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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · June 6, 1900 · Chapter 785

Chapter 785. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 785.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other purposes. June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, namely: To pay accounts set forth on page two of House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two of the present session, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-four cents. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Foreign missions.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-five thousand and fifty-three dollars and twenty-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and ten cents. Loss by exchange.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Loss by exchange, diplomatic service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-eight cents.
Consulates.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-four thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety--eight, five thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-one cents.
Brooklyn Citizen.For contingent expenses. United States consulates: To pay the Brooklyn Citizen for advertising death notice, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two dollars and sixty cents. 281 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryInspection of embassies, etc. on account of the appropriation “Inspection of embassies, legations, and consulates,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventy-six dollars and thirty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryReports. on account of the appropriation for “Publication of diplomatic, consular, and commercial reports.” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-nine cents. To pay Edward Bedloe, late consul at Canton, China, the amount ofEdward Bedloe.Payment to. salary still unpaid from December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, three thousand and ninety-seven dollars and forty-one cents.
To enable the Secretary of State to carry into effect the Act approvedVirginius indemnity fund.Vol. 28, p.223. August third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act for the disposal of the accretions of the Virginius indemnity fund,” two thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and three cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, one hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account, of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Newspapers and books,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal rears as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-two cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand and fifty-two dollars and eighteen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: File holders and cases,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy--eight cents.
For purchase of file holders and file cases, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses. Treasury Department: Furniture,” and so forth, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty cents. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street, and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same, stamp ink. spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals 282and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, five hundred dollars.
Numbering, etc., machines.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Numbering, adding, and other machines, Treasury Department,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty-two dollars and twenty cents. Recoinage of silver coins.Recoinage of silver coins: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Recoinage of silver coins” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Public buildings.Heating apparatus.Heating apparatus for public buildings: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Heating apparatus for public buildings” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-one cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents. Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings:
For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two thousand five hundred dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty-five cents. Furniture and repairs.Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings:
For furniture and repairs of same, and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, twenty-five thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used, as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.
Collecting customs revenue.Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred thousand dollars. Local appraisers’ meetings.Expenses of Local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, five hundred dollars.
Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Compensation in lieu of moieties,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents. Chinese exclusion.Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard Vol. 27, p. 25.for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” twenty thousand dollars. 283 Quarantine service:
For the maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stat ions at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island. Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah. South Atlantic. Brunswick, Gulf, Tortuga, San Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River. Port Townsend, and in Porto Rico and Hawaii, thirty-five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Quarantine service.” for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and four dollars and seventy-eight cents: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and eight dollars and eighteen cents. Refund to Thomas Ellis: To refund to the collector of customsRefunds.—to Thomas Ellis for the district of Puget Sound, for payment by him to Thomas Ellis, of Penticton, British Columbia, as fully set forth on page five. House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of the present session, two thousand and five dollars and fifty cents.
Refund to John Hamilton: To refund to the collector of customs—to John Hamilton. at Buffalo, New York, for payment by him to John Hamilton, as fully set forth on page five, House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of the present session, eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty cents. Refund of fine, steamer Rapid Transit: To refund to Captain—steamer Rapid Transit. H. J. Gillespie that portion of a fine of one hundred dollars imposed in the case of the steamer Rapid Transit by the deputy collector of customs at Mary Island, Alaska, on or about June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for alleged violation of the Act of February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, ninety dollars.
Refund to John W. Bero: To refund to John W. Bero, deputy—John W. Bero. collector of customs, port of Plattsburg, New York, the amount of certain public moneys forwarded by him August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, by registered mail from Hogansburg, New York, to Plattsburg, New York, which money was taken from the safe in the post-office at Rouse Point, New York, on the occasion of a burglary committed therein on the night of August second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the sum so stolen having been made good to the United States by said John W.
Bero, twenty-three dollars and sixty cents. Refund of fine, steamer Palatia: To refund to the collector of—steamer Palatia. customs at New York, New York, for payment by him to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, the sum of fifty dollars, being the amount of a fine imposed in the case of Scheme Gluckmann, a passenger on the Hamburg-American steamer Palatia on or about January fourteenth, nineteen hundred, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original amount having been covered into the Treasury prior to said remission.
Reimbursement of C. N. Jordan: To reimburse C. N. Jordan,Reimbursement of C. N. Jordan. assistant treasurer of the United States, for certain losses of money value in his office, he having made the same good to the Treasury, and the said losses having occurred through no fault or negligence on his part, two thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. Payment to Captain B. Tellefsen: To enable the Secretary of theCapt. B. Tellefsen.Payment to. Treasury to pay Captain B.
Tellefsen, master of the Norwegian steamer Albert, for expenses incurred by him in consequence of a violation of article thirteen of the treaty of commerce and navigation of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden and Norway by an officer of the 284city of Boston, Massachusetts, on the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety-six cents. Owners of schooner J.
R. Carroll.Payment to owners of schooner J. R. Carroll: For payment to the owner or owners of the schooner J. R. Carroll as compensation for damages sustained by said schooner in consequence of a collision with the steam launch attached to the United States steamer A. D. Bache in Eastern Bay on the night of October fourth and fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred dollars. W. Louis George *et. al.*Payment to.To pay to W. Louis George. Wonder O. George, and Rebecca Samantha George, or to their legal representatives, the amount of a finding of the Southern Claims Commission made in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine in their favor as the minor children of W.
L. George, of Coker, Alabama, four hundred and fifty dollars. Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Company.Payment to.Payment to Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Company: To pay the accounts of the Cape Smythe Whaling and Trading Company for supplies furnished and services rendered in rescuing, housing, feeding, clothing, and caring for shipwrecked whalers in the arctic seas in the years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, until they were taken charge of by officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service, the same having been adjusted and reported to Congress in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirteen of this session, as required by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-one thousand five hundred and fifty-six dollars and eleven cents.
Corps of Engineers.Credit in accounts of certain officers.Credit in accounts of certain officers, Corps of Engineers: Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of certain officers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army amounts standing against them on the books of the Treasury as follows: Captain William E. Craighill, sixteen dollars and thirty cents; Captain C. H. McKinstry, forty-five dollars;
Captain H. C. Newcomer, two hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-eight cents; Major Charles W. Raymond, sixty-one dollars and forty-eight cents: Major Thomas L. Casey, twenty-one dollars and thirty-two cents: Major H. M. Adams, two thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and forty cents: Major E. H. Ruffner, forty dollars and eighty cents: Major R. L. Hoxie, forty-four dollars and sixty-seven cents: Major C. McD. Townsend, thirty-one dollars and ninety-two cents; Major W.
H. Bixby, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents; Major Charles F. Powell, fifty-six dollars and thirty cents; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles J. Allen, nine dollars and eighty-eight cents; and Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Jones, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents; in all, three thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and two cents. Maj. Francis S. Dodge.Credit in accounts of.That the proper accounting officers, in settling the accounts of Major Francis S.
Dodge, paymaster, United States Army, are hereby directed to credit the said Major Francis S. Dodge, paymaster. United States Army, with the sum of two hundred and five dollars, the amount of a shortage found to exist in a certain sealed box supposed to contain one thousand silver dollars, Government funds, shipped from New York City as a part of an amount designed for payment to the Cuban army, but which, upon being opened in the presence of witnesses, was found to contain only seven hundred and ninety-five dollars. collecting internal revenue.Internal Revenue.
Salaries, collectors, deputies, etc.Vol. 24, p. 209.For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, Vol. 24, p. 218.eighteen hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act 285of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposingVol. 29, p. 253. a tax on filled cheese, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers,Agents, gaugers, etc. salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepergaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, fifty thousand dollars. To refund to the Central New York Telegraph and TelephoneCentral New York Telegraph and Telephone Company.Refund.Vol. 30, p. 458. Company the penalty assessed against them December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for failure to make their return within the time prescribed by the ninth paragraph under Schedule A of the war-revenue law of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ninety-three dollars and fifty-nine cents. bureau of engraving and printing.Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
To pay amounts fund due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMaterials, etc. on account of the appropriation “Materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and nineteen cents. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-OfficeRent. Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a rental of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryExpenses. on account of the appropriation “Expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-five cents. light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedCol. Wm. A. Jones, U. S. A., credit in account of. to allow and credit in the account of Lieutenant-Colonel William A.
Jones, United States Army, engineer of the Fifth light-house district, for the quarter ended March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the amount of one thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars. paid by him from the appropriation “Repairs, and so forth, of light-houses,” eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for repairs under the instruction of the Light-House Board and by the authority of the Treasury Department, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury.
Expenses of buoyage, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: Buoyage.Col. Walter S. Franklin.Traveling expenses.For amount disallowed upon appeal from the Light-House Board, being for the actual necessary traveling expenses of Colonel Walter S. Franklin, the civilian member of the Light-House Board, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington. District of Columbia, to attend meeting of the Light-House Board, four dollars and ninety-two cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryNew Orleans. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at New Orleans,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two dollars and seventy-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCarson. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at Carson,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-two dollars and forty-eight cents. 286 Denver.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at Denver,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Helena.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, assay office at Helena,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three dollars and ten cents. Boise.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “ Contingent expenses, assay office at Boise,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty-three dollars and twelve cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five dollars and fifty-six cents.
