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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · March 3, 1901 · Chapter 830

Chapter 830. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 830.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses, appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Pay of Senators.For compensation of Senators, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, forty-five thousand dollars. Compensation of officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: Vice-President’s office.Office of the Vice-President: For Secretary to the Vice-President, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars: telegraph operator, one thousand four hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain of the Senate, nine hundred dollars. Secretary of the Senate.Office of Secretary: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse Clerks, etc.and wagon for the Secretary’s office, seven hundred dollars; chief clerk and financial clerk, at three thousand dollars each, and five hundred dollars additional for the financial clerk while the office is held by the present incumbent; principal clerk, minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; assistant financial clerk, and reading clerk, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, and two hundred and eighty dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent: assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger, acting as assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; six clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dol-961lars each; keeper of stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars. and two hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; two messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; assistant messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty cents.
Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk of printingClerks and messengers to committees. records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars: messenger, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars: messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the committees on Naval Affairs, Census.
Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, Enrolled Bills, Geological Survey. Railroads. Pacific Railroads, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Philippines, Relations with Cuba, Interoceanic Canals.
Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, and clerk to conference minority of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerks to committees on Woman Suffrage, and Mines and Mining, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For additional amount for the clerk to the Committee on Rules for revising and preparing for publication biennially, under the direction of the committee, the Senate Manual, one thousand dollars.
For twenty-one clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. 962 Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper and assistants.Office of Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper: For Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; horse and wagon for his use, tour hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred Messengers.and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-seven messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; assistant messenger on the floor of the Senate, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger to official reporters’ room, to be selected by the Official Reporters, in lieu of the messenger provided for by Senate resolution of December seventh, nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars: messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; three carpenters to assist him. at nine hundred and sixty dollars each;
Laborers.skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; two janitors, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; two female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at seven Pages.hundred and twenty dollars each; two telephone operators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; telephone page, six hundred dollars; press gallery page, six hundred dollars: four laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; fifty-three laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, eight thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and four dollars.
Postmaster, etc.Post-office: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Document room, superintendent, etc.Document room: For superintendent of the document room (Amzi Smith), three thousand dollars; first assistant in document room, one thousand eight hundred do lars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand one hundred and twenty dollars: and the said document room is hereby transferred to and placed under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Senate.
Folding room, superintendent, etc.Folding room: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; nine folders, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; and page, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Chief engineer, etc.Under Architect of the Capitol: For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; four assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; seven conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; machinist and assistant conductor of elevators, one thousand dollars; machinist and electrician, one thousand dollars; three firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Clerks to Senators.For thirty annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of com-963mittees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery and newspapersContingent expenses. for Senators and the President of the Senate, including four thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate, one hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, seventy-five dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For materials for folding, two thousand dollars. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, two thousand dollars. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, fifteen thousand dollars. For purchase of furniture, six thousand dollars. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, two thousand dollars.
For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, two thousand dollars. For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, sixteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty thousand dollars.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments. For repairs of Maltby Building, two thousand dollars. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate, one thousand eight hundred dollars. capitol police.Capitol police. For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars, and three lieutenants,Pay. at one thousand two hundred dollars each, hereafter to be selected jointly by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives; thirty privates, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirty privates, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; and eight watchmen, at nine hundred dollars each, one-half of said privates and watchmen to be selected by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives: in all, seventy-four thousand two hundred dollars, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
And hereafter the officers, privates, and watchmen of the Capitol police shall, when on duty, wear the regulation uniform. For contingent expenses, three hundred dollars, one-half to be disbursedContingent expenses. by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. congressional directory. For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the CongressionalCongressional directory. Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars. 964 house of representatives.House of Representatives.
Pay of members, etc.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, one million eight hundred and three thousand dollars. Mileage.For mileage, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Officers and clerks.For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Speaker’s office.Office of the Speaker: For private secretary to the Speaker, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the Speaker’s table, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, one thousand dollars per annum; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand four hundred dollars.
Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain of the House, nine hundred dollars. Clerk of the House, etc.Office of the Clerk: For Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; hire of horses and wagons and cartage for use of the Clerk’s office, seven hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at three thousand six hundred dollars each; tally clerk, three thousand dollars; printing and bill clerk, and disbursing clerk, at. two thousand five hundred dollars each; file clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; enrolling clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant disbursing clerk, assistant enrolling clerk, resolution and petition clerk, newspaper clerk, index clerk, assistant journal clerk, and assistant to chief clerk, at two thousand dollars each; librarian, distributing clerk, and stationery clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one bookkeeper, two assistant librarians, and seven clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; document and bill clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; document clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, one thousand two hundred dollars; cabinetmaker, who shall be skilled in his trade, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant cabinetmakers, who shall be skilled in their trade, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant in Clerk’s office, and one assistant in disbursing office, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; telegraph operator, assistant file clerk, and stenographer to the Clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant in library, one assistant in document room, and one assistant in stationery room, at nine hundred dollars each; one page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers in the bathroom (Robert Richardson and William Richardson), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; assistant index clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; page in enrolling room, and messenger in chief clerk’s office, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
Library placed under Librarian of Congress.The library of the House of Representatives shall hereafter be under the control and direction of the Librarian of Congress, who shall provide Appointments and removals.all needful books of reference therefor. The librarian, two assistant librarians, and assistant in the library, above provided for, shall be appointed by the Clerk of the House, with the approval of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-sixth Congress, and thereafter no removals shall be made from the said positions except for cause reported to and approved by the Committee on Rules.
Chief engineer, etc.Under Architect of the Capitol: For chief engineer, one thousand seven hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four conductors of elevators, atone thou-965sand one hundred dollars each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol; laborer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; six firemen, at nine hundred dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborer, one thousand dollars; two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer to clean Statuary Hall and watch statuary therein, six hundred and sixty dollars: in all, twenty thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk to the CommitteeClerks anti messengers to committees. on Ways and Means, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; messenger and assistant clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerks to Committees on Accounts, Agriculture, Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Insular Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Judiciary, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Pensions, Post-Office and Post-Roads, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, War Claims, and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at two thousand dollars each; janitor for Committee on Post-Office and Post-Roads, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and for assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, fifty-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
For janitors for rooms of the Committees on Accounts, Agriculture,Janitors.—appointments, etc. Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Insular Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Judiciary, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Pensions, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, and War Claims, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, from December first, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, and said janitors shall be appointed by the chairmen respectively of said committees and shall perform all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said commit-tees by the Doorkeeper; in all, eight thousand four hundred and twelve dollars.
For seventeen clerks to committees, at six dollars each per dayClerks to committees, session. during the session, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the HouseSergeant-at-Arms, etc. of Representatives, four thousand five hundred dollars; deputy to the Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; book-keeper. one thousand eight hundred dollars: assistant bookkeeper, nine hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk in charge of pairs, one thousand four hundred dollars; page, seven hundred and twenty dollars: and skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Office of Doorkeeper: For Doorkeeper, three thousand fiveDoorkeeper, assistant, etc. hundred dollars; hire of horses, feed, repair of wagon and harness, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; assist-ant doorkeeper, and Department messenger, at two thousand dollars each; one special employee (John T. Chancey), one thousand five hundred dollars; one special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to Doorkeeper, and janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten messengers, including the messenger to the reporters’ gallery, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; thirteen messengers, at one thousand dollars each; messenger to the Speaker’s 966table, one thousand dollars; fourteen messengers on the soldiers’ roll, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers in the water-closet, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one laborer, six hundred dollars; eight laborers, known as cloakroom men, at fifty dollars per month each; ten laborers, during the session, at sixty dollars per month each, four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and sixty cents; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, seven hundred and Superintendent of folding room, etc.twenty dollars; superintendent of folding room, two thousand dollars; four clerks in folding room, one at one thousand eight hundred dollars, and three at one thousand two hundred dollars each; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, five hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; nine folders, at nine hundred dollars each; five folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eighteen folders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; night watchman, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred dollars; two chief pages, at nine hundred dollars each; thirty-three pages, during the session, including two riding pages and two telephone pages, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, seventeen thousand four hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents; ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, during the session, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, five thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; horse and buggy for Superintendent document room, etc.Department messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of document room, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six assistants in document room, one at one thousand six hundred dollars, two at one thousand four hundred dollars each, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two at one thousand dollars each; in all, one hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and ten cents.
Joel Grayson.For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Minority employees.For the following minority employees authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, namely: One special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; two special messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and one special chief page, nine hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional for services as pair clerk; in all, five thousand three hundred dollars.
