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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · March 3, 1901 · Chapter 831

Chapter 831. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 831.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for prior years, 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,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE. Executive Office. 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, two thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Executive Office,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-two cents.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of 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, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty-one dollars and twenty-one cents.
For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase of passport paper, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, forty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents. Payments to owners of Russian bark Hans. To reimburse the master and owners of the Russian bark Hans for all losses and damages incurred by reason of the wrongful and illegal arrest and detention of Gustav Isak Dahlberg, the master and principal owner of said bark, by officers of the United States district court for the southern district of Mississippi in eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five thousand dollars. —to heirs of Florentino Suaste.
To pay, out of humane consideration, without reference to the question of liability therefor, to the Mexican Government, as full indemnity to the heirs of Florentino Suaste, a Mexican citizen who was lynched in Lasalle County, Texas, in eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand dollars. —Tallulah lynching. To pay, out of humane consideration, without reference to the question of liability therefor, to the Italian Government as full indemnity to the heirs of Joseph Defatta and John Cyrano, Italian citizens who were lynched at Tallulah, Louisiana, on July twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four thousand dollars.
Treaty with Spain of November 7, 1900. Appropriation. For the purpose of carrying out the obligation of the treaty between the United States and Spain concluded at Washington on the seventh day of November, anno Domini nineteen hundred, to become immediately available upon the exchange of the ratifications of the said treaty, one hundred thousand dollars. Spanish-American Claims Commission. To enable the Secretary of State to pay and distribute all increment and accretions upon the sums reserved by the Department of State from the fund received by the Government of the United States upon 1011the account of the payment of the awards of the late Spanish and American Claims Commission, and to pay and distribute the same pro Pro rata distribution to claimants of accretions upon fund, etc., authorized.rata to the claimants, their heirs or assigns, to whom said awards were made as shown by the report of the Secretary of State, transmitted to the President in his message dated February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and printed as Senate Executive Document Numbered Ninety-three, first session Fiftieth Congress, fourteen thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents.
For payment to Ella Lowery Moseley, widow of Robert E. Moseley, Ella Lowery Moseley. Payment to.who died while consul-general at Singapore, a sum equal to three months’ salary as such consul-general, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Isthmian Canal Commission: To defray the expenses necessarily Isthmian Canal Commission. Appropriation for expenses. Vol. 30, p. 1150.incurred in making the investigation authorized by sections three and four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Foreign Intercourse. Foreign Intercourse. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such Contingent expenses, embassies.stationery, blanks, records, and other hooks, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London.
New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and tor printing in the Department of State; and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, seventy-five thousand dollars. For expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and Contingent expenses, consulates.other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, thirty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars and eighty-seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses. United States consulates,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy cents.
To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in Emergencies, etc.the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation tor “Loss by exchange, diplomatic Loss by exchange, etc.service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Reports, publication.on account of the appropriation for “Publication of diplomatic, consular, and commercial reports,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight thousand dollars. Prorata distribution to claimants of accretions upon fund, etc., authorized. 1012 TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Repairs, Treasury building. For special repairs to the Treasury building, namely: For new plumbing, toilet rooms, and expenses incident thereto, five thousand dollars.
Auditor for Post-Office Department. Office of the Auditor foe the Post-Office Department: For fifteen temporary clerks during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, three thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, five thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, live hundred dollars.
To pay the account of the Smithsonian Institution for the transmission of mail matter for the Treasury Department for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and forty-four dollars and five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses. Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, etc.,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents.
For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety cents. For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, three hundred dollars. Rent. For rent of building near corner of Fourteenth and B streets north-west, Washington, District of Columbia, for tiles, for the four months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, six hundred dollars.
For rent of number thirteen hundred and twenty-three G street northwest, Washington. District of Columbia, for Light-House Board, for the four months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. File holders, shelving, etc. For purchase of file holders and file cases, two thousand five hundred dollars. For shelving for rented building near corner of Fourteenth and B streets northwest, Washington. District of Columbia, three thousand dollars.
For transferring files and record's to rented building near corner of Fourteenth and B streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Boxes, etc. 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, two thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, 1013sponges, 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, two thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Numbering machines.on account of the appropriation “numbering, adding, and other machines. Treasury Department,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury:
For contingent Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursements of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, sixty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, sixteen thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-three cents.
Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, Transporting silver coin.including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twenty-five thousand dollars, and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall *Proviso*. —condition.have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents. Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses Collecting customs revenue.of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful Chinese exclusion.entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved Vol. 27, p. 25.May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” fifty thousand dollars.
Inspectors of pelagic seal skins: To pay L. J. Hansen, pelagic Inspectors, pelagic seal skins. Payment to.seal-skin inspector, for two days’ services, September ninth and eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, in examining seal skins captured by the schooner Julia E. Whalen, being a deficiency for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant Public buildings. Assistant custodians and janitors.custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, thirty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. 1014 Fuel, lights, etc.
Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice. lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, sixty-four thousand Gas governors.dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when Ordered by the Secretary of the *Proviso*. —limit payments.Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount here in appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.
Pneumatic tubes. For supplying necessary power and repairs to power plants, for operating pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter, court-house and post-office buildings. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. New York City, and Brooklyn, New York, and the post-office and subtreasury building, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. E. R. Stackable. Payment to. Payment to E. R. Stackable: That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to E.
R. Stackable, collector of customs. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of loss sustained by him in accepting certain light-weight United States gold coins in payment of duties on imports before he was furnished with the necessary facilities for testing the weight of such coins, fifty-six dollars and thirty-six cents. Refunds. Schooner Esther Buhne. Refund of fine, schooner Esther Buhne: To refund to R. Salveson, master of the schooner Esther Buhne, the amount of a tine imposed by the collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii, for violation of section forty-three hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes, and section ninety-eight, Act of April thirty, nineteen hundred, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, one hundred dollars.
Schooner J. M. Weatherwax. Refund of fine, schooner J. M. Weatherwax: To refund to L. Sorenson, master of the American schooner J. M. Weatherwax, the amount of a tine imposed by the collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii, for violation of section forty-three hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes, and section ninety-eight, Act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, one hundred dollars.
Major T. E. True. Credit in accounts of. Credit in account of Major T. E. True: That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to credit and allow to Major T. E. True, quartermaster, United States Army, depot quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, the voucher for one thousand three hundred dollars, for payment made by him to Sheldon Jackson, under the approval of the War Department of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, said payment being in the nature of extra compensation to Sheldon Jackson for services rendered by him in connection with the relief of people in the mining regions of Alaska, and to charge the same to the credit of the appropriation made for that purpose by the Act approved December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
J. Wilburn Swink. Payment to. Payment to J. Wilburn Swink: That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to J. Wilburn 1015Swink four hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents, appropriated in Act of April eighteenth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act for the relief of Hiram Johnson and others,” instead of to William Swink, as therein provided. Transportation of destitute miners: To pay the account of the Transporting destitute miners.Pacific Steamship Company, of San Francisco, California, certified in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight, of this session, for transportation of certain destitute miners from Wrangel, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Credit in accounts of certain officers Corps of Engineers: Credit in accounts of certain engineer officers.Authority is hereby granted to the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of certain officers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, amounts standing against them on the hooks of the Treasury as follows: Captain W. E. Craighill, twenty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents; Major E. H. Ruffner, eighty-three dollars: Major W. L. Fisk, one hundred and sixteen dollars and fifteen cents; in all, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Payment to William Cole: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury William Cole. Payment to.to pay the claim of William Cole, private, Company K, Fifteenth United States Colored Troops, certified to be due under the appropriation “ounty to volunteers, their widows, and legal heirs,” by settlement numbered forty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-nine of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, but erroneously paid to another person, three hundred dollars. Reimbursement of Cuban Revenues:
To enable the Secretary of Reimbursement of Cuban revenues.the Treasury to reimburse the revenues of the island of Cuba for the amount expended in said island in furnishing information to the Secretary of War, as directed by him, relating to receipts and expenditures in said island, heretofore paid from said revenues, the sum of fifteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-one cents, quarantine service. Quarantine service For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers Maintenance.and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear.