Seattle.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, assay office at Seattle,” one hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-eight cents. territorial governments.Territories. Oklahoma.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one dollar and forty cents. under smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution.
American ethnology.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-four dollars and ninety-one cents. John W. Morse, etc.Reimbursement.The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby authorized to reimburse in the amount of two hundred and seven dollars and seventy-three cents, from the appropriation “National Zoological Park, nineteen hundred,” the official account of John W.
Morse, assistant paymaster. United States Navy, for expenditures incurred in the purchase, care, and forwarding of a collection of live animals for the National Zoological Park during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. public buildings.Public buildings. Asheville, N. C.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Court-house and post-office, Asheville, North Carolina,” four dollars and sixty-two cents.
Camden, N.J.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Post-office, custom-house, and so forth, Camden, New Jersey,” eleven dollars and fifty cents. Sioux City, Iowa.Public building, Sioux City, Iowa: The sum of three thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriations for said building is hereby authorized to be used for the installation therein of a tower clock. Los Angeles, Cal.Rent of building, Los Angeles, California:
For rental of temporary quarters for post-office, court-house, and so forth, at Los Angeles, California, and moving expenses incident thereto, to continue available during fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Indianapolis, Ind.Rent of building, Indianapolis, Indiana: For rent of quarters for use of the post-office and other Government officials at Indianapolis, Indiana, four thousand dollars. 287 Reimbursement of W. S. Cox: For reimbursement of W.
S. CoxW. S. Cox.Reimbursement. for the installation of the National Pneumatic Water Works system in house numbered seventeen hundred and nine New York avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, four hundred and twenty-seven dollars. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United States CommissionPut in Bay, Ohio. of Fish and Fisheries at Put in Bay, Ohio: For the extension of the hatchery building at said station, including construction of hatching batteries and purchase of equipment for same, three thousand dollars.
For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesBullochville, Ga. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Bullochville, Georgia, including construction of ponds, ten thousand dollars. For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesWytheville, Va. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Wytheville, Virginia, including construction of additional ponds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesEdenton, N.
C. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Edenton. North Carolina, six thousand dollars. For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesNashua, N. H. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Nashua, New Hampshire, two thousand five hundred dollars. For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United States CommissionSpearfish, S. Dak. of Fish and Fisheries at Spearfish, South Dakota, including the construction of ponds, three thousand five hundred dollars. For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United States CommissionBaker Lake, Wash. of Fish and Fisheries at Baker Lake, Washington, five thou-sand dollars.
For completion of the fish-cultural station of the United StatesErwin, Tenn. Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Erwin, Tennessee, including construction of ponds on land recently acquired, five thousand dollars. For completion of repairs, construction of wharves, and improvementWoods Hole, Mass of grounds of the fish-cultural station of the United States Com-mission of Fish and Fisheries at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, two thousand dollars. . For increasing the water supply, including the purchase of land, forGreen Lake, Me. constructing necessary buildings, and for other purposes at the station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Green Lake, Maine, three thousand dollars.
That the unexpended balance, amounting to one thousand two hundredUnexpended balance for miscellaneous expenses made available and seventy-five dollars and seventeen cents, of the appropriation of one hundred and ninety-five thousand three hundred dollars for “Miscellaneous expenses, Fish Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,” made in the sundry civil Act approved July first, eighteenVol. 30, p. 609. hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby made available for payment of liabilities incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, without limitation as to the subheads of the appropriation, and that the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one hundred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars for “Miscellaneous expenses, Fish Commission, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,” made in the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundredVol. 30, p. 22. and ninety-seven, is hereby made available for payment of liabilities incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, with-out limitation as to the subheads of the appropriation, and the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized to settle the accounts of the disbursing agent of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries accordingly. 288 San Marcos, Tex.For repairing, damage done to the San Marcos, Texas, station, by the overflow of the Blanco and San Marcos rivers during the month of April, nineteen hundred, and for the construction of a stone wall and such other improvements as may be necessary to protect the station against similar overflows, two thousand dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For general advertising, on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and twelve cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixteen dollars and eighty cents.
For judicial expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-five dollars. To pay outstanding jurors’ certificate, service of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one dollar. To pay the Hawley Down Draft Furnace Company for two Hawley down-draft furnaces installed in the municipal building, one thousand five hundred dollars. For amount required to pay outstanding bills for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: For coroner’s office, twenty dollars.
For free public library, twenty-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. For contingent expenses, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty cents. Indexing laws, etc.For completing an index of the laws affecting the municipal government of the District of Columbia, three hundred dollars. Improvements and repairs.H. H. Darneille.Credit in accounts of.Improvements and repairs, District of Columbia: That the sum of nine hundred and thirteen dollars and eleven cents, paid the Cranford Paving Company for work on Seventh street, between E and G streets northwest, is hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of H.
H. Darneille, late disbursing officer. District of Columbia. Sewers.Sewers: For main and pipe sewers to pay retent under contract seventeen hundred and ninety-six (being for service of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four), principal, three hundred and seventy--eight dollars and fifty-two cents; and interest thereon, sixty-nine dollars and eight cents; in all, four hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty cents. Public schools.Public schools: For fuel, five thousand dollars.
For text-books and supplies, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-six cents. For manual training, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-six cents. For repairs to school buildings, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-five cents. For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred and eleven dollars.
For text-books and supplies, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, sixty-four dollars. For manual training, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirteen dollars and twenty cents. W. B. Moses & Sons.Payment to.To pay W. B. Moses and Sons the difference in price between bill as rendered and paid, for blue boards for the Western High School, and that for which bill should have been rendered, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. 289 Militia: That authority is hereby given to pay the claim of S.
S.Militia. Daish and Sons for thirty-three dollars and forty-five cents for coal furnished to the Naval Battalion of the District of Columbia Militia. Metropolitan police: For contingent expenses for the fiscal yearsMetropolitan police. as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-six cents. For repairs to stations, one thousand dollars.
Fire department: For contingent expenses for the fiscal years asFire department. follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents. For forage, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ninety-four dollars and seventy-three cents. For repairs to engine houses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-eight dollars and twelve cents.
Telegraph and telephone service: For general expenses, twoTelegraph and telephone service. thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and five cents. Health department: For disinfecting service, five hundred dollars.Health department. Emergency fund: That the sum of twenty-five dollars, paid J.A. McKenzie.Credit in accounts of. Sprigg Poole, agent, being cost of the bond of the acting disbursing officer, District of Columbia, is hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of A.
McKenzie, acting disbursing officer. District of Columbia. Courts: To pay A. S. Taylor for services as judge, fiscal yearJudge A. S. Taylor.Payment to. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighty dollars. Judgments: For the payments of judgments, including costs,Judgments. against the District of Columbia, set forth on page nine, House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of this session, and on page three of Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, ten thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-eight cents, together with a further sum to pay the intereston said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Northern Liberty Market claims: To pay John A. Frey theJohn A. Frey.Payment to. amount found due by the auditor of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, two hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jailSupport of prisoners. of the District of Columbia and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, four thousand dollars.
Defending suits in claims: For defending suits in the UnitedDefending suits in claims. States Court of Claims, one thousand dollars. Writs of lunacy: For amount required to pay the clerk of theWrits of lunacy. supreme court of the District of Columbia fees in lunacy cases, one thousand five hundred dollars. Payment of referee: To pay Frank W. Hackett for services asFrank W. Hackett.Payment to. referee in sundry cases in Court of Claims, two hundred dollars. Reform School for Girls:
For amount required to completeReform School for Girls. building and inclose the grounds, nine thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-four cents. Washington Asylum: For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteenWashington Asylum. hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. 290 Freedmen’s Hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fifteen dollars and thirty-eight cents.
For repairs to buildings, three thousand five hundred dollars. Board of Children’s Guard inns.Board of Children’s Guardians: For amount required by the Board of Children’s Guardians for the service of the fiscal year nine- teen hundred, nine thousand two hundred dollars: and authority to pay from this amount one thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary, to the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, at Baltimore, and two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Saint Rose Industrial School, District of Columbia, for the maintenance of wards of the board, is hereby granted.
Merchants’ Parcel Delivery Company.Payment to.Water department: Authority is hereby given to pay the Merchants’ Parcel Delivery Company, in excess of contract rates for hauling extra-size water pipe, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. Columbia road, grading, etc.For grading and paving Columbia road east of Thirteenth street extended through square numbered twenty-three, ten thousand dollars, one-half to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Proviso.*—width*Provided,* That, said street be first extended to its present width, so as to connect with Steuben street at Sherman avenue.
Redemption of tax sale certificates.Redemption of tax-sale certificates: For redemption of one tax-sale certificate dated October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and four tax-sale certificates dated June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, provided the amount hereby appropriated be accepted as a settlement in full, four hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-six cents, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Half appropriations from District revenues.Except as otherwise herein provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Advertising.Advertising: To enable the Secretary of War to pay the accounts, certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-one of this session, due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for recruits, fuel, horses, and so forth, for the Army, three hundred and nineteen dollars and fifteen cents. C. B. Carlisle.Repayment to.Repayment to C. B. Carlisle: For repayment of amount stopped from pay of Chaplain C. B. Carlisle, Second United States Volunteers, on account of subsistence stores erroneously distributed by him to Second United States Volunteers at Holguin, Cuba, in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and one cent.