Assistant Department messenger.For the assistant Department messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Special messenger.For the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, one thousand two hundred dollars. To continue the employment of the special messenger, authorized in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December eighteenth, nineteen hundred, to serve in the room assigned the minority side of the House, at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, one thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
Assistant foreman of folding room.To continue employment and for compensation of the assistant fore-man of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives February sixth, nineteen hundred, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, at three dollars and eighty-five cents per day, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty cents. 967 To continue the employment of the person named in the resolutionLaborer. of the House adopted June fifth, nineteen hundred, as a laborer, at fifty dollars per month, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Successors to any of the employees provided for in the six preceding—naming of successors. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time prior to July first, nineteen hundred and two. Office of Postmaster: For Postmaster, two thousand fivePostmaster, etc. hundred dollars; assistant postmaster, two thousand dollars; twelve messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight messengers, at one hundred dollars per month each, during the session, five thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixteen cents; and one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixteen cents.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, twoHorses and wagons. thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Official Reporters: For five official reporters of the proceedingsReporting debates. and debates of the House, at five thousand dollars each; assistant official reporter, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand two hundred dollars. Stenographers to committees: For three stenographers to committees,Stenographers to committees. at five thousand dollars each; assistant stenographer to committees, one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand six hundred dollars.
That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing“During the session” defined. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and eleven days from December second, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive. For clerk hire, Members and Delegates: To pay Members andClerk hire, members, etc. Delegates the amounts which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire necessarily employed by them in the discharge of their official and representative duties, as provided in the Joint ResolutionVol. 27, p. 757. approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, during the session of Congress, and when Congress is not in session as provided in House Resolution passed May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved JulyVol. 30, p. 687. seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four hundred and seven-teen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; andClerks for members-elect.
Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one[R. S., sec. 31, p. 6](/us/rs/s31/p6). of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this appropriation. For contingent expenses, namely: For wrapping paper, paste-board,Contingent expenses. paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary mate-rials for folding, for the use of members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth,Vol. 28, p. 624. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), seven thousand dollars.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, thirteen thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs of the same, nine thousand dollars. For packing boxes, three thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and forty cents. And hereafter packing boxes for the use of the 1 louse of Representatives shall be procured after advertisement for proposals therefor, under specifications to be prepared by the Cleric of the House, and from the lowest and best bidder to furnish the same. 968 For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery for members of the House of Representatives, including five thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, fifty thousand dollars. For postage stamps for the Postmaster, one hundred dollars; for the Clerk, three hundred dollars: for the Sergeant-at-Arms, two hundred dollars; and for the Doorkeeper, fifty dollars: in all, six hundred and fifty dollars. Employees to perform only duties of the position to which appointed.Hereafter employees of the House of Representatives under the Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Doorkeeper, and Postmaster shall only be assigned to and engaged upon the duties of the positions to which they — exception.are appointed and for which compensation is provided, except that in cases of emergency or congestion of public business incident to the close of a session of Congress or other like cause an employee or employees may be assigned or required to aid in the discharge of the Limit, folders assigned to clerical work.duties of any other employee or employees, and in the discretion of the Doorkeeper not more than one folder may, if necessary, be assigned to do clerical work under the direction of the foreman of the folding — condition.room, but all assignments made hereunder shall be without additional compensation and shall not constitute the basis of a claim therefor.
Division of salary, etc., forbidden.It shall not be lawful to appoint or employ in any position under the House of Representatives more than one person at any one time, or to require or permit any such person to divide with another any portion of his salary or compensation while so employed. Subletting duties forbidden.It shall not be lawful to require or permit any person in the employ of the House of Representatives to sublet to another the discharge of any portion of the duties of the position to which he is appointed.
Age limit, pages.No person shall be appointed or employed as a page in the service of the House of Representatives who is under twelve years or more than eighteen years of age; but this provision shall not apply to chief pages, riding pages, and telephone pages. Officers’ certificate to pay rolls.The Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, Doorkeeper, and Postmaster shall make certificate each month to their respective pay rolls, stating whether the persons named in such pay rolls and employed in their respective departments have been actually present at their respective places of duty and have actually performed the services for which compensation is provided in said pay rolls, and in each case where a person carried on such pay roll has been absent and has not performed the services in whole or in part for which payment is proposed, the reason for such absence and for such nonperformance of services shall be stated.
Penalties.The violation of any of the foregoing provisions of law shall, upon ascertainment thereof, be deemed to be cause for removal from office. Inquiry, etc., by Committee on Accounts authorized.It shall be the duty of the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives from time to time to impure into the enforcement or violation of any of the foregoing provisions of law; and for this purpose they are hereby authorized to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths; and they shall report to the House at least once every session their compliance with the duty herein imposed. office of the public printer.Public Printer.
Salaries.For Public Printer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, traveling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, three thousand dollars. 969 library of congress.Library of Congress.
General administration: For Librarian of Congress, six thousandSalaries, librarian, etc. dollars; chief assistant librarian, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; Librarian’s secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars: one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Mail and supply: For assistant in charge, one thousand two hundredMail and supply. dollars; one assistant, nine hundred dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
Packing and stamping: For two attendants, at seven hundred andPacking and stamping. twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Order (purchasing): For chief of division, two thousand dollars; oneOrder. assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; one assistant, five hundred and twenty dollars; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Catalogue and shelf: For chief of division, three thousand dollars;Catalogue and shelf. three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six assist-ants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant , one thousand four hundred dollars; seven assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three assistants, at one thousand dollars each; eleven assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistants, at eight hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistants, at six hundred dollars each; ten assist-ants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; four assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, sixty thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Binding: For one assistant in charge, one thousand two hundredBinding. dollars; one assistant, nine hundred dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Bibliography: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; oneBibliography. assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and One messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars.
Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections:Reading rooms. For superintendent of reading room, three thousand dollars; two assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant (reading room for the blind), one thousand dollars; five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; evening service: five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Senate reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant.
Representatives’ reading room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants, cloakrooms, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Toner Library, nine hundred dollars; one attendant. Washingtonian Library, nine hundred dollars; four messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Periodical (including evening service): For chief of division, twoPeriodical. 970thousand dollars: chief assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; for arrears of sorting and collating and to enable periodical reading room to be open in the evening, two assist-ants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Documents.Documents: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; one assist-ant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Manuscript.Manuscript: For chief of division, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred dollars.
Maps and charts.Maps and charts: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars. Music.Music: For chief of division, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars: in all, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Prints.Prints: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; three assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand and sixty dollars. Smithsonian deposit.Smithsonian deposit: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Congressional reference library.Congressional reference library: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, nine hundred dollars: one assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, five thousand and forty dollars. Law library.Law library: For custodian, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one assistant for evening service, one thousand two hundred dollars: in all, seven thousand four hundred dollars.
Copyright office.Copyright office, under the direction of the Librarian of Congress: Register of copyrights, three thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; nine clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred dollars each; seven clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, six hundred dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one porter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifty-five thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Special service.For special, temporary, and miscellaneous service, at the discretion of the Librarian, to continue available until expended, two thousand dollars. Purchase, etc., of books.Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Library, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses inci-971dental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, sixty thousand dollars;
For purchase of books and subscription to periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, three thousand dollars; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars: For expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For subscription to miscellaneous current periodicals and newspapers, five thousand dollars; In all, seventy-one thousand three hundred dollars. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Library, stationery,Contingent expenses. supplies, and all stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, and all incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the copyright office, seven thousand three hundred dollars.
Custody, care, and maintenance of Library building and grounds:Custody of building and grounds.Superintendent, clerks, etc. For superintendent of the Library building and grounds, five thousand dollars; for clerks, messengers, watchmen, engineers, fire-men. electricians, elevator conductors, mechanics, laborers, charwomen, and others, as follows: Chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; telephone operator, six hundred dollars; captain of watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant of watch, one thousand dollars; eighteen watchmen; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; painter, nine hundred dollars; foremen of laborers, nine hundred dollars; thirteen laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two check boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; mistress of char-women. four hundred and twenty-five dollars: charwoman, two hundred and forty dollars; forty charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; chief engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant electrician, one thousand dollars; two machinists, at nine hundred dollars each; plumber, nine hundred dollars; two elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine firemen; six skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric andFuel, lights, etc steam apparatus, reference books, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, twenty-five thousand dollars. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and two coveredFurniture. ways across courts, sixty thousand dollars. BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic garden. For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars.Superintendent, etc.
For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, twelve thousand and ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For procuring manure, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants,Repairs, etc. seeds, and for services, materials, miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, five thousand dollars. 972 EXECUTIVE.Executive.
Compensation of the President.For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. Vice-President.For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, eight thousand dollars. Executive office.For compensation to the following, in the office of the President of Secretary, assistants. etc.the United States: Secretary, five thousand dollars; two assistant secretaries, at two thousand eight hundred dollars each; executive clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; executive clerk and disbursing officer, two thousand dollars; two clerks, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; one clerk of class four, who shall be a telegrapher; one clerk of class three, who shall be a telegrapher; steward, one thousand eight hundred dollars; usher to the President, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief doorkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; watchman, nine hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, twelve thousand dollars. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. Commissioners, examiner, etc.For three Commissioners, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; chief examiner, three thousand dollars; secretary, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; ten clerks of class three: thirteen clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one: three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two laborers; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two watchmen; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, ninety-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Expenses.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, seven thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc.For compensation of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars: assistant solicitor of the Department of State, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, two thousand five hundred dollars; for a law clerk, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as he may require of him, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be available from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, three thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-four cents; seven chiefs of bureaus and two translators, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; additional to chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; ten 973clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; twenty-five clerks of class one, one of whom is to be a telegraph operator; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and thirteen laborers: for temporary typewriters and stenographers, to be selected by the Secretary, two thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty four cents.
