., volunteers. and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonOregon, etc., volunteers. volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and nine cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, four thousand five hundred and sixty-sevenNavy, pay. dollars and ninety-two cents. For pay, miscellaneous, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents. 708 For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, four thousand and seventy-seven—mileage. dollars and three cents: *Provided*, That hereafter the accounting*Proviso*.Claim for difference between mileage and actual expenses, etc. officers of the Treasury shall not receive, examine, consider, or allow any claim against the United States for difference between mileage and actual expenses which has been or may be presented by officers of the Navy, their heirs or legal representatives, under the decisions of the Supreme Court which have heretofore been adopted as a basis for the allowance of such claims, which accrued prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
For pay, Marine Corps, three thousand five hundred and fifty-fivePay, Marine Corps. dollars and sixty-one cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation,Bureau of Navigation. eighteen dollars and sixty-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, two dollars and seventy-eightBurean of Ordnance. cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, five dollars.Bureau of Equipment. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, one dollar and nine cents. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, forty-three cents.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one thousandBureau of Suppliers and Accounts. six hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two dollars and sixty-seven cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, thirty-fourBureau of Steam Engineering. cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, oneDestruction of clothing, etc. hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars.Lost clothing. For enlistment bounties to seamen, twelve thousand two hundredBounties. dollars and four cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, eighty-seven dollars and eighty cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, six hundredRegisters and receivers. and ninety-four dollars and one cent.
For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess of deposits,Reimbursement of receivers, etc. one dollar and sixty-two cents. For surveying the public lands, three thousand nine hundred andSurveying public lands. ninety-eight dollars and seventy-four cents. For surveying private land claims, three hundred and eleven dollars—private land claims. and eighteen cents. For pay of Indian agents, three hundred arid seventy-seven dollarsIndian Department.—agents. and fifty-two cents.
For traveling expenses, Indian inspectors, eleven dollars and sixty-nine—Inspectors. cents. For buildings at agencies, and repairs, eighty-eight dollars.—buildings, repairs. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, twenty-five dollars—supplies. and eighteen cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, sixty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, twelve dollars and fifty cents.—contingencies. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization,—Sioux, etc., support of. five thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-one cents.
For salaries of pension agents, one hundred and thirty-seven dollarsPension agents. and ninety-eight cents. For army pensions, four hundred and seventy-seven dollarsPensions. and seventy two cents. For fees of examining surgeons, army pensions, eighty-three dollars—examining surgeons. and fifty cents. For fees of examining surgeons, navy pensions, five dollars. 709 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments.
For public printing and binding, four dollars and thirty-threePublic printing and binding. cents. For salaries, consular service, one hundred dollars.Consular service. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, twenty dollars and ten cents. For loss by exchange, consular service, one hundred and four dollars—loss by exchange. and eighty-three cents. For fees and costs in extradition cases, six dollars and eighty cents.—extradition. For refunding consular fees erroneously deposited, two hundred and—refunding fees. etc. seventeen dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, two hundredAgricultural Department. and nine dollars and nine cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, eighty cents.Weather Bureau. For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act of August sixth, eighteenProsecution of Indians, Arizona. hundred and ninety-four, two thousand and thirty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, seven hundredUnited States courts.—marshals. and ninety dollars and ninety-two cents.
For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, one—special assistant attorneys. thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, United States courts, one hundred and thirty-six—clerks. dollars and ninety-five cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one thousand five—commisioners. hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, fifteen dollars and fifty—witnesses. cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, three hundred and—support of prisoners. ninety-seven dollars and sixty cents.
For rent of court rooms, United States courts, one hundred and fifty—rent. dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For special-delivery service, eight cents.Special delivery service. For free delivery service, five dollars.Free-delivery service. For clerk hire, one hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-five cents. For rent, light, and fuel, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-two cents.
For compensation of postmasters, sixty-nine dollars and fifty-twoPostmasters. cents. For advertising, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-fiveAdvertising. cents. For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, two hundred andMail depredations. fifty dollars. For railroad transportation, four dollars and twenty cents.Transportation. For star transportation, two hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-two cents. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three710 hundred and thirty-three, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:
To pay the amounts due the Union and Kansas Pacific railroad companiesUnion and Kansas Pacific railroads. and the Central Branch, Union Pacific Railroad Company, as heretofore fully set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor tor the Treasury Department.