Savannah, South Atlantic, Brunswick, Gulf, Tortugas, San Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River. Port Townsend, and Porto Rico, eighteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Quarantine Service,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Quarantine Service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents.
Repairs to vessels in use in the Quarantine Service, twenty-two thousand dollars. Repairs to vessels. public buildings. Public buildings. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury St. Albans, Vt.on account of the appropriation “Custom-house and post-office, Saint Albans, Vermont,” one hundred and ninety-four dollars and ten cents. To pay amounts found duo by the accounting officers of the Treasury Philadelphia, Pa.on account of the appropriation “Post-office and court-house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” fifteen dollars and fifty-three cents. 1016 Indianapolis, Ind.
For the rental of additional temporary quarters at Indianapolis, Indiana, for the accommodation of certain Government officials, one thousand dollars. Repairs. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, thirty-five thousand dollars. Heating apparatus.
Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, Fort Stanton, N. Mex.including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and the marine hospital sanitarium, Fort Stanton. New Mexico, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, sixteen thousand live hundred dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. Expenses.
For the following sums required to meet increased expenses on account of Revenue-Cutter Service, as follows; For fuel, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; for repairs, five thousand dollars; for pay of crews, two thousand five hundred dollars: in all, forty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. light-house establishment.
Light-House Establishment. Credit in accounts of Commander Thomas Nelson, U.S. N. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the account of Commander Thomas Nelson, United States Navy, late inspector of the Second light-house district, for the quarter ended December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the amount of eighteen dollars and thirty cents paid by him from the appropriation “Expenses of light-vessels, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,” for the transportation of a recovered body of a drowned seaman of the Hen and Chickens light-vessel, which payment was specifically authorized by the Light-House Board, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury.
Expenses, light-vessels. That the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Expenses of light-vessels” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the payment for the relief and repairs to Columbia River light-vessel numbered fifty. Mahon River, Del., station. For completion of the establishment of the Mahon River, Delaware, light station on a new site, four thousand dollars. Sturgeon Bay Canal station, Wis.
For balance due the contractors for the construction of a keeper’s dwelling at Sturgeon Bay Canal. Wisconsin, light station, six hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-two cents. collecting internal revenue. Internal revenue. Salaries, collectors, deputies, etc. For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and Vol. 24, pp. 209, 218. Vol. 29, p.253.also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on filled cheese, fifty thousand dollars. 1017 For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, Agents, gangers, etc.salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepergaugers, and miscellaneous expenses on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty-five thousand dollars. engraving and printing. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries Salaries.of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, fifty-one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-four cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall *Proviso*.
Notes of larger denomination *Ante*, p. 45.be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, forty-four thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and nine cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Notes of larger denomination.That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials.distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents. life-saving service. Life-Saving Service. Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, Keeper, etc., Buffalo Exposition.from the regular annual appropriation for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, the services of a keeper and surfmen detailed for duty at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, during the months of May and June, nineteen hundred and one, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. mints and assay offices.
Mints and assay office. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mint at San Francisco, California: For incidental and contingent San Francisco, Cal.expenses, including new machinery, melter and refiner's wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps, arising from the manufacture of ingots for coin-age, and wastage of, and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, ten thousand dollars. To procure new boilers and pumps and to make other necessary repairs to the machinery and appliances at the United States mint at San Francisco, California, twelve thousand dollars.
Assay office at Seattle, Washington: For wages, rent, and Seattle, Wash.contingent expenses, five thousand five hundred dollars. 1018 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, assay office at Boise,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, five dollars and twenty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, assay office at Charlotte,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifty-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, assay office at New York,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, assay office at Seattle,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty dollars and nine cents. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. For unusual and unexpected repairs to steamer Gedney, including a new boiler, twenty-five thousand dollars. government in the territories. Government in Territories. Hawaii. For the payment of the salaries of the chief justice and two associate justices of the supreme court of the Territory of Hawaii, from dune fifteen to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, six hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-two cents. Alaska. For the payment of the salaries of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska, fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
For payment of the salary of the Governor of Alaska for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, being the, difference in salary under the act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, from date of reappointment, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, inclusive, ninety-two dollars and forty-two cents. For legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma: To pay the accounts set forth on page four, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-six, of this session, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and thirty dollars and seventy cents.
Oklahoma. To pay actual and necessary traveling expenses of C. M. Barnes, governor of Oklahoma Territory, in coming to Washington, District of Columbia, from Guthrie, Oklahoma, and return, in January, nineteen hundred, under telegraphic instructions from the Secretary of the Interior of January fourth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars. FISH COMMISSION. Fish Commission. Neosho station. Neosho (Missouri) station: For the purchase of additional land and water rights and construction of additional ponds, and for rebuilding of hatchery, and other improvements, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Woods Hole. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) station: For the completion of improvements, two thousand dollars. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. North American Ethnology. For payment of outstanding accounts for transportation incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven under the appropriation “North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution,” forty-seven dollars and sixty-one cents. 1019 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. Coroner’s office:
To pay the deputy coroner for services during Coroner’s office.the absence of the coroner, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and fifteen dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty dollars. Board of charities: For salaries, two hundred and forty dollars. Board of charities. Surveyor’s office. For surveyor’s office: For such employees as may be required in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, three thousand dollars.
For amount required to reimburse the surveyor, District of Columbia, for damages incurred by incorrect survey made in fiscal year nineteen hundred, based on defective record, two hundred and five dollars. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For general advertising, Contingent expenses.authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventeen cents.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four dollars and eighty-three cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, live dollars and twenty-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four dollars and seventy-three cents. To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to purchase the entire collection of maps, field notes, records, and other surveying data, of the late H. W. Brewer, formerly surveyor of Georgetown, fifteen thousand dollars.
That the sum of one hundred and fifty-four dollars, paid Kennedy and Shaefer for plumbing, from the appropriation “Special repairs to market houses,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, is hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the accounts of C. C. Rogers, disbursing officer. District of Columbia. For amount required to pay in full the claim for damages of Edward Lander, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
Streets: For amount required for disposal of city refuse, nine thousand dollars. Streets. For sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning the streets, avenues, and alleys, and suburban streets, six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Sewers: For amount required to pay in full the award of damages Sewers.for right of way for Rock Creek and B street intercepting sewer for fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred and forty-five dollars. Public schools: For fuel, seven thousand dollars.
