Chapter 445. to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to reimburse the governors of States and Territories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the United States in the existing war with Spain,’ ” as authorizes or directs the Secretary
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Chap. 445. vol. 30, p. 1856; repeal.That so much of section four of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to reimburse the governors of States and Territories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the United States in the existing war with Spain,’ ” as authorizes or directs the Secretary of the Treasury to institute any act or proceedings which he may consider advisable against any State or its representatives to secure the payment of the principal and interest of any bonds or stocks issued or guaranteed by said State the ownership of which is vested in the United States is hereby repealed, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to discontinue and dismiss any suits, actions, or proceedings which have been begun under the authority of said section four.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs.Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the General Post-Office building occupied by the Interior Department, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the construction and equipment of an elevator for the west wing of the Interior Department building, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For coal bin for storage of coal, to be built in connection with area wav of the Pension Office building, seven thousand dollars.
Capitol.Repairs, etc.For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and including not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars for a new car and inclosures for the eastern elevator in the House wing, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Delivery of fuel.Hereafter fuel shall be delivered to the two wings of the Capitol only during such hours and under such regulations as the Architect of the Capitol shall prescribe.
Flags.To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 613 For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inCleaning works of art. the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand live hundred dollars. Steam Heating and Machinery. Senate Wing:
For necessaryHeating, etc., Senate. repairs and improvements of the steam heating and ventilating apparatus in the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the Supreme Court, legislative bell service and elevators, under the supervision of the Architect of the United States Capitol, three thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars. Ventilation. Senate Wing: For special repairs to and care of—ventilation. ventilating machinery in the Senate wing of the Capitol, including recording and testing apparatus for air. five hundred dollars.
Maltby Building: For construction of new elevator shaft of steelMaltby Building. framework with terracotta fireproofing, new elevator car. and inclosing doors to the several landings, including shoreing up of floors and stairways during construction, and other expenses incident thereto, six thousand dollars. For changes and improvements in the water supply and tire protection at the Maltby Building, one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents. Improving the Capitol grounds:
For continuing the work of theCapitol grounds. improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial pavement, walls, and roadways, sixteen thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol andLighting. grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables. Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That nothing in the Act to regulate the use of*Proviso.*Concerts in grounds not prohibited.Vol. 22, p. 126. the Capitol grounds, approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be construed to prohibit concerts on the Capitol grounds at times when neither House of Congress is sitting by any band in the service of the United States under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol.
For repairs and improvements to steam tire engine house and SenateEngine house and stables. and House stables, and for repairs and paving of floors and courtyards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForSalaries registers and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, four hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expenses of land offices. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no expenses chargeable*Proviso.*Authorisation of expenditures. to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Expenses of depositing public moneys:
For expenses of depositingDepositing public moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swamp-land indemnity:Timber depredations: protecting public lands and swampland claims. To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof: of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent 614 entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, one hundred and twenty-five thousand *Proviso.*Agents per diem, etc.dollars: *Provided,* That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares.
Forest reserves.Protection and administration of.Vol. 30, p. 34.Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest tires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such Selections of land in lieu of tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim, etc.reservations.
That all selections of land made in lieu of a tract covered by an unperfected bona tide claim, or by a patent, included within a public forest reservation, as provided in the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” shall be confined to vacant surveyed nonmineral public lands which are subject to homestead entry not exceeding in area the tract *Provisos.*—limit of time to make selection.covered by such claim or patent: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the rights of those who, previous to October first, nineteen hundred, shall have delivered to the United States deeds for lands within forest reservations and make application Employees selected because of fitness: per diem to, etc.for specific tracts of lands in lieu thereof: *Provided,* That forestry agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and 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, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided further,* Protection of fish and game.That 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.
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, four thousand five hundred dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys.Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on tile and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Examinations of desert lands.Vol. 28, p. 42.Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars. General Land Office.Indexing, etc., recorder’s office.Preservation of Records, General Land Office:
For continuing the work of rearranging, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder’s office of the General Land Office, one thousand dollars: 615 *Provided,* That any balance remaining to the credit of the appropriation*Provisos.*Balance of appropriation available. for this purpose for the current fiscal year nineteen hundred, and uncontracted for on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one for the purposes indicated.
Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: ForTranscripts of record and plats. furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars:*Provided,* That copyists employed under this appropriation shall be*Proviso.*—copyists. selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand: *Provided further,* That this appropriation shall be immediately available for the employmentRecords at Lake View.
Oregon, and Miles City. Mont. of copyists under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, at the rate of compensation named herein, for the purpose of reproducing from the records of the General Land Office the official records of the district land offices at Lake View, Oregon, and Miles City, Montana, which were destroyed by fire on May twenty-third and twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, respectively. Payment of fees, and so forth, General Land Office: For thePayment of fees, etc. payment of revenue stamps, notarial and recording fees on reconveyances of land to the United States, five hundred dollars.
Office of Surveyor-General, Colorado: Additional amount forSurveyor-general's office, Colorado. rent of office, payment of messenger, stationery, binding and repairing records, repairs of furniture, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars. Mineral Lands in Montana and Idaho: To complete the examinationMineral lands, Montana and Idaho.Compensation of commissioners to classify Northern Pacific Railroad land grant. and classification of certain lands within the land grant and indemnity land grant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the Helena and Missoula land districts in the State of Montana and in the Cæur d'Alene land district in the State of Idaho, with special reference to the mineral or nonmineral character of such lands, as authorized by the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundredVol. 28. p. 683. and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, six hundred and eighty-three), namely:
For the compensation of the commissioners, not exceedingExpenses. fifteen in number, of whom not more than ten shall be of one political party, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, such compensation not to exceed six dollars per day for each commissioner while actually engaged in the performance of their duties, which amount shall include their transportation and subsistence expenses: also for the publication of monthly reports and for the payment of such clerical help as in the opinion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office may be necessary for the expeditious and economical prosecution of the work, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That each commissioner shall act separately, and*Proviso.*Commissioners to act separately etc. only one commissioner shall examine and report on any tract of land, and his examination and report shall have the same force and effect as if made by three commissioners, and under this appropriation the entire work of examination and classification, including the publication of notices and all other expenses therewith connected, shall be completed; and the law of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to provide for the examination and classification of certain mineral lands in the States of Montana and Idaho,” shall be deemed and held to be applicable to the commissioners herein provided for. surveying the public lands.Surveying public lands.