For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchaseStationery. of passport paper, six thousand dollars. For books and maps, and books for the library, two thousandLibrary books. dollars. For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographicLithographer, etc. press, one thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence ofContingent expenses. horses, to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirementsPrinting ascertainment of electors for President, etc.Vol. 24, p. 373. of the Act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofSecretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. the Treasury, eight thousand dollars; three Assistant. Secretaries of the Treasury, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars: three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four messengers; three assistant messengers, and one laborer; in all, forty-five thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: For chief clerk, includingChief clerk, clerks, etc. three hundred dollars as superintendent of Treasury building, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of Treasury building, two thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of electric-light plants, gas, and fixtures for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand dollars; one assistant inspector of electric-light plants and draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four, as book-keeper, one hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one (one as librarian); one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; store-keeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; six elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen; five firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; coal passer, five hundred dollars; locksmith and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars 974each; fifty-eight watchmen; six special watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, male, eight hundred and forty dollars; three skilled laborers, male, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-six laborers; ten laborers, at five hundred dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; ninety charwomen; foreman of cabinet shop, one thousand five hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; eleven cabinetmakers, at one thousand dollars each; cabinetmaker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars;
Engineer, etc.carpenter’s helper, six hundred and sixty dollars. For the Winder Building: Engineer, one thousand dollars; three firemen; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars: four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; Watchmen, etc.and six charwomen. For the Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York avenue: Three watchmen-firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer; in all, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Bookkeeping and warrants division.Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For chief of division, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand seven hundred dollars; estimate and digest clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two principal bookkeepers, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; ten bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; eleven clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Customs division.Division of customs: For chief of division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four acting as drawback clerk, two hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one: three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and two assistant messengers; in all, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Appointments division.Division of appointments: For chief of division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four: three clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, thirty-nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
Public moneys division.Division of public moneys: For chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four: three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one: one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger: in all, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Loans and currency division.Division of loans and currency:
For chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; additional to two clerks of class four as receiving clerk of bonds, and bookkeeper, one hundred dollars each; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; superintendent of paper room, one thousand two hundred dollars; paper cutter, at three dollars per day; paper counter, seven hundred and 975twenty dollars; six laborers; twenty-four paper counters and laborers, at six hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer, five hundred and fifty dollars; and for continuing two additional clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, and six additional paper counters and laborers, at six hundred and twenty dollars each, rendered necessary because of increase of work incident to the war with Spain; in all, sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: For assistant chief of division,Revenue-Cutter Service division. two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one: two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one laborer; in all, twenty-one thousand and sixty dollars. Miscellaneous division: For chief of division, two thousand five hundredMiscellaneous division. dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of stationery, printing, and blanks: For chief of division,Stationery division. two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four: three clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; fore-man of bindery, at five dollars per day; four binders, at four dollars per day each; and two sewers and folders, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, thirty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
Division of mail and files: For chief of division, two thousand fiveMail and files division. hundred dollars: one clerk of class three; additional to clerk of class three, as registered mail and bond clerk, two hundred dollars; five clerks of class two; additional to one clerk of class two, in charge of documents, two hundred dollars: two clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one mail messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; and two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division, twoSpecial agents division. thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one messenger; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Offices of disbursing clerks: For two disbursing clerks, at twoDisbursing clerks. thousand five hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars: in all, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Office of the Supervising Architect: In the construction branchSupervising Architect’s office. of the Treasury: For Supervising Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers,Draftsmen, etc. accountants, assistants to the photographer, copyists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account*Proviso*.—limit, etc. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, shall not exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and that the 976Secretary of the Treasury shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
Comptroller’s office.Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: For Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; five law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions, one at two thousand one hundred dollars and four at two thousand dollars each; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four expert accountants, at two thousand dollars each; seven clerks of class four; one clerk of class three: two clerks of class two; typewriter copyist, one thousand dollars; two messengers; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For five temporary clerks, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum each, during the remainder of the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and one, to dispose of accumulated appeals from the Auditor for the War Department, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Auditor for Treasury Department.Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: For Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; seventeen clerks of class four; thirteen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two: twenty clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; four laborers; and for continuing three clerks of class one and for four additional clerks of class one, rendered necessary by increased work incident to the war with Spain; in all, one hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.
Clerks on manifests.For clerical force for the liquidation of manifests of vessels and cars arriving in the United States from foreign Countries with merchandise intended for consumption, namely: For one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Auditor for War Department.Office of Auditor for War Department:
For Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars: six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; forty-two clerks of class three; sixty-four clerks of class two; fifty-four clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars: three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one messenger; three assistant messengers; and eight laborers; in all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand three hundred dollars.
Additional force.For continuing the following additional force rendered necessary because of increased work incident to the war with Spain; Eight clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; thirty clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and three laborers; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Restoring rolls.For the purpose of restoring and repairing the worn-out and defaced rolls and vouchers in the Office of the Auditor for the War Department, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Auditor for Navy Department.Office of Auditor for Navy Department: For Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; 977law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; ten clerks of class three; six clerks of class two: eleven clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, seventy thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
For continuing the following additional force rendered necessaryAdditional force. because of increased work incident to the war with Spain: Two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-one thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of Auditor for Interior Department: For Auditor,Auditor for Interior Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; nineteen clerks of class three; thirty-five clerks of class two: twenty-five clerks of class one; eleven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger: ten laborers: and one female laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Office of Auditor for State and other Departments: ForAuditor for State etc., Departments. Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division. at two thousand dollars each; twelve clerks of class four; thirteen clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two copyists; one messenger; and three laborers: in all, ninety-three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department: For Auditor,Auditor for Post-Office Department. four thousand dollars; two Deputy Auditors, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eighteen clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; sixty-one clerks of class three; seventy-six clerks of class two: ninety-five clerks of class one: seventy-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars: twenty-five money order assorters, at nine hundred dollars each; thirty-one money-order assorters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-three money order assorters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; six messengers; twelve assistant messengers: twenty-five male laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; three female laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; and fifteen charwomen; in all, five hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For additional force for bringing up work of assorting and checkingAdditional force. money orders one year or more in arrears, and for increased business, namely: For five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; twelve clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the Treasurer: For Treasurer of the United States,Treasurer’s office. six thousand dollars;
Assistant Treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, three thousand two hundred dollars: cashier, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, three thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; vault clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand 978one hundred dollars; two tellers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk for the Treasurer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-five clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three: four-teen clerks of class two; coin clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; twenty-three clerks of class one: eleven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; thirty expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine clerks, at seven hundred dollars each; mail messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars: six messengers; six assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers: seven charwomen: six pressmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; fourteen separators, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; seven feeders, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one compositor and pressman, at one thousand four hundred dollars: in all, three hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Redemption of currency.For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars: assistant teller, two thousand dollars: two clerks of class four: three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; and two charwomen: in all, seventy-one thousand and forty dollars.
Register’s Office.Office of the Register of the Treasury: For Register, four thousand dollars: Assistant Register, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; five clerks of class one: one clerk, one thousand dollars: twenty-two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger: two assistant messengers; and four laborers; in all, sixty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For continuing the following additional force rendered necessary because of increased work incident to the war with Spain: Three clerks of class one; and three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; in all, six thousand six hundred dollars. Comptroller of the Currency.Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: For Comptroller of the Currency, five thousand dollars; Deputy Comptroller, two thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars: eight clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; twelve clerks of class three: thirteen clerks of class two: nine clerks of class one; twelve clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; engineer, one thousand dollars; one fireman; three laborers: and two night watchmen; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Special examinations, etc.For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, five thousand dollars. National currency expenses.For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, two thousand two hundred dollars: teller, bookkeeper, and assistant bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks, of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one assistant messenger; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For Commissioner of Internal Revenue, six thousand dollars; deputy commis-979sioner, four thousand dollars; additional deputy commissioner during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three thousand six hundred dollars; chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; two heads of divisions, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four heads of divisions, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; two additional heads of divisions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; superintendent of stamp vault, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-four clerks of class four: twenty-four clerks of class three: thirty-four clerks of class two: twenty-four clerks of class one; twenty-two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; fourteen assist-ant messengers: and thirteen laborers; hi all, two hundred and sixty-five thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
For one stamp agent, one thousand six hundred dollars: and oneStamp agent. counter, nine hundred dollars: in all, two thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Light-House Board: For chief clerk, two thousand four hundredLight-House Board, dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant messengers; laborer, six hundred dollars: assistant civil engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars.
