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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · June 6, 1900 · Chapter 791

Chapter 791. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 791.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, 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*, Appropriations for sundry civil expenses. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, namely:
Treasury Department. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Public buildings. public buildings. Altoona, Pa.For court-house and post-office at Altoona, Pennsylvania: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said building within its present limit of cost. Albany, N.Y. For custom-house and post-office at Albany, New York: For making cellar water-tight and for special necessary repairs to building and approaches, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Boston, Mass. For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts: For repairs of the building, installation of elevator system, remodeling, and plumbing, and work incident to electric-light service, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Md. For custom-house at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said building within its present limit of cost. —repairs, old court-house building.
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of custom-house and other Government officials at Baltimore, Maryland, and for removing furniture, fixtures, safes, and other Government property, and for repairing the old United States court-house building and the adjacent building erected by the city of Baltimore and to adapt the same to the uses of Government offices, twenty-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Building for use of State courts.That all the provisions in the sundry civil Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, relating to the build-589ing for the use of the State courts within the city of Baltimore are Vol. 28, p. 584.hereby extended for such time as may be determined upon by the Secretary of the Treasury or until further action of Congress.
Building for Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For the erection Bureau of Engraving and Printing.Completion of west wing.and completion of a wing at the west end of the building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, including heating and ventilation, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided* That the Secretary of the Treasury *Proviso*.—use of B street authorized.is hereby authorized to use such portion of B street southwest, now included in the grounds of said Bureau, as may be necessary for the foundation of said wing.
For the erection and completion of necessary fireproof outbuildings for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For post-office at Blair, Nebraska: For completion of building Blair, Nebr.under present limit, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Bristol, Tennessee: For completion Bristol, Tenn.of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Brunswick, Georgia:
For completion Brunswick, Ga.of building under present limit, twenty-five, thousand dollars. For post-office at Butte, Montana: For continuation of building Butte, Mont.under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For providing Cincinnati, Ohio.proper facilities for the use of post-office inspectors, two thousand five hundred dollars. For temporary post-office building at Chicago, Illinois: For providing Chicago, Ill.proper facilities for the use of the post-office inspectors, three thousand dollars.
For rental of quarters at Chicago, Illinois: For annual rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, twenty-six thousand five hundred and six dollars and sixty cents. For post-office and court-house at Chicago, Illinois: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use out of the appropriation heretofore made a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the employment of architect, draftsmen, and other skilled service to continue the preparation of the plans and specifications; and also a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the employment of special experts to assist the architect.
Such Vol. 22, p. 403.special experts may be employed by the Secretary of the Treasury without compliance with the conditions prescribed by the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. For post-office, custom-house, and court-house at Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland, Ohio.For purchase of site and commencement of building, four hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said building within the present limit of cost.
For custom-house, post-office, and court-house at Dubuque, Iowa: Dubuque, Iowa.For completion of improvement and enlargement of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Elgin, Illinois: For completion of building under Elgin, Ill.present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For immigrant station at Ellis Island, New York Harbor: For completion Ellis Island, N.Y.of buildings, two hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Freeport, Illinois: For completion of building Freeport, Ill.under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Ind.Indiana: For purchase of site, in the discretion of the Secretary of 590the Treasury, and commencement of building, under present limit, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent of quarters for use of the post-office and other Government officials at Indianapolis, Indiana, fourteen thousand dollars. Jamestown, N. Y. For post-office at Jamestown, New York: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Janesville, Wis. For post-office at Janesville, Wisconsin: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Joliet, Ill. For post-office at Joliet, Illinois: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Kansas City, Kans. For post-office at Kansas City, Kansas: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Los Angeles, Cal. For court-house and post-office at Los Angeles, California: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of the addition to court-house and post-office within the present limit of cost.
