Chapter 14. Making appropriations to supply 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. 14.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes. February 9, 1900. *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 nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE. Executive office. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery Contingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, being for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighteen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-two cents.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. To continue the employment of the following clerks and other Temporary employees. employees from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, rendered necessary because of increase of work incident to the war with Spain, namely: Office of the Secretary: For two clerks, at the rate of nine —in office of Secretary. hundred dollars per annum each; and six paper counters and laborers, at the rate of six hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, in the division of loans and currency; in all, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: For three clerks —Auditor. of class one, nine hundred dollars. Office of Auditor for War Department: For eight clerks of —Auditor for War Department. class four; seventeen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; thirty clerks of class one; ten clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; ten clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each; and three laborers, at the rate of six hundred and 8 sixty dollars per annum each; in all, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. —Auditor for Navy Department.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department: For two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. —Register of the Treasury. Office of the Register of the Treasury: For three clerks of class one; and three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; in all, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. —Treasurer’s office.
Office of the Treasurer of the United States: For the following from February first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, namely: Three clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each; and three expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; in all, two thousand and twenty-five dollars. —Supervising Architect’s Office. Office of the Supervising Architect: The amount authorized to be paid from appropriations for public buildings, and equitably charged against such appropriations during the fiscal year nineteen Draftsmen, etc. hundred, for the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers, accountants, assistants to the photographer, copyists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, to be employed in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, is hereby increased from two hundred and ten thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
New post-office building, District of Columbia, furnishing, etc. Furnishing new post-office building, Washington, District of Columbia: To enable the Secretary 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, five thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For purchasing material for binding important records, two hundred dollars. —Independent Treasury. [R.
S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty cents.
Transporting silver coin. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twenty —free of charge on request. thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Proviso*. —deposit of equal amount. *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Minor coin. Transportation of minor coins: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of minor coins,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-two cents. United States securities. Distinctive paper. Distinctive paper for United States securities:
For paper, including transportation, salaries of register, two counters five watch-9men, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant Assistant custodians and janitors, public buildings. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses Collecting customs revenue. of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one million two hundred thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being for amounts found due by the accounting officers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred thousand dollars.
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being for amounts found due by the accounting officers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of the unexpended Reappropriation of unexpended balance. balance of the appropriation for the expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure for said service during the fiscal year nineteen hundred. engraving and printing.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of Salaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, ninety-four thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended *Proviso*. Notes of larger denomination. for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day each when employed, seventy-one thousand and sixty-one dollars and fifty cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of *Proviso*. Notes of larger denomination. this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-seven cents. For rent of building now occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Rent. Printing for storage and other purposes, at a rental of sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. internal revenue. Internal Revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and Salaries collectors, deputies, etc. surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and 10 Vol. 24, p. 209. also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen Vol. 24, p. 218. hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government Vol. 29, p. 253. the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on filled cheese, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Stamp paper. For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mints and assay offices. mints and assay offices. Freight on bullion and coin. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, fifty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Freight on bullion and coin, mints and assay offices,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty cents. Seattle, contingent expenses. For wages of workmen, rent, and contingent expenses of the assay office at Seattle, Washington, seventeen thousand dollars. Boise, repairs, etc. For the construction of steel doors with combination locks to the vault of the United States assay office at Boise, and also for the purchase of a burglar and fireproof safe for the use of said institution, two thousand dollars.
Light-House Establishment. light-house establishment. Vessels. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and incidental expenses of light-vessels, one hundred thousand dollars. Keepers’ salaries. Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, ten thousand dollars, and the total number of light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending lights that may be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred is hereby increased from one thousand four hundred to one thousand four hundred and fifty.
Public buildings. public buildings. Kansas City, Mo. Post-office and court-house, Kansas City, Missouri: For painting and installation of passenger elevators, thirty-five thousand dollars. Helena, Mont. Public Building at Helena, Montana: The limit of cost of site for public building at Helena, Montana, is hereby fixed at thirty-three thousand five hundred and two dollars and thirty-five cents, in lieu of Vol. 30, p. 11. the sum named in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, but the aggregate cost of the site and building shall not be increased.