Office of Life-Saving Service; For General Superintendent ofLife-saving Service. the Life-Saving Service, four thousand dollars; assistant general superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk, two thousand dollars; topographer and hydrographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; three, clerks of class three: three clerks of class two: five clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger: and one laborer; in all, forty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Navigation; For Commissioner of Navigation, threeBureau of Navigation. thousand six hundred dollars: two clerks of class four; additional to one clerk designated as deputy commissioner, four hundred dollars: one clerk of class three: two clerks of class two: four clerks of class one; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For Director of Bureau,Bureau of Engraving and Printing. four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant director, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; accountant, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars: two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, seventeen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Bureau of Statistics: For officer in charge of the Bureau of Statistics,Bureau of Statistics three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: statistical clerk, two thousand dollars: four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one: translator, one thousand two hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and one female 980laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, fifty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of the services of experts, and for other necessary expenditures connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and foreign commerce of the United States, four thousand dollars. Secret Service division.Secret Service Division: For one chief, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one: one clerk, one thousand dollars: and one attendant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand and twenty dollars.
Standard Weights find Measures,Office of Construction of Standard Weights and Measures: For construction and verification of standard weights and measures, including metric standards, for the custom-houses, other offices of the United States, and for the several States, and for countries under the jurisdiction of the United States, and for mural standards of length in Washington, District of Columbia: For inspector of standards, three thousand dollars: adjuster, one thousand eight hundred dollars: one verifier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; mechanician, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant messenger; one adjuster’s helper, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and one watch-man: in all, ten thousand and ten dollars.
Expenses.For purchase of materials and apparatus, and incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. American delegate to International Bureau of Weights and Measures.For expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the meeting of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, as provided for in the convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, four hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office Director of the Mint.Office of the Director of the Mint:
For Director, four thousand five hundred dollars: examiner, and computer, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assayer, two thousand two hundred dollars; adjuster of accounts, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; translator, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one copyist: one messenger; one assistant in laboratory, one thousand two hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Freight.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, one hundred thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the Director, namely: For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, and other necessaries, one thousand dollars. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints and assay offices for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins and ores, balances, weights, and incidentals, four hundred dollars. Statistics.For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. Marine-Hospital Service.Office of Supervising Surgeon-General Marine-Hospital Service; For Supervising Surgeon-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one: clerk and translator, one thousand two hundred dollars; hospital steward employed as chemist, one thousand two hundred dollars: six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; five laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, thirty-six thousand one hundred dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Marine-Hospital Service. 981 Office Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat-Inspection Service:Steamboat-Inspection Service.
For Supervising Inspector-General, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars: two clerks of class three; one clerk of class one; one clerk of class one (stenographer and typewriter); one messenger; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Steamboat-Inspection Service. Bureau of Immigration: For Commissioner-General of Immigration,Immigration Bureau. four thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: confidential clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; statistician and stenographer, with power to act as immigrant inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one supervising immigrant inspector, to be attached to this Bureau in Washington for special work outside, one thousand six hundred dollars: one messenger; and one assistant messenger; one clerk of class two. to be available from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents, which, together with other expenses of regulating immigration, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses regulating immigration.
For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, including all buildings under control of the Treasury in Washington, District of Columbia,Contingent expenses. namely: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus,Stationery. thirty thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchasing material for binding important records, four hundredBinding materials. dollars.
For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books ofNewspapers, etc. reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand two hundred dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessaryInvestigating accounts, etc. traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including the temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, account-ants, or other expert services outside the District of Columbia when not properly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars.
For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, six thousandFreight, etc. dollars. For rent of buildings, nine thousand three hundred and ninety-fourRent. dollars. For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to beHorses and wagons. used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of ice, including ice for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of tile holders and file cases, three thousand dollars.File holders and cases. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grateFuel. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of gas. electric current for lighting and power purposes,Light. gas and electric light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, fourteen thousand dollars.
For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings andMiscellaneous. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, 982canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same. stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, eight thousand dollars.
Numbering machines.For purchase of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, and repairs thereto, two thousand dollars. Carpets.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, four thousand dollars. Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, eight thousand five hundred dollars. collecting internal revenue.Collecting internal revenue.
Collectors, etc.For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and also Vol. 24, p. 209.including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen Vol. 24, p. 218.hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the GovernmentVo. 29, p.253. the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on filled cheese, one million seven hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Additional clerks, etc.For continuing the additional clerks and other employees in the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and for salaries and expenses of increased force of deputy collectors rendered necessary by Vol. 30, pp. 450, 469.the Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, providing for war expenditures, and for other purposes, and for salaries and expenses of twenty-one additional agents, to be appointed under the provisions of section three of said Act, in lieu of the ten additional agents provided for in section three, and the twenty additional clerks and agents provided for in section forty-seven of said Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For compensation of the official authorized in section twelve of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes,’ approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and to reduce taxation thereunder” at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, until the close of the fiscal year one thousand nine hundred and two, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Agents, gaugers, etc.For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepergaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, one million nine hundred thousand dollars. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Office of assistant treasurers.Baltimore.Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars 983each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three vault watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Boston: For assistant treasurer,Boston. five thousand dollars: chief clerk, and paying teller, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk, and receiving teller, at two thousand dollars each; first bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; second bookkeeper, one thousand four hundred dollars; specie clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant specie clerk, and money clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; redemption cleric, and one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, eight hundred dollars; messenger and chief watchman, one thousand and sixty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; three watchmen and janitors, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Chicago: For assistant treasurer,Chicago. five thousand dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; vault clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; paying teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant paying teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; assorting teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; three coin, coupon, and currency clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; fifteen clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; janitor, six hundred dollars; and three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: For assistant treasurer,Cincinnati. four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand dollars: bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; interest clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; check clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk and stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk and watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; night watchman, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: For assistantNew Orleans treasurer, four thousand dollars; chief clerk and cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; receiving teller, and paying teller, at two thousand dollars each; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; coin and redemption clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; porter, five hundred dollars; day watch-man, seven hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at New York: For assistantNew York. treasurer, eight thousand dollars; deputy assistant treasurer and cashier, four thousand two hundred dollars; assistant cashier and chief clerk, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier and vault clerk, three thousand two hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at three thousand one hundred dollars each; chief paying teller, three thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand 984seven hundred dollars each; chief of division, two thousand six hundred dollars: chief of division, and chief bookkeeper, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; chief of division, and assistant chief of division, at two thousand three hundred dollars each; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers and one bookkeeper, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, one assistant chief of di vision, and three book-keepers, at two thousand dollars each; ten assistant tellers and two book-keepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; four assistant tellers, one bookkeeper, and two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers and two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; nine assistant tellers, one bookkeeper, and four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one assistant teller and two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; nine assistant tellers and three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, at one thousand dollars each; six assistant tellers and one clerk, at nine hundred dollars each; five assistant tellers, at eight hundred dollars each; two messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred dollars each; two hall men. at one thousand dollars each; two porters, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of building, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief detective, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant detective, one thousand two hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; assistant engineer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; eight watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, two hundred and six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
Philadelphia.Office of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars: bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars: paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; bond and authorities clerk, and vault clerk, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; coin teller, one thousand seven hundred dollars; redemption teller, and receiving teller, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent messenger and chief watchman, one thousand one hundred dollars; five counters, at nine hundred dollars each; seven watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-four thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
St. Louis.Office of assistant treasurer at Saint Louis: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars: first teller, two thousand dollars; second teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third teller, one thousand six hundred dollars: fourth teller, one thousand two hundred dollars; coin teller, one thousand two hundred dollars: bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars: three assistant bookkeepers, and two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant coin teller, stenographer and typewriter, and messenger, at one thousand dollars each; two day watchmen, and coin counters, at nine hundred dollars each; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and janitor, six hundred dollars: in all, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
San Francisco.Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars: bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, 985two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant cashier, receiving teller, and assistant bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; coin teller, and one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; and four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examinersSpecial agents. detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). including examinations of cash accounts at mints, three thousand dollars. For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and otherPaper for checks. cheeks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, ten thousand dollars.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. Mint at Carson, Nevada: For assayer in charge, who shall alsoCarson, Nev. perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; assistant assayer, and one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand dollars. For wages of workmen and watchmen, five thousand six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. Mint at Denver, Colorado: For assayer in charge, three thousandDenver, Colo. dollars; melter, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two calculating clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, twenty-two thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars. Until the mint and assay office at Denver shall become a coinage mint in accordance with law, the present mint shall be continued as an assay office, and the business now transacted at said mint shall be continued therein, and the appropriations heretofore and herein made shall be applicable to such mint. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: For superintendent, threeNew Orleans, La. thousand five hundred dollars: assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; cashier, and chief clerk, at two thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; abstract clerk, bookkeeper, weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; register of deposits, warrant clerk, and assistant weigh clerk at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars: in all, thirty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, thirty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage of operative officers and loss of gold contained in sweeps sold, and for machinery and repairs, fifteen thousand dollars. Mint at Philadelphia: For superintendent, four thousand fivePhiladelphia, Pa. hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and engraver, at three thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; cashier, two 986thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; abstract clerk, and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, warrant clerk, and register of deposits, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-two thousand and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, expenses annual assay commission, melter and refiner’s wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage and wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, and purchase not exceeding five hundred dollars in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, one hundred thousand dollars.