Macon, Ga. For rental of quarters at Macon, Georgia: For annual rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, including necessary moving expenses, provided that the same shall be made necessary by removal from present Government building, five thousand dollars. Menominee, Mich. For post-office at Menominee, Michigan: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Monmouth, Ill. For post-office at Monmouth, Illinois:
For completion of building under present limit, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. New Brighton, Pa. For post-office at New Brighton, Pennsylvania: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. New Brunswick, N.J. For post-office at New Brunswick, New Jersey: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Newport News, Va. For custom-house and post-office at Newport News, Virginia: For completion of building under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Newport, Vt. For court-house, post-office, and custom-house at Newport, Vermont: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. New York, N.Y. For subtreasury at New York, New York: For construction of new vaults, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at New York, New York: For repairs, twenty-five thousand dollars. Oakland, Cal. For post-office at Oakland, California: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Philadelphia, Pa. For mint building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For completion of building under present limit, three hundred and fifty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and nine cents. For post-office and court-house at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For renovation of the plumbing and drainage system, eighty thousand dollars. St. Cloud, Minn. For post-office at Saint Cloud, Minnesota: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
St. Louis, Mo. For custom-house and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri: For new boilers, twenty-five thousand dollars: elevator equipments, twenty-three thousand dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand dollars. Salem, Oreg. For post-office at Salem, Oregon: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Streator, Ill. For post-office at Streator, Illinois: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Tampa, Fla.
For court-house, post-office, and custom-house at Tampa, Florida: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. 591 For post-office at Winston, North Carolina: For completion of Winston, N.C.building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Hereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, whenever Construction funds available for electric lighting, etc.in his judgment such work should be performed, to pay for the installation of engineering and electric-light plants in all buildings in process of erection, or hereafter to be erected, under the control of the Treasury Department, from the construction funds of such buildings.
For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For Treasury buildings, D.C.repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. For new boilers, twenty-two thousand dollars; new pipe tunnels, fifteen thousand dollars; new plumbing, toilet rooms, and expenses incident thereto, forty thousand dollars; and for additional vaults, seventy-five thousand dollars: in all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department:
For maintenance of the —fire alarm system.automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Repairs and preservation. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, post-offices, and quarantine stations, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the sum *Proviso*.Superintendents.hereby appropriated not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment of superintendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day. marine hospitals.
Marine Hospitals. For marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio: For additional amount for Cleveland, Ohio.isolation ward and mortuary, two thousand five hundred dollars; additional amount for boiler house and stack, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For additional amount, Boston, Mass.for laundry building, one thousand five hundred dollars; additional amount for isolation ward, three thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For marine hospital at Detroit, Michigan: For additional amount for Detroit, Mich.laundry building, three thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama: For isolation ward, two Mobile, Ala.thousand five hundred dollars. For marine hospital at San Francisco, California: For surgeons’ San Francisco, Calresidence, eight thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Saint Louis, Missouri: For isolation ward St. Louis, Mo.and annex, one thousand dollars. Books and journals for the use of the Marine-Hospital Bureau may Books, etc., for Bureau.be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Marine-Hospital Service. quarantine stations.
Quarantine stations. For quarantine station, Reedy Island, Delaware River: For landing Reedy Island.pier and improvements of station, eight thousand dollars. For quarantine station, Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: For accommodations Delaware Breakwater.for passengers, six thousand dollars; crematory, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. 592 Cape Charles, Va. For quarantine station, Cape Charles, Virginia: For crematory, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Brunswick, Ga. For quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For removal of station, purchase of site, erection of buildings, and equipment of station, twenty thousand dollars. Gulf station. For quarantine station, Gulf: For improvements to station: Dredging machinery, two thousand five hundred dollars; artesian well, three thousand dollars; telephone line, four hundred dollars; crematory, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Establishing stations at Key West and Mullet Key, Fla. For the establishment of national quarantine stations, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, near Key West, and at Mullet Key, Florida, made necessary by the transfer, by direction of the President, of the Tortugas quarantine station to the Navy Department for use as a coaling station for the Navy, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. South Atlantic station. For quarantine station, South Atlantic: For accommodations for crew, one thousand dollars: transfer barge, one thousand dollars; crematory, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.
Savannah, Ga. For quarantine station, Savannah, Georgia: For purchase of buildings, wharves, and disinfecting apparatus, twenty thousand dollars. Improvement of station: Attendants’ quarters, hospital building, bath house, boathouse, and small boat, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. San Diego, Cal. For quarantine station, San Diego, California: For improvements of station: Wharf extension, buildings, and crematory, and addition to water supply, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
San Francisco, Cal. For quarantine station, San Francisco, California: For improvements of station: Iron pier or floating disinfecting plant, one hundred thousand dollars; electric-light plant, ten thousand dollars; additional accommodations for cabin passengers, ten thousand dollars: water system, five thousand dollars; heating apparatus, two thousand dollars; extension of disinfecting and isolation buildings, three thousand five hundred dollars; disinfecting and laundry appliances, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred dollars.