For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred andSurveys, rates, etc. twenty-five thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per 616 linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township*Provisos*.Preferences.Vol. 25. p. 676., and five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second,Vol. 26. pp. 215. 222. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and duly tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States, except railroad land grants and such indemnity hinds as the several States may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the Extra rates for heavily timbered lands.General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense, undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for sectionExceptional difficulties. lines, and in eases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further,*Lands in California etc.
That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah. Washington. Wyoming, the Territory of Arizona, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, Resurveys.and twenty dollars for section lines:
And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent or imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States.
Confirmed private land claims.For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado. Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Vol. 26, p. 854.Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys and for the examination of the *Proviso.*Publication of notice of survey.surveys in the field: *Provided*, That hereafter the notices of survey required by section ten of said Act shall be published in one newspaper only, except where specifically directed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Abandoned military reservations.Vol. 23, p. 103.For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 617 fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars.Casa Grande. For the ascertainment, survey, marking, and permanent establishmentBoundary line between Utah and Arizona. of the boundary line between the State of Utah and the Territory of Arizona, being that portion of the parallel of thirty-seven degrees of north latitude lying between the thirty-second and thirty-seventh degrees of longitude west from Washington, an estimated distance of two hundred and seventy-seven miles, including the expense of an examination of the survey in the field, the rate of compensation per mile to the surveyor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the same to include the cost of the preparation of the plats and field notes of the survey in triplicate, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the survey of lands in the Fort Buford abandoned military reservation,Survey Fort Buford reservation, North Dakota and Montana. in the States of North Dakota and Montana, to be made in the manner as other surveys of public lands are made, eleven thousand dollars. united states geological survey.Geological survey. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey:Scientific assistants. Salaries. For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars;
For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For theExpenses. Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely:
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, thirteenLaborers. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. two hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofAlaska resources.
Alaska, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontological researches. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical researches. United States, ten thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. fourteen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of theMineral resources.
United States, including phosphates, fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the paymentBooks, etc. for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the UnitedMaps. States, seventy thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water, supply of theGauging water supply. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and 618 artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, one hundred thousand dollars;
Surveying forest reserves.For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Rent.For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, eleven thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, eight hundred and fifty-five thousand one hundred dollars. EXPENSES TWELFTH CENSUS. Twelfth Census.For salaries and necessary expenses for taking and compiling the Vol. 30. p. 1014.results of the Twelfth Census, in accordance with the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, providing for the Twelfth and subsequent censuses, and amendments thereto, nine million dollars, to continue available until expended, including two thousand five hundred dollars per annum to the appointment clerk, which sum is hereby fixed as the annual salary of the office.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.Miscellaneous. Yosemite National Park.Expenses.Improvement of the Yosemite National Park: For protection of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars. Protection of Sequoia, Yosemite, and General Grant national parks, California.The Secretary of War. upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereafter authorized and directed to make the necessary detail of troops to prevent trespassers or intruders from entering the Sequoia National Park, the Yosemite National Park, and the General Grant National Park, respectively, in California, for the purpose of destroying the game or objects of curiosity therein, or for any other purpose prohibited by law or regulation for the government of said reservations, and to remove such persons from said parks if found therein.
Sequoia National Park.Expenses.Improvement of the Sequoia National Park: For protection of the park, and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement and extension of roads; and for providing a water supply for the cavalry camp, to be expended under the super-vision of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars. General Grant National Park.Fencing, etc.Improvement of the General Grant National Park: For construction of a trail around the perimeter of the park, and for material and labor and the construction of a barbed-wire fence around the park, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Supreme Court Reports.Supreme Court Reports: To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and seventy-seven to one hundred and eighty-one, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two>dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven hundred and sixty dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane.Government Hospital for the Insane:
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 619 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, three hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars. For partially rerooting, reguttering complete, and replacing down spouts on the relief building, two thousand two hundred dollars. For renewing plumbing, tiling bath and toilet rooms throughout the entire group or the old buildings, in accordance with the recommendation of the special committee, ten thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary to accomplish the desired changes as quickly as possible, by contract or otherwise.
For special improvements as follows: For the construction of a central storehouse and a refrigerating and cold-storage plant, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the sum of eighteen thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for three cottage buildings for working inmates. For one two-hundred-horsepower engine with one direct connected electric generator, ten thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary to procure the designated machinery.
For fireproof stairways for relief building, four thousand dollars. For a kitchen for the detached buildings large enough to provide for one thousand persons, eight thousand dollars. For the construction of a railroad switch from the present line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to the present boiler house of the hospital and to the site of the proposed boiler house of the extension, as authorized, in case the proposed purchase of land is consummated, the balance remaining unexpended of the appropriation for construction of a sewerage and drainage system, available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, after the full completion of said sewerage and drainage system, and in addition thereto the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
For water tower, pump house, fire pump, pipe, hydrants, hose and hose carts and other fire apparatus, wells and air compressor, thirty-seven thousand live hundred dollars. For clearing, fencing, building roadways, and grading for the extension as hereinafter described, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The board of visitors and the Superintendent shall prepare plans,Extension of hospital specifications, and estimates for an extension of the hospital sufficient to provide for one thousand patients.
Said extension shall be of fire-proof construction, and suitable for all special classes of acute insanity. Said plans shall include all necessary domestic buildings and all buildings required for the proper care of one thousand patients and the requisite nurses and employees, and shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The total cost of all the buildings, machinery,—total cost. and equipment, including heating, lighting, sewerage, and water sup-ply, under said plans shall not exceed nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, within which sum and under such plans the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract, or contracts, for the extension of the hospital as herein specified, upon lands already owned by the Government, or upon such suitable lands as may be 620 donated to the Government within the District of Columbia for that purpose, toward which, including the expense of the preparation of plans and specifications, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.Current expenses.Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars: *Proviso.*Number of State beneficiaries increased.Vol. 26, p. 392.*Provided*, That the number of beneficiaries in said institution, authorized by the Act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to be received from the several States and Territories, is hereby increased from sixty to one hundred.