San Francisco, Cal.Mint at San Francisco, California: For superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, and cashier, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, abstract clerk, weigh clerk, warrant clerk, assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, assistant coiner, and register of deposits, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assayer’s computation clerk, assistant weigh clerk, and superintendent’s calculating clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery, melter and refiner’s wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps, arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and Wastage of and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, sixty thousand dollars. Boise, Idaho.Assay office at Boise, Idaho: For assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen, eight thousand throe hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Charlotte, N. C.Assay office at Charlotte, North Carolina: For assayer and melter, one thousand five hundred dollars: assistant assayer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen, one thousand and eighty dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Deadwood, S. Dak.Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: For assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars: one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, four thousand six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Helena, Mont.Assay office at Helena, Montana: For assayer in charge, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; melter, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars: in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, fourteen thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. New York, N.Y.Assay office at New York: For superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, and melter and refiner, at three thou-987sand dollars each; chief clerk, assistant melter and refiner, and weigh clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; warrant clerk, two thousand dollars; bar clerk, abstract clerk, and assayer’s computing clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: register of deposits, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: assayer’s first assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: assayer’s second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen and messengers, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. Assay office at Saint Louis, Missouri: For assayer in charge,St. Louis, Mo. two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For wages of workmen (including janitor), one thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Assay office at Seattle, Washington: For assayer in charge,Seattle, Wash. who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars: one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: in all, ten thousand dollars.
For wages of workmen and assistants, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars. government in the territories.Territories. Territory of Alaska: For governor, five thousand dollars; threeAlaska. judges, at five thousand dollars each; three attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; three marshals, at four thousand dollars each; three clerks, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; salaries of com-missioners, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, whose terms of office may extend into the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Territory, clerk hire, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, two thousand dollars. Territory of Arizona: For governor, three thousand dollars;Arizona. chief justice and three associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars: in all, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, messenger, postage, stationery, fuel, lights, printing, and incidental expenses for secretary’s office, two thousand dollars. Territory of New Mexico: For governor, three thousand dollars;New Mexico. chief justice and four associate judges, at throe thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. 988 For legislative expenses, namely: For lent, light, fuel, telephone, ice, water, stationery, record tiles, record casings, printing, postage, clerks, messenger and porter, and incidentals in secretary’s office, two thousand dollars. Oklahoma.Territory of Oklahoma: For governor, three thousand dollars; chief justice and four associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; and secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor for rents, private secretary, stenographer and typewriter, and typewriter supplies, janitor, messenger, fuel, lights, stationery and printing, postage, telegrams, furniture for office, express, and other incidentals, one thousand dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For rent of office, furniture, fuel, lights, stationery, clerk hire, printing, postage, ice, record files, record casings, messenger, porter, and other incidental expenses of the secretary’s office, two thousand dollars.
HawaiiTerritory of Hawaii: For 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 for the fiscal year ending dime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. For contingent expenses of the Territory of Hawaii, 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: in all, three thousand dollars.
Porto Rico.Territory of Porto Rico: For salary of the resident commissioner from Porto Rico to the United States, authorized by the Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, five thousand dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT.War department. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of War, eight thousand dollars: Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars: chief clerk, including five hundred dollars as assistant in military park and insular affairs. three thousand dollars: clerk to the Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars: clerk to the Assistant Secretary, two thousand one hundred dollars: stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand dollars; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; superintendent of buildings, outside of State, War, and Navy Department building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, five hundred dollars: librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class four: five clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one: four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; carpenter, one thousand dollars: fore-man of laborers, one thousand dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; four messengers; seven assistant messengers; eight laborers; hostler, six hundred dollars: two hostlers, and one watch-man, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one hundred and four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Additional temporary force.For continuing the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants, rendered necessary because of increased work incident to the war with Spain, as in the 989judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the needs of the service may demand, six hundred thousand dollars.
Persons in thePersons in classified service not eligible, etc. classified service of the Government shall not be eligible to appointment under this appropriation, or other appropriations for additional employees because of increased work incident to the war with Spain, or to be transferred from any position in the, classified service to positions paid under this or said other appropriations. Record and Pension Office: For three chiefs of division, at twoRecord and Pension Office. thousand dollars each; one agent, two thousand dollars; twenty-four clerks of class four: forty-five clerks of class three; ninety-five clerks of class two; one hundred and eighty-seven clerks of class one: fifty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; five messengers; thirty-five assistant messengers; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; five watchmen; superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and seventeen laborers; in all, five hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred and seventy dollars; and all employees provided for by this paragraph for the Record and Pension Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.
Office of the Adjutant-General: For chief clerk, two thousandAdjutant-General’s Office. dollars; clerk to the Adjutant-General, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; twelve clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three: thirteen clerks of class two: fifty-eight clerks of class one: seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four messengers; eighteen assistant messengers; and three watchmen: in all, one hundred and sixty-five thousand and eighty dollars.
Office of the Inspector-General: For one clerk of class four;Inspector-General’s Office. two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two: two clerks of class one: one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirteen, thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Office of the Judge-Advocate-General: For chief clerk, twoJudge-Advocate-General’s Office. thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one copyist: one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
Signal Office: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk ofSignal Office. class four: one clerk of class one; one messenger, and one laborer; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the Quartermaster-General: For chief clerk, twoQuartermaster-General’s Office. thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; twenty-three clerks of class two; thirty-nine clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six skilled typewriters, at one thousand dollars each; female messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; four messengers; nine assistant messengers; two laborers; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant civil engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; experienced builder and mechanic, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
Office of the Commissary-General: For chief clerk, two thousandCommissary-General’s Office. dollars; two clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one 990thousand dollars each; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, forty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Surgeon-General’s Office.Office of the Surgeon-General: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; anatomist, one thousand six hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars: assist-ant engineer, for night duty, nine, hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; twelve, assistant messengers; three watchmen: superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), two hundred and fifty dollars: five laborers: chemist, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; principal assistant librarian, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars: assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars: in all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Paymaster-General’s office.Office of the Paymaster-General: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars: five clerks of class four; five clerks of class three: seven clerks of class two: two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; four laborers: in all, thirty-four thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Office Chief of Ordnance.Office of the Chief of Ordnance: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers: one assistant messenger; one laborer: in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Office Chief of Engineers.Office of the Chief of Engineers; For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger, and two laborers: in all, thirty thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Skilled draftsmen.And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and *Proviso*.—limit expenditures.surveys to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, shall not exceed seventy-two thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the War Department and its bureaus and offices, namely: For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (out-side of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by the Adjutant-General’s Office, the Surgeon-General’s Office, Record and Pension Office, Paymaster-General’s and Ordnance offices, Signal Office and building for signal stores and supplies, the depot quarter-master’s office, and the other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, temporary labor not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other absolutely necessary expenses, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For additional amount for the foregoing objects, twenty thousand dollars. StationeryFor stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. 991 For additional amount for the, foregoing object, ten thousand dollars.Rent. For rent of buildings for use of the War Department as follows: For medical dispensary. Surgeon-General’s Office, one thousand dollars: for Paymaster-General’s and Ordnance offices, one thousand eight hundred dollars: for depot quartermaster’s office, three thousand dollars: for War Department (Lemon Building), six thousand dollars; for Record and Pension Office, three thousand two hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.
For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, asPostage. required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, one thousand dollars. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds. Office of public buildings and grounds: For one assistant engineer,Clerks, etc. one thousand eight hundred dollars; one office clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger; landscape gardener, two thousand dollars; one surveyor and draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
For overseers, draftsmen, foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborersOverseers and watchmen. employed in the public grounds, thirty-five thousand dollars. For one sergeant of park watchmen, nine hundred dollars. For day watchmen as follows: One in Franklin Park: one in Lafayette Park: two in Smithsonian Grounds; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one at Iowa Circle; one at Thomas Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Washington Circle and neighboring reservations: one at Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one at McPherson and Farragut parks: one at Stanton Park and neighboring reservations: two at Henry and Seaton parks; one at Mount Vernon Park and adjacent reservations; one for the greenhouses and nursery; two at grounds south of Executive Mansion; one at Garfield Park: one at Monument Park; twenty in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For night watchmen as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton parks; one in grounds south of Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park: and two in Gar-field Park; nine in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield,Wakefield. Va. Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, three hundred dollars. For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professionalContingent expenses. and scientific books and periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, six hundred dollars. state, war, and navy department building.State, War, and Navy Department building.