Heating apparatus for public buildings. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and the marine-hospital sanatorium, Fort Stanton, New Mexico, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.
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, thirty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only. Plans. Plans for public buildings: For books, technical periodicals and journals, law books and books of reference, photographic materials, and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Supervising Architect of the Treasury, report on public buildings. The Supervising Architect of the Treasury shall hereafter include in his annual report statements showing, under, the following titles, the number of custom-houses, court-houses, post-offices, and buildings 593used for two or more of said objects: The actual cost of construction, cost of alterations and repairs, cost of sites, and date of purchase, as to each of said buildings, and the aggregate of such expenditures under each of said titles; also the same information, under their respective titles, as to marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and all other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department.
LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS. Lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals. Cape Elizabeth, Maine: For additional amount authorized for completing Cape Elizabeth, Me.a light-ship and fog signal near Cape Elizabeth, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. Narraguagus light station, Maine: For purchase of additional land Narraguagus, Me.for boat slip, one hundred and fifty dollars. Kennebec River lights boathouses, Maine: For erection of boat-houses Kennebec River lights boathouses, Me.at Doubling Point, Doubling Point Range, Squirrel Point, and Perkins Island light stations, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Rockland Breakwater, Maine, pier-head light: For the construction Rockland Breakwater, Me.of a light station on the outer end of the Rockland Breakwater, consisting of a stone pier supporting a small dwelling with a light and fog signal, thirty thousand dollars. Long Island Head light station, Massachusetts: For removing the Long Island Head, Mass.station to a new site, where it will not be exposed to injury by firing of guns in the new seacoast battery, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Eastern Point light station, Massachusetts: For the construction of Eastern Point, Mass.a boathouse at Eastern Point light station, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars. Pollock Rip Shoals, Massachusetts: For an automatic towing Pollock Rip Shoals, Mass.machine for the light-ship at, a point north of the bell buoy near the broken part of Pollock Rip Shoals, at the northeastern entrance of Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Tender for the inspector, Third light-house district:
Toward constructing, Tender, Third district.equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Third light-house district, New York, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of said tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington not exceeding three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the tenders for which appropriations are made by this Act; such draftsmen to be paid from and equitably charged to the appropriations for building said vessels; such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessels being finished, proposals for building said vessels are invited by advertisement.
Staten Island light-house depot, New York: For continuing the construction Staten Island depot, N.Y.of the sea wall, rebuilding wharves, dredging the basin, and repairs and improvements to present buildings and grounds and the erection of a new oil house and lamp shop at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Delaware Bay light and fog signal: For establishing a light and fog Delaware Bay signal.signal on the new breakwater, harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, thirty thousand dollars.
Tender for the Fifth light-house district: For a new steam tender, Tender, Fifth district.complete and ready for service, in the Fifth light-house district, twenty thousand dollars. 594 Cape San Blas, Fla. Cape San Blas light station, Gulf of Mexico, Florida: For completing the removal of Cape San Blas light station to a new and safe site, fifteen thousand dollars. Sand Island, Ala. Sand Island light station, Alabama: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for rebuilding the Sand Island light and fog-signal station, Alabama, at a total cost not to exceed sixty-five thousand dollars, at any time he may consider such rebuilding to be necessary because of threatened destruction of the present station by the encroachment of the sea.
Sabine Bank, Texas. Sabine Bank light and fog-signal station, Texas: For establishing a light and fog-signal station on Sabine Bank, in the Gulf of Mexico, off Sabine Pass, forty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of said light and fog-signal station at a total cost not exceeding eighty thousand dollars. Michigan City, Ind. Michigan City, Indiana, fog signal: For establishing a fog signal at this station, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Tender, Ninth district. Tender for the engineer Ninth light-house district: Toward the construction of a steam tender for construction and repair service in the Ninth light-house district, fifty thousand dollars: and the total cost of said tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo Breakwater light and fog-signal stations, New York: For establishing suitable light and fog-signal stations to mark the main southern entrance of the new breakwater at Buffalo, New York, forty-five thousand dollars.