Repairs.For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam-heating apparatus, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. Howard University.Maintenance.Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, twenty-nine thousand dollars;
For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars: For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural-history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; In all, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
Alaska.Education.Education in Alaska: For the industrial and elementary education of children in Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand dollars. Reindeer.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which a part may be used in the capture and domestication of the native caribou in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Rock Island. Ill.For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings: for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of wing dam of Rock Island Arsenal water power, deepening tailraces of the Moline and Government dams of said power above and below their junction through the slough south of the island, ninety-seven thousand dollars.
For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For completing the installation of the plant and the purchase of tools, fixtures, and other appliances for the manufacture of small arms in the armory shops at Rock Island Arsenal, to be available until expended, five hundred and nine thousand dollars. 621 Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building andSandy Hook proving Ground, N.
J. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, store-houses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary plant for heating by steam the barracks occupied by ordnance detachment at this post, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For generalSpringfield, Mass. care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. For curbing and macadamizing Magazine street from State to Lincoln streets, the property of the United States, forming a highway of the city of Springfield, six thousand dollars.
For addition to water shops, ninety-five thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-one cents; additional machinery for water shops, ninety thousand six hundred and eighty dollars and seventy cents; additional machinery for hill shops, one hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty cents; in all, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and one cent, to be available until expended. Watertown Arsenal.
Watertown, Massachusetts: For the erectionWatertown, Mass. of a new fence around the Watertown Arsenal, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and material in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machines at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, fifteen thousand dollars. Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For roofingSchuylkill, Pa. over and putting floors in the courtyard of the present Number Three fireproof building to provide storage and boxing and shipping space, sixteen thousand dollars.
For rearrangement of the inspecting and issuing department, six thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenalsRepairs. and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, eighty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Washington, D. C. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows:Buildings and Grounds.Improvement and care. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars.
For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, five thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen,Reservation No. 17. and site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than propertyExpenditure. belonging to the United States.
For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or other-wise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction. 622 and repair of fountains: abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, fifteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. Half appropriations from District revenues.One-half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington“ shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Grounds. Executive Departments.For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.
Executive Mansion.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), one thousand dollars. For construction of an iron and brick storehouse at the nursery, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, six thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. —plans for extending.For continuing plans for extending the Executive Mansion, prepared in the office of the engineer officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, for completion of drawings, model and specifications, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, six thou-sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have the employment of all persons connected with this work.
Plans for park improvements.The Chief of Engineers of the United States Army is authorized to make an examination and to report to Congress on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred, plans for the treatment of that section of the District of Columbia situated south of Pennsylvania avenue and north of 15 street southwest, and for a suitable connection between the Potomac and the Zoological parks, and in making such examinations and plans he is authorized to employ a landscape architect of conspicuous ability in his profession; for services and expenses incident to said examination and report the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
Fuel, etc.For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory. Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Lighting.Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts: purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds: stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watch-men's lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twelve thousand *Provisos.*—Maximum per lamp.five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That for each five-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas. including lighting, cleaning. and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided 623 for in this Act: and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average,—to burn every night, etc. from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That—amount payable from District revenues. three thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States.
For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion groundsElectric lights. within the iron fence three hundred and sixty-five nights, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For lighting are electric lights in public grounds as follows: For—in parks. seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin.
Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sums shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all. three thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Repair of water pipes:
For repairing and extending water pipes,Repair of water pipes. purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office:Telegraph, Capitol, Departments, etc. For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument.Maintenance. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month: one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month: one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attend ant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each: in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For fuel, lights, oil. waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Fuel, etc. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars.
Installation of electric power for the service of the Monument: For addition to boiler house, six thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For one dynamo and connections, including installation of new system. twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. military posts.Military posts. For the construction of buildings at. and the enlargement of, suchConstruction. military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artil 624 lery in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defense, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and *Proviso.*Limit expenditures.quarters, one million dollars: *Provided*, That for the erection of barracks and quarters for artillery in connection with the project adopted for seacoast defense there shall not hereafter be expended at any one point more than one thousand two hundred dollars per man for each man required for one relief to man the guns at the post up to eighty-three men, the present permanent strength of a battery, enlisted and commissioned, and for each man required beyond this number six hundred dollars per man, from any appropriation made by Congress, unless special authority of Congress be granted for a greater expenditure;
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.and out of the foregoing sum of one million dollars there shall be expended thirty thousand dollars for repairs of barracks and quarters Bismarck, N. Dak.for troops at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; forty thousand dollars toward construction of water and sewer system and for road, walks, and gradingFort Riley, Kans. at military post at Bismarck, North Dakota; thirty thousand dollars toward construction of additional stables at Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Meade, S.
Dak.fifty thousand dollars for buildings and other necessary improvements Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.at the military post at Fort Meade, South Dakota; fifty thousand dollars for continuing work of rebuilding quarters, and for rebuilding Fort Constitution, Newacstle, N. H.regimental guardhouse at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming; and thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for acquiring by purchase or condemnation the land in the square surrounding Fort Constitution, at Newcastle, New Hampshire, to be used for barracks and quarters for troops.
Fort Monroe, Va.Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary material therefor, and repairs of and necessary supplies, fixtures, and furniture for freight house and waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, three thousand and seventy-nine dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and ninety dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars.
Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; stone and labor for macadamizing streets, brick, cement, terracotta drain pipe, and catch basins; electric lights for streets; purchase of sprinkling wagon; repairs to roads, pavements, walks, and street crossings, four thou-sand one hundred and fifteen dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil. and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars: two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars: for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. Yellowstone National Park.Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park:
For the repair and maintenance of existing roads and bridges and improvement and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, sixty thousand dollars, of which amount five thousand dollars shall be immediately available*Provisos.*Wagon road authorized. for the repair of roads: *Provided,* That of this amount twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used in the construction of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the Yellowstone Park Timber Reserve along the North Fork of the Stinking-water or Shoshone River and through the Yellowstone 625Park by way of the Jones Creek trail or other most practicable route to a point on the Yellowstone River near where said river flows from Yellowstone Lake: *Provided further,* That road extensions and improvementsRoad extensions. shall hereafter be made in said park under and in harmony with a general plan of roads and improvements to be approved by the Chief of Engineers of the Army.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For compensationNational Parks.Chickamauga and Chattanoga. and expenses of two civilian commissioners and the assistant in historical work; maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments, mowing: historical tablets, iron and bronze: iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, restoring the park after its use for mobilizing troops; and for the purchase of land already authorized by law; in all, sixty thousand dollars.
To complete the work of improving the Lafayette State road in Georgia, from Lee and Gordans Mills, in that State, to Lafayette, ten thousand dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work ofShiloh. establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, iron gun carriages and historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingGettysburg. the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses, and labor: the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, seventy- five thousand dollars.
Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work ofVicksburg establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners, the secretary, assistant secretary, and assistant to the commissioners: for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, monuments, markers, and historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; these and other necessary expenses, sixty-five thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated for that purpose, may be used in the purchase of lands as a part of the site of said park.
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.Engineer Department. For constructing jetties and other works at South Pass, Mississippi River:South Pass. Mississippi River.—payment to heirs of James B. Eads authorized. To enable the Secretary of War to pay to the legal representatives of James B. Eads, deceased, the second moiety of the sum of one million dollars retained by the United States under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five (first sectionVol. 18, p. 465 on page four hundred and sixty-five of Eighteenth Statutes), to be paid, all or in part, on the expiration of twenty years’ maintenance of the channel, five hundred thousand dollars. 626 —use of dredges in unusual obstructions.The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, in case any unusual obstruction to navigation in the channel of South Pass, Mississippi River, should occur during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, to use any dredges or tugboats of the Misissippi River Commission for the purpose of removing the same.
And the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of War in improving or altering such dredge or dredges so as to make the same available for use in said South Pass. Rivers and harbors, improvements.Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract or otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: Charleston, S. C.Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, tinder river and Vol. 27, p. 91.harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two:
For dredging, forty-live thousand dollars. Vol. 29, p. 222. etc.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Bayou Plaquemine, LaImproving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio.Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Chicago River, Ill.Improving Chicago River, Illinois: For continuing improvement from its mouth to the stock yards on the South Branch, and to Belmont avenue on the North Branch, sixty-two thousand dollars.
Delaware Bay, Del.Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continuing construction, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Duluth, Minn.Superior, Wis.Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, seven hundred and ninety-three thou-sand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Grays Harbor, Wash.Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement of harbor and bar entrance, fifty thousand dollars. Illinois and Mississippi Canal.Illinois and Mississippi Canal:
For continuing construction, one million dollars. Kentucky River, Ky.Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement, seventy-five thousand dollars. Waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Mich.Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior. Michigan: For continuing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Oakland, Cal.Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement. one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Ohio River.Dams 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg. Pennsylvania: For continuing construction of Dams Numbered Two, Three, Four, and Five, between Davis Island Dam and Dam Numbered Six, five hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. Providence River and Narragansett Bay, R. I.Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement, fifty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars. Sabine Pass, Tex.Improving Sabine Pass, Texas:
For completing improvement of harbor at Sabine Pass, thirty-six thousand dollars. Winyaw Bay. S. C.Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of harbor at Winyaw Bay, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Vol. 30, p. 1128, etc.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: Ashtabula, Ohio.Improving harbor at Ashtabula. Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Boston, Mass.Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts:
For completing improvement under project for thirty-foot depth through Broad Sound Channel, three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Buffalo entrance to Erie Basin, etc.Improving Buffalo Entrance to Erie Basin and Black Rock Harbor, New York: For completing improvement, one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents. 627 Improving harbor at Bridgeport. Connecticut: For continuing improvement,Bridgeport, Conn. fifty thousand dollars.
Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuingGowanus Bay, N. Y. improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, two hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the so-called East Channel*Proviso.*East Channel, etc., renamed Ambrose Channel.Vol. 30, p. 1123.*Ante,* p. 588. across Sandy Hook Bar, New York Harbor, for the improvement of which provision was made by the river and harbor Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall hereafter be known as Ambrose Channel.
Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: For continuing improvement,Black River, Ohio. one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior River. Alabama: For completing constructionBlack Warrior River, Ala. of Lock and Dam Numbered Four, above Tuscaloosa, eighty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars. Improving Big Sandy River. West Virginia and Kentucky: For continuingBig Sandy River W. Va and Ky. improvement by the construction of two locks and dams between Louisa and mouth of the river, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina For completingCharleston, S. C. improvement, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine: For completing improvement,Cape Porpoise, Me. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For continuing improvement. one hundred and eighty-five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Improving Congaree River, South Carolina: For continuing improvementCongaree River, S. C. from Gervais street bridge.
Columbia, to Granby, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: ForDelaware River, Pa. and N. .J. continuing improvement, two hundred and seventy thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvement,Detroit River, Mich two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Everett, Washington: For continuing improvement.Everett. Wash. one. hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Hudson River, New York:
For continuing improvement,Hudson River, N.Y. four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Hay Lake Channel. Saint Marys River, Michigan: ForHay Lake Channel St. Marys River. Mich. continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Kenosha. Wisconsin: For completing improvement,Kenosha, Wis one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: For continuing improvement,Mobile, Ala. five hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to Minneapolis,Mississippi River, mouth of Ohio to Minneapolis.*Proviso.*Loren Fletcher, payment to.
Minnesota: For continuing improvement between Saint Paid and Minneapolis, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of said amount the sum of one hundred dollars may be used to reimburse Loren Fletcher for a like sum advanced by him to expedite the transfer to the United States of title to land needed in connection with the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two. Improving Passes of the Mississippi River: For completing improvementImproving Passes. by constructing sill across Pass a Loutre and by constructing and operating one or more dredges, three hundred thousand dollars.