Maj. J. B. Bellinger.Adjustment of accounts of.Vol. 28, p. 205.Adjustment of Accounts of Major J. B. Bellinger: On account of duties resulting from the war with Spain, the time prescribed by law. Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the settlement of his accounts having expired, the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to reopen, adjust, and settle the accounts of Captain J. B. Bellinger, assistant quarter-master. United States Army, late disbursing officer of the Military Academy at West Point, New York, involving appropriations for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, on the principles of equity and justice, and to give credit for such disbursements as shall be shown to have been actually and honestly made in good faith and *Proviso.*—limited total credits, etc.have accrued to the benefit of the Government: *Provided,* That the total credits allowed under the provisions of this Act shall not be more 291than eleven thousand five hundred and eight dollars and seventy-two cents for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and nine cents for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eleven thousand and fifty-five dollars and sixty-four cents for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
Yellowstone National Park: For the repair and maintenance ofYellowstone National Park. 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, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety--eight, one hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-two cents. military establishment.Military establishment. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMedical museum. on account of the appropriation “Army Medical Museum,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMorning, etc., gun. on account of the appropriation “Ammunition for morning and evening gun,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve dollars and thirty-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryWicomico River, Md. on account of the appropriation “Improving Wicomico River, Mary- land,” eighteen dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryNational parks.—Yellowstone. on account of the appropriation “Improvement of Yellowstone National Park,” six dollars and ninety-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury—Antietam. on account of the appropriation “Battle lines and sites for tablets at Antietam.” twenty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryTransportation. on account of the appropriation “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-six cents. For the reimbursement of necessary transportation and travelingNurses, Medical Department.Traveling expenses, etc. expenses, including railroad fare, sleeping-car fare, transfers, meals, and lodgings en route or during necessary delays, of nurses employed by the Medical Department of the Army since April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, incurred in traveling upon public business from their homes to the places of service and subsequently on changes of station and return to their homes, whose claims may have hereto-fore been disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury on the ground that the terms of the written contracts made with the nurses did not entitle them to the allowances in question, excepting the two hundred and eighteen claims forwarded by the Quartermaster-General to the Auditor for the War Department on or about February twenty--seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, which have been otherwise provided for, four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all other such*Provisos.*Pending claims. claims now pending or that may hereafter be presented shall be allowed and paid from the regular appropriations applicable to the payment of transportation and traveling expenses of civilian employees or the Army, in like manner as if the terms of the written contracts entitled the nurses to such allowances: but the amounts allowed shall in no case exceed the amounts authorized by the War Department in regulations governing the matter, nor the amounts stipulated in the written con-tracts if the latter expressly provide therefor: *And provided, further, *That disbursing officers of the Quartermaster’s Department who haveCredit in accounts, officers Quartermaster’s Department. paid or shall hereafter pay accounts for such expenses shall be given credit for all such payments upon proper vouchers. 292 Maj.
W. H. Comegys may issue duplicate of lost check.That William H. Comegys, major and paymaster, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to issue to Howell P. Myton a duplicate of an original check issued by said William H. Comegys on the twenty-third day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, numbered nine hundred and sixty-six thou-sand five hundred and fifty-five, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York City, New York, in favor of post exchange, Fort Duchesne, Utah, for the sum of three thousand two hundred and seventy-three dollars, in payment of final statements of discharged soldiers, which original check was subsequently indorsed by George P.
White, lieutenant. Ninth Cavalry, post exchange officer, over to said Howell P. Myton, United States Indian agent at Whiterocks Agency, Whiterocks, Utah, and is alleged to have been lost in transmission *Proviso.*—regulations, indemnity bond.[R. S., sec. 3646, p. 717](/us/rs/s3646/p717).through the United States mails: *Provided,* That such duplicate cheek shall be issued under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate checks under the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, including an adequate bond of indemnity. military academy.Military Academy.
Cadete.Permanent establishment: For additional amount required to pay cadets, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-eight cents; Band.Military band: For two enlisted musicians, at twenty dollars per month, four hundred and eighty dollars; For additional pay for length of service, one hundred and thirty-two dollars; For clothing on discharge, sixty dollars; General army service.Pay of general army service: For sixteen privates, at fifteen dollars per month, two thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars;
For additional pay for length of service, one thousand and eight dollars; For clothing on discharge, four hundred and forty-eight dollars; For twenty per centum increase on pay of enlisted men, thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty cents; in all, thirty-three thousand and nineteen dollars and sixty-eight cents. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and rounds. District of Columbia. Sherman statue.—reimbursement of sculptor.For reimbursement of the sculptor for the Sherman statue for extra and unforeseen expenses connected with the subfoundation of said statue, of which the pedestal has already been completed in accordance with the contract therefor, nine thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and five cents, to be disbursed by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, under the direction of the Sherman statue commission. —removal of fence.For removal of present iron fence around the site of the Sherman statue and setting up of a substantial granite curb in place thereof, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, to be expended by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, under the direction of the Sherman statue commission. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Dayton.Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and 293laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repair of roads and of other improvements of a permanent character, five thousand dollars. Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
For household,Milwaukee. namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light: for engineers and tiremen. bathhouse keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repair, unless the repairs are made by the Home, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For addition to hospital, one thousand five hundred dollars. Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses,Hampton. namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, clerks, and orderlies, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, book-binders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and material 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, five hundred dollars.
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, five hundred dollars. Western Branch at Leavenworth. Kansas: For household,Leavenworth. namely: Including the same objects specified under this head for the Northwestern Branch, ten thousand dollars. Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses,Marion. namely: Including the same objects specified under this head for the Southern Branch, two thousand dollars. For household, namely: Including the same objects specified under this head for the Northwestern Branch, eight hundred dollars.
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital-carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and tor such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicines, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding material, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital, kitchen, and diningroom furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital, kitchen, and dining-room employees; for carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For carpenter and paint shop, five hundred dollars. For greenhouse, one thousand five hundred dollars. For nurses’ quarters, five hundred dollars. For electric-light building, five thousand and twenty-three dollars and thirty-six cents. For surgeons’ quarters, nine hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-five cents. For addition to electric-light plant, five thousand dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For currentDanville. expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, 294and farm, including the same objects specified under these heads for the Central Branch in the appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten thousand dollars.
That appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, or that may hereafter be made, for the construction of buildings at any of the branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall continue available until expended. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. naval establishment.Navy. Pay.Subsistence certain officers at Key West, etc., authorized.Pay of the Navy.—For the payment of the following-named officers of the United States Navy, their heirs or legal representatives, the amounts hereinafter stated, for expenses of subsistence at Key West, or Havana, or both, between February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and May first eighteen hundred and ninety—eight, checked or directed to be cheeked, against their accounts:
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents; Commander Richard Wainwright, nine dollars; Lieutenant-Commander George F. W. Holman, ninety-two dollars and sixty-three cents: Lieutenant John Hood, one hundred and one dollars and thirty-three cents: Lieutenant Carl W. Jungen, ninety-five dollars; Lieutenant Frederic C. Bowers, one hundred and one dollars and thirty-three cents; Lieutenant George P. Blow, sixty-five dollars and thirty-three cents:
Lieutenant Wilfrid V. Powelson, twenty-five dollars and ninety-three cents; Lieutenant John R. Morris, one hundred and one dollars and thirty-three cents; Ensign Frank H. Brumby, sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; Ensign Jonas H. Holden, one hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents; Ensign Wat T. Cluveritis, one hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents; Ensign Pope Washington, eighty-four dollars; Ensign Arthur Crenshaw, eighty-four dollars; Ensign Amon Bronson, one hundred and one dollars and thirty-three cents;
Ensign David F. Boyd, ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents; Surgeon Lucien G. Heneberger, one hundred and forty-two dollars; Paymaster Charles M. Ray, one hundred and forty-two dollars; Chaplain John P. Chidwick, one hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents; Captain Albertus W. Catlin, United States Marine Corps, eighty-four dollars; Boatswain Francis E. Larkin, eighty-four dollars: Gunner Charles Morgan, eighty-five dollars and twenty cents; Gunner Joseph Hill, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-three cents;
Carpenter George Helms, one hundred and nine dollars and four cents; Pay Clerk Brent McCarthy, ninety-two dollars and thirty-three cents; Pay Inspector Arthur Burtis, eighty-four dollars (paid on account of Lieutenant John J. Blandin, deceased); the heirs or legal representatives of the late Charles P. Howell, commander, United States Navy, one hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents; in all, two thousand six hundred and fifty-six *Proviso.*—deductions.dollars and forty-eight cents: *Provided,* That from each of the said amounts there shall be deducted any amounts that may have been paid to the said officers respectively for the commutation of rations for the days on which the said expenses were incurred. general account of advances.General account of advances.
Vol. 20, p. 167.To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the 295fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundredPay, Navy. and two dollars and fourteen cents;
For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, sixty-six—Marine Corps, etc. cents; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twelve dollars; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five dollars and twenty-three cents; For provisions, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-five cents; For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation,Bureau of Navigation. nineteen hundred, three thousand and forty-six dollars and forty-five cents;
For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents; For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eight thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents; For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-four cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,Bureau of Ordnance. twenty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents; For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery. and ninety-eight, four hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-five cents; For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eightMarine Corps. and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-one cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteenBureau of Supplies and Accounts. hundred and ninety-seven, thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents; in all, seventeen thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and nineteen cents. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and fourteen cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training snips, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation unforeseen and impossible to classify, for the service of the current fiscal year, thirty thou-sand dollars. 296 To pay amounts found due by the, accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation, recruiting, and contingent.
