Chapter 118. Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 118.— An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 30, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Urgent deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
Treasury Department. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. mints and assay offices. Mint, Philadelphia. Mint at Philadelphia: For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, expenses annual assay commission, melter and refiner’s wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage and wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, and purchase not exceeding five hundred dollars in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, forty-five thousand dollars.
Office Auditor for War Department. Office of Auditor for the War Department: For the purpose of restoring and repairing the worn-out and defaced rolls and vouchers in the Office of the Auditor for the War Department, two thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars and forty cents. Public buildings. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Repairs, etc. Repairs of public buildings: For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of custom-houses, courthouses, and post-offices, marine hospitals, and quarantine stations, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars.
Heating, etc. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, thirty thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 55 WAR DEPARTMENT.
War Department. military posts. That the provisions of section three hundred and fifty-five, Revised Fort Du Pont, Del. Consent of legislature to erection of public buildings waived. [R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60). Statutes, are waived so far as they prohibit the expenditure of public money for the purpose of erecting public buildings on a tract of land recently acquired as a site for necessary buildings at Fort Du Pont, Delaware, before the consent of the legislature of the State of Delaware to the purchase has been given, it being impracticable to apply to the State legislature for consent to its purchase until its next session in January, nineteen hundred and one, and the buildings being urgently required for the shelter of troops.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. To meet unforeseen contingencies constantly arising, to be expended Emergency fund. at the discretion of the President, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of a water boat for the purpose of supplying ships Water boat. of the Navy with water, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of coal barges for supplying coal to ships of the Coal barges. Navy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of equipment. Bureau of Equipment.
For the installation of a suitable equipment plant in the Philippine Philippine Islands. Islands, thirty thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks. Bureau of Yards and Docks. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and stores, books, maps, Maintenance. models, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards; coal and other fuel, candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, ferriage; rent of four officers’ quarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and for other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouses at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Michigan, fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, fifty thousand Repairs, etc. dollars. For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, Contingent expenses. ten thousand dollars. For reconstructing building numbered seven, replacing furniture, Building No. 7. mathematical and engineering instruments and stationery, and providing temporary offices, rendered necessary by fire on February eleventh, nineteen hundred, sixty thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for naval hospital fund Naval hospitals. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, “For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for the care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad,” ten thousand dollars. 56 Surgeons’ necessaries. For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and department of instructions, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars.
Bureau of Construction and Repair. bureau of construction and repair. Preservation of vessels, etc. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, one hundred thousand dollars.
Marine Corps. marine corps. Repairs, etc. Repair of barracks, including repairs, improvements, additions, and rent of barracks, quarters, and grounds; transportation, recruiting, military stores, including ammunition; fuel and contingent expenses, including freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, laundering enlisted men’s bedclothes, funeral expenses, stationery and other paper; telegraphing, procurement and maintenance of telephones, and typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; employment of civilians, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period not less than ten days; installation and repair of gas, electric, and water fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes; purchase and maintenance of public horses, wagons, and harness; service of veterinary surgeon, fire hose, fire extinguishers, fire grenades; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges; purchase of ice, toilet articles, books, newspapers, and periodicals; purchase of bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets, and bedsteads; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses impossible to anticipate and classify for naval stations without the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Department of the Interior. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Government Hospital for the Insane. government hospital for the insane. Current expenses. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, forty thousand dollars.
Repairs. For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars. Laundry. For furnishing new laundry, three thousand and eighty dollars. Public buildings. public buildings. Capitol building. For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, seven thousand two hundred dollars. 57 geological survey. Geological Survey. For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United Maps. States, two thousand five hundred dollars. For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply investigation.
United States, including the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, twenty thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase Stationery. of passport paper, five hundred dollars. 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 miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, one thousand dollars.
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. senate. Senate. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. For purchase of furniture, five thousand dollars. Furniture. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating Heating apparatus. apparatus, exclusive of labor, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of Maltby Building, five hundred dollars. Maltby Building. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and investigations. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, seven thousand dollars. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. For furniture, and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. Furniture. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous. twenty thousand dollars. public printing and binding. Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for rents, books of reference, and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, four thousand Department of Justice. dollars. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, twenty-five Navy Department. thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department, namely: For publication War Department. of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion by the Record and Pension Office, ten thousand dollars. 58 Government Printing Office. Leaves of absence. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, on account of fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the Public Printer to pay employees of the Government Printing Office for leave of absence to which they were entitled during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and which could not be granted to them in consequence of the appropriation for leaves of absence becoming exhausted, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Advance payments to Public Printer. Hereafter there shall be advanced to the Public Printer from time to time, as the public service may require it, and under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money not exceeding at any time the penalty of his official bond, to enable him to pay for work and material. Approved, March 30, 1900.