Harbor of refuge at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin: For completingMilwaukee, Wis. improvement, one hundred and five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Improving Monongahela River: For completing improvement atMonongahela River. Locks Numbered Three and Six and by construction of floating plant as authorized by the river and harbor Act approved March third,Vol. 30, p. 1133. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-six dollars. 628 Michigan City, Ind.Improving harbor at Michigan City, Indiana:
For completing improvement of outer harbor, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. New Haven, Conn.Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va., waterway.Improving waterway from Norfolk. Virginia, to sounds of North Carolina: For continuing improvement of Deep Creek, Virginia, Turners Cut, Croatan Sound, and Pasquotank River, North Carolina, two hundred thousand dollars. Ohio River.Dams 13 and 18.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania: For continuing construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, four hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Osage River, Mo.Improving Osage River. Missouri: For completing construction of lock and dam. one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. Ocmulgee River, Ga.Improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia: For continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Portage Lake, Mich.Harbor of refuge at Portage Lake, Michigan: For completing improvement, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Patapsco River, Md.Improving Patapsco River, Maryland: For continuing improvement of channel to Baltimore, three hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and forty-eight dollars. Potomac River.Improving Potomac River: For completing improvement below the city of Washington, fifty-two thousand dollars. Pascagoula River and Horn Island Harbor, Miss.Improving Pascagoula River and Horn Island Harbor, Mississippi: For completing improvement, two hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred dollars.
Racine, Wis.Improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin: For completing improvement, sixty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. St. Joseph, Mich.Improving harbor at Saint Joseph. Michigan: For continuing improvement. two hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Savannah River, Ga.Improving Savannah River, Georgia: For continuing improvement between Augusta and Savannah, sixty-four thousand dollars. Sand Beach, Mich.Harbor of refuge at Sand Beach, Michigan:
For continuing improvement and repairs, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sheboygan, Wis.Improving harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin: For completing improvement, fifty-two thousand dollars. San Francisco, Cal.Improving harbor at San Francisco, California: For continuing improvement by the removal of Arch and Shag rocks, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Sacramento, Cal.Improving Sacramento River. California: For continuing improvement from the city of Sacramento to the mouth of the river, sixty thousand dollars.
Tampa Bay, Fla.Improving Tampa Bay. Florida: For continuing improvement of channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Port Tampa, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Toledo, Ohio.Improving harbor at Toledo. Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Union River, Me.Improving Union River, Maine: For completing improvement, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Upper White River, Ark.Improving Upper White River. Arkansas: For continuing improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be done by contract or otherwise, as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be most economical and advantageous to the Government.
Wilmington, Del.Improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware: For completing improvement of Wilmington Harbor and Christiana River, two hundred thousand dollars. Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Ala. andImproving Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi: For continuing improvement of Warrior River by the construc629 tion of the three locks and dams next below Tuscaloosa, two hundred thousand dollars. mississippi river.Mississippi River Commission. Improving the Mississippi River:
For continuing improvement ofHead of Passes to Ohio River. Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio RiverMouth of Ohio to St. Paul. to Saint Paul. Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to Saint Paul.
Minnesota, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. missouri river.Missouri River Commission. For improving the Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City,Expenses, etc. Iowa: For continuing the improvement, including salaries and expenses of the Missouri River Commission, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the improvement of the river at such localities as may be absolutely necessary in order to preserve existing improvements and to preventRulo, Nebr. threatened damage near Rulo.
Nebraska, and other points; said work to be done according to plans and specifications to be made by the Missouri River Commission and approved by the Chief of Engineers: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion*Proviso*.Sioux City, Iowa. to expend for improvement of the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa, so much as he may deem advisable, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars, of the appropriation of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars made by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundredVol. 38, p. 1147. and ninety-nine, for improving the Missouri River above Sioux City to and including Bismarck, and the sum of ten thousand dollars additionalElk Point.
S. Dak. to the amount already apportioned from the said appropriation of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars for improving the said river at Elk Point, South Dakota, shall be expended at that place. That the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize theBridge over Yellowstone River. Dawson County, Mont. construction of a bridge across the Yellowstone River, in the county of Dawson, State of Montana,” approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so far as they relate to and require a draw spanDraw, etc. to be erected and maintained, are hereby so far modified as toVol. 28. p. 688. permit the erection of an iron or steel bridge under said Act. without erecting and maintaining a drawspan in such bridge: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.
That the spans of said bridge, when repaired and constructed,Spans, etc. shall give not less than one hundred feet clear space between the piers, and that the two easterly spans shall give a clear headroom of twenty-five feet above low water, as defined in the Government surveys at the locality. columbia river. For the repair of the jetty at the mouth of Columbia River, OregonColumbia River, Oreg. and Wash. and Washington, including repairs to wharves, approaches, tramway, plant, quarters, and buildings, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries.
For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. 630 Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.For completing the improvement of the soldiers’ lot in Oak Hill Cemetery, at Evansville, Indiana, on condition that the city of Evansville will hereafter properly care for and preserve the lot in good order, six hundred and fifteen dollars.
Superintendents.For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and otherVol. 17, p. 545. burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 20. p. 281. seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Arlington, Va. Reburial at of certain Confederate soldiers.To enable the Secretary of War to have reburied in some suitable spot in the national cemetery at Arlington. Virginia, and to place proper headstones at their graves, the bodies of about one hundred and twenty-eight Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Soldiers’ Home, near Washington, District of Columbia, and the bodies of about one hundred and thirty-six Confederate soldiers now buried in the national cemetery at Arlington.
Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Roadways.Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special*Proviso*.Encroachment by railroads forbidden. authority of Congress: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.
Mound City, Ill.For permanently repairing the Government roadway from Cache River bridge, in Pulaski County, Illinois, to the graveled roadway extending from Mound City, Illinois, to the national cemetery near that city, twelve thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers.Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty dollars for such burial expenses in each ease, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand do lars.