Office of the superintendent: For one clerk of class one; stenographerClerk, engineers, etc. and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars: eight assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; fifty-eight watchmen: carpenter, one thousand dollars; plumber, machinist, and painter, at nine hundred dollars each; four skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-nine firemen; ten conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eighteen laborers; and eighty-one charwomen: one gardener, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-two thousand six hundred and forty dollars. 992 Fuel, etc.For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories, forty-two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Pay of Secretary, Assistant, etc.Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; clerk to Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: four clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; telegraph operator, one thou sand dollars; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, forty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.
Library.Library of the Navy Department: For one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion.Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion: For two clerks of class four; one agent, to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy from the officers of the late Confederate Navy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists: two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand and ninety dollars.
Continuing publication.For continuing the publication of an edition of eleven thousand copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, in accordance with the plan approved by Vol. 28, p. 190.the Secretary of the Navy under the Act of Congress approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for the purpose of making such maps and illustrations as relate to the work, twenty-one thousand dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Office, Navy.Judge-Advocate-General, United States Navy:
For a solicitor, to be an assistant to the Judge-Advocate of the Navy, and to perform the duties of that officer in case of his death, resignation, absence, or sickness, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; and one laborer; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four: three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; twenty copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistant messengers; and three laborers: in all, forty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Office Naval Intelligence.Office of Naval Intelligence:
For one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one translator, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and one laborer; in all, nine thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Bureau of Equipment.Bureau of Equipment: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one draftsman who shall be an expert in marine construction, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one electrical expert and drafts-man, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one copyist; one assistant messenger; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and one laborer; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and forty dollars. 993 Hydrographic Office:
For two clerks ofHydrographic Office. class two; one clerk of class one: one assistant messenger; one watchman; in all, five thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For hydrographic engineer, draftsmen, engravers, assistants, nauticalServices. experts, computers, lithographers, custodian of archives, compiler, copyists, copperplate printers, apprentices, helpers, chart mounter, feed pressman, and laborers in the Hydrographic Office, ninety-five thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars; and no other fund appropriated shall be used in payment for such or similar services in the Hydrographic Office, at Washington, District of Columbia.
For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packingMaterials. boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates; cleaning copper-plates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper: care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, seven thousand dollars.
For rent of building and rooms, repairs and heating of the same, andRent. for gas, water, and telephone rates, two thousand one hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia,Contingent expenses. Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Port Town-send, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, and for the establishment of a branch office, thirty thousand dollars.
For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showingMonthly Pilot Chart, Pacific Ocean. graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue: the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation, and the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail, including the expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for, and printing and mailing the chart, two thousand dollars.
No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal servicesLimit on expenditures. or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office, at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory: For pay of three assistant astronomers, oneNaval Observatory. at two thousand dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class one; instrument maker, one thousand five hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five computers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; carpenter, and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; assistant on equatorial, one thousand dollars; assistant in spec-994troscopic work, one thousand dollars; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars: and nine laborers; in all, thirty-eight thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
For miscellaneous computations, four thousand dollars. For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, two thousand five, hundred dollars.
For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation: paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Nautical Almanac Office.Nautical Almanac Office: For the following assistants, in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely:
Three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, seven thousand dollars.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one: one assistant messenger; two laborers; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars: in all, twelve thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Bureau of Construction and Repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair:
For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, ten thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Bureau of OrdnanceBureau of Ordnance: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class two: two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two stenographers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; eleven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger: one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; and one laborer: in all, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
For chief clerk, two thousand dollars: one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one laborer; janitor, six hundred dollars; and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars (for Naval Dispensary); in all, ten thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. 995 Bureau of Yards and Docks: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars:Bureau of Yards and Docks. draftsman and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars: one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two: one clerk of class one: one assistant messenger; and one laborer: in all, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Navy Department, namely: Contingent expenses.For professional books and periodicals for Department library, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons, to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, twelve thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department.
Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofPay of Secretary, Assistants. clerks, etc. the Interior, eight thousand dollars: First Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars: Assistant Secretary, four thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as superintendent of the Patent Office building and other buildings of the Department of the Interior; nine members ofBoard of Pension Appeals. a Board of Pension Appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at two thousand dollars each; three additional members of said Board of Pension Appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and to be selected from the force of the Pension Office, at two thousand dollars each; special land inspector, connected with theLand inspector. administration of the public-land service, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and to be subject to his direction, two thousand five hundred dollars; four special inspectors, Department of the Interior, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to be subject to his direction, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk in charge of documents, two thousand dollars; custodian, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand dollars; seven clerks, chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each, one of whom shall be disbursing clerk; four clerks, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; four-teen clerks of class three; eighteen clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one, two of whom shall be stenographers or typewriters; returns office clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, one thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; eight copyists; two copyists or typewriters, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone operator, nine hundred dollars; three messengers; six assistant messengers; fifteenMessengers. laborers; two skilled mechanics, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; two skilled mechanics, plumber and electrician, at nine hundred dollars each; one laborer, six hundred dollars; six laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one. packer, six hundred and sixty dollars; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four charwomen; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; fortyWatchmen. watchmen: additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; and seven firemen; in all, two hundred and seventy-three thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For additional employees, for the proper protection, heating, care,Additional employees. General Post-Office building. and preservation of the General Post-Office building, occupied by the 996Department of the Interior, namely: One engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty watchmen: conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fourteen laborers; ten laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; three skilled mechanics, painter, carpenter, and plumber, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Eleventh Census.Clerk.For a clerk of class four, to act as census clerk, and for rent, salaries, heat, and light incident to the proper care and preservation of the records of the Eleventh and previous censuses, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Assistant Attorney-General’s Office.Office of Assistant Attorney-General: For assistant attorney, three thousand dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; ten assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class three, one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter; one clerk of class one; in all, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Per diem inspectors.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of one special land inspector connected with the administration of the public land service, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of two special inspectors, Department of the Interior, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day. and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars.
General Land Office.General Land Office: For the Commissioner of the General Land Office, five thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be authorized to sign such letters, papers, and documents and to perform such other duties as may be directed by the Commissioner, and shall act as Commissioner in the absence of that officer or in case of a vacancy in the office of Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices, at two thousand dollars each; recorder, two thousand dollars; eleven chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two law examiners, at two thousand dollars each; ten principal examiners of land claims and contests, at two thousand dollars each; thirty clerks of class four; fifty-six clerks of class three; fifty-nine clerks of class two; sixty-one clerks of class one; fifty-three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-nine copyists; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; one packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys and also as confidential secretary, two thousand dollars; librarian for the law library of the General Land Office, to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to his special fitness for such work, one thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and two thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.
Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct; also of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices, while traveling on 997duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seven thousand dollars.
For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, twoLaw books. hundred dollars. For connected and separate United States and other maps preparedMaps. in the General Land Office, fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars: *Provided*, That of the United States maps procured hereunder*Proviso*.—distribution. seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
Mine inspectors: For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorizedMine Inspectors. by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,Vol. 26, p. 1104. for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars. For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Indian Office: For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, four thousandIndian Office. dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; financial clerk, two thousand dollars: chief of division, two thousand dollars; principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; architect, one thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; eleven clerks of class two; twenty-six clerks of class one; fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one stenographer, and one clerk to superintendent of Indian schools, at one thousand dollars each; seventeen copyists; one messenger; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; four charwomen; in all, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Pension Office: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousandPension Office. dollars; First Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two qualified surgeons, who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight medical examiners, who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand dollars; fifty-eight principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; twenty assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; seventy clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred and thirty clerks of class two; four hundred clerks of class one; two hundred and fifty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one hundred and sixty copyists; superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three firemen; thirty-three messengers: twelve assistant messengers; 998twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; thirty-five laborers; ten female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; fifteen charwomen; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeants of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; in all, one million nine hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
Per diem, etc., Investigations.For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty out-side the District of Columbia, for special examiners, or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance and any other necessary expenses, including telegrams, four hundred thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Chief and assistant special examiners.*Provided*, That two special examiners or clerks detailed and acting as chief and assistant chief of the division of special examiners may be allowed, from this appropriation, in addition to their salaries and in lieu of per diem and all expenses for subsistence, a sum sufficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively, and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on official business outside the District of Columbia by special direction of the Commissioner, he, shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in field service; and the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Additional special examiners.For an additional force of one hundred and fifty special examiners for one year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. Patent Office.Patent Office: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand dollars;
Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars: thirty-six principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; thirty-eight first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-two second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; fifty-one third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; sixty fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; five clerks of class four, one of whom shall act as application clerk; machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; six clerks of class three, one of whom shall be translator of languages; fourteen clerks of class two; fifty-seven clerks of class one; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-seven permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger and property clerk, one thousand dollars; five model attendants, at one thousand dollars 999each; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and six copyists, seven of whom may be copyists of drawings; thirty-one copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messengers; twenty-six assistant messengers; fifty-one laborers, at six hundred dollars each; fifty laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; thirty-nine messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars.