Bureau of Navigation,” four thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-seven cents. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage, and express charges, repairs to fire engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, fifty thousand dollars. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
For purchase of coal for steamers and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fit-tings. including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ com passes; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior communications on board vessels of war, one hundred thousand dollars.
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company.To pay bill of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company for four hundred and fifty feet upper deck fire hose purchased on requisition approved October eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents. To pay bill of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company for one hundred and fifty feet upper deck fire hose purchased on requisition approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Payment to railroads.To pay Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for transportation of insane patient, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-five dollars. To pay Pennsylvania Railroad Company for transportation of insane patients, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents. 297 navy-yards and stations.Navy-yards and stations. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay to P. F. Dundon,P. F. Dundon.Payment to. of San Francisco, California, out of the balance of the appropriation for “Dry Dock, Puget Sound, Washington, two steel tanks,” Act ofVol. 29, p. 308.
June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the sum of three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents for extra material furnished and work done by him upon said two steel tanks under his contract for the construction of the same, three hundred and thirty--eight dollars and twenty-three cents. miscellaneous, navy.Miscellaneous. To compensate the city of Charleston, South Carolina, for damages to quarantine wharf, caused by French steamer Manoubia under the command of a prize crew, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To compensate the owners of the brig Mary Gibbs for damages sustained while unloading coal, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars. To compensate the owners of the tug William A. Beach for damages sustained by collision with the United States steamship Wompatuck and tow, fifty dollars. To compensate the owners of the lighter Dora for damages sustained by collision with the United States steamship Wompatuck, two hundred dollars. To compensate the Norfork and Washington (District of Columbia) Steamboat Company for damages to its wharf at Alexandria, Virginia, by the United States steamship Tecumseh, forty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
To compensate owners of Chinese sampan sunk in collision with the United States steamship Monocacy, eighty dollars. To pay to the Cleveland Steamship Company damages done to the merchant steamer M. A. Hanna by the United States steamer Michigan, on October fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, by means of a collision with said steamer, six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. To reimburse Theodore J. Arms, assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, for the loss which occurred by reason of the robbery of his safe at the United States naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico, March tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, he having made the same good to the United States, and the said loss having occurred through no fault or negligence on his part, two thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and three cents.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs of buildings, etc. Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building occupied by the Interior Department, three thousand dollars. For removal of offices of the Interior Department to the old Post-Office Department building, five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, Interior Department: For postage stampsContingent expenses for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, six hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
Reimbursement of George W. Evans: To reimburse George W.George W. Evans.Reimbursement of. Evans, disbursing clerk. Department of the Interior, the amount dis-allowed in the settlement of his account Repairs of Buildings, Department of the Interior, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, quarter ended March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, on account of 298payments made by him by direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for cleaning snow from the sidewalks around the several buildings of the Interior Department during the winter of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-five cents.
Capitol.Cranford Paving Company.Payment to.Annual repairs, Capitol: To pay the Cranford Paving Company for special repairs to roof of terrace, occasioned by severe weather, fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand five hundred dollars. Chandeliers, Senate wing.To pay for electric chandeliers for the corridors and committee rooms of the Senate wing to replace worn-out and obsolete gas fixtures, one thousand five hundred dollars. Marble RoomTo pay for mahogany doors for the Marble Room, the President’s Room, and room of Committee on Finance, nine hundred and forty-nine dollars.
Otis Elevator Company.Payment to.Steam heating and machinery, Senate wing: To pay the Otis Elevator Company for special repairs to Senate elevators, two hundred and two dollars. Lighting.Lighting Capitol grounds: To pay the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company for additions and repairs to the switchboard dynamo rooms of the Senate and House, one thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-four cents. To pay the Washington Gaslight Company for gas service during the months of March, April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and sixty dollars and ten cents.
Improving grounds.Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the 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, eight hundred and fifty dollars. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane. Maintenance.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, 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, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-three cents. public land service.Public lands service.
Salaries of registers and receivers.For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thou-sand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. Incidental expenses.For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, eight thousand dollars. Albert F. Easley.Payment to.To pay to Albert F. Easley, deputy surveyor, for surveying and establishing the exterior and connecting lines of the “Galisteo grant allotments” in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, under contract of November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ninety-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Clinton F. Pulsifer.Payment to.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedJohn O’Keane.Payment to. and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Clinton F. Pulsifer, of the State of Washington, the sum of two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-two cents, for surveys and resurveys of public lands, section and township lines, 299in township numbered fourteen north, range numbered nine west, Willamette, base and meridian, duly accepted by the United States but not heretofore paid for.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedJoshua T. Roberts. and directed to pay to John O’Keane, of the State of Washington, the sum of forty-five dollars, as balance of salary due him for services as a farmer in charge of Tulalip Indian Agency, Washington Territory, for the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and not heretofore paid to him. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Joshua T.
Roberts, of the State of Washington, the sum of eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-two cents, as the balance due him from the United States for making survey numbered four hundred and twenty-five, in the State of Washing-ton, and not heretofore paid to him. For payment to Howard B. Carpenter, United States deputy surveyor,Howard B. Carpenter. for surveys and resurveys executed by him in the State of Wyoming, necessary to complete the surveys under his contract numbered two hundred and sixty-six A, approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office under date of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as per account rendered, being the amount found due by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in accordance with the rates authorized in the Act making appropriation forVol. 29, p. 434. the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-four cents.
For payment to J. T. Breckon, for surveying in excess of contract,J. T. Breckon. three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ten cents. For publication of the monthly reports filed by mineral-land commissionersMonthly reports, publication. in the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and the Cœur d’Alene land district, in the State of Idaho, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty cents. To pay to George E.
Boos, manager of the Missoula PublishingGeorge E. Boos, etc. Company, Missoula, Montana, for publishing advertisements of three mineral-land lists in thirty issues of said journal from June seventh to July twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, this amount having been heretofore suspended, but now allowed, four hundred and fifty dollars and twenty cents ; For payment to John McMurray, manager of the Recorder, a newspaperJohn McMurray, etc. published at Anaconda. Montana, as additional allowance for publishing lists of classified mineral lands, such additional allowance being based upon the rates provided for by Departmental Circular of April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-four cents;
To pay the twelve members of the boards of mineral land commissionersBoards of mineral land commissioners, Montana and Idaho. for the States of Montana and Idaho the balance due them for services during the month of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents each; in all, two thousand six hundred dollars and four cents. For payments and reimbursements to the parties named, and in thePayments, etc., “General Land Office.” amounts specified, respectively, on pages six and seven of House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-one of the present session, under the title, “General Land Office,” three hundred and twenty--seven dollars and seven cents.
To reimburse William A. Richards, late United States surveyor-generalWilliam A. Richards.Reimbursement of. for Wyoming, for losses incurred by him through a cloud-burst upon July sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, near Fort Washakie, upon the Shoshone Indian Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, while in the discharge of his duties as surveyor-general 300examining a public survey, under section twenty-two hundred and twenty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the special instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three hundred and eighteen dollars.
Surveyor general’s office, Utah.For expense and clerk hire in the office of the surveyor-general in the State of Utah for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, in addition to appropriation previously made, two thousand dollars. Abandoned military reservations.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Appraisal and sale of abandoned military reservations” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-five dollars and nine cents. geological survey.Geological Survey.
To supply a deficiency in the following appropriations of the Geo-logical Survey for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and nineteen hundred, required to pay vouchers which were not received until after the appropriations were exhausted, as follows, namely: Gauging streams.For gauging the streams, and so forth, fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and two dollars and twenty-six cents.
Surveys.For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States, fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and forty dollars and eighty-one cents. Report, mineral resources.For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents. Library.For purchase of necessary books for the library, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighteen dollars and sixty-five cents.
Alaska, maps.For maps of Alaska, eighteen dollars and fifty cents. Gila River and Queens Creek investigations.For irrigation investigations, Gila River and Queens Creek, Arizona, one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-five cents. Smithsonian exchange.For payment for transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four thou-sand nine hundred and twelve dollars and forty-four cents. indian affairs.Indian Affairs. Superintendent of schools, etc.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Traveling expenses.