Quarantine Service. quarantine service. Maintenance. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, South Atlantic, Brunswick, Gulf, Tortugas, San Diego, San Francisco, Astoria, and Port Townsend, twenty-five thousand dollars. 11 coast and geodetic survey. Coast and Geodetic Survey. For unusual and unexpected repairs to the steamships Blake and “Blake” and “Patterson,” repairs.
Patterson and for boilers for the latter, fifteen thousand dollars. government in the territories. Oklahoma Territory. For contingent expenses of the Territory of Oklahoma, to be Contingent expenses. expended by the governor for rents, private secretary, stenographer and typewriter, and typewriter supplies, janitor, messenger, fuel, lights, stationery and printing, postage, telegrams, furniture for office, express, and other incidentals, five hundred dollars. FISH COMMISSION.
Fish Commission. That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of five thousand Spearfish, S. Dak. Unexpended balance reappropriated. dollars for completing the construction of the fish hatchery at Spearfish, South Dakota, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, made in the deficiency Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and Vol. 30, p. 662. ninety-eight, is hereby made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized to credit the disbursing agent of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries with the amounts heretofore paid upon proper vouchers during said fiscal year.
For continuing special investigations with the object of preserving Lobster, etc., investigations. and increasing the lobster and clam supply of the Atlantic coast, seven thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. astrophysical observatory. Observation of eclipse of May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred: Observing eclipse, May 28, 1900. For cost of apparatus, transportation of observers and equipment, subsistence, reduction of observations, printing and publishing of results, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and employment of such temporary aid as may be required, including all necessary field and other expenses, four thousand dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. For surveyor’s office: For such employees as may be required in Surveyor’s office. accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, two thousand five hundred dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: That the appropriation for Freedmen’s Hospital. salaries for the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, for the current fiscal year, shall be available for the payment of an assistant clerk, a pharmacist, an assistant pharmacist, and a steward at said institution.
Providence Hospital: For the completion of the isolating building Providence Hospital. at the Providence Hospital, including the necessary grading and paving of the approaches thereto, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Militia of the District of Columbia: That the unexpended balance Militia. of the appropriation for rifle practice and matches for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, amounting to seven hundred and eight dollars and sixty-one cents, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred.
One-half of the foregoing amounts under the District of Columbia Half of appropriations from District revenues. shall be paid from the revenues of said District and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 12 War Department. WAR DEPARTMENT. Additional temporary force. For continuing the employment during the three months beginning April first, nineteen hundred, of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the needs of the service may Classified service ineligible for appointment, etc. demand, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Persons in the classified service of the Government shall not be eligible to appointment under this appropriation, or to be transferred from any position in the classified service to positions paid hereunder. Postage stamps. For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars. Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry. Expenses investigation of claims of. For payment of the expenses connected with the investigation of the claims of the members of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, including pay of clerk, stenographer, cost of printing, advertising and stationery, traveling and hotel expenses, expenses of witnesses and all other incidental expenses actually and necessarily incurred under the Vol. 30, p. 894. provisions of the Act of Congress approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the relief of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, two thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. miscellaneous objects, war department. Deep Waterways Commission. Deep Waterways Commission: For completing surveys, examinations, and investigations (including estimate of cost) of deep waterways, and the routes thereof, between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tide waters, as recommended by the report of the Deep Waterways Commission, transmitted by the President to Congress January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; such surveys, examinations, and investigations to be made by the board of three engineers designated and appointed by the President for this purpose July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in compliance with Vol. 30, p. 50. the provisions of the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, *Proviso*.
Compensation of member from Engineer Corps. twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the member of the Deep Waterways Commission appointed from the Corps of Engineers shall be entitled to receive compensation from the date of his appointment, in addition to his regular army pay and allowances, equal to the difference between such annual army pay and allowances and the compensation of the other two members of the commission, said additional compensation to be paid from funds appropriated for the Deep Waterways Commission.