For purchase of professional and scientific books and expenses ofBooks. transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, two thousand dollars. For equipment of new scientific library rooms with steel stacks and other fireproof and labor-saving furniture and apparatus, five thousand dollars. For purchase of law books, five hundred dollars. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly,Official Gazette. and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, one hundred thousand dollars.
For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents;Copies of drawings. for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding para-graph to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the publicVol. 28, p. 620. printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided*, That the entire work may be done at the Government*Proviso*.Work at Government Printing Office.
Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, sixty-four thousand dollars. For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating use of inventions. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting theInternational Bureau, Berne. International Bureau at Berne. Switzerland, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Bureau of Education: For Commissioner of Education, threeBureau of Education. thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; translator, one thousand six hundred dollars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; specialist in foreign educational systems, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in education as a preventive of pauperism and crime, two thousand dollars; specialist in educational systems, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, four hundred dollars; and one laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For one clerk of class four, to obtain, receive, collate, and, underAgricultural college statistics. the direction of the Commissioner of Education, to furnish the Secretary of the Interior with the information in relation to the operations and work of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts that will enable the Secretary to discharge the duties imposed on the Secretary of the Interior by the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteenVol. 12, p. 47. hundred and ninety, to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the 1000benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, established under the provisionsVol. 12, p. 503. of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Books, etc.For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, two hundred and fifty dollars. Statistics.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, two thousand five hundred dollars. Distribution, etc., documents.For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, and for the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, text-books and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for procuring anthropological instruments of precision, and for repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Commissioner of Railroads.Office of Commissioner of Railroads: For Commissioner, four thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, nine thousand two hundred and twenty *Proviso*.Office terminated.dollars: *Provided*, That the office of Commissioner of Railroads is hereby continued until the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and two, when the same shall terminate, and the duties of the Commissioner shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, together with the records and files of the office.
Architect’s Office, Capitol.Office of the Architect of the Capitol: For Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, and said officer hereafter in case of the absence or disability of the Architect shall have full power and authority to do and perform all the acts which the Architect might himself do. and in case of a vacancy shall perform the duties of the Architect until the vacancy shall be filled according to law; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; compensation to disbursing clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars; three laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, and Dome, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, express-age, wagons and harness, food and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases, cases for drawings, file holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, ninety thousand dollars.
For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission, sixty thousand dollars. For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Rent.For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely: For the Bureau of Education, four thousand dollars;
Geological Survey, ten thousand dollars; additional rooms for the engraving and printing divisions of the Geological Survey, one thousand two hundred 1001dollars; storage of documents, two thousand dollars; Civil Service Commission, four thousand dollars; Patent Office model exhibit, thirteen thousand dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand two hundred dollars. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and itsPostage. bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, three thousand six hundred dollars. surveyors-general and their clerks.Surveyors-general and their clerks.
For surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the district ofAlaska. Alaska, four thousand dollars; clerks in his office, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars. For rent of office for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, binding of records, furniture, drafting instruments, books of reference for office use, fuel, lights, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, two thousandArizona. dollars; and for the clerks in his office, five thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, light, stationery, printing, binding of records, drafting supplies, record cases, furniture, books of reference for office use, water, typewriter, and repairs of same, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of California, two thousand dollars; and forCalifornia. the clerks in his office, twelve thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand dollars. For pay of messenger, stationery, binding records, washing, telephone, repairing maps, repairs to locks, clocks, and typewriter, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of the State of Colorado, two thousandColorado. dollars; and for the clerks of his office, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, binding and repairing records, furniture and repairs, muslin for mounting plats, drafting instruments, record books, ice, typewriters, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of Florida, one thousand eight hundred dollars;Florida. and for the clerks in his office, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For pay of messenger, stationery supplies, post-office box rent, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Idaho, two thousand dollars; and for theIdaho. clerks in his office, eight thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, binding, printing, fuel, light, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, new furniture, typewriters, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundredLouisiana. dollars; and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars: in all, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For messenger, stationery, binding records, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.
For surveyor-general of Minnesota, one thousand eight hundredMinnesota. dollars; and for the clerks in his office, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. 1002 For pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Montana.For surveyor-general of Montana, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, eleven thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, lights, post-office box, ice, stationery, binding, furniture, books of reference or office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Nevada.For surveyor-general of Nevada, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel, lights, stationery, post-office box rent, draftsmen’s requisites, binding records, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars.
New Mexico.For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, two thousand dollars: and for clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of messenger, printing, stationery, drafting instruments, drawing paper, binding records, telephone, registration of letters, post-office box rent, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. North Dakota.For surveyor-general of North Dakota, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, five, thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery. printing, binding, lights, ice, post-office box rent, repairs, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Oregon.For surveyor-general of Oregon, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of messenger, stationery, furniture, record books, towels, binding, post-office box rent, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.
South Dakota.For surveyor-general of South Dakota, two thousand dollars; and for clerks in his office, five thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, typewriters, drafting instruments, fuel, binding records, furniture, post-office box rent, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Utah.For surveyor-general of Utah, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, nine thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery supply, binding records, drawing paper, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars. Washington.For surveyor-general of Washington, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, nine thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, furniture, stationery, binding records, record books, blanks, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
Wyoming.For surveyor-general of Wyoming, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, and supplies, lights, ice, post-office box rent, drafting instru-1003ments, mounting maps, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. *Provided*, That the stationery and drafting instruments hereafter*Proviso*.Fund available to pay for office stationery, etc. purchased for exclusive use in the offices of the surveyors-general in the preparation of plats and field notes of mineral surveys, as also the rent of additional quarters that may be necessary for the execution of such work, shall be paid for out of the fund created by deposits made by individuals to the credit of the United States to cover the cost of office work on such mineral surveys.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Office Postmaster-General: For compensation of the Postmaster-General,Pay of Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. eight thousand dollars; chief clerk. Post-Office Department, two thousand five hundred dollars: private secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; appointment clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; curator of museum, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one telephone operator, nine hundred dollars: one messenger; one assistant messenger; page, three hundred and sixty dollars: in all, thirty-three thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.
Office of Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Department:Assistant Attorney-General’s office. Assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two: two clerks of class one: one clerk, one thousand dollars: assistant messenger: in all, eleven thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. Office First Assistant Postmaster-General; For First AssistantFirst Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.Money-Order System.
Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars: Superintendent of the Money-Order System, three thousand dollars: chief clerk Money-Order System, two thou sand dollars; general superintendent tree-delivery system, three thousandFree delivery five hundred dollars; superintendent city delivery service, three thousand dollars: three assistant superintendents city delivery service, at two thousand dollars each; Superintendent of the Dead-Letter Office,Dead-Letter Office. two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four, who shall be chief clerk of the Dead-Letter Office: general superintendent of salaries and allowances, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of salaries and allowances, two thousand dollars: superintendent of post-office supplies, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant superintendent of post-office supplies, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief of the correspondence division, two thousand dollars; ten clerks of class four; twenty-one clerks of class three; twenty-two clerks of class two: forty-three clerks of class one; forty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; eight assistant messengers; twenty-seven laborers; two pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; and five female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, two hundred and eighty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For continuing the employment of such additional temporary forceTemporary force. of clerks and other employees rendered necessary because of increase of work incident to the war with Spain, as in the judgment of the Postmaster-General may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of the business in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, twenty thousand dollars. Office Second Assistant Postmaster-General: For Second AssistantSecond Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.
Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; superintendent of railway adjustments, two 1004thousand five hundred dollars; Superintendent of Foreign Mails, three thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand dollars: chief of division of inspection, two thousand dollars; chief of contract division, two thousand dollars; chief of mail equipment division, two thousand dollars; nine clerks of class four; thirty-six clerks of class three; twenty-one clerks of class two; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; twenty-one clerks of class one: seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; four assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand one hundred dollars.
Third Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.Office Third Assistant Postmaster-General: For Third Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; superintendent postage-stamp supplies and postmasters’ accounts, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of system of postal finance, who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster-General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: chief of classification division, two thousand dollars; chief of files and records division, two thousand dollars: chief of redemption division, two thousand dollars; superintendent of registry system, two thousand five hundred dollars; six assistant superintendents of registry system, at two thousand dollars each; six clerks of class four; eighteen clerks of class three: twenty-two clerks of class two: twenty-seven clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; nine laborers: in all, one hundred and sixty-one thousand and fifty dollars.