Presidio of San Francisco.Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line, of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. Antietam battlefield.Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand two hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, war department. Maps.For publication of maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, ten thousand dollars. 631 Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes:
For printingSurvey of northern etc., lakes. and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, three thousand dollars. For surveys, including observations and investigations of lake levels, and all expenses connected with additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, seventy-five thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting maps. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars.
Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgicalAppliances for disabled soldiers. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars.
Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For theProvidence Hospital.Destitute patients. support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a con-tract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable itGarfield Hospital.Maintenance. to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay there-for, nineteen thousand dollars; for completion of isolating wards, including driveways, grading and improving grounds, and introducing Potomac River water, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in all, twenty-four thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
California Débris Commission: For defraying the, expenses of theCalifornia Debris Commission.Vol. 27. p. 507. commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of the Act of March third,*Proviso*.Mileage of offices.Vol. 30, p.1109. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as provides that the members of the California Debris Commission shall receive only actual expenses in lieu of mileage while traveling on duty is hereby repealed, and hereafter the officers of the commission shall receive the mileage allowed by law.
Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City; For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesInspectors, etc. of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of five steam tugs and threeVessels. launches, fifty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars; For new boiler and installing same, and generally overhauling steam“Argus.” tug Argus, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, seventy-six thousand one hundred dollars. Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who dieBringing home deceased soldiers. abroad: 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 or hospital at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, one hundred thousand dollars.
Military road. Wyoming: For the repair, construction, and completionMilitary road, Wyo. of the military road from Fort Washakie to near Jacksons Lake,632Vol. 30, p.50. in Uinta County, Wyoming, authorized by provision in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ten thousand dollars. Official Records of the Rebellion.Distribution to Senators, etc.Official Records of the Rebellion: That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish one complete set of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate of the Fifty-sixth Congress not now entitled by law to receive the same; and in addition thereto he is also authorized and directed to furnish two complete sets of said work to each Senator.
Representative, and Delegate of the same Congress. irrespective of his having been already supplied, using for this purpose, as far as possible, those now stored in the War Department and remaining unsold or unclaimed by beneficiaries designated to receive them under the several Acts of Congress providing for the distribution*Proviso*.Additional printing, etc., to complete sets, authorized. and sale of this publication: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may call upon the Public Printer to print and bind such number or copies of certain volumes or parts as may be found necessary to complete the sets referred to.
Report on claims for property taken in the military service, war with Spain.Report upon claims for private property taken in the military service: For investigation of just claims against the United States for private property taken and used in the military service within the limits of the United States during the war with Spain, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be investigated all such claims and to ascertain the loss and injury, if any, that may have been sustained by such claimants, and he shall report to Congress for its consideration what amount or amounts he finds to be*Proviso*.When claims barred. equitably due from the United States to such claimants: *Provided*, That all claims not presented to the Secretary of War under this pro-vision prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be considered by him and shall be forever barred.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follow’s: Dayton. Ohio.At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; tor all property and materials purchased for their use. including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement. boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members, and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco: of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
Household.For household, 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 they633 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 repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and tor such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital kitchen and dining room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining room employees; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins: for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, two thousand dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Repairs, etc. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas titters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam titters, stone and brick masons, quarry-men, whitewashers, and laborers, and for ail appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and of other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-five thousand dollars:
For addition to laundry boiler house, plant, and stack, ten thousand five hundred dollars; For one compound noncompressing pump for waterworks, seven thousand five hundred dollars: For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Farm. farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work: for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park: for lent of leased lands, and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars:
In all, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: ForMilwaukee, Wis. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand dollars:
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Togas, Me.634 including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-five, thousand dollars: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;
For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same object specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand dollars; For ice house, three thousand dollars; For summer barrack, three thousand five hundred dollars; For alteration of barracks and extension of steam-heating plant, four thousand five hundred dollars; For alteration of nurses’ quarters, two thousand dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for the purchase of additional land adjoining the Branch, one hundred and thirty-nine acres, more or less, at a cost not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, two hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars. Hampton, Va.At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For officers’ quarters and furniture, five thousand dollars; For property storehouse, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs to breakwater, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and fifty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Leavenworth, Kans.At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth. Kansas: For cur-rent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand eight hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars:
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For addition to cold-storage plant, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; 635 For blacksmith shop, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For cow barn and wagon shed, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For officers’ quarters and furniture, five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for purchase of land at a cost not exceeding six hundred and fifty dollars, twelve thousand dollars; In all. three hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For currentSanta Monica, Cal. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand dollars;
For air and ammonia compressors, four thousand dollars; For septic tank, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For steam condenser and purifier, three thousand three hundred dollars; For one additional barrack, twenty-six thousand dollars; For wing to hospital, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion.
Indiana: For current expenses,Marion, Ind. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, twenty-five thou-sand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas. twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the*Proviso*.Appropriation for repairs not available for new buildings.
Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For completing and furnishing chapel and approaches thereto, three thousand dollars; For constructing pavilion, two thousand dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; In all, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. At the Danville Branch. Danville. Illinois: For currentDanville, Ill. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; 636 For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;
For completion of work of construction, namely: For one barrack, thirty-five thousand dollars; retention hospital, thirty-five thousand dollars; shop, two thousand five hundred dollars: lodge house and gateway, five thousand dollars: memorial hall, thirty-five thousand dollars; nurses’ home, ten thousand dollars; Quartermaster’s residence, five thousand dollars; chief engineer’s residence, two thousand five hundred dollars; pavilion, three thousand dollars; greenhouse, three thousand five hundred dollars: additional concrete walks, fourteen thousand dollars; additional fencing, grading, and roads, twenty thousand dollars; steam and water mains in grounds to additional buildings. six thousand dollars; public latrine, one thousand five hundred dollars; additional land, ten thousand dollars; in all. one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all. four hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. Clothing, all branches.For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures 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, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Board of Managers, salaries, etc.For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely; For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, three thousand five hundred dollars; inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, who shall hereafter, in the necessary absence or inability of the general treasurer, from any cause whatever, perform his duties and give bond to the general treasurer for the faithful performance of such duties, but the general treasurer shall in every respect be responsible, on his bond, to the United States for any default on the part of such assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, two thousand dollars; two assistant inspectors-general. at two thousand dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, eight thousand five hundred and fifty-six dollars; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, two thousand four hundred dollars; agents, two thousand four hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, ten thousand five hundred dollars: for outdoor relief, one thousand five hundred dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand dollars.