Public schools. For repairing, renewing, and replacing the heating apparatus in school buildings, thirty thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery, printing, insurance, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including maintenance of horse and carriage for the superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Authority is granted to pay T.
J. Outen ninety-nine dollars and seventy cents for material furnished for rebinding schoolbooks, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. 1020 The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow one hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-one cents in the accounts of the disbursing officers, District of Columbia, for the purchase of bayonets, swords, and other military equipments from the appropriation, “Contingent expenses, public schools,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and one.
Police Metropolitan police: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including modern revolvers, and installation of card system in the police department, stationery, books of reference, and periodicals, telegraphing, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, police equipments and repairs of same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, ambulance, and patrol wagons, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, and other necessary items, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty dollars and seventy-six cents. For fuel, five hundred dollars. Fire department. Fire department: For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas, and other necessary items, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and twelve cents. For forage, two thousand five hundred dollars. The provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, relating to the firemen's relief fund, may, within the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, be extended to and used for the relief of any fireman, or his family, although he may not heretofore, or hereafter, have served twelve months.
That the amounts paid by the disbursing officers of the District of Columbia for bicycles, from the appropriations for “Repairs to apparatus and new appliances, fire department,” are hereby allowed, and the accounting officers of the United States Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of their accounts, as follows: H. H. Darneille, late disbursing officer, one hundred and seventy dollars, fiscal year nineteen hundred; C. C. Rogers, disbursing officer, thirty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, Telegraph, etc. service.
Telegraph and telephone service: For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies, telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, purchase of horse and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of stable and storeroom, and other necessary items, one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirteen cents.
Health department. Health department: For maintaining the disinfecting service, one thousand dollars. For amount required for preventing the spread of contagious diseases, to be available until expended, fifteen thousand dollars. 1021 Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail Support of prisoners.of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. Courts: For witness fees, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Courts.three dollars and seventy-five cents.
Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against Judgmentsthe District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, Four hundred and twenty, and Four hundred and thirty-live, of this session, twenty-one thousand live hundred and three dollars and eighty cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. Defending suits in claims:
For defending suits in the United Defending suits in claims.States Court of Claims, one thousand dollars. Writs of lunacy: For amount required to pay the clerk of the Lunacy writs.supreme court of the District of Columbia fees in lunacy cases, one thousand five hundred dollars. For witness fees for the fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five, thousand dollars. For fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and forty dollars.
Washington Asylum: For contingent expenses for fiscal year nineteen Washington Asylum.hundred, forty-one dollars and eighty-six cents. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For contingent expenses for Freedmen’s Hospital, etc.fiscal year nineteen hundred, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and five cents. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For isolating wards for minor contagious Garfield Hospital.diseases, maintenance, two thousand dollars. Relief of the poor: For municipal lodging house, fiscal year nineteen Relief of poor.hundred, forty dollars and seventy-six cents.
Board of Children’s Guardians: For Board of Children’s Guardians Board of Children’s Guardians.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and authority to pay from this amount one thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary, to the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, at Baltimore, and one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Saint Rose Industrial School. District of Columbia, for the maintenance of wards of the board, is hereby granted four thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
For amount required for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty-five dollars and seventy-six cents. Extension of streets and avenues: For amount required to pay Highway extensionthe jury, in condemnation proceedings, for the widening of Columbia road and Sixteenth street, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. Militia, District of Columbia: For printing and stationery, one Militia.hundred and fifty dollars; for expenses of drills and parades, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four hundred dollars.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for repairs to Aqueduct Bridge. Temporary protection authorized.the Aqueduct Bridge, District of Columbia, the sum of one thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars may be used under the direction of the Secretary of War for the temporary protection of said bridge. 1022 WAR DEPARTMENT.
War Department. office of the secretary. Secretary’s Office. To pay accounts set forth on page two of House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight of this session for contingent expenses of the War Department, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and forty dollars and seventy-three cents. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Military establishment. miscellaneous. For subsistence of two prisoners on United States transport George W. Elder from Nagasaki, Japan, to San Francisco, California, sixty-six dollars.
For payment of the account of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, for transportation from Chicago, Illinois, to Rush Springs, Indian Territory, of one Deering corn binder for use of the Apache prisoners of war at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, sixteen dollars and sixty-three cents. adjutant-general’s department. Adjutant-General’s Department. Reimbursements. To reimburse amount due Major George P. Scriven, Signal Corps, for expenses incurred by him while serving as military attaché at Rome, Italy, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty dollars and one cent.
To reimburse amount due Captain Henry T. Allen, Sixth Cavalry, for expenses incurred by him while serving as military attaché at Berlin, Germany, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-three cents. To reimburse amount due First Lieutenant Charles G. Dwyer, Third Infantry, for expenses incurred by him while serving as military attaché at Mexico, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-two dollars and eighty-six cents. under the chief signal officer.
Signal Service. Expenses. For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. military posts.
Military posts. Des Moines, Iowa. For the construction of buildings at the military post at Des Moines, Iowa, and for grading, for water system, roads, walks, gutters, and reservation fence, two hundred thousand dollars, to be available until expended. Out of the aggregate balances remaining unexpended July first, 1023nineteen hundred, of the appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved May fourth and June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, respectively, and by section two of the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses under the titles “War Department” and “Military establishment,” reappropriated by the Acts approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the last six months of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and February ninth, nineteen hundred, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, for objects hereinafter specified under the title “Military establishment,” the following sums, namely: pay department.
Pay Department. For pay of officers and enlisted men, three million dollars. Pay of officers. For mileage to officers and to contract surgeons, when authorized by Mileage.law, two hundred thousand dollars. For the reimbursement of traveling expenses on account of travel Reimbursement for travel expenses disallowed contract surgeons, etc.from their homes or the places of original acceptance of offer of employment, and for salary, when on leaves of absence, of contract or acting assistant surgeons employed by the Medical Department of the Army since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, where such traveling expenses or salary may have heretofore been disallowed or deducted on the ground that the terms of the written contracts made with the contract surgeons did not entitle them to the allowances in question, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary therefor: *Provided*, That all such claims now pending *Proviso*. —pending claims, basis of settlement.or that may hereafter be presented for payment shall be settled and allowed, where such claims relate to salary, in accordance with the leave privileges governing in the case of commissioned officers of the Army, and where such claims relate to traveling allowances, as in the case of assistant surgeons of the Army on their first appointment, but the amounts so allowed shall in no case exceed the amounts authorized by the War Department in regulations governing the matter: *And provided* That disbursing officers of the Paymaster’s Department —credit to disbursing officers who have paid above accounts.of the Army who have already paid or shall hereafter pay accounts for such traveling expenses or for salary during leaves of absence, as above provided, shall be given credit in the settlement of their accounts at the Treasury for all such payments upon the presentation of proper vouchers: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is Southern Pacific Company and Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Basis of settlement with, authorized for Government transportation.hereby authorized and directed to make settlement of the claims growing out of Government transportation over non-bond-aided lines of the Southern Pacific Company and Central Pacific Railroad Company by crediting against the notes of the Central Pacific Railroad Company held in the Treasury of the United States interest on all of said judgment and allowed claims at four per centum per annum, as set forth in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, dated May twelfth, nineteen hundred. subsistence department.