Toledo, Ohio. Toledo Harbor light and fog-signal station, Ohio: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a light and fog-signal station to mark the outer end of the main channel entrance to Toledo Harbor, Ohio, at, a total cost of one hundred thousand dollars. Detroit River, Mich. Detroit River light station, mouth of Detroit River, Lake Erie, Michigan: For the purchase of land and the erection of a boathouse on the mainland for the use of the keepers of Detroit River light station, Michigan, one thousand dollars.
Grosse Point vessel, Mich.Vol. 30, p. 601. Grosse Pointe light vessel, Michigan: That the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a steam light vessel, with steam fog signal, at Poe Reef, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan, is hereby reappropriated and made available for constructing, equipping, and outfitting complete a new light vessel for Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
St. Marys River, Mich. Head of Saint, Marys River, Michigan: For additional amount for establishing an additional set of range lights to mark the channel at the entrance of Saint Marys River, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Point Pinos station, Cal. Point Pinos light station, California: For purchase of land at Point Pinos light station, entrance to Monterey Harbor, two thousand dollars. Cape Mendocino, Cal. For the construction of a fireproof oil house at Cape Mendocino light station, California, one thousand dollars.
Tender, Thirteenth district. Tender for the Thirteenth light-house district: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a large, powerful, seagoing tender heretofore authorized for the Thirteenth light-house district, at a total cost not exceeding one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Browns Wash, Point. Browns Point light and fog-signal station, Washington: For establishing a light and fog signal at Browns Point, on Commencement Bay, in Puget Sound, entrance of the harbor of Tacoma, six thousand dollars. 595 Desdemona Sands, mouth of Columbia River, Oregon:
For establishing Desdemona Sands, Oreg.a light and fog-signal station near the lower end of the Middle Ground, Desdemona Sands, Columbia River, Oregon, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of eleven thousand dollars, in the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for Vol. 29, p.418.Fort Stevens Light and Fog-Signal Station, mouth of Columbia River, Oregon, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for the light and fog-signal station at or near the Middle Ground, Columbia River, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Slip Point light-house and fog signal, Washington: For establishing Slip Point, Wash.a light-house and fog signal at Slip Point, Clallam Bay, State of Washington, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Tongue Point light-house depot, Oregon: For erecting two isolated Tongue Point, Oreghouses in which to store coal oil for use in the light-houses of the Thirteenth light-house district, with a track extending from them to the depot wharf, five thousand dollars. Tender for the Sixteenth light-house district:
Toward constructing, Tender, Sixteenth district.equipping, and outfitting complete a new steam tender for service in the Sixteenth light-house district, thirty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light-house tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. Light-house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters: To enable Alaskan stations.the Secretary of the Treasury to establish, under the direction and supervision of the Light-House Board, light-house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Oil houses for light-stations: For establishing isolated oil houses Oil houses.for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.Cost.oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Light House Establishment. Light-House Establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, Supplies.and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption: for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian member of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improving Repairs.light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith: for establishing and repairing day marks and pier-head and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, six hundred and forty thousand dollars of which amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars shall be used to change the characteristic of Cape Cod light, Massachusetts.
Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, Keepers’ salaries.rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand four hundred and seventy-five light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, Light-vessels.salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, tour hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, Buoyage.596and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fog signals. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers. Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York: the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey: the Elk River, Maryland; York River, Virginia; James River, Virginia: Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers;
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California: on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not bo, made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
The Light-House, Board is hereby authorized and directed to establish suitable lights at the mouths of Warroad and Rainy rivers, Lake of the Woods, in Minnesota. Survey of sites. Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Porto Rico. Porto Rican light-house establishment: To maintain existing aids to navigation, and complete the construction of Mona light on Porto Rico and adjacent islands, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
Life-Saving Service. life-saving service. Superintendents. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: For one superintendent for the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, to be known as the Third Life-Saving district, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; 597 For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand one hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury may change the serial numbers of Change of serial number of districts.the several districts as may be necessary to conform to the provisions of this Act.