Vicksburg Military Park. Vicksburg National Military Park: For such engineering and topographical work in connection with the Vicksburg National Military Park as may be proper and necessary, and for the payment of Vol. 30, p. 841. salaries and clerical expenses and such other incidental expenses as are provided for in the Act of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred *Proviso*. Purchase of land as part of site. and ninety-nine, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much of said amount as may be necessary, may be expended, with the approval of the Secretary of War, in addition to the amount authorized by section one of the Act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, in the purchase of lands to be used as a part of the site of said park, twenty thousand dollars.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. Hampton, Va. Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, fiscal year 13 eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, live hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty-four cents. Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For household, Santa Monica, Cal. namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repair, unless the repairs are made by the Home, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-six cents.
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicines, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital kitchen and dining room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital, kitchen and dining room employees; for carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-six cents.
Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For household, including Marion, Ind. the same objects specified under this head for the Pacific Branch, four hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty cents. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Pacific Branch, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-four cents. For gas mains to leased land, wrought-iron pipe, gate valves, fittings, line separators, digging trenches, laying pipe, and back filling, and right of way through farms, nine thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars.
Clothing: For clothing, for all the Branches, namely: Expenditures Clothing. for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred dollars. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial State or Territorial Homes.
Vol. 25, p. 450. Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seven cents; For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and six cents: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State *Proviso*.
Deductions. homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Army. Out of the aggregate balances remaining unexpended July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved May fourth and June eighth, Vol. 30, pp. 390, 437, 696. 14 eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses under the titles “War Department” and “Military establishment,” and reappropriated Vol. 30, p. 772. by the Act approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the last six months of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, for objects hereinafter specified under the title “Military establishment,” the following sums, namely:
Signal Service. under the chief signal officer. Appropriation for expenses. For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at 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, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
Fort Myer, Va. For construction of balloon house and administration and instruction building at the Signal Corps post, at Fort Myer, Virginia, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. Pay Department. pay department. For pay of officers of the line, nine hundred and fifty three thousand nine hundred dollars; For pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay, one hundred and four thousand three hundred dollars; For pay of enlisted men, three million one hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars;
For additional pay for length of service, three hundred and seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; For pay of the general staff, seventy thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; For pay of retired enlisted men, forty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-one cents; For eleven senior veterinary surgeons, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars; For eleven junior veterinary surgeons, nine thousand nine hundred dollars; For paymasters’ clerks and messengers, twenty-three thousand dollars;
For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and compensation for reporters and witnesses attending the same, ten thousand dollars; For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops at stations where there are no quarters, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, four million dollars; For clothing not drawn, due enlisted men on discharge, one million five hundred thousand dollars; For mileage to officers traveling without troops and to contract surgeons, two hundred thousand dollars; 15 For additional twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men, tour million five hundred and twenty-four thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars;
For additional pay for increased rank when in command by competent authority, fifty thousand dollars; In all, fifteen million one hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-one cents. All the money hereinbefore reappropriated, except “for mileage to officers traveling without troops and to contract surgeons,” under Pay Department shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence department.
Subsistence Department. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, Supplies. civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general 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; for matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for meals for recruiting parties and Payments. 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 commissary chests complete, and for the renewal of their outfits; for field desks of commissaries; 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 Commutation in lieu of rations. the payment of the regulation allowances of 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, three million seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
For difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents Increased cost of ration for convalescents, etc. and the amount of forty cents per day, to be expended by the medical officers in charge of hospitals for the diet of enlisted men while undergoing hospital treatment under their charge, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration, to be issued to enlisted men in camp during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent upon service in unhealthy regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War, sixty thousand dollars.
Total for Subsistence Department, four million dollars; to be disbursed and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. 16 Quartermaster’s Department. quartermaster’s department. Regular supplies. Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and 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 equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each Forage, etc. and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing Department orders and reports, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses. Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts, or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and that in all cases where they would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed what is now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men of what is now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and that the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursements heretofore made; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, 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; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, five hundred thousand dollars. 17 For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Purchase of horses.
Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps and Signal Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, Barracks and quarters. 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 *Provisos*.
Not available for commutation of fuel, etc. moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel; and for quarters to officers or enlisted men, one million dollars: *Provided further*, That from the foregoing amount, if in the judgment of the Sites for garrisons in charge of fortifications. Secretary of War the emergency exists, the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as in his discretion may be necessary, shall be used for the purchase of a site or sites for the location of barracks for the accommodation of a garrison in charge of fortifications.
Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation Transportation. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including, also, the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses for recruiting;” of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing roads and wharves; including not exceeding seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for transportation of Spanish prisoners held by the United States and by the insurgents in the Philippine Islands from those islands to Spain, as provided by the Treaty of Paris; for the payment of army transportations lawfully due such Payment to land-grant railroads. land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more —maximum. than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.
Compensation, how computed. such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Fifty per cent to railroads not bond aided. 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 18 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 amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, twenty million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing 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, two million dollars.
Transporting soldiers remains. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at places outside of the limits of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. Medical Department. medical department. Supplies. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, five hundred thousand dollars.
Ordnance Department. ordnance department. Manufacturing arms, etc. For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, including machinery, tools, and fixtures for their manufacture, two hundred thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, including tools and fixtures for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops, and for issue at the arsenals and depots, thirty thousand dollars. Thirty-fourth Encampment, G. A. R. Delivery to, of condemned cannon authorized. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to deliver to the order of J. H. Wood, chairman of the general committee of the Thirty-fourth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held at Chicago next summer, two dismounted condemned cannon, used in the late civil war, to be used for the purpose of furnishing memorial *Provisos*. badges commemorative of the holding of such encampment: *Provided*, No expense to United States.
That no expense shall be caused to the United States through the delivery of said condemned cannon. 19 NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. naval observatory. Observatory. Observation of total eclipse of the sun in May, nineteen hundred: For preparation and outfit of instruments and their transportation, the purchase of additional apparatus and materials, including photographic material, the erection of suitable buildings at each station, and generally the expenses of preparation and observation, including the living expenses of parties at the several stations, and the available instruments used in observing the transit of Venus in eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-two may be also utilized, five thousand dollars. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for the maintenance of the proving ground; and for target practice, two hundred thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage, and express charges, repairs to fire engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, thirty thousand dollars. bureau of equipment.
Bureau of Equipment. Out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made July seventh, Equipment of vessels. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, being, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 20 Contingent expenses.
For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models, stationery for the Bureau, furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, twenty thousand dollars. Bureau of Construction and Repair. bureau of construction and repair.
Preservation, etc., of vessels. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; 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, two million five hundred thousand dollars: *Proviso*. *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any Repairs wooden ships. wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material.
Bureau of Steam Engineering. bureau of steam engineering. Repairing machinery, etc. Out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for completion, repairing, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers, distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery, preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels, repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches; for purchase, handling, and preservation of all materials and stores, purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines; for incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the bureau—such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one million five hundred thousand *Proviso*.
Repairs wooden ships. dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be applied to the engines, boilers, and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated cost of such repair shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power, nor shall new boilers be constructed for wooden ships. Interior Department. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Repairs old Post-Office Department building. To complete repairs of the old Post-Office Department building, six thousand dollars.
Rent Indian Office. To pay the Atlantic Building Company for rent of the seventh and eighth floors and four rooms on sixth floor of building used and occupied by the Indian Office, for the months of October and November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at five hundred dollars per month, one thousand dollars. Repairs. To pay the cost of repair of certain rooms in the Atlantic Building, Washington, District of Columbia, used and occupied by the Indian Office and damaged beyond the condition of ordinary wear and tear as 21 determined by a board appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to assess damages, two hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several Stationery. bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission and the Geological Survey, eleven thousand dollars. patent office. Patent Office. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, Official Gazette. and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; Copies of drawings etc. for 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 printing Vol 28, p. 620. *Proviso*.
Work at Government Printing Office. and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided*, That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, thirty-five thousand dollars. public lands service. Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers:
For salaries Salaries registers and receivers. and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, forty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, nineteen thousand and eighty-five dollars and five cents. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses of land offices. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the Forest reserves. Protection, etc., of. Vol. 30, p. 34. expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations: *Provided*, That forestry agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and *Provisos*.
Employees selected because of fitness; per diem to, etc. other persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness, and without regard for their political affiliations, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided further*, That Protection of fish and game. forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other persons employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game.
Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and Timber depredations, etc. settlement of claims for swamp lands and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting 22 thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity *Proviso*. Agents, per diem, etc. for swamp lands, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rides and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares.
Hearings in land entries. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, three thousand dollars. Bismarck, N. Dak. Reproducing land records, etc. Reproducing land records, Bismarck, North Dakota: For the continuation and completion, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, of the work connected with the reproduction of the official plats of United States surveys, diagrams, field notes, and correspondence constituting the records and files of the offices of the surveyor-general and the register and receiver at Bismarck, North Dakota, which were destroyed by fire on the eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Geological Survey. geological survey. Alaska. For continuation of the investigation of the coal and gold resources of Alaska, thirty-five thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. Indian Affairs. indian affairs. Town-site commissioners, Indian Territory. Town-site Commissioners, Indian Territory: For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay all expenses incident to the survey, platting, and appraisement of town sites in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee nations, Indian Territory, as required Vol. 30, pp. 500, 505. by sections fifteen and twenty-nine of an Act entitled “An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingencies, etc. Contingencies of the Indian Service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, seven thousand dollars.
To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Service and pay of necessary employees; advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, ten thousand dollars. Chippewa and Christian Indian Commission. Vol. 30, p. 92. To complete the work of the commission appointed by the Secretary of the Interior under section nine of the Indian Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to meet certain expenses under the agreement with the Chippewa and Christian Indians, reimbursable, six hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous. miscellaneous objects, interior department. Government Hospital for Insane, expenses, etc. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and 23 treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents.
To pay to the widow of the late Doctor A. H. Witmer on account of Dr. A. H. Witmer. Payment to widow of. salary withheld, and other disallowances, five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifteen cents. Reimbursement of John E. Crane: To reimburse John E. Crane, John E. Crane. Payment to. United States commissioner in Alaska, for expenses incurred by him for the relief of destitute and sick Americans at Circle City, Alaska, during eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. For support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort United States Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, support, etc. Leavenworth, Kansas, namely: For fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, advertising, and so forth, including purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals and hay or straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies for use in offices and prisoners’ school, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant and water circulation, and drainage; for materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedsacks, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers, proposals for supplies, and other necessary advertisements; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in case of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for miscellaneous expenditures which can not properly be included under the heads of expenditures, nine thousand dollars.
For the payment of the salaries of the circuit judges appointed under Additional circuit judges, salaries. Vol. 30, pp. 803, 846. the Acts of January twenty-fifth and February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five thousand dollars and thirty-seven cents; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighteen thousand dollars. For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance Care of rented buildings. and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, and to be expended under his direction, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Department of Justice to transfer to its dockets the Transfer to dockets of reports of United States attorneys, etc. reports made by United States attorneys of the action of the courts in cases in which the United States is a party or has an interest, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. 24 O. L. Carter. Reimbursement of. To reimburse O. L. Carter for expenses incurred and for services rendered from November first to November fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, while acting under the direction of the Assistant Attorney-General in charge of the defense of Indian depredation claims, thirty dollars and fifty cents.
George Green. Payment to. To pay George Green for fees earned as clerk of the United States district court of the eastern district of North Carolina from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to the sixteenth day of April, 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, by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
Post-Office Department. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Additional temporary clerks. To continue the employment during the three months beginning April first, nineteen hundred, of such additional temporary force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Postmaster-General may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of the business in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Rent. For rent of stable from October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, at twenty dollars per month, one hundred and eighty dollars.
Fuel, etc. For fuel and repairs to heating apparatus, three thousand dollars. Expenses of delegates to celebration, etc., at Berne. To enable the Post-Office Department to be properly represented at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the Universal Postal Union, to be held at Berne, Switzerland, beginning July second, nineteen hundred, by delegates to be appointed for that purpose by the Postmaster-General, who is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to fix a per diem allowance to the same in lieu of expenses, three thousand dollars.
Postal Service. out of the postal revenues. Clerks in post-offices. For compensation to clerks in post-offices, nineteen thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars and nineteen cents. Rent, etc. For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. Wrapping twine. For wrapping twine, ten thousand dollars. Stationery. For stationery for postal service, ten thousand dollars. Rubber stamps, etc. For rubber and metal stamps and articles pertaining thereto, and for carbon paper and articles pertaining to its use in the issue and payment of money orders, two thousand dollars.