Subsistence Department. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, Supplies.civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons and nurses, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made); for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army: for authorized issues of candles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts with-1024out pay or allowances and recruits at recruiting stations; for matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals, of issues to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned meats, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for commissary chests complete, and for the renewal of their outfits; for field desks of commissaries; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents per day and the amount of forty cents per day, to be expended by commissaries on request of medical officers for special diet to enlisted patients in hospital who are too sick to be subsisted on the army ration; difference between the cost of the ration at twenty-five cents and the cost of rations differing in whole or in part from the ordinary ration to be issued to enlisted men in camp during periods of recovery from low conditions of health consequent, upon service in unhealthy regions or in debilitating climates, to be expended only under special authority of the Secretary of War; five million three hundred thousand dollars. quartermaster’s department.
Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies. Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of hitch heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster's Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank 1025forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing Department orders and reports, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams on official Incidental expensesbusiness received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quarter-master’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and store-houses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts, or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and that in all cases where they would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed what is now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men of what is now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and that the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursements heretofore made; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks, and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be Transporting soldiers’ remains, foreign service.transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, one hundred thousand dollars.
Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation Transportation.of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including, also, the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses for recruiting;” of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and 1026army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other vessels and boats required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as trainmasters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, Payment to land-grant railroads.and for constructing roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportations lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full *Provisos*. —compensation; how computed.amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, Fifty percent to railroads not bond aided.That in expending the money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military sup-plies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and Amount.the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, eight million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Horses. Horses for Cavalry and Artillery: For the purchases of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps and Signal Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, five hundred thousand dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence 1027involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, one million Amount.five hundred thousand dollars. medical department.
Medical Department. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, and all other necessary Supplies, etc.miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. MILITARY ACADEMY. Military Academy. For pay of cadets at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars per Pay.annum each, twenty thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents. For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering in addition Current expenses.to pay of first lieutenant, four hundred dollars.
Current AND ordinary expenses: For repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, plank, boards, joists, wall strips, lath, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick. Hag. lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of overseer and master builder and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, ten thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, Fuel.heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, five thousand dollars. For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps and lighting Lights, etc.supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, eight hundred dollars. For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics:
For repairs and changes in cadet barracks and to supply extra clothes-presses, tables, and so forth, for cadet rooms, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses: For water pipe, plumb mg, and repairs, two thousand dollars. Buildings and grounds: For repairing, rearranging, and slightly enlarging the cadet administration building, three thousand five hundred dollars. For doors, floors, and interior wood finish of library building, five thousand dollars.
For metallic book stacks, chairs, tables, and other necessary library furniture, ten thousand dollars. For stables for the artillery detachment, five thousand dollars. For repairing and relaying the line of sewer from the engineer barracks, artillery, and band barracks, two thousand five hundred dollars. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For hospital expenses, namely: For blankets, forty dollars and sixty-three cents.
At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For house-hold expenses, namely: For coal, four hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. For hospital expenses, namely: For blankets, twenty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For hospital expenses, namely: For blankets, sixteen dollars and ninety cents. 1028 At the Southern Branch at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, namely: For services, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents.
For hospital expenses, namely: For blankets and supplies, six hundred and eight dollars and forty-seven cents. For transportation, namely: For services, five hundred and sixty-four dollars and five cents. For Western Branch at Leavenworth, Kansas: For household expenses, namely: For coal, three thousand five hundred and ten dollars. All of the foregoing items under National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, At the Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois:
For household expenses for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For repairs, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand five hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion. Indiana: For current expenses for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred dollars. State or Territorial Homes. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in Vol. 25, p. 450.conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty-three thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and *Proviso*.
Deductions.fifty-nine cents: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. general account of advances. General account of advances. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:
Pay. For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred, ninety-two thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-three cents; Marine Corps. For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty-five thousand nine hundred and three dollars and forty cents; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-six dollars and sixty-one cents; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifty-seven vents;
For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, four hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-nine cents; Bureau of Navigation. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred, two thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty cents; Bureau of Equipment. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred, sixty-one thousand one hundred and three dollars and eighty-nine cents; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred, three thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-two cents; 1029 For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred, five hundred and fifty-live dollars and seventy-two cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-one dollars and ninety-two cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.hundred and ninety-eight, twenty dollars and seventy-five cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eight dollars and seventy cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteen hundred Bureau of Steam Engineering.and ninety-eight and prior years, ten dollars and thirteen cents; in all, two hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and two dollars and sixty-three cents. emergency fund, navy department.
Emergency fund, Navy Department. To meet unforeseen contingencies for the maintenance of the Navy constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, one hundred and forty-four thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars. pay, miscellaneous. Pay. For commissions and interest: transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and transportation of baggage allowed by regulations, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and tor traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy--yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones: copying: care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attachés, and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That in lieu of Proviso.
Mileage in lieu of travel expenses, etc.traveling expenses and all allowances whatsoever connected therewith, including transportation of baggage, officers of the Navy traveling from point to point within the United States under orders shall here-after receive mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile, distance to be computed by the shortest usually traveled route; but in cases where orders are given for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in the same vicinity the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, direct that actual and necessary expenses only be allowed.
Actual expenses only shall be paid for travel under orders —when actual expenses to be paid.outside the limits of the United States in North America, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 1030 naval academy. Naval Academy. To reimburse the appropriation “Repairs, Naval Academy,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, for expenses incurred in fitting up and furnishing two buildings as additional quarters for cadets, five thousand dollars. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation.
Naval station, Cal. Naval training station, California: For cost of fresh water during the remainder of the present fiscal year, one thousand and thirty-five dollars. To pay accounts set forth in House Documents Numbered One hundred and eighty-five and Three hundred and fifty-two of this session, on account of naval training station, California, on file in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and twelve dollars and thirty-two cents.
Transportation, recruiting, and contingent. Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: To provide for the transportation of so many of the five thousand additional enlisted men as may enlist prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one; for the transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey; for transportation to the place of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, sixty thousand dollars.
To pay bill of Pennsylvania Railroad Company for transportation of enlisted men of the Navy, dated August first, nineteen hundred, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred and five dollars and eighteen cents. To pay bill of Wabash Railroad Company for transportation of fifty recruits from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco and Mare Island, California, in March, nineteen hundred, the transportation request having been lost by that company, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, *Proviso*. —certain transportations charged to appropriation for.nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents: *Provided*, That the transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey; and the transportation to the place of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, shall hereafter be chargeable to the appropriation “Transportation, recruiting, and contingent”. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage and express charges, repairs to fire engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance mate-rial, forty thousand dollars. bureau of equipment. Bureau of Equipment. For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, ham-1031mocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass titlings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range tinders, battle order, and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To meet outstanding obligations incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, bills for which have not yet been rendered, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-two cents. For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes, and materials; printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment, unforeseen and impossible to classify, two thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.