For salaries of two hundred and seventy-seven keepers of life-saving Keepers.and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat Crews.stations, including the old Chicago station, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each, during the period of actual employment and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine: pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise: fuel for stations and houses of refuge: repairs and outfits for same: rebuilding and improvement of same: including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters for officers Commutation of quarters.of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and Vol. 22, p. 57.eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two: for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same: and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the New stations.coasts of the United States, one million three hundred and ninety-six thousand three hundred and ten dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, forty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, Salaries and expenses.lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers and assistant engineers, for pay of a constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same: for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same: for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department: commutation of quarters: for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the Anchorage.598Vol. 25, p. 151. anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved Vol. 30, p. 1081.May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred Vol. 27, p. 431.and ninety-three, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million two hundred thousand dollars.
Astoria, Oreg.Launch. For the purchase or construction of a suitable launch for the customs service at and in the vicinity of Astoria, Oregon, two thousand five hundred dollars; and the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars Vol. 30 p, 1082.appropriated by the sundry civil Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for constructing such launch is hereby made available for the purchase or construction of the same. Engraving and printing. engraving and printing.
Salaries. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary Proviso.Notes of larger denomination.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements *Ante*, p.45.of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Wages. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, eight hundred and seven thousand nine hundred dollars, to be expended Proviso.Notes of larger denomination.under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary *Ante*, p.45.in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Materials. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Rent. For rent of building now occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for storage and other purposes, at a rental of sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-Office Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. coast and geodetic survey. Expenses survey of seacoasts, etc. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation: deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and 599Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography, and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed in the held work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels; to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That no advance of money to chiefs of field *Proviso*.Advance of money.parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer or to a civilian officer who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct;
For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available, and to continue available until expended: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Outlying islands.That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars;
For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, etc.the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars: For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, five thousand dollars;
For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, ten thousand one hundred dollars; For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings, for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars;
For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and Traveling expenses naval officers, etc.for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand four hundred dollars; 600 For objects not hereinbefore named that may de deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in International Geodetic Association.accordance with the Treasury regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars; *Proviso*.Interchangable expenditures. *Provided*, That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named: but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation:
In all, for field expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Repairs of vessels, etc. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. For purchase or construction of one small steamer, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and refitting the steamer Bache, to be immediately available, sixty thousand dollars.
For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. Pay of seamen. Pay and subsistence of professional seamen: For pay and subsistence of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on the vessels of the Survey, to be immediately available, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Salaries.Superintendent. Salaries Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, five thousand dollars; Assistants. For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each: For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars: For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each: For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each:
For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at nine hundred dollars each: For eight aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
Office force. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred dollars: For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each: For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: For three, at one thousand dollars each: For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely:
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: For three, at nine hundred dollars each: 601 For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars: For two, at two thousand dollars each: For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each:
For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars: For three, at one thousand dollars each: For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars: For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each: For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
For three, at one thousand dollars each: For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each: For one, at seven hundred dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely:
For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: For seven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each: For one, at nine hundred dollars; For six, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each;
For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each: For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For two, at five hundred and fifty dollars each: For one laborer, at five hundred and fifty dollars; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials Office expenses.and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instru-602ments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants’ and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For purchase of automatic engraving machines as follows: One machine for engraving soundings, one machine for engraving and lettering compasses, and one border ruling and tinting machine; in all, six thousand dollars. For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. Allowances. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for snort periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law.
Smithsonian Institution. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. International exchanges. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-four thousand dollars. American ethnology. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.
Astrophysical observatory. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, twelve thousand dollars. National Museum. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including two thousand five hundred dollars for furnishing new lecture room and including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, including three thousand five hundred dollars for electric installation, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum: and all other necessary incidental expenses.
For purchase of specimens to supply deficiencies in the collections of the National Museum, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, 603including repairs of roof, and for all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand and forty dollars.
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, seventy-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Cathedral avenue and opening driveway into Zoological Park, including necessary grading and removal of earth: *Provided,* That the unexpended balance of theProviso.Adams Mill road.Unexpended balance for widening, etc., reappropriated. amounts, aggregating eight thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated for widening, grading, and regulating Adams Mill road from Columbia road to the Zoological Park entrance is hereby reappropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and that the control of Adams Mill road is hereby vested—control of, etc. in the said Commissioners, and all proceedings necessary to purchase or condemn the land necessary to widen said road as authorized by Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, providing for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes, shall be taken by said Commissioners.
For construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of theBridge over Rock Creek. roadway from Quarry road entrance, under the direction of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, twenty-two thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars;Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc. chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; private secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each: one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand and forty dollars.
Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundredOffice of accounts. dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars: property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one: bookkeeper, one thousand and eighty dollars; in all, seven thou-sand six hundred and eighty dollars. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousandOffice of architect and engineer. two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand and twenty dollars. 604 Division of fish culture.Division of fish culture—Office:
Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent of ear and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. ten thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Central station.Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station, Washington, District of Columbia: Clerk, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all. two thousand one hundred dollars.
Aquaria.Aquaria. Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixty dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds.Fish ponds. Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Green Lake, Me.Green Lake (Maine) Station:
Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fishculturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Craigs Brook, Me.Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
St. Johnsbury, Vt.Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Stations: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each: in all. four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all. four thousand two hundred dollars.
Woods Hole. Mass.Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all. eight thousand one hundred dollars. Cape Vincent, N.Y.Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars: two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
Battery Island, Md.Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Bryans Point, Md.Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Wytheville, Va.Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fishculturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars: in all. three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Put in Bay, Ohio.Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars: machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars: in all. four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville, Mich.Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fishculturist. seven hundred and twenty dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred605dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundredAlpena, Mich. dollars; fishculturist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveDuluth, Minn. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fishculturist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all. four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNeosho, Mo. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveLeadville, Colo. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fishculturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all. six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveSan Marcos, Tex. hundred dollars; fishculturist. nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all. four thousand and twenty dollars. Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: Superintendent.Baird and Fort Gaston, Cal. one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredClackamas, Oreg. dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each: in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveManchester, Iowa. hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredBozeman, Mont. dollars; fishculturist. nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredErwin, Tenn. dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all. four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNashua, N. H. hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousandEdenton, N.C. five hundred dollars: fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBaker Lake, Wash. five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCold Springs, Ga. hundred dollars: fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. 606 Spearfish, S. Dak.Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fishculturist. nine hundred dollars: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Employees at large.Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fishculturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fishculturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two coxswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all. thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees.Distribution employees: Four car captains, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: five car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; four car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all. eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes.Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars: one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars: in all. thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Division of statistics, etc.Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant, in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston. Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars: in all. fifteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Vessels.“Albatross.”Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars: one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: in all. five thousand two hundred dollars. “Fish Hawk.”“Grampus.”Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy. three hundred dollars. Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration.Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food fishes.Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations of the fish-culture stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, thirty-five thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes.Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, 607rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish culture; for the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary ex senses in connection therewith, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesStatistical inquiry. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchangeable expenditures. expenses of the work of the commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. For completion of the Saint Johnsbury Station, Vermont, and forSt. Johnsbury, Vt acquiring an additional supply of water at said station, including the purchase of the necessary land and water rights, twenty thousand dollars. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission toExpenses.Vol. 24. p. 379.Vol. 25. p. 855.Vol. 26, p. 743. give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and nine thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office; In all, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriatedUnexpended balance for expenses under “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” reappropriated.Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees.” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedEnforcement of “Act to promote the safety of employees, etc., upon railroads.”Vol. 27. p. 531. regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to render effective the requirements of the said Act, fifteen thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous. For salary of the resident commissioner from Porto Rico to thePorto Rico.Salary of commissioner.*Ante,* p. 86. United States, authorized by the Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, approved April twelfth, nine-teen hundred, five thousand dollars. Office of the Secretary: For additional amount for two assistantEngineers, office chief clerk, etc. engineers, office of chief clerk and superintendent, to make their salaries one thousand dollars each per annum, five hundred and sixty dollars. 608 Bureau of statistics.Bureau of Statistics: For two clerks of class two, two clerks of class one, and two clerks at one thousand dollars each; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars. Paper and stamps.Paper and Stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, sixty thousand dollars. Punishing violations of internal-revenue laws.Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which *Proviso.