For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, five dollarsFuel, etc., public buildings. and seventeen cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, six thousand eightRepayment to Importers of excess of deposit. hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-one cents. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, seventeen dollars and sixRevenue-Cutter Service. cents. For Life-Saving Service, one hundred and ninety-one dollars.Life-Saving Service. For supplies of light-houses, five dollars and twenty two cents.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, seventy-twoInternal revenue. dollars. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, two dollars and fifty-seven cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and nineteen cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, one thousand six hundred andArmy, pay. thirty-four dollars and one cent.
For pay of two and three year volunteers, eighty-one cents. For subsistence of the Army, thirteen dollars.Subsistence. For incidental expenses, (Quartermaster’s Department, ninety-fourQuartermaster’s Department. dollars and twenty-three cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, six dollars andTransportation. fifty-one cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, one hundred and twenty-sixMedical Department. dollars. For military posts, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and eightMilitary posts. cents.
For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, andCommutation of rations. to soldiers on furlough, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, one hundredLost property. and sixty-three dollars. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonOregon, etc., volunteers. volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, five dollars and eight cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, six hundred and seventy-nine dollars andNavy, pay. seventy-five cents. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, one thousand and seventy-eightMileage. dollars and thirty-seven cents. For provisions, Marine Corps, fifty dollars and fourteen cents.Marine Corps. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, thirty-fourBureau of Supplies and Accounts. dollars and fifty cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, twenty-fiveDestruction of clothing. dollars and seventy-one cents. 711 For indemnity for lost clothing, twenty-five dollars.Lost clothing. For enlistment bounties to seamen, nine hundred and forty-one dollarsBounties. and twenty cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, two dollars and thirty-nine cents. For twenty per centum additional compensation, Navy, three dollarsTwenty per cent, additional compensation. and ninety cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, one thousandContingent expenses. six hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-seven cents. For surveying the public lands, ten thousand nine hundred and forty-oneSurveying public lands. dollars and sixty-two cents. For Geological Survey, ninety-two dollars and eighty-two cents.Geological Survey. For pay of Indian agents, three hundred and thirty-two dollars andIndian Department. forty-one cents.
For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, two hundred and eighteen dollars. For army pensions, twenty-four dollars.Pensions, Army. For fees of examining surgeons, army pensions, twenty-six dollars.—fees examining surgeons. For contingent expenses, pension agencies, two dollars and thirty—agencies. cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For star transportation, fourteen dollars and ninety-two cents.Star transportation.
For clerk hire, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.Clerk hire. For rent, light, and fuel, six hundred and six dollars and six cents.Rent, etc. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments. For contingent expenses, Executive Office, three dollars and ninety-sixExecutive Office. cents. For salaries of consular officers while receiving instructions and inConsular service. transit, four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For salaries, consular service, ten dollars.—salaries. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen,—aid to American vessels. seventy-two dollars. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, nineteen dollars and fifty-nineLoss by exchange. cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, seventy-four dollarsAid to seamen. and eighty-six cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, three hundredContingent expenses, consulates. dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, Fish Commission, one hundred andFish Commission. twenty-seven dollars and one cent. For propagation of food-fishes, sixteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, sixteen dollarsBureau of Animal Industry. and seventy-five cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, seven hundred and fortyWeather Bureau. dollars and sixty-seven cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, one hundredUnited States courts.—special assistant attorneys.—commissioners. and fifty dollars.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, two hundred and—miscellaneous sixty dollars. 712 Sec. 5. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of JuneVol. 18, p, 110. twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fullyVol. 23. p. 254. set forth in Senate Document Numbered three hundred and eleven, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. For contingent expenses. Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams,Contingent expenses. and so forth, forty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, one hundred and fiftyPublic buildings. dollars. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, fifty cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents.
For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, twenty-eight dollarsSuppressing counterfeiting. and forty-five cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, one thousand one hundred andCustoms revenue. eighty dollars and eighteen cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, nine thousand nineRepayment to importers excess of deposits. hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-six cents. For Life-Saving Service, two hundred and forty-five dollars andLite-Saving Service. thirty cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, three thousand two hundred andArmy, pay. eighty-four dollars and twenty-seven cents. For subsistence of the Army, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and—subsistence. seventy-seven cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, eleven dollarsQuartermaster’s Department. and eighty cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-six cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, one thousand oneTransportation. hundred and ninety dollars and thirty-tour cents. For barracks and quarters, nineteen dollars and twenty cents.Barracks and quarters. For artificial limbs, one hundred dollars.Artificial limbs. For gun and mortar batteries, seventy cents.Gun and mortar batteries. For Board of Ordnance and Fortification, three dollars and forty-threeBoard of Ordnance and Fortification. cents. For contingencies of fortifications, one dollar and fifty-two refits.