For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, twenty thousand dollars. To pay accounts on file for fiscal year nineteen hundred, as set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, seventy-two dollars and twenty-two cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Medical department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year nineteen hundred, sixty-two dollars and ten cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents. 1032 bureau of supplies and accounts, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
To pay the firm of Gibson Brothers, Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents for furnishing blank proposals for supplies for the Navy, which service was duly authorized and rendered prior to the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury dated July thirty-first, nineteen hundred, that such printing should be done by the Public Printer only; payment to be made from the unexpended balances under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year in which the services were rendered, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are also authorized and directed to allow vouchers for similar services previously paid in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursing officer by whom they were paid.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-six cents. bureau of construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighty thousand dollars. *Proviso*. Limit repairs to wooden ships. *Provided*, That no part of said sums shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material. bureau of steam engineering.
Bureau of Steam Engineering. For completion, repairing, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels, repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches; purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines; incidental expenses for naval vessels, yards, and the Bureau, such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings and instruments for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighty thousand dollars. *Proviso.* Limit repairs to wooden ships. *Provided*, That no part of said sums shall be applied to the engines, boilers, and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated cost 1033of such repair shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power, nor shall new boilers be constructed for wooden ships. marine corps.
That the Auditor for the Navy Department be, and is hereby, Marine Corps.authorized and directed to credit voucher numbered three hundred and seventy-eight, third quarter eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, in favor of Pacific Coast Steamship Company, amounting to six dollars and fifty cents, for transportation of one man from Bremerton, Washington, to Mare Island, California. To reimburse Ordnance Department, United States Army, for one hundred thousand rifle ball cartridges, caliber thirty one-hundredths, delivered to quartermaster First Regiment United States Marines at Tientsin, China, August thirteenth, nineteen hundred, two thousand five hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day. spare parts for repairing muskets, and purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments of band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, for incidental expenses of the school of application, purchase of signal equipment and stores, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies, twenty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Military stores, Marine Corps,” fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty-one cents. For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, twenty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-four cents.
For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising; washing of bedsacks, mat-tress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets; for funeral expenses of marines: stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor, and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of tire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates: purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage: purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes: water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas 1034oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bot-toms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For improvements and repairs to buildings, sewerage, plumbing, prison cells, lights, and other necessary expenses, marine barracks, navy-yard, New York, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Reimbursements. To reimburse Paymaster Henry E. E. Jewett, United States Navy, the amount paid by him, on order of Captain C. M. Chester, senior officer in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba, to the master of the schooner Talofa, in settlement of claim for damages done to his vessel by the United States steamship Newark, and checked against Paymaster Jewett's account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, thirty-five dollars.
To reimburse Commander John C. Wilson, United States Navy, the amount paid for repairs to a private launch damaged by the steam launch of the United States steamship Indiana, and checked against his accounts by the accounting officers of the Treasury, twenty-five dollars. To reimburse the George B. Douglass Trading Company, New York, the amount of overpayment to the Government by said company for scrap iron and steel plate purchased at a sale of condemned material at the navy-yard, New York, in May, nineteen hundred, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty-three cents.
To reimburse the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company the amount of damage done to its wharf at New London, Connecticut, by the United States tug Osceola, fifteen dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the settlement of the accounts of Pay Director H. T. Wright, United States Navy, payments to per diem civil establishment employees at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, during the war with Spain, in the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, made by direction of the commandant’s order of March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under telegraphic instructions of the same date from the Navy Department, and amounting to two thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-two cents.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Department of the Interior. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars. General Land Office. Distribution of maps. Of the whole number of United States maps procured under the appropriation made for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office, there shall be delivered, in addition to the number now required by law, five thousand four hundred copies to the Senate and ten thousand eight hundred and thirty copies to the House of Representatives for distribution; and the appropriation of fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars for connected and separate United States and other maps made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one is hereby made available for expenditure during Connected and separate maps, printing authorized.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.
The Public Printer is hereby authorized to print, on the requisition of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand copies of the connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office, for sale by the Interior Department under the laws and regulations now in force. 1035 For the removal of offices of the Interior Department to the old Post-Office Allowance in accounts of George W. Evans, disbursing officer.Department building, namely: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of George W.
Evans, disbursing clerk. Department of the Interior, the sum of six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents, being the amount disbursed by him by authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior from the above-mentioned appropriation, on account of payments made by him to certain temporary laborers employed in the months of July. August, and September, nineteen hundred, in the removal of the records, files, and other official effects of the General Land Office from the Interior Department building to the old Post-Office Department building.
For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several Stationery.bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission, six thousand dollars. To print the report of the Committee on the Centennial Celebration Printing authorized of memorial volume centennial celebration establishment of the seat of government in the District of Columbia.of the Establishment of the Seat of Government in the District of Columbia, held in the city of Washington, December twelfth, nineteen hundred, together with the proceedings and public addresses on the commemoration of that event, in a memorial volume, with suitable illustrations as selected by the committee, one thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and two thousand five hundred copies for distribution by the citizens’ committee on the celebration, five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; of which amount the sum of five hundred dollars shall be available for the preparation of the report and for obtaining the necessary material for illustrating the same.
That the work shall be done under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. Reindeer for Alaska: To pay the account of Hobbs, Wall and Reindeer for Alaska.Company, of San Francisco, California, for transportation of herders and supplies from Seattle, Washington, to reindeer stations in Alaska, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-three cents. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Capitolthereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and for repairs to elevators in the House wing, fifteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-six cents.
For repairs in Senate restaurant, regilding frames of Moran paintings, and for fire extinguishers for the Senate folding rooms and Maltby Building, one thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the Capitol grounds.improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial pavement, walls, and roadways, seven hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifteen cents.
Lighting the Capitol and grounds: To pay the Washington Gaslight Company for gas service during the months of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and January, February, March, April, May, and June, nineteen hundred, one thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy cents. patent office. Patent office. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, Official Gazette.quarterly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, on account of the fiscal years, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, thirty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars and twelve cents. 1036 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. Drawings, etc. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; 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 paragraph Vol. 28, p. 620.to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Proviso*.
Work at Government Printing Office.*Provided*, That the entire work may be done at the Government 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, forty-five thousand dollars. International Bureau, Berne. For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, one hundred dollars.
Government Hospital for the Insane. Government Hospital for Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, thirty thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements, to meet unexpected and extraordinary repairs, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to credit and allow in the settlement of the accounts of Doctor A. B. Richardson, superintendent and disbursing agent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, being the amount paid by him for the rent of the premises and machinery known as the Swiss Laundry, in the District of Columbia, for three mouths, beginning September nineteenth, nineteen hundred.
And such accounting officers are also directed to credit and allow in the settlement of the accounts of said superintendent and disbursing agent such sums as may have been necessarily expended by him, or may during the current fiscal year be required for the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped insane patients. To complete the construction of a railroad switch to the boiler house of the hospital, including a siding five hundred feet long and grading and foundation for a coal shed, three thousand dollars. public land service.
Public Land Service. Registers and receivers. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses of land offices:
For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, sixty thousand Expenses local land offices specifically authorized.dollars: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 1037 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses of land offices,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-five cents.
Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing Depositing public moneys.money received from the disposal of public lands, five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of depositing public moneys,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-four cents. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings Hearings in land entries.held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp landsand swamp-land indemnity: Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp land claims.To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rides relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity tor swamp lands, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That agents *Proviso*.
Agents per diem.and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the Forest reserves. Protection and ad-ministration of. Vol. 30, p. 34.expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Selections of land in lieu of tract covered by unperfected bona fide claim, etc.That all selections of land made in lieu of a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim, or by a patent, included within a public forest reservation, as provided in the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” shall be confined to vacant surveyed nonmineral public lands which are subject to homestead entry not exceeding in area the tract covered by such claim or patent: *Provided*, That nothing —limit of time to make selection.herein contained shall be construed to affect the rights of those who, previous to October first, nineteen hundred, shall have delivered to the United States deeds for lands within forest reservations and make application for specific tracts of land in lieu thereof: *Provided*, That Employees selected because of fitness, per diem to, etc.forestry agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and other persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided, further*, That forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other Protection of fish and game.persons employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the 1038enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game.
Mineral lands, Montana and Idaho. Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventy-four dollars and seventeen cents. Payments of certain accounts. Payments to Willard W. Ault and others: To pay the accounts of Willard W. Ault, Charles E. Branson, the Spokane Chronicle Publishing Company, G.
C. Corbaley, the Statesman Printing Company, the publisher or the Silver Blade, the publisher of the Kootenai Herald, the Citizens Printing and Publishing Company, N. S. Gordon, and C. M. Funston for services as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered One hundred and ninety-six and Four hundred and sixty-three of this session, one thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-one cents. For payment to W. W. Cheely, proprietor of the Madisonian, of Virginia City, Montana, for advertising, being amount found due him in the settlement of his account, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For payment to Albert W. Gilchrist. United States deputy surveyor, for resurvey of lands in the State of Florida, being amount found due him in the settlement of his account, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety-one cents. For payment to Albro Gardner, United States deputy surveyor, for surveying and resurveying of public lands in the State, of Washing-ton, as submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two of this session, one hundred and four dollars and thirty-six cents.
For pay to Isaac M. Galbraith, United States deputy surveyor, for resurveys of public land in the State of Washington, as submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and sixty-three of this session, two hundred and one dollars and four cents. To pay Chapman and Bannister, deputy surveyors, amount due and unpaid for surveys under contract numbered one hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and six dollars and six cents. To pay F. W. Pettigrew amount due arid unpaid on contract for surveys of public lands, numbered one hundred and thirty-two, of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
Expenses, offices of surveyors-general. Wyoming. Office of surveyor-general of Wyoming: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, and supplies, lights, ice, post-office box rent, drafting instruments, mounting maps, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty cents. Alaska. Office of surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the district of Alaska: For clerks in his office, three hundred dollars.
Payments to settlers on Des Moines River lands. Payment to settlers on Des Moines River lands: To pay the amount found due J. L. Stevens, special commissioner to adjust the Des Moines River land-grant claims, on account of per diem salary, traveling and other miscellaneous expenses incurred by him in the discharge of his duties as said commissioner since April first, nineteen hundred, one thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and five cents. Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation.
Payment to custodian. Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation: To pay salary of the custodian of the Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation, Idaho, from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, one hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty cents. 1039 united states geological survey. For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, Geological Survey.ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For furnishing the new addition to the Hooe Building, occupied by the United States Geological Survey, for which the sum of five thousand dollars additional rent was provided for in the sundry civil act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, twelve thousand dollars. That facilities for study and research in the Government Departments, the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Zoological Park, the Bureau of Ethnology, the Fish Commission, the Botanic Gardens, and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, and graduates of institutions of learning in the several States and Territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and restrictions as the heads of the Departments and Bureaus mentioned may prescribe.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Geological Survey” (mineral resources), for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty-three dollars and eleven cents. indian affairs. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby Indian Service.authorized and directed to pass to the credit of Captain W. J. Nicholson, acting Indian agent, San Carlos Agency, Arizona, the sum of one thousand and twenty dollars and eighty-seven cents, collected by him as grazing tax for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona, and expended by him under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
For traveling expenses of eight Indian inspectors, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses of going to and going from the seat of Government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifty-nine dollars and seventeen cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses of Indian inspectors,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents. For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventy-two dollars and ninety-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Traveling expenses.
Indian school superintendent,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three dollars and eighty-five cents. To pay amounts found due, by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Traveling expenses. Indian school superintendent,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty dollars and eighty-six cents. For service of officers, at fifteen dollars per month each, and privates, at ten dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in main-1040taining Indian Service— Continued.order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: for the purchase of equipments and for the purchase of rations for policemen at nonration agencies, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay of Indian police,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty cents. To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, ten thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two thousand and ninety-six dollars and eighty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventeen dollars and ten cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Vaccination of Indians,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For contingencies of the Indian Service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the held, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; and expenses of going to and going from the seat of Government and while remaining there, under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days; and pay of employees not other-wise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents at two thousand dollars per annum each, ten thousand dollars.
For erection of barn at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, three thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Mexican Kickapoos” for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Absentee Shawnees, Big Jim's Band,” for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred and five dollars and eighty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, sewer and water system,” thirty-six dollars and sixty-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Lincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ninety-one dollars and fifty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-three cents. 1041 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Salem, Oregon,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seven hundred and eight dollars and eighteen cents. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may allow during the, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one a larger per capita expenditure than one hundred and sixty-seven dollars hut not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, at the Indian school for the Sac and Fox Reservation, Iowa, if he deems the same necessary.
For completing allotments to the Wichitas and affiliated bands provided for by the Act, of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two the Crow, Flathead, etc., Indian Commission. Vol. 29, p. 341. Continuance of, authorized.work of the commission under the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indians, twelve thousand dollars, and the members of said commission shall perform such other duties pertaining to Indian affairs, in the field, as may be required of them by the Secretory of the Interior.
It is hereby directed that the money appropriated by the Act of Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians, Oklahoma. Appropriation for allotting available for surveys, etc.Congress, entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes,” approved January fourth, nineteen hundred and one, “for completing the allotments provided for in the agreement with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma,” may be used in accordance with the provisions of said Act by the Secretary of the Interior for making any and all surveys, whether original or resurveys, found necessary in connection with the making of said allotments, and also for any expenses necessary and incident for the setting apart as grazing lands for said Indians four hundred and eighty thousand acres of land, as provided in the agreement ratified by the Act approved June sixth, *Ante*, p. 676.nineteen hundred, For the survey of lands in the Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, and Surveys, Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, and Lower Brule reservations, etc.Lower Brule Indian reservations in South Dakota, and for examination in the field of surveys, the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and for clerical work and stationery in the, office of the Surveyor-General required on surveys within the Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, and Lower Brule Indian reservations in South Dakota, the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars. army and navy pensions.
Army and Navy pensions. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, for services rendered Fees, examining surgeons.within the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand dollars, and each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law. receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: *Provided*, That if twenty or more applicants appear on one *Provisos*.