Indian school superintendent,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one dollar and sixty-six cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-six dollars and forty-four cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two dollars and fifty cents. Supplies.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thou-sand two hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-three cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand and twenty-five dollars and eighty-six cents. 301 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryBuildings, etc., at agencies. on account of the appropriation “Buildings at agencies, and repairs,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryVaccination. on account of the appropriation “Vaccination of Indians,” fifty-eight dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryQuapaws. on account of the appropriation “Support of Quapaws, education,” twelve dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCrows. on account of the appropriation “Support of Crows: employees, and so forth.” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight dollars and twenty-two cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCheyennes and Arapahoes. on account of the appropriation “Support of Cheyennes and Arapahoes: subsistence and civilization,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-four dollars and seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySchools.Carlisle. on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred and fifteen dollars and seventeen cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventeen dollars and ninety-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryFort Mojave, Ariz. on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Fort Mojave, Arizona.” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighty--seven dollars and fifty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryFlandreau, S. Dak. on account of the appropriation “ Indian School, Flandreau, South Dakota,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighteen cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryLawrence, Kans. on account of the appropriation “Indian School. Lawrence, Kansas,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ninety dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryPerris, Cal. on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Perris, California,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirteen dollars and sixty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryUtah, incidentals, etc. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Utah, including sup-port and civilization,” being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve dollars and forty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryBlackfeet Reservation, Mont. on account of the appropriation “Surveying a portion of Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and ten cents. To pay to the estate of Hopiahtubby, deceased, the amount of claimHopiahtubby.Payment to estate of. allowed as indemnity under treaty with the Choctaws and Chickasaws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five on account of horses stolen by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as per award of the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, dated November second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand and eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
This amount to be paid John Q. Abbott, late clerk to the CommissionJohn Q. Abbott.Payment to. to the Uncompahgre and Uintah Band of Utes for per diem and actual expenses in going from his home—McConnellsville, Ohio—to post of duty at Fort Duchesne, Utah, one hundred and sixty-nine dolars and fifty-five cents. 302 Crow. Flathead, etc. commission.Continuance of.Vol. 29, p. 341.For continuing, after the passage of this Act and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, the work of the commission under the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indians, fifteen thousand dollars, and the members of said commission shall perforin such duties as may be required of them by the Secretary of the Interior.
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.Reimbursement.To reimburse the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for expenses incurred on account of and in returning to their home from Washing-ton a delegation of Colville Indians, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents. For the following as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-seven of the present session, namely: Flandreau school.To pay for water rent at the Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Commission to Five Civilized Tribes.Accounts of disbursing agent readjusted.The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to readjust the accounts of the special disbursing agent of the Com-mission to the Five Civilized Tribes for the first fractional third quarter, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and allow so much of voucher numbered thirty-one in said quarter as may have been paid for advertising, not to exceed fifty-three dollars and seventeen cents.
Makahs, Washington.For support and civilization of the Makah Indians, Washington, including pay of employees, six hundred dollars. Klamath Agency, Oreg.For support, civilization, and instruction of the Klamaths, Modocs, and other Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, one thousand dollars. Indians, middle Oregon.For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands in middle Oregon, and for pay of employees, five hundred dollars. Walla Walla, Cayuse. etc., Indians.For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, two hundred dollars.
Yakima Agency.For support and civilization of the Yakimas and other Indians at said agency, including pay of employees, three hundred and fifty dollars. Utah, expenses.For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Utah, including traveling expenses of agents, support and civilization of Indians at the Uintah Valley and Ouray agencies, eight hundred dollars. Seminoles. Florida.To pay for lands purchased for Seminoles in Florida, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents, to be paid from a balance on the books of the Treasury, under the title of “Homesteads for Seminoles in Florida.
” Payment of scouts, etc., who served in war against Nez Perces, etc.To pay those Indians who served the United States under General O. O. Howard in the late war with Joseph’s band of the Nez Perces tribe of Indians as scouts, couriers, and messengers, referred to in article ten of the agreement of May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, Vol. 28, p. 331.with the Nez Perces Indians, ratified by the Act of Congress approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, which claims are fully enumerated in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-two, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars.
TWELFTH CENSUS.Twelfth Census. Allowance in accounts of disbursing clerk.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to credit and allow in the accounts of Edward McCauley, disbursing clerk of the Census Office, the sum of eleven dollars, being the amount paid by him for two directories of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and one manual of the State of Kentucky. 303 To pay Mrs. Ella M. Shell, widow of G. W. Shell, deceased, forMrs. Ella M. Shell.Payment to. services rendered by her husband as census supervisor for the fourth census district of South Carolina, five hundred dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For books for law library of the Department, for the fiscal years asLibrary. follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing ofWagons, etc. animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,Miscellaneous. foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, one thou-sand dollars. For city directories and books of reference, seventy-five dollars. To reimburse Henry Rechtin, disbursing clerk, Department of Justice,Henry Rechtin.Reimbursement of. money paid for dictionary, city directories, and atlases, for the official use of the Department of Justice for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighty-three dollars and fifty-three cents. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
For the payment of the salary of the United States district judgeHawaii.District judge. for the Territory of Hawaii, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-two cents. For the payment of the salary of the additional United States districtNew York.District judge. judge in the State of New York, six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. For the payment of the salary of the clerk of the United StatesHawaii.Clerk, etc., district court. district court of the Territory of Hawaii, one hundred and forty dollars and eleven cents.
For the payment of the salary of the reporter of the United States district court for the Territory of Hawaii, fifty-six dollars and four cents. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual andAlaska.Traveling expenses etc. necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and ninety cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and twenty-two dollars. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For rent—rent, etc. 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, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty cents. 304 For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. Defending suits in claims.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney- General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and six cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty-two dollars and twenty cents. Townsley *v*. United States.Compromise of suit.Compromise of suit: To enable the Attorney-General to make settlement of a suit of T. F. Townsley against the United States pending in the circuit court for the district of Washington for damages claimed for alleged breach of contract for carrying reindeer between certain Siberian and Alaskan ports, one thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eight hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents. Circuit courts of appeals.Payment for legal services in.Payment for legal services in circuit courts of appeals: For the payment, upon accounts approved by the Attorney-General, of claims for compensation on account of legal services rendered and expenses incurred in cases before the United States circuit courts of appeals, the amount of said compensation to be determined by the Attorney-General, one hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-one *Proviso*.United States attorney, southern district of New York.Vol. 29, p. 179.cents: *Provided,* That so much of section six of the Act approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as provides that the salaries paid to United States district attorneys shall cover and include compensation for services rendered by them in the circuit courts of appeals is hereby made applicable to the United States district attorney for the southern district of New York.
Frank D. Allen.Payment to.To pay Frank D. Allen, late United States district attorney for the district of Massachusetts, for services rendered the United States in the United States circuit court of appeals, one thousand nine hundred dollars. Court of appeals, District of Columbia.Reporter.Court of appeals, District of Columbia: For additional amount as salary of the reporter of said court, five hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Weil and La Abra cases.Additional compensation to counsel.Weil and La Abra cases: To enable the Attorney-General to give any additional compensation he may deem proper to counsel for services in the cause of the United States against La Abra Silver Mining Company, finally determined by the Supreme Court of the United States at the present term of said court, and for all compensation of counsel and fees and expenses in the prosecution to final conclusion of the suit of the United States against Alice Weil and others, in which an appeal has been allowed by the Court of Claims to the Supreme Court of the United States from the judgment of that court in favor of the United States, ten thousand dollars, the said suits having been brought in obedience to two Acts of Congress approved, respectively, on December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,Vol. 27, p. 409. and entitled, respectively, “An Act to amend and enlarge the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, 305entitled “An Act to provide for the distribution of the awards madeVol. 20, p. 144. under the convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, concluded on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
” Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: ForPunishing violations of intercourse acts. 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, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty dollars.
Counsel for Mission Indians of Southern California: For theMission Indians.Payment of counsel for. payment of certain expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties by the special attorney for the Mission Indians of Southern California: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight dollars and forty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-five cents. Special payments: To reimburse E. D.
Winney, late United StatesSpecial payments.E. D. Winney. marshal for the eastern district of Michigan, for the payment by him to the appellant, in accordance with the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States, of the costs in the case of Thomas Cosgrove against Eugene D. Winney, seventy dollars and seventy-five cents. For payment to J. H. G. Weaver for legal services rendered byJ. H. G. Weaver. request of the United States attorney for the western district of Wisconsin in taking the deposition of I.
F. Calkins, a material witness for the Government in the case of the United States against George E. Desmond, ten dollars. For payment to Charles Bucher the amount fixed and allowed byCharles Bucher. the United States circuit court for the district of Kansas for his services and expenses from July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as special master in chancery, under appointment by the court, in the case of the United States against Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company and others, ten thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For payment to W. W. Dewhurst for expenses incurred and legalW. W. Dewhurst. services rendered to the Government in the case of Mitchell against Furman, in the Supreme Court of the United States, six hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four cents. For payment to William J. Brown for legal services rendered theWilliam J. Brown. United States in the proceedings for the condemnation of certain lands in Jamestown, Rhode Island, for the construction of fortifications, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay J. N. Whittaker for clerical services in the office of theJ. N. Whittaker. United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia from January first to eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents. To pay George T. Hammock for service rendered as a United StatesGeorge T. Hammock. deputy marshal for the western district, of Arkansas in the case of the United States against William Patton and L. P. Patton, twenty-one dollars and fifty-two cents.
To pay accounts of L. B. Shephard, United States commissioner atL. B. Shephard. Saint Michael. Alaska, as follows: For expenses in connection with the coroner’s inquest concerningW. W. Blain. the death of Robert Patterson, being the expenses incurred by one Wallace W. Blain in recovering the body of Patterson, under the 306direction of Commissioner Shephard, one thousand and twenty-two dollars and thirty-five cents; Commissioner Shephard.For expenses incurred by Commissioner Shephard on trip to Cape Nome district to hold court, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty cents; in all, two thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and eighty-five cents.
UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. Thomas S. and Charles A. Watts.Payment to.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims submitted on account of services rendered and expenses incurred by Thomas S. Watts and Charles A. Watts, acting as United States deputy marshals in the northern district of New York, during the quarter beginning July first and ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in the same manner as if said persons had taken the oath of office as prescribed by law.
Salaries, etc., United States attorneys.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and four cents. —Southern district of New York.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Fees of district attorney for southern district of New York, United States courts,” two thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-four cents.
Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, fifty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation Support of prisoners.
United States courts,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-one cents. Bailiffs and criers.For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provisos.*Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).*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,* Vacation.Expenses of judges.That no such person shall be employed during vacation: of 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 circuit 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 Jury commissioners.court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, ten thousand dollars.
Rent.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand six hundred dollars. Miscellaneous expenses.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the 307United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leaven-worth,United States penitentiary, Fort Leaven-worth, Kans. Kansas: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and superintendent of industries, 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, one thousand dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. To pay Edgar J. Hulse for repairs, and so forth, to the skylight andEdgar J.
Hulse.Payment to. screens over the working room of the city post-office building, Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars. To reimburse the postal revenues the amount of a judgment obtainedReimbursement postal revenues, etc. in the United States district court for the western district of Arkansas against Robert Johnson, one of the sureties on the bond of Joseph G. Bell, as contractor on postal route numbered fifteen thousand three hundred and ninety-seven, the proceeds of which having been erroneously covered into the Treasury as a “miscellaneous receipt” instead of to the credit of “postal revenues,” one hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.
To reimburse W. J. Vickery, post-office inspector, for expensesW. J. Vickery. incurred in the line of his official duty, eighty-five dollars and sixtyThe accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims submitted on account of services rendered and expenses incurred by Thomas S. Watts and Charles A. Watts, acting as United States deputy marshals in the northern district of New York, during the quarter beginning July first and ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in the same manner as if said persons had taken the oath of office as prescribed by law.
To pay the heirs of William B. Cudlip, formerly a clerk of Class DWilliam B. Cudlip in this Department, the amount due him at the date of his death, twenty-two dollars and one cent. For miscellaneous items, three thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, two thousandOfficial Postal Guide. five hundred dollars. For plumbing and light fixtures, five hundred dollars.Plumbing, etc. For telegraphing, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four thousand fourTelegraphing. hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-two cents.
For gas and electric lights, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,Gas. etc, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars. out of the postal revenues.Postal service. For wrapping paper, ten thousand dollars.Wrapping paper. For the manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps,Stamps. for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty cents. Mail transportation: For inland transportation by steamboatMail transportation. routes, for the fiscal years, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ten thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and one cent. For inland transportation by star routes, thirty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of foreign mails: To pay the amount due theForeign mails. Royal Mail Steamship Company for services rendered by that company from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the terms of the Universal Postal Convention, thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-three cents.
For post-office cars: To pay amounts set forth on page sixteen,Post-office cars. 308House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of the present session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars. Inland transportation.For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, to pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of the present session, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-four thousand and thirteen dollars and seventy-one cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-nine dollars and thirty cents. Free delivery.Free delivery: To pay the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, of this session, for free-delivery service for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand and sixty-one dollars and three cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-eight dollars and eighty-three cents.
For rural free delivery, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-five dollars and ninety-four cents. Advertising.Advertising: To pay amounts for advertising, first and second class offices, set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of this session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-six dollars and forty-two cents. Money-order service.Money-order service: To pay amounts for stationery and miscellaneous, set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two, of this session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Military service.Military postal service: To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, of this session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and forty-one cents. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, of this session, to reimburse the postal revenue of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, being amounts paid by postmasters in excess of the appropriation for miscellaneous, office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, six thou-sand one hundred and two dollars and forty-three cents.
Postmasters’ compensation.Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-two and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirteen, of this session, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one million four hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy-seven cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand and seventy-two dollars and eighty-five cents. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Rent.For additional amount for rent of building occupied by the Bureau of Animal Industry, six hundred dollars. For additional amount for rent of building occupied by the Division of Chemistry, one thousand three hundred dollars. 309 LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To reimburse Nathan B. Scott, a Senator from the State of WestPayment to N.
B Scott. Virginia, as full and final compensation for all expenses necessarily incurred by him in defense of his title to his seat in the Senate, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. To reimburse John T. McGraw and other remonstrants contestingJohn T. McGraw. the seat of Nathan B. Scott, as a Senator from the State of West Virginia, for all expenses in full and final payment thereof incurred by them in such contest, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Mrs.
Jennie Pelton Hayward, widow of the late HonorableMrs. Jennie Pelto Hayward. Monroe L. Hayward, Senator-elect from the State of Nebraska, five thousand dollars. To pay Horace C. Reed, clerk to the Committee on Rules of theHorace C. Reed. Senate, for preparing, under the resolution of the Senate of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, an edition of the Senate Manual, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who performedIndexers, etc., reports of Secretaries of the Senate. the work of preparing and arranging the indexes to all the reports of the Secretaries of the Senate, under resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States, and to be paid only upon vouchers to be approved by the chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate.
To pay for services rendered to the Committee on Pacific Islands“Organic Acts for the Territories of the United States,” etc., payment for preparing. and Porto Rico in preparing the document entitled “Organic Acts for the Territories of the United States, with notes thereon, also appendixes comprising other matters relating to the government of the Territories.” compiled by direction of said committee and authorized by Senate resolution of February second, nineteen hundred, three hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairman of said committee to do said work.
To pay Hawkins Taylor, assistant clerk to the Committee on ForeignHawkins Taylor. Relations, for extra services, including compilation of the reports of said committee, five hundred dollars. To pay Charles G. Phelps for preparing for publication and indexingCharles G. Phelps. the civil report of General John R. Brooke, military governor of Cuba, authorized by Concurrent Resolution Numbered Eleven, passed February twelfth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized to pay to WilliamWilliam Hayward. Hayward, as clerk to Honorable M. L. Hayward, deceased, late a Senator from the State of Nebraska, from March ninth to December fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, from the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, and employees of the Senate for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized to pay to WilliamWilliam T.
Bauskett. T. Bauskett, as clerk to Honorable James P. Taliaferro, a Senator from the State of Florida, from April twenty-fifth to December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, from the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, and employees of the Senate for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesOfficial reporters.Payment to for extra services. of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to March fourth, nineteen hundred, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. 310 Indexers, etc., private claims, etc.Payment to.To pay to the persons who performed the work of arranging and preparing the Index of Private Claims introduced during the Fifty- second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses, under Senate resolution of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars, being the balance due under said resolution, to be paid only upon vouchers signed by the chairman of the Committee on Claims of the Senate of the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Senate employees.Payment to.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate who were borne on the rolls of the Senate, including the police rolls. December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and who were not borne on said rolls at the close of the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress, at the same or a larger rate or pay or salary, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the rate of compensation paid to them at the time of their resignation or discharge, and a sufficient sum for this purpose is hereby appropriated, out of any *Proviso*.—qualification.moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That no payment shall be made hereunder to any officer or employee who was reemployed at the same or a larger rate or pay or salary in the service of the Senate within the period named.
Congresssional employees.Payment for extra services.To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of June, nineteen hundred, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W. A. Smith. Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-sixth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid *Proviso*.—section limited.them by law, the same to be immediately available: *Provided,* That this section shall not apply to any employee included in the preceding section.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty-four dollars and ninety-five cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, ten thousand dollars. Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, one thousand dollars.
A. H. Davenport.To pay A. H. Davenport for repairing and furnishing Senate committee rooms, four thousand seven hundred and nine dollars. L. P. Seibold.To reimburse L. P. Seibold, custom-house broker, for money expended by him in withdrawing from the custom-house at Washington, District of Columbia, the picture of Pocahontas, which was subsequently presented to and accepted by the Senate of the United States, eleven dollars. Dennis M. Kerr.John H. Walker.To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra services as assistant to the Committee on Pensions, and John H.
Walker, clerk to the Committee on Pensions, for extra services, each seven hundred and fifty dollars. J. H. Jones.To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, two hundred dollars for the first, second, and third sessions of the Fifty-fifth Congress and the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Compensation of Members.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, ten thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, ten thousand dollars. 311 For stationery for members of the House of Representatives, sixStationery. hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay the widow of S. T. Baird, late a Representative in CongressPayment to widow of S. T. Baird. from the State of Louisiana, four thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-three cents; To pay the widow of R. P. Bland, late a Representative in Congress—of R.
P. Bland. from the State of Missouri, five thousand dollars; To pay the widow of C. A. Chickering, late a Representative in Congress—of C. A. Chickering. from the State of New York, five thousand dollars; To pay the widow of L. Danford, late a Representative in Congress—of L. banford. from the State of Ohio, five thousand dollars; To pay the widow of S. P. Epes, late a Representative in Congress—of S. P. Epes. from the State of Virginia, five thousand dollars; To pay the widow of D.
