Chapter 8. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 8.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. January 4, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Urgent deficiencies.Appropriations.and the same are, hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and for other objects, namely: senate.Senate.
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one Folding.dollar per thousand, one thousand dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees Miscellaneous, etc.for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, twenty thousand dollars. indian affairs.Indian service. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations in severalty, ten Surveying, etc.thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the allotments provided for in the agreement with Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians, Oklahoma.Completing allotments to, etc.the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma, ratified by Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, including the necessary resurveys, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may *Ante*, p. 676.be necessary: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby *Provisos.*Reestablishing monuments, etc.authorized, in his discretion, to contract with responsible parties for retracing the lines and reestablishing the monuments found necessary in making said allotments; and he is hereby authorized to extend the time for making said allotments and opening of the land to settlement for a period not exceeding eight months from the sixth day of December, nineteen hundred: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Temporary employees, etc.Interior may temporarily employ such persons as may be necessary to make such allotments. geological survey.Geological Survey.
That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized to have Report of Director.Reproduction of illustrations.*Ante,* p. 617.the necessary illustrations for the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey reproduced, payment for the same in excess of allotment made in sundry civil Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, to be made from the appropriation for public printing and binding. district of columbia.District of Columbia. For an additional assistant attorney in the office of the attorney for Attorney for District.Additional assistant authorized.the District of Columbia for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, eight hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 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. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.Volunteer Soldiers Homes.
At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For household expenses, Dayton, Ohio.namely: For coal, fifteen thousand dollars. 728 Milwaukee, Wis.At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, namely: For fire apparatus, one thousand dollars. For household expenses, namely: For coal, seven thousand dollars. Togus, Me.At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, namely: For tire apparatus, two thousand dollars. Hampton, Va.At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia:
For current expenses, namely: For fire apparatus, three thousand five hundred and seventy- five dollars. For household expenses, namely: For coal, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Leavenworth, Kans.At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three thousand dollars. For household expenses, namely:
For coal, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Santa Monica. Cal.At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, namely: For fire apparatus, three thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Marion. Ind.At the Marion Branch, at Marion. Indiana: For current expenses, namely: For fire apparatus, three thousand four hundred and twenty- five dollars. Danville, Ill.At the Danville Branch, at Danville. Illinois: For current expenses, namely: For fire apparatus, three thousand five hundred and twenty- five dollars.
For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand dollars. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three thousand dollars. Naval Observatory.naval observatory. Observation eclipse of sun.Observation of total eclipse of the sun in May, nineteen hundred and one: For preparation and outfit of instruments and their transportation, the purchase of additional apparatus and materials, including photographic material, the erection of suitable buildings at each station, and generally the expenses of preparation and observation, including the living expenses of parties at the several stations, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, January 4, 1901.