Examinations, etc.day, no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made: *Provided further*, That no No fee unless service rendered.fee shall be paid to any member of an examining board unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant: *And provided further*, Report to state rating, etc.That the report of such examining surgeons shall specifically state the rating which in their judgment the applicant is 1042entitled to, and the report of such examining surgeons shall specifically and accurately set forth the physical condition of the, applicant, each and every existing disability being fully and carefully described.
The reports of the special examiners of the Bureau of Pensions shall be open to inspection and copy by the applicant or his attorney, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Reimbursement to E. F. Waite. To reimburse Edward F. Waite, late a special examiner of the Pension Bureau, for costs incurred by him in the United States circuit court of appeals, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, at May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, term in defending himself in the criminal prosecution suit Re Campbell against Waite, Special Examiner.
Pension Bureau, instituted and appealed from the State court of Iowa, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifteen cents. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, six thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including two hundred dollars for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For telegraphing on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, nine hundred and nineteen dollars and fifteen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty-one dollars and eighty-one cents. For labor and material necessary for the modification of the windows in the Post-Office Department building, eleven thousand three hundred dollars. To provide lookouts over the main working room of the Washington, District of Columbia, post-office, three thousand dollars.
For the purchase of four revolving doors to be placed in the main entrances of the Washington City post-office, on the Eleventh and Twelfth streets and Pennsylvania avenue sides, two thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For fuel and repairs to heating apparatus, fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty dollars. POSTAL SERVICE. Postal service. out of the postal revenues. Foreign service. For postal service in the newly acquired territory in Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Philippine Islands, or territory held by military occupation, and for additional transportation to and from said territory, also including postal service for all military camps or stations, to be used in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, seventy thousand dollars.
Postal Laws and Regulations, appropriation for printing, etc. For printing, binding, and wrapping the revised edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations, and the necessary appendix thereto, provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for *Ante*, p. 253.the service, of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one,” approved June second, nineteen hundred, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in addition to the amount provided for in said Act, out of which the Postmaster-General Amount available for H.
J. Barrett.may expend two thousand dollars, to be paid to Harrison J. Barrett, late assistant attorney for the Post-Office Department, for his services in codifying and editing said revised edition out of office hours, and superintending the publication of the same, and one thou-1043sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to reimburse said Barrett for amounts paid by him to others for clerical and expert service, said sums to be verified by proper vouchers, fifteen thousand dollars.
For temporary clerk hire, fifteen thousand dollars. For acting railway postal clerks vice railway postal clerks injured Temporary clerks, etc.while on duty, five thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps and repairs to same; ink and Postmarking.pads for stamping and canceling purposes, three thousand dollars. To pay Amos Van Etten for legal services rendered George M. Legal services.Brink, postmaster at Kingston, New York, in defending a suit brought against him by virtue of his official employment, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Out of the sum appropriated by the Act of June second, nineteen Inland transportation. *Ante*, p. 258.hundred, for inland transportation by railroad routes, twenty thousand dollars additional may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, stamped paper, and other supplies from the manufactories to the post-offices and depots of distribution. For mail messenger service, thirty-five thousand dollars. Mail messenger service. The number of clerks of class two appropriated for in the Railway Number of clerks, class 2.Mail Service for the current fiscal year is modified so as to allow two thousand and eighty-seven clerks of class two, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each: *Provided,* That this change shall be made without *Proviso*. —no increase of appropriation, etc.increasing the aggregate amount appropriated for clerks of the several classes of the Railway Mail Service in the Post-Office appropriation Act of June second, nineteen hundred.
For the manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, Stamps.thirty thousand dollars. For rent of offices in Washington, District of Columbia, for the division Rent.superintendent of Railway Mail Service, from August thirteenth, nineteen hundred, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. For stationery for postal service, fifteen thousand dollars. Stationery, etc. For wrapping twine, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, five thousand dollars. Military postal service: To pay the amounts set forth in House Military postal service.Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-six cents. Miscellaneous: To par the amounts set forth in House Document Miscellaneous.Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, office First Assistant Postmaster-General, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.
Free-delivery service: To pay the amounts set forth in House Free delivery.Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, on account of the fiscal year as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-five dollars and seventy-three cents. To pay the amounts set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and five, of this session, fiscal year nineteen hundred, seven-teen dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Rural free-delivery service: To pay amount set forth in House —rural.Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. Manufacture of postage stamps: To pay amount set forth in Manufacturing stamps.House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents. 1044 Postmasters.
Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amounts retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two million one hundred and fifteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-two cents.
For compensation of postmasters, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and live, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one hundred and seventy dollars and thirteen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventeen dollars and ninety-one cents. Mail transportation. Mail transportation: To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-two, of this session, for inland transportation, as follows:
By railroad routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-eight cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-one cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and five, of this session, two hundred and four dollars and seventy-six cents. For post-office cars, fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-one cents.
For star routes, fiscal year nineteen hundred, nineteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixteen cents. For star routes, fiscal year nineteen hundred, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and five, of this session, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-three cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Law books. For books for law library of the Department, five hundred dollars. For the purchase of early volumes of Opinions of Attorneys-General, to be distributed as current volumes of said opinions are distributed, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Furniture, etc. For furniture and repairs for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, sixty-one dollars and, five cents. For stationery for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirty dollars. For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, eight hundred dollars. For the purchase of nine directories of the District of Columbia for the Department of Justice, forty-five dollars.
Repairs to court-house, District of Columbia. For special repairs to court-house, District of Columbia, in accordance with estimates of the Architect of the Capitol, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and fifty dollars. Alaska. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, and for necessary clerk hire in the United States marshal’s office, the amount 1045thereof to be fixed by the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending suits in claims.defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington. District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, three thousand dollars.
For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents.
Defense in Indian depredation claims: To pay amounts found Indian depredation claims.due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Defense in Indian depredation claims” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents. Prosecution of crimes: To pay amounts found due by the accounting Prosecution of crimes.officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Prosecution of crimes” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Payment for legal services in circuit courts of appeals: For Circuit courts appeals. Payment for legal services in, authorized, etc.the payment, upon accounts approved by the Attorney-General, of claims for compensation on account of legal services rendered and expenses incurred in cases before the United States circuit courts of appeals, prior to June sixth, nineteen hundred, the amount of said compensation to be determined by the Attorney-General, six thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For payment to Henry L. Burnett, United States attorney for the southern district of New York, for legal services rendered under direction of the Attorney-General, in the supreme court of the State of New York, in the case of John G. Hassard against United States of Mexico, and the States of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi, five hundred dollars, and in the case of James C. Jewett against United States of Mexico, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To reimburse John F. Horr, United States marshal for the southern Reimbursements.district of Florida, the amount erroneously paid into the Treasury of the United States, instead of being deposited to the credit of the prize fund in the ease of the United States against the Buena Ventura, and subsequently paid from his personal resources, thirty dollars and fifty cents. To reimburse Canada H. Thompson. United States marshal for the district of Oklahoma, for payments made by him and disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury in his accounts under the appropriation “Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals,” to John M.
Hale, deputy United States marshal, for traveling expenses incurred by said deputy in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in perfecting plans whereby writs to arrest, issued in connection with the burning of the Seminole Indians, Lincoln McGiesey and Palmer Sampson, could be executed, twenty-one dollars and eighty-five cents; add to Office 1046Deputy W. D. Fossett for expenses incurred by him in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in the investigation of the accuracy of the accounts rendered by one of the marshal’s field deputies, sixty-two dollars and sixty cents; in all, eighty-four dollars and forty-five cents.