Ermentrout, late a Representative in Congress—of D. Ermentrout. from the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars; To pay the widow of W. L. Green, late, a Representative in Congress—of W. L. Green. from the State of Nebraska, three thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents; To pay the widow of A. C. Harmer, late a Representative in Congress—of A. C. Harmer. from the State of Pennsylvania, four thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety cents;
To pay the widow of E. E. Settle, late a Representative in Congress—of E. E. Settle. from the State of Kentucky, five thousand dollars; To pay the legal heirs of Dennis Hurley, late a Representative in—heirs of Dennis Hurley. the Fifty-fifth Congress from the State of New York, balance of allowance for clerk hire accrued and due at the date of his death, ninety-two dollars and eighty-four cents; To pay the widow of Nelson Dingley, late a Representative-elect to—widow of Nelson Dingley. the Fifty-sixth Congress from the State of Maine, five thousand dollars;
To pay Ovid Bell for services as clerk to the late Representative R.Ovid Bell.Payment to. P. Bland to and including June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine fifty dollars; To pay the legal representatives of James Gill amount due him forJames Gill, etc. services as clerk to the late Representative Evan E. Settle from November first to November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifty-two dollars and seventeen cents. To pay Alexander McDowell. Clerk of the House of Representatives,Alexander McDowell.Payment to, for work on contested elections. the amount due for service in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Fifty-sixth Congress, as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contestedVol. 21, p. 445. elections,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of two thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, and an additional sum of one thousand six hundred dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, three thou-sand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
For allowances to the following contestants and contestees forPayments contested election cases. expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections: To Vincent Boreing, two thousand dollars; To J. D. White, two thousand dollars; To R. A. Wise, two thousand dollars; To W. A. Young, two thousand dollars; To Richmond Pearson, two thousand dollars; To W. T. Crawford, two thousand dollars; To William F. Aldrich, two thousand dollars;
To G. A. Robbins, two thousand dollars; 312 To George M. Davidson, two thousand dollars: To G. G. Gilbert, two thousand dollars; To Oscar Turner, two thousand dollars; To Walter Evans, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-six cents; To James A. Walker, two thousand dollars; To W. F. Rhea, two thousand dollars; To T. C. Catchings, two thousand dollars: To C. J. Jones, two thousand dollars; To W. J. Talbert, one thousand five hundred dollars; To John D.
Bellamy, two thousand dollars; To A. C. Latimer, two thousand dollars; To R. R. Tolbert, junior, two thousand dollars; To A. Gaston, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-six cents. Brigham H. Roberts.Salary, etc.To pay Brigham H. Roberts in full satisfaction of salary, mileage, and expenses incurred by him, under and by virtue of his certificate of election as a Representative from the State of Utah, two thousand dollars.
H. F. Dodge.To pay H. F. Dodge for reporting hearings before the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads January twenty-third, nineteen hundred, sixty-three dollars and fifty cents. D. S. Porter.To pay D. S. Porter for extra services as assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. Official reporters.Payment to, for extra services.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates and the two senior official stenographers to committees of the House of Representatives for moneys actually paid by them from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to March fourth, nineteen hundred, for clerical hire and extra clerical services, seven hundred John J.
Cameron.and fifty dollars each; and to John J. Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. Kendal Lee.Charles Carter.To pay Kendal Lee for caring for room of Committee on Accounts, one hundred dollars, and Charles Carter for caring for subcommittee room of the Committee on Appropriations, one hundred dollars, first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress; in all, two hundred dollars. Herman Gauss.To pay Herman Gauss for extra services as assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Charles McCartee.To pay Charles McCartee for extra services as stenographer to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, three hundred dollars. M. C. Butler.To pay Marcellus C. Butler for caring for the room of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, one hundred dollars. R. M. Dale.To pay Ralph M. Dale the difference between the amount received by him and the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, as conductor of the elevator of the House wing, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, eighty-eight dollars and thirty cents.
To pay the following, which have been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: Charles N. Thomas.To pay Charles N. Thomas for extra services in the office of the disbursing clerk, three hundred dollars. H. D. Pritchard.To pay Howard D. Pritchard the difference between seven hundred and twenty dollars and one thousand dollars per annum, from January first, nineteen hundred, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and forty dollars. Joseph H. Johnson.To pay Joseph H.
Johnson the difference between the pay of a folder at seventy-five dollars per month and that of a clerk in the folding room at one hundred and fifty dollars per month, from February seventh, nineteen hundred, to April sixth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, one hundred and fifty dollars. 313 To pay George F. Evers and James F. English for extra servicesGeorge F. Ever and James F. English. rendered as acting deputies to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House in the arrangement of pairs, five hundred dollars each: in all, one thousand dollars.
To pay to J. J. Constantine the difference between the rate of nineJ. J. Constantine. hundred dollars per annum, received by him, and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, as telegraph operator in the House lobby, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, one thousand two hundred dollars. To pay Walter P. Scott the difference between seven hundred andWalter P. Scott twenty dollars and one thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to the first day of January, nineteen hundred, one hundred and forty dollars.
To pay John H. Hollingworth for services performed under theJ. H. Hollingworth. Doorkeeper of the House, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month, four hundred and sixty dollars. To pay the conductors of the elevators in the House wing of theConductors House elevators. Capitol the difference between the amounts received by them and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred. inclusive, each as follows:
L. B. Cook, two hundred dollars; George Winters, two hundred dollars; John S. Logan, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, and M. F. O’Donnell, two hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay W. H. Mitchell for services as a folder, from July first,W. H. Mitchell. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to January first, nineteen hundred, inclusive, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To pay William Gardner for services as a folder, from May first,William Gardner. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to November thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay Don C. Walters the difference between the pay of a folderDon C. Waltere. and that of a messenger at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, five hundred and ninety-four dollars.
To pay Harris A. Walters the difference between the pay of aH. A. Waltere. folder and that of a messenger at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, five hundred and ninety-four dollars. To pay George C. Randall the difference between the pay of aGeorge C. Randall. folder and that of assistant clerk, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay H. A. Dumont for services performed in the folding roomH. A. Dumont as shipping clerk, under the direction of the Doorkeeper, from June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to December third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month, four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. To pay Guy Underwood for services in the hall library, one thousandGuy Underwood. and eighty dollars. To pay E. H. Sharp the difference between his pay as a folder atK.
H. Sharp. seventy-five dollars per month and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, three hundred dollars. 314 Thomas F. Tracy.To pay Thomas F. Tracy the difference between the amount paid him as a folder and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred and seven dollars and eight cents. Charles O.
Houk.To pay Charles O. Houk the difference between the pay of a folder at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from February first, nineteen hundred, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and fifty dollars. Henry G. Disch.To pay Henry G. Disch the difference between the pay of a folder at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum and that of a messenger at three dollars and sixty cents per day from December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, two hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty cents.
Samuel Leavitt.To pay Samuel Leavitt the difference between the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum and the rate of one thousand dollars per annum for services in the Clerk’s document room from March first, nineteen hundred, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents. John B. Fletcher.To pay John B. Fletcher the difference between his salary as a messenger at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Thomas Mahoney.To pay Thomas Mahoney the difference between the pay of a folder at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum and that of a messenger at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from December fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, two hundred and ninety-four dollars. William A. Forbis.To pay William A. Forbis the difference between his salary as a messenger at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth nineteen hundred, inclusive, one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents. index to government publications.Index to Government publications.
John G. Ames.Payment to.To pay to John G. Ames the amount found due to him by the Auditor for the State and other Departments for preparing an index to the documents of the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, as provided for by the joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one-thousand dollars. library of congress.Library of Congress. Credit in accounts of superintendent, etc.The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit Bernard R.
Green, superintendent Library building and grounds, with the following amounts disallowed in their settlement of his accounts, namely: Voucher numbered fourteen, January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, “Fuel, lights, and so forth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,” one city directory, five dollars. Voucher numbered one, February, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, “Improving Botanic Garden, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,” one typewriter, ninety dollars. Payments from appropriation “Improving Botanic Garden,” etc.And to allow the payment of the following bills from the appropriation for “Improving Botanic Garden, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine” and “nineteen hundred:
” Easton and Rupp, stationery, “eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,” fifty-five dollars and sixty cents. 315 C. B. Robinson, veterinary service and horse medicine, “nineteen hundred,” seven dollars and fifty cents. office of public printer.Public Printer. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes,Payment to Samuel Robinson, etc. messengers on night duty during the first session of the present Congress, for extra services, three hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, one thousand and fifty dollars. public printing and binding.
For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the UnitedPrinting, etc., for Supreme Court, United States. States, two thousand five hundred dollars. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-six and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and sixteen, four hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars; said judgments to beDeductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, Entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service: *Provided,* That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph*Proviso.*Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States Courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofVol. 24, p. 505. suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of. suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney--General, in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-seven and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and seventeen, and which have not been appealed, twenty-seven thousand and two dollars and eighty-nine cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein*Proviso.*Appeal. provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For the, payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-eight and Senate Document Numbered 316Four hundred and fourteen, one hundred and eighty-one thousand *Proviso*.Appeal.seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and ninety-two cents; *Provided, *That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Sec. 2. Vol. 18, p. 110.That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 18, p. 110.Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and prior years, Vol. 23, p.254.unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-four, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. Contingent.For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-three cents. Public buildings.For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, one hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-one cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, one hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-two cents.