In all, three million and ninety thousand two hundred dollars. State or Territorial homes.Vol. 25. p. 460.State ok Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, nine hundred and637 fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums*Proviso*.Deductions. retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofArrears of pay and bounty.Vol. 14, p. 322. pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred: *Provided*, That in the settlement of claims of officers, soldiers, sailors,*Proviso*.Drafts in settlement of military claims, etc., to be delivered to payee without deducting attorney’s fee. and marines, or their representatives, and all other claims for pay and allowances within the jurisdiction of the Auditor for the War Department or the Auditor for the Navy Department, presented and filed hereafter in which it is the present practice to make deductions of attorneys’ fees from the amount found due, no deductions of fees for attorneys or agents shall hereafter be made, but the draft, check, or warrant for the full amount found due shall be delivered to the payee in person or sent to his bona tide post-office address (residence or place of business).
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion: For one agent,Office Naval Records of the Rebellion.Agent. to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy from the officers of the late Confederate Navy, one thousand eight hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. International Union of American Republics: For actual andInternational Union of American Republics. necessary expenses of delegates to the proposed international conference of American States and for necessary clerical assistance, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Index to Diplomatic Correspondence: For preparation of generalIndex to Diplomatic Correspondence. index to the, published volumes of the Diplomatic Correspondence and Foreign Relations of the United States, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of State and by such persons as he may employ for that purpose, two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said index shall be*Proviso*.—completion. completed within one year. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Miscellaneous expenses:
For per diem, in lieu of subsistence ofMiscellaneous. special agents, and employees while traveling on duty away from home and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports and materials for the bulletin of the Department of Labor authorized by legislative Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twoVol. 28, p. 805 thousand five hundred dollars.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney-General: For one law clerk, twoLaw clerk. thousand five hundred dollars. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt-house, District of Columbia.Repairs. repairs, as per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. 638 For special repairs to court-house, District of Columbia, in accordance with estimates of the Architect of the Capitol, four thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents, to be immediately available.
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., penitentiaryTo establish a site and for the erection of a penitentiary on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas, and for other purposesVol. 29, p. 380. incident thereto, under the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Defending suits in claimsDefending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. forty-five thousand dollars.
Punishing violations of intercourse acts, Indian service.Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars.
Prosecution of crimes.Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars.
Traveling expenses.[R. S., sec. 3648. p. 718](/us/rs/sec3648/p718).Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight. Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, five thousand dollars. Prosecution of claims.Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars.
Alaska.Traveling expenses.Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, three thousand dollars. Rent. etc.Rent and incidental expenses. Territory of Alaska: For rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture. fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, and for necessary clerk hire in the United States marshal’s office, the amount thereof to be fixed by the Attorney-General, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Defense in Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington. District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty-two thousand dollars. 639 Counsel for Mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-General toCounsel for Mission Indians. employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California. upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars.
Digest of the Opinions of the Attorney-General: To enableDigest of opinions of the Attorney-General. the Attorney-General to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of a Digest of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, and the twenty-second volume of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, to be expended by the Attorney-General in such manner as will, in his judgment, best accomplish the work, one thousand five hundred dollars, the printing of said volume[R.
S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/sec383/p63). to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes. Care and maintenance of buildings rented by Department ofCare rented buildings. Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance 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, eight thousand dollars.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying theUnited States Courts. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia: of the district court of Alaska: of the courts in the Indian Territory: of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims: of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely:
For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals.—salaries. and their deputies, one million dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law,—advances. may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred. or prior years.
No mileage shall be allowed upon any writ not executed nor when—mileage. the travel is without cost to the marshal or office deputy. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred thousand dollars. For fees of United States district attorney for the District ofDistrict of Columbia. United States attorney.Regular assistants to district attorneys. Columbia, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special eases, sixty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided*,Clerks’ fees.*Proviso*.Clerks United States circuit courts of appeals; return of fees, etc.
That clerks of the United States circuit courts of appeals, annually and within thirty days after the thirtieth day of June in each year. shall make a return to the Attorney-General of the United States640 of all the fees and emoluments of their offices respectively. Such return shall cover all fees and emoluments earned during the preceding year and also the necessary office expenses for such year including clerk hire, the compensation of the clerk not to exceed live hundred dollars per annum as now provided by law.
Such expenses including clerk hire shall be certified by the senior circuit judge of the proper circuit, and audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of—payment of balance into Treasury. the Treasury Department. The respective clerks of the circuit courts of appeals, after deducting such expenses and clerk hire, shall, at the time of making such returns, pay into the Treasury of the United—auditing, etc. States the balance of such fees and emoluments. In case the amounts claimed for such expenses and clerk hire have not been audited by such accounting officers prior to the time fixed for making such returns and payment, said clerks may retain the sums claimed by them respectively until the audit is made, and in case any sum so claimed and retained is not allowed the amount disallowed shall within ten days after notice of disallowance be. paid into the.