For expenses of California Débris Commission, forty cents.California Débris Commission. For horses and other property lost in the military service, eight thousandLost property. and five hundred dollars. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, oneCalifornia, etc., volunteers. thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-three cents. For transportation of officers and their baggage, one hundred andTransportation. one dollars and ninety-five cents. For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, forty-four dollarsVolunteer expenses. and ten cents.
For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, twenty-eight dollars and ninety-threeVolunteers, Mexican war. cents. 713 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY IDE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor of the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nineNavy, pay. dollars and twenty-seven cents. For pay, miscellaneous, seventy dollars. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, three thousand and fifty-fiveMileage. dollars and eight cents. For pay, Marine Corps, three thousand six hundred and fifteen dollarsMarine Corps. and seventy-six cents.
For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation,Bureau of Navigation. two hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. For outfits for naval apprentices, forty-five dollars. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, two dollars and fifty cents.Bureau of Equipment. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one thousandBureau of Supplies and Accounts. two hundred and eighty dollars and five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-four cents.
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, two dollars andBureau of Steam Engineering. fifty cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, two thousand five hundred andBounties. two dollars and fourteen cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, forty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, thirty-nineContingent expenses. cents.
For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess of deposits,Reimbursement to receivers, etc. twenty-one dollars and forty-five cents. For surveying the public lands, eight thousand eight hundred andSurveying public lands, seventy-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. For traveling expenses, Indian inspectors, twenty-one dollars andIndian Department.—inspectors. fifty-three cents. For traveling expenses, Indian school superintendent, seventy-one—school superintendent. dollars and eighty-two cents.
For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, nine hundred and—supplies. six dollars and ninety-seven cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and six cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization,—Sioux, etc., support of. twelve dollars and ten cents. For support of Kickapoos, seventy dollars.—Kickapoos. For Indian schools; support, fifty-five cents.—schools. For incidentals in Washington, including employees, and support—Washington, incidentals. and civilization, seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For fees of examining surgeons, army pensions, one hundred andFees examining surgeons. twenty-five dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments. For increase of Library of Congress, sixty-seven dollars and eighty-fourCongressional Library. cents. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, ninety-seven dollars andDiplomatic and consular service. thirty-three cents. For salaries of consular officers while receiving instructions and in—salaries. transit, fifty-four cents.
For salaries of secretaries of legations, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-four cents. 714 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571, 572. 1898. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, eight dollars.—contingent expenses. etc, For salaries, consular service, twenty-three cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen,—services to vessels. four dollars and ninety-six cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, eight dollars and thirty-one—loss by exchange. cents.
For loss by exchange, consular service, forty-two dollars and eighty-six cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, twenty-nine dollarsContingent expenses. and forty-five cents. For propagation of food fishes, sixty-eight cents.Fish Commission. For Interstate Commerce Commission, ninety-one cents.Interstate Commerce Commission. For vegetable pathological investigations and experiments, threeAgricultural Department. dollars and thirty-nine cents. For investigating the history and habits of insects, five dollars.
For irrigation investigations, four dollars and seventy-four cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, two hundred and seventy-threeWeather Bureau. dollars and thirty-seven cents. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, one hundredUnited States courts.—marshals. and ninety-five dollars. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, one—special assistant attorneys. thousand four hundred dollars. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, ninety-nine dollars—commissioners. and fifty cents.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, nine hundred and—support of prisoners. fifty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents. For rent of court rooms, United States courts, thirty-two dollars.—rent. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, four hundred and—miscellaneous. seventeen dollars and seventy cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For tree-delivery service, one dollar.Free-delivery service.
For clerk hire, tour hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-eightClerk hire. cents. For rent, light, and fuel, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars andRent. sixty-one cents. For compensation of postmasters, six hundred and seventy-four dollarsPostmasters. and fifty-five cents. For mail depredations and post office inspectors, five hundred andMail depredations. fifty-five dollars. For rewards, five hundred and fifty dollars.Rewards. For railroad transportation, eighty eight dollars and twenty five cents.Transportation.
For star transportation, fifty-five dollars and ninety cents. Approved, July 7, 1898.
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