*Purchase of books for chemical laboratory.appropriation is made in this Act: *Provided,* That necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed live hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses. Contingent expenses. Independent Treasury.R. S. sec. 3653. p. 719.Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Transporting silver coin.Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, one —free of charge on request.hundred thousand dollars: and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Proviso.*—deposit of equal amount.*Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696.the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, three thousand dollars. Philadelphia mint.For new machinery and appliances for the new United States mint building at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to be immediately available, four hundred and forty thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars. Denver mint.For new machinery and appliances for the new United States mint building at Denver, Colorado, twenty-live thousand dollars, and a contract is hereby authorized to be entered into for such machinery and appliances at a total cost of not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transporting minor coin.—free of charge on request.Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin, fifteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Proviso.*—deposi t of equal amount.*Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. United States securities.Distinctive paper.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, including transportation, salaries of register, three counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. 609 Special witness of destruction of United States securities:—witness of destruction. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at live dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand live hundred and sixty-five dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials—sealing and separating required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink. printer's varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, expressExpenses national currency. charges, and other expenses, forty-two thousand dollars. Canceling United States Securities and cutting distinctive paper:Canceling, etc. For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, five hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies,Custody of dies, rolls, and plates. rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all. eleven thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, one million dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion the sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For oneInspector of supplies. general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and con-sent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: ToInspector of furniture. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suit-able person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings:Fuel, lights, and water. For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items, for the use of the assistant custodians' forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of 610 installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, eight hundred and Gas.fifty thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the *Proviso.* Gas governors.Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-live per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall Pneumatic tubes.direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter. Suppressing counterfeiting.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign government, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay R.S., sec. 4718, p. 919.and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other *Proviso.*Witnesses.purpose whatever, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided.* That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses. United States courts.” Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, ten 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, one thousand two hundred dollars. Alaskan seal fisheries.Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thou-sand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed live hundred dollars each per annum: in all. twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Food to natives.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Salmon fisheries.For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Enforcing award of Paris tribunal of arbitrationVol. 28, p. 52.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expenses of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred dollars. Chinese exclusion.Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of 611 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 for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved MayVol. 27, p. 25. fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States.” one hundred and ten thousand dollars, and of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the collector of customs at Port Townsend as additional compensation; and nothing in section four of the Act ofVol. 22. p. 225. August fifth. eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Twenty-second Statutes at Large, page two hundred and twenty-five) shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from hereafter detailing one officer employed in the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Acts for duty at the Treasury Department at Washington. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcementAlien contract-labor laws. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one special inspector, whose compensation*Proviso.*Detail of special inspector, etc.Commissioner-General of Immigration to administer Chinese exclusion and immigration laws. shall be paid from this appropriation, may be detailed for duty in the bureau at Washington, and hereafter the Commissioner-General of Immigration, in addition to his other duties, shall have charge of the administration of the Chinese exclusion law and of the various Acts regulating immigration into the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Compiling the customs laws of the United States: To enableCompilation of customs laws. the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for the compilation and codification of the customs laws of the United States, for the use of the Department and other officials dealing with customs administration, the same being necessary for the dispatch of business, one thousand dollars. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody,Lands, etc. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds. advertising. and auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. Office of Recorder of Deeds. District of Columbia: The salarySalary of Deputy Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia, fixed. of the Deputy Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia shall hereafter be two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the fees and emoluments of the office of the Recorder of Deeds. quarantine service.Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersMaintenance. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater. Reedy Island. Cape Charles and supplemental station. Cape Fear. Savannah. South Atlantic. Brunswick, Gulf. Tortugas, San Diego. San Francisco, Columbia River, Port Townsend, and in Porto Rico, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For establishment and maintenance of quarantine service in theHawaii. Territory of Hawaii under the provisions of section ninety-seven of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved*Ante,* p. 160. April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States in hereby authorized, in case ofPrevention of epidemics. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexVol. 30. p. 31. 612 pended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved J line fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and five hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and sup-pressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, the same to be immediately available. territory of hawaii.Territory of Hawaii. Salaries.For salaries, namely: Governor, five thousand dollars; secretary, three thousand dollars; chief justice, five thousand five hundred dollars, and two associate justices, at five thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For judges of circuit courts, at three thousand dollars each, so much as may be necessary, and also for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Territory to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, five hundred dollars, and for private secretary to the governor, two thousand dollars; for traveling expenses of the governor, while absent from the capital on official business, five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Settlement of State Claims for Spanish war expenses.Suits against States, etc.
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