Treasury of the United States. All laws and parts of laws so far as in conflict with this proviso are hereby repealed. Commissioners’ fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/sec1014/p1014).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section ten hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Jurors fees.For fees of jurors, six hundred thousand dollars. Witnesses fees.Support of prisoners.For fees of witnesses, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, and not exceeding three thousand dollars for repair of United States jails, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
United States penitentiary.Fort Leaven-worth. Kans.Subsistence.For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leaven-worth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars; Clothing, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
Fuel, forage, light, etc.For fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, 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, electric 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, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and elec641 trical supplies: for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service. notarial and veterinary sendees; for advertising in newspapers, proposals for supplies, and other necessary advertisements; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of sup-posed insane prisoners, and for other services in eases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney--General, and for miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars;
For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical andHospital. surgical supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners: and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, three hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation. eight hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and store-keeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars: assistant engineer and electrician. nine hundred dollars; in all. sixty thousand nine hundred dollars;
For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter. blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and sixty-three thousand four hundred dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court roms. one hundred thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs and criers.*Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/sec715/p136). crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; ofVacation, etc. reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges of the circuitTraveling expenses of judges, etc.Meals for jurors, etc. courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars perJury commissioners. day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of clerks, deputy clerks, commissionersIndian Territory.Salaries, etc., and constables, and expenses of judges, in the Indian Territory, including the salaries of three deputy clerks, one at Muscogee, one at South McAlester, and one at Ardmore, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to beSupplies. expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. 642 Additional judges. New York and Hawaii.For the payment of the salaries of an additional district judge in the State of New York and the United States district judge for the Territory of Hawaii, ten thousand dollars. Clerk and reporter, Hawaii.For the payment of the salaries of the clerk and the reporter of the United States district court for the Territory of Hawaii, at three thousand dollars and one thousand two hundred dollars, respectively, four thousand two hundred dollars.
District attorney, southern district of New York.[R. S., sec. 825, p. 151](/us/rs/sec825/p151).Fees of district attorney, southern district of New York: For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, one hundred dollars. Legislative.UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Statement of appropriations.Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress, as requiredVol. 25. p. 587. by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.
Botanic Garden.Botanic Garden: For reconstructing roofs of extra tropical plant house numbered one and orchid house numbered eight with iron rafters and purlins, and for repairs to roofs of packing and potting sheds, and for reconstructing roofs of two plant houses, numbered one and two, south side of Maryland avenue, and for painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thou-sand five hundred dollars.
House of Representatives.Preservation, etc., of files.Files, House of Representatives: The Clerk of the House of Representatives is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the Librarian of Congress all bound volumes of original papers, general petitions, printed matter, books, and manuscripts now in. or that may hereafter come into, the files of the House, which in his judgment are not required to be retained in the immediate custody of the tile clerk; and it shall be the duty of the Librarian of Congress to cause all such matter so delivered to him to be properly classified by Congress and arranged for preservation and ready reference.
All of such matter to be held as a part of the tiles of the House of Representatives, subject to its orders and rules. —appropriation.For the purpose of executing the requirements of this paragraph the Clerk of the House is authorized to employ, with the approval of the Committee on Accounts, necessary laborers and cartage at a total cost not to exceed one thousand live hundred dollars, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Industrial Commission continued.Vol. 30, pp. 476, 1118.Industrial Commission:
That the Industrial Commission authorized by “An Act authorizing the appointment of a nonpartisan commission to collate information and to consider and recommend legislation to meet the problems presented by labor, agriculture, and capital,” approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and amended by “An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby continued until December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, with all the powers and duties*Proviso*.Printing of reports, etc. imposed upon it by said Acts: *Provided further*, That nine thousand copies of the reports and digests prepared by the Industrial Commis643 sion, together with all evidence taken by said commission, be printed, three thousand for the use of the Senate and six thousand for the use of the House of Representatives.
To pay the expenses of the commission, eighty-seven thousand fiveExpenses. hundred dollars; and to pay the salaries of the commissioners not members of Congress, forty-two thousand dollars; in all. one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public, printing, for the public binding, and for paper forPublic printing and binding. the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing. mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for rents, books of reference, and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, three million nine hundredAmount.*Proviso*.Payment of printers. etc., for time actually employed. and forty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Public Printer may hereafter, in his discretion, pay all printers, bookbinders, and leather parers employed in the Government Printing Office at the rate of fifty cents per hour for time actually employed; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:
For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, and for rents, two million one hundred and seventy-nine thousand eight hundred dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made.
For the State Department, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, three hundred thousand dollars. For the War Department, two hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, twenty thousand dollars for publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion by the Record and Pension Office.
For the Navy Department, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydro-graphic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletins” and “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, seventeen thousand dollars.
For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, seven thousand dollars. 644 For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding the. monographs and bulletins, twenty thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, thirteen thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For the Department of Agriculture, including ten thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, one hundred thousand dollars. For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars. The Public Printer is hereby authorized to print such number of extra copies of the bimonthly Bulletin of the Department of Labor, not to exceed twenty thousand of any single issue, when in the opinion of the Commissioner of Labor the demand for the Bulletin makes an extra edition necessary. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court under this appropriation shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order.
For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. Agricultural report.Vol. 28, p. 612.For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Division of appropriation.And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of*Proviso*.Agricultural report excepted. allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotments.
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, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Appropriation for new building.Toward the construction of a fireproof building for the use of the Government Printing Office and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the cost of all professional and other personal services that the Chief of Engineers of the Army may deem necessary, and for necessary books and periodicals, and for the rent of office rooms in a locality convenient to the work, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the said Chief of Engineers, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Appropriation for salaries to be in full, etc. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Louisiana Purchase Exposition.Appropriation for.Louisiana Purchase Exposition: For defraying the expenses of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, when appointed, ten thousand dollars; and when the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of nineteen hundred and three, a corporation under the laws of the State645 of Missouri, shall have raised, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten million dollars for and on account of inaugurating and carrying forward an exposition at Saint Louis, Missouri, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Louisiana Territory by the United States, then the United States will authorize the expenditure of the sum of five million dollars for such exposition, to be disbursed under the direction of “The Louisiana Purchase Exposition of nineteen hundred and three.” under rules and regulations and under conditions to be hereafter prescribed by the Congress: *Provided, however*,*Provisos*.
That said sum of five million dollars shall not be—condition of appropriation. expended until the said sum of ten million dollars raised by said Louisiana Purchase Exposition of nineteen hundred and three shall have been expended for and on account of said exposition, and there shall be repaid into the Treasury of the United States the same proportionate amount of the aid given by the United States as shall be repaid to either the corporation or the city of Saint Louis: *And provided further*, That all sums expended by the Government on accountDeductions. of said exposition, except for its own buildings and exhibits and the care of the same, shall be deducted from any general appropriation made for said exposition.
Approved, June 6, 1900.