Chapter 253. Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 253.— An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes. April 23, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
United States courts. united states courts. Marshals. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Jurors. For fees of jurors, fifty-five thousand dollars. Witnesses. For fees of witnesses, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous expenses. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized 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, thirty thousand dollars.
Reappropriation of unexpended balances for erecting prisons, etc. Vol. 26, p. 839. The unexpended balance of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, appropriated by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act for the erection of United States prisons and for the imprisonment of United States prisoners, and for other purposes,” to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General in the fitting of workshops for the employment of prisoners, and the unexpended balance of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to enable the Attorney-General and the Secretary of the Interior to have prepared plans, —for prison site east of Rocky Mountains, etc.
Vol. 30, p. 641. specifications, and estimates, and for expenses connected with the selection of a prison site south of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude and east of the Rocky Mountains are hereby made available in addition to and for the same purposes as the sum of five hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act Atlanta penitentiary. Vol. 30, p. 1113. approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the erection, complete, of a United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and for expenses incident thereto, the same to continue available until expended. 139 treasury department.
Treasury Department. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, Stationery. seven thousand dollars. engraving and printing. Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of Salaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, sixty thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be *Proviso*.
Notes of larger denomination. expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the *Ante*, p. 45. parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
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, ninety-one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-five cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion *Proviso*. Notes of larger denomination. of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard *Ante*, p. 45. of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, sixty-one thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars. public printing and binding. Public printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, sixty thousand Treasury Department. dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, forty-three Interior Department. thousand dollars. Approved, April 23, 1900.