For heating apparatus for public buildings, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and six cents. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, nineteen dollars and fifty-one cents. Suppressing counterfeiting.For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, one dollar and five cents. Public buildings.For repairs and preservation of public buildings, forty-six dollars and fifty-eight cents. Independent Treasury.For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, ten cents. Director of the Mint.For contingent expenses, office of Director of the Mint, sixty cents.
Mint at Carson.For contingent expenses, mint at Carson, three dollars and twenty-four cents. —Denver.For contingent expenses, mint at Denver, five dollars and eighteen cents. —San Francisco.For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, twenty-three dollars and seventeen cents. Assay offices.—Boise.For contingent expenses, assay office at Boise, seven dollars and forty-four cents. —Helena.For contingent expenses, assay office at Helena, one dollar and thirty-seven cents. Chinese exclusion.For enforcement of Chinese exclusion act, thirty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Internal revenue.For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-one cents. For refunding penalties or charges erroneously exacted, eleven dollars and eighty-eight cents. Revenue-Cutter Service.For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, fifty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents. For refuge station, Point Barrow, Alaska, one hundred and six dollars and sixty-seven cents. Life-Saving Service.For Life-Saving Service, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty-four cents.
Light-houses, etc.For supplies of light-houses, nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirty-three cents. 317 For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, one hundred dollars and forty cents. For expenses of buoyage, twenty-four cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internalInternal revenue. revenue, four hundred and forty dollars and eighteen cents. For refunding moneys erroneously received and covered, three hundred dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department.
For contingent expenses, War Department, five dollars and eighty-eightContingent. cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, seven thousand six hundredPay, Army. and twenty-two dollars and forty-seven cents. For pay of volunteers, fifty-five dollars and seventy cents. For contingencies of the Army, two dollars and eighty-sixContingencies. cents. For subsistence of the Army, twelve dollars and fifty cents.Subsistence. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, three hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-one cents.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, five hundredQuartermaster’s Department. and forty-three dollars and two cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and four cents. For barracks and quarters, one hundred and sixty dollars. For headstones for graves of soldiers, two hundred and twenty-eightHeadstones for graves. dollars and seventy-two cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, three hundred and eighteenMedical Department. dollars and ninety-three cents.
For ordnance stores, ammunition, three dollars and five cents.Ordnance stores. For current and ordinary expenses. Military Academy, eighteenMilitary Academy. hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand seven hundred and forty-five, dollars and seventy-nine cents. For contingencies of fortifications, fifty-four dollars and seventy-nineFortifications. cents. For military posts, thirty thousand and forty-eight dollars.Military posts. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Pacific Branch,Soldiers’ Home. one dollar and ninety-one cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, twenty-three dollars and thirty-two cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, oneLost property. hundred and fifty dollars. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon andOregon and Washington volunteers. Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-six cents.
For twenty per centum additional compensation, war, sixty dollars.Twenty percent increase. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, six thousand eight hundred and eleven dollarsPay, Navy. and ninety-five cents. For pay of the Marine Corps, one thousand and twenty-four dollarsMarine Corps. and nine cents. For contingent. Marine Corps, five dollars and twenty cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twoBureau of Supplies and Accounts. thousand and seventeen dollars and thirty-eight cents: *Provided,* That no part or any one of the claims allowed by the Auditor*Proviso.*Limitations, claims. for the Navy Department in this bill to which this appropriation is 318applicable shall be paid therefrom which accrued more than six years prior to the filing of the petition in the Court of Claims upon which the judgment was rendered, which, being affirmed by the Supreme Court, has been adopted by the accounting officers as the basis for the allowance of said claim.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, sixty cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, two thousand and fifty-two dollars and ninety-six cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifty dollars and eighty-four cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-six cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-seven cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. Contingent.For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, forty-nine dollars and fifty-eight cents. Surveys, etc.For surveying the public lands, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents. For surveying private land claims, two hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-six cents. Reimbursement of receivers.For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys, excess of deposits, thirty-three dollars and fifteen cents.
G. W. Currey.Payment to.For payment to G. W. Currey, reward for information resulting in the conviction of one Hardy Tracy for defacing monument on line of survey of public lands in the Indian Territory, Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five dollars. Indian agents.For pay of Indian agents, four hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty-three cents. Supplies.For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, twenty dollars and eighty-eight cents. Crows.For support of Crows—employees, and so forth, two hundred and seventeen dollars.
For support of Crows—subsistence, three thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-one cents. Kickapoos.For support of Kickapoos, forty-two dollars and twenty cents. Schools.For Indian schools—support, forty-five dollars and sixty cents. Montana.For incidentals in Montana, fifteen dollars and forty cents. Irrigation.For irrigation. Indian reservations, four dollars. Eastern Band of Cherokees.For removal and subsistence of Eastern Band of Cherokees, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Pensions.For army pensions, two hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-five cents. Fees, examining surgeons.For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, fourteen dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State, etc., Departments. department of state.Department of State. Salaries, secretaries of embassies, etc.For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, twenty-two dollars and fourteen cents. For salaries, secretaries of legations, one dollar and nine cents.
Foreign missions.For contingent expenses, foreign missions, sixty-three dollars and sixty-one cents. 319 For salaries, consular service, two thousand six hundred and threeConsular service. dollars and thirty-three cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, twenty-five dollars andLoss by exchange. eighty-two cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, four hundred andConsulates. ninety-seven dollars and thirteen cents. For fees and costs in extradition cases, fourteen dollars and fiftyExtradition fees. cents.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen dollars andProtecting American seamen. seventy-six cents. department of agriculture.Department of Agriculture. For collecting agricultural statistics, one dollar.Statistics, etc. For entomological investigations, seventy-two cents.Investigations. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, eleven dollars and eightyWeather Bureau. cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. For prosecution of crimes, seven dollars and fifty cents.Prosecuting crimes.
For expenses of litigation, Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees,Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees. sixty cents. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, seventy-threeUnited States Courts.Marshals. dollars and fourteen cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, two dollars and seventyClerks. cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, four hundred andCommissioners. eighteen dollars and sixty cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, twenty-eight dollars andJurors. five cents.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, three hundred andWitnesses. thirty-two dollars and thirty cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, one thousand oneMiscellaneous. hundred dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, two hundredMiscellaneous. and seventy-eight dollars and eleven cents. For inland mail transportation, railroads, two hundred and eighty-eightTransportation. dollars and four cents.
For rewards, two thousand and fifty dollars.Rewards. For star transportation, six thousand and fifty-six dollars and ninety-sixStar routes. cents. For steamboat transportation, two hundred and fifty-four dollarsSteamboats. and eighty-five cents. For wagon service, seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and eightyWagon service. cents. For clerk hire, nine hundred and eighty-five dollars.Clerk hire. For special-delivery service, two hundred and thirty-seven dollarsSpecial delivery. and twenty-eight cents.
For rent, light, and fuel, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars andRent. fifty two cents. For free-delivery service, seventy-two dollars and forty-nine cents.Free delivery. For compensation of postmaster, thirteen dollars and forty cents.Postmaster. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or 320carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and prior years, Vol. 23, p. 254unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and fifteen, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department.
Contingent.For contingent expenses. Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, thirty-four dollars and eleven cents. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Stationery, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-one cents. Frauds, customs revenue.For detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, fifty-two cents. Repayment excess of deposits.For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, four dollars and twenty cents.
Revenue-Cutter Service.For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, twenty-eight cents. Life-Saving Service.For Life-Saving Service, six cents. Light-houses.For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, three hundred and ninety dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. Pay, Army.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, one thousand and forty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, three hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-one cents.
Bounties.For bounties to volunteers, their widows, and legal heirs, four hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For bounty under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred dollars. For bounty under act of July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one hundred dollars. Pay, volunteers.For pay of volunteers, eighty-five dollars and eighty-six cents. Contingencies.For contingencies of the Army, sixty-eight dollars and eighteen cents.
Quartermaster’s Department.For incidental expenses. Quartermaster’s Department, one thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty cents. Headstones.For headstones for graves of soldiers, twenty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. Military posts.For construction of military posts on the Yellowstone and Muscle- shell rivers, twenty-five dollars and twenty-three cents claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department.
Pay, Navy.For pay of the Navy, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighteen cents. Marine Corps.For pay of the Marine Corps, one dollar and ninety-two cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, fifteen dollars and sixty-five cents. Bureau of Ordnance.For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, five dollars. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nine dollars and ninety cents. Bounty.For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, one dollar and sixty-three cents.
Lost clothing, etc.For indemnity for lost clothing, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-six cents. 321 For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-two cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For contingent expenses of land offices, twelve dollars and sixty-fiveLand offices. cents. For surveying the public lands, thirteen thousand and seven dollarsSurveying. and eighty-three cents.
Indians: For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, twenty-nine—Indians. dollars and seventy-three cents. For surveying a portion of Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, ten dollars. Pensions: For Army pensions, thirty dollars.Pensions. Claims Allowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State, etc., Departments. department of state.Department of state. For salaries, consular service, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents.Consular service.
For relief and protection of American seamen, sixteen dollars andProtecting seamen. thirty cents. department of agriculture.Department of Agriculture. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, one dollarBureau of Animal Industry. and nine cents. department of justice.Department of Justice. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth. United States courts, eighteenBailiffs. dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department.
For clerk hire, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents.Clerk hire. Approved, June 6, 1900.
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