Per diem, assistant superintendents registry system.For per diem allowance for assistant superintendents of registry system, when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not exceeding four dollars per day, and for other actual and necessary traveling expenses arising in connection with business of the registry system, ten thousand dollars. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.Chief inspector.Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General:
For Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; chief post-office inspector, three thousand dollars: chief clerk of mail depredations, two thousand dollars; chief of appointment division, two thousand dollars; chief of bond division, two thousand dollars: two clerks of class four: eighteen clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; twelve clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; page, three hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant messengers, and four laborers; in all, one hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
Topographer, etc.Office of topographer: For topographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four skilled draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; examiner, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; map mounter, one thousand two hundred dollars: assistant map mounter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant map mounter, who shall be a mechanic, one thousand dollars; four copyists of maps, at nine hundred dollars each; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty-one thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Disbursing clerk, etc.Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk and superintendent of buildings, two thousand one hundred dollars; bookkeeper and accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; seven assistant engineers, 1005at one thousand dollars each; one electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars: two assistant electricians, one at one thousand two hundred dollars and one at one thousand dollars; three dynamo tenders, at nine hundred dollars each; one fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and one fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at nine hundred dollars each; nine elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one assistant messenger; twelve firemen: ten laborers and coal passers, at five hundred dollars each; carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant carpenter, one thousand dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-one watchmen; twenty-four laborers: plumber, and awning maker, at nine hundred dollars each; two female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and twenty-seven charwomen; in all, ninety-three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department,Contingent expenses. including the additional building occupied for storage of post-office supplies, namely: For stationery and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, seven thousand dollars. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, eighteen thousand dollars. For gas and electric lights, one thousand dollars. For plumbing, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For telegraphing, four thousand dollars. For painting, one thousand dollars. For carpets and matting, including one thousand dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, three thousand dollars. For furniture, including one thousand dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For hardware, five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including two thousand dollars for the office of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum not exceeding three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding nine hundred dollars, including one hundred dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department.
For rent of a suitable building for the storage of post-office supplies,Rent. four thousand dollars. For rent of stable, three hundred dollars. For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, includingOfficial Postal Guide. not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies tor the use of the Executive Departments, twenty-five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses in the topographer’s office in the preparation and publication of the post-route maps, twenty thousandPost-route maps. dollars.
And the Postmaster-General may authorize the sale of post-route maps to the public at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps, and of this amount one hundred dollars may be expended for the purchases of atlases, geographical and technical works, needed in the topographer’s office. For postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which isPostage. not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, five hundred and fifty dollars. 1006 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
Pay of Attorney-General, Assistants, Solicitor-General, clerks, etc.Office of the Attorney-General: For compensation of the Attorney-General, eight thousand dollars; Solicitor-General, seven thousand dollars; four Assistant Attorneys-General, at five thousand dollars each; Assistant Attorney-General of the Post-Office Department, four thousand five hundred dollars; solicitor of internal revenue, four thousand five hundred dollars; solicitor for the Department of State, four thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; assistant attorney, in charge of dockets, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the building, two thousand five hundred dollars; private secretary to the Attorney-General, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer to the Solicitor-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; three steno-graphic clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; seven clerks of class four; chief of division of accounts, two thousand five hundred dollars; attorney in charge of pardons, two thousand four hundred dollars; additional for disbursing clerk, five hundred dollars; seven clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; sixteen clerks of class one; telegraph operator and stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; nine copyists, one messenger, eight assistant messengers, four laborers, three watchmen; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two conductors of the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight charwomen: superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and three firemen; in all, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand and twenty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Department of Justice, namely: For furniture and repairs, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For books for law library of the Department, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of Department, five hundred dollars. For stationery, two thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, Labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, three thousand dollars. Solicitor of the Treasury.Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury: For Solicitor of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant solicitor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars: four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-nine thousand and eighty dollars.
Law books.For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, three hundred dollars. Stationery.For stationery for office of Solicitor of the Treasury, one hundred and fifty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Commissioner, clerks, etc.For compensation of the Commissioner of Labor, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand dollars; four statistical experts, at two thousand dollars 1007each; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three watchmen; four laborers; three charwomen; six special agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; ten special agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four special agents, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of special agents and employeesPer diem, etc., special agents. while traveling on duty away from home and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports and materials for the bulletin of the Department of Labor authorized by legislative act approved MarchVol. 28, p. 806. second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery, one thousand dollars.Stationery. For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library, in addition to the amount authorized by section one hundred and ninety-two,Books. Revised Statutes, the sum of one hundred dollars may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, one thousand dollars. For postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to PostalPostage stamps. Union countries, four hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of rooms, including steam heat and elevator service, sixRent. thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses, namely : For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber,Contingent expenses. hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, expressage, storage for documents not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars, repairs of cases and furniture, fuel and lights, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, and other absolutely necessary expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars. Charles E. Morse, disbursing clerk of the Department of Labor, isPayment to Mrs.
Emma M. Benerman. hereby authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Emma M. Benerman, widow of Spencer N. Benerman, the sum of one hundred and six dollars and fifty cents, salary due said Spencer N. Benerman as special agent of the Department of Labor at the time of his death, September twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court: For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ofSupreme Court.Justices. the United States, ten thousand five hundred dollars; and for eight associate justices, at ten thousand dollars each;
For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, threeMarshal. thousand dollars; For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associateClerks to justices. justice of the Supreme Court, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Circuit courts: For twenty-five circuit judges, at six thousandCircuit court judges. dollars each, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at three thousand dollarsCircuit courts of appeals. each, twenty-seven thousand dollars;
For messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals,Crier, etc., eighth circuit. eighth circuit, two thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars. District courts: For salaries of the sixty-seven district judges ofDistrict court judges. the United States, at five thousand dollars each, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. 1008 Indian Territory courts.United States courts, Indian Territory: For salaries of the four judges of the United States courts in the Indian Territory, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.
Hawaiian Territory court.District court, Territory of Hawaii: For the payment of the salaries of the clerk and the reporter of the United States district court for the Territory of Hawaii, at three thousand dollars and one thousand two hundred dollars, respectively, four thousand two hundred dollars. Retired judges.[R. S., sec. 714, p. 135](/us/rs/s714/p135).Retired judges: To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby appropriated.
Court of Private Land Claims.Court of Private Land Claims: For chief justice and four associate justices, at five thousand dollars each; For clerk, two thousand dollars; For stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; For attorney, three thousand five hundred dollars; For interpreter and translator, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For deputy clerks, as authorized by law, so much therefor as may be necessary. Assistant attorneys, etc.To enable the Attorney-General to employ such assistant attorneys, agents, stenographers, and experts to aid the United States attorney for said court as may be necessary to conduct the business of the Court of Private Land Claims during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars.
Court of appeals, District of Columbia.Court of appeals, District of Columbia: For the chief justice of court of appeals of the District of Columbia, six thousand five hundred dollars; and for two associate justices, at six thousand dollars each; For clerk, three thousand dollars; For assistant or deputy clerk, two thousand dollars; *Proviso*.Reports.For reporter, one thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than five dollars per volume;
For messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Supreme court, District of Columbia.Supreme court, District of Columbia: For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and of the five associate judges, at five thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Clerk, northern district of Illinois.Clerk of district court, northern district of Illinois: For salary of the clerk of the district court for the northern district of Illinois, as authorized by the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars. Commissioner Yellowstone Park.Vol. 29, p. 181.Provision as to commissioner’s fees not to impair salary.Commissioner Yellowstone Park: For salary of commissioner, in Yellowstone National Park, one thousand five hundred dollars.
And the provisions of section twenty-one of an Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided. For contingent fund for commissioner’s office, including fuel, furniture, and necessary miscellaneous expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars. 1009 Court of Claims:
For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims,Court of Claims. at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, throe thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars: bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger; one stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three firemen; three watch-men; one elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and two charwomen; in all, forty-five thousand and forty dollars.
To defray the cost of the employment of auditors in the Court ofAuditors. Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, eight thousand dollars. For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electricContingent expenses. elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, three thousand four hundred dollars. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending theReporting decisions. printing of the thirty-sixth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen[R.
S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen,Rates of pay, assistant messengers, firemen, etc. laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each.
Sec. 3. That the term of temporary service of such additional clerksTerms of service, temporary employees. and other employees rendered necessary because of increased work incident to the war with Spain, and under the Act of June thirteenth,Vol. 30, pp. 696, 890, etc. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, providing for war expenditures and for other purposes, appointed in the various departments of the Government, shall be extended for the term of one year from June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, 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, provided they are otherwise competent.
Sec. 4. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks,Appropriations not available for incapacitated employees. and persons employed in the, public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons permanently incapacitated for per-forming such service. Sec. 5. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the severalDepartmental estimates to be furnished for Book of Estimates before October 15 annually, etc. Executive Departments, and of other officers authorized or required to make estimates, to furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, their annual estimates for the public service, to be included in the Book of Estimates prepared by law under his direction, and in case of failure to furnish estimates as herein required it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be prepared in the Treasury Department, on or before the first day of November of each year, estimates for such appropriations as in his judgment shall be requisite in every such case, which estimates shall be included in the Book of Estimates prepared by law under his direction for the consideration of Congress.
Sec. 6. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act areRepeal repealed. Approved, March 3, 1901.
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