Money-Order Service. For stationery, exchange on drafts, copying presses, and necessary miscellaneous and incidental expenses for the Money-Order Service, two thousand dollars. Free delivery. For experimental rural free delivery, including pay of carriers, horse-hire allowance, supplies, and mechanical appliances, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Railway post-office clerks. For railway post-office clerks, fifty thousand dollars. Stamps, etc. For the manufacture of adhesive postage and special delivery stamps, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-one thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Paris Exposition. PARIS EXPOSITION. Expenses, etc. Vol. 30, p. 645. For each and every purpose named in the paragraph in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved July first, eighteen hundred and 25 ninety-eight, under the heading “Paris Exposition,” one hundred and sixty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, of which amount not exceeding ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for buildings and appurtenances, including fire protection, pier landings, approaches, and other construction; not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for an exhibit of negro education and industry, and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be used for contingent expenses of the commissioner-general, to be expended in his discretion and audited on his certificate; and the limit of the appropriations provided for in said paragraph, as amended by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is Vol. 30, p. 1117. hereby extended to one million one hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; the appropriation hereby made to be available until expended: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Patents is *Proviso*.
Patent exhibit. authorized and directed to allow such patent models as have been previously exhibited at any international exposition as the Secretary of the Interior may select, to be transported to and from and exhibited at said exposition in the custody of an employee of the Patent Office duly designated for that purpose by the Commissioner of Patents; such models to be returned to the Patent Office at the close of the exposition; but no models shall be removed concerning which litigation is now pending.
For six additional commissioners, to be appointed as provided by the Additional commissioners. Vol. 30, p. 645. sundry civil appropriation Act, approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, who shall perform the duties and be subject to the limitations prescribed therein, at three thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. LEGISLATIVE. senate. Senate. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries, etc., expenses. 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, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifteen thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items. For repairs of Maltby Building, one thousand dollars. Maltby Building, repairs. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the expenses connected Statue of Daniel Webster, expenses of unveiling. with the reception and unveiling of the statue of Daniel Webster on January eighteenth, nineteen hundred, incurred by the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, upon vouchers to be approved by the chairman of said committee, seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. The appropriation of one thousand dollars made in the legislative, Payment for preparing Digest of the Rules. executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred for the Journal Clerk of the House of Representatives, for preparing Digest of the Rules, is hereby made payable to the clerk to the Speaker’s table for doing said work. For furniture, and repairs of the same, five thousand dollars. Furniture. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous. twenty thousand dollars. library of congress.
Library of Congress. For contingent expenses of the Library, including the copyright Contingent expenses. business, two thousand five hundred dollars. 26 Herbert Friedenwald. Payment to. To pay to Herbert Friedenwald, superintendent of manuscripts, for money expended for traveling expenses, to and from Puerto Rico, for the purpose of collecting for the Library of Congress rare manuscripts, books, and maps pertaining to that island, being for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents.
Public printing. under the public printer. For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus, one hundred thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Post-Office Department, forty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including the Civil Service Commission, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Judgments, United States courts. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. W. M. Nixon. Payment to. The amount of the judgment, dated May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, certified to Congress by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, Fifty-fifth Congress, third session, in favor of W. M. Nixon, in the amount of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety cents, for the payment of which judgment an appropriation was made by Vol. 30, p. 1244.
“An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on said judgment at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the date said appropriation was made, shall be paid to the clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Tennessee, to be distributed under the decree of that court, and that such payment shall be in full satisfaction and discharge of any and all claims, either of the said W.
M. Nixon, or any other person claiming through or under him, arising out of the matters involved in said action. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered Eighty-four, three hundred and ninety-six thousand Deductions. nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, Vol. 26, p. 853. entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian 27 service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this *Proviso*.
Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient in his opinion to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Judgments, Court of Claims. reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-six and Senate Document Numbered Ninety-nine, two million one hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-two cents: *Provided*, That none of the *Proviso*.
Appeal. judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Approved, February 9, 1900.