To pay to Francis Bloodgood, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, balance of a judgment rendered in his favor in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Wisconsin, for services rendered as United States commissioner, six hundred and ten dollars. Additional district judge, northern district of Ohio, payment to. Judicial: For the payment of the salary of the additional district judge for the northern district of Ohio for the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand and ninety-seven dollars and eighteen cents.
Acts clerk district court Beaumont, Tex., validated, etc. That the appointment of the clerk of the district court at Beaumont, Texas, heretofore made, and his lawful acts as such clerk heretofore done, are hereby validated and confirmed, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to audit and pay him for his services rendered the United States as such clerk as compensation is paid to other clerks of the United States courts. Robert Willett, clerk, etc. Allowance in accounts of.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to allow in the accounts of Robert Willett, clerk of the court of appeals, District of Columbia, the sum of seven dollars expended by him during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, upon the order of the court, for a city directory and book of reference for use of said court; and authority is hereby granted for the purchase from the appropriation for expenses of said court of such law books, books of reference, and periodicals as the court shall hereafter require in the conduct of its business.
H.G. McMillan, etc. Accounts of, reopened, etc. *Ante*, p. 734. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen and restate the accounts of H. G. McMillan, D. C. Dunbar, C. H. McClure, and K. S. Boreman and settle them in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved January nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the accounts of United States marshals and clerks of the district courts of the Territory of Utah,” UNITED STATES COURTS.
United States courts. Marshals, etc. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Indian Territory. Mileage of witnesses in United States commissioners courts. That witnesses in misdemeanor and civil cases before the United States commissioners courts in the Indian Territory shall be entitled to three cents a mile, for each mile actually and necessarily traveled, in going to and returning from said court; and witnesses subpoenaed in behalf of the United States shall be paid on the order of the commissioner, as in felony cases.
When a witness is subpoenaed and in attendance upon said court in more than one case at the same term, only one travel fee and one per diem compensation shall be allowed for attendance, and the same shall be taxed in the case first disposed of, after which the per diem attendance only shall be taxed in the other cases in the order in which they are disposed of. District attorneys, etc. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, ten thousand dollars.
Assistants. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, ten thousand dollars. 1047 For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys Special assistant attorneys.employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand dollars. *Provided,* That the appropriation for pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, shall he available for the purpose for which it was originally provided and for the payment of special assistants to the Attorney-General employed to aid in special cases. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred dollars. For payment for services and expenses of special assistants to the Attorney-General, in cases appealed from the Court of Private Land Claims to the Supreme Court, to be available until expended, eight thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fees of jurors.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners.and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, one hundred thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent.five thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and seven cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifteen dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one Bailiffs and criers.crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,* *Proviso*.
Attendance. R. S., sec. 715, p. 136.That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided further,* That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of Vacation. Expenses of judges. reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, twelve thousand dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Miscellaneous.by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their offi-1048cers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, fifty thousand dollars. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. senate. Senate. Payments to widows of Senators. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Mrs. Harriet F. Gear, widow of Honorable John H.
Gear, late a Senator from the State of Iowa, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Mrs. Anna Malcom Agnew Davis, widow of Honorable Cushman K. Davis, late a Senator from the State of Minnesota, five thousand dollars. Officers, clerks, etc. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: For ten clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, six thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars.
Fuel, etc. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, three thousand dollars. Inquiries and investigations. 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, ten thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty five thousand dollars. Reporting debates. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. Compiling laws, etc., for consideration of claim bills. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who performed the work of compiling the laws, proclamations, orders and history of claims, and the decisions of the courts relating, thereto for use in the consideration of claims bills, one thousand four hundred dollars, to be paid only upon vouchers signed by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims.
Payments for extra services. To pay Hawkins Taylor, assistant clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, for extra services, including preparation of the work entitled “Precedents with reference to treaties between the United States and Foreign Nations,” six hundred dollars To pay John H. Walker for extra services as clerk to Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. To pay Dennis M. Kerr, clerk detailed from the Bureau of Pensions, for services to Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars.
To pay J. H. Jones for services in the care of the Senate chronometer, and for the work in connection therewith, for the second session of the Fifty-sixth Congress, one hundred dollars. Congressional employees. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and one, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-sixth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. Payment to Wood & Bond, etc. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Wood and Bond, undertakers, of Macon. Georgia, for services and expenses in connection 1049with the funeral and burial of the late Senator A. H. Colquitt, two hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Compensation of Members.Delegates from Territories, twenty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous, etc.forty thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, Folding materials.and other necessary materials 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, eighteen hundred and ninety-live, for the Vol. 28, p. 624.public printing and binding), one thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for salaries of officers Salaries employees.and employees, fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, eleven dollars and fifty-nine cents. To pay the salaries of the employees in the heating and ventilating department of the House, provided for in House resolution numbered one hundred and sixty-four, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-three cents.
For salary of assistant bookkeeper in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and ninety-five dollars. For janitor for Committee on Appropriations, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, from March third, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars. To pay the widow of William D.
Daly, late a Representative in Payments to widows, etc., of Representatives.Congress from the State of New Jersey, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-eight cents. To pay the widow of F. G. Clarke, .late a Representative in Congress from the State of New Hampshire, seven hundred and twelve dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay the widow of J. H. Hoffecker, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Delaware, three thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.
To pay to the legal heirs of R. S. Wise, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-one cents. To pay to the legal heirs of A. D. Shaw, late a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents. For allowances to the following contestants and contestees for Contested election expenses.expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections:
To Jesse F. Stallings, five hundred dollars; To Oliver H. Dockery, two thousand dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates, Reporting debates.and the official stenographers to committees of the House of Representatives for clerical hire and extra clerical Services from March fourth, nineteen hundred, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and to John J. Cameron two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. 1050 Payments to employees.
To pay Kendal Lee, Marcellus Butler, and Charles Carter for caring for rooms of Committees on Accounts, Invalid Pensions, and subcommittee room of Committee on Appropriations, respectively, one hundred dollars each, three hundred dollars. To pay H. F. Dodge for reporting hearings before the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, thirty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay C. W. Mansfield, assistant clerk to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, one hundred dollars. To pay Herman Gauss for extra services as assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, five hundred dollars.
To pay Charles O. Houck for clerical services rendered to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, three hundred dollars. To pay D. S. Porter for extra services as assistant clerk to Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. To pay Edward A. Boykin for services as messenger and assistant clerk to Committee on Pensions, three hundred dollars. To pay William L. Stiles for services as messenger to Committee on Accounts, three hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay Herman D.
Reeve, for extra service rendered during the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses as clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, one thousand dollars. To pay the following, the same having been audited and recommended by the Committee on Accounts, namely: To George F. Evers and James F. English, five hundred dollars each; To William H. Smith, six hundred dollars; To Howard D. Pritchard, two hundred and eighty dollars; To J. J. Constantine, three hundred dollars; To Oscar Hill and Harrison Crane, five hundred and sixty dollars each;
To Joel Grayson, junior, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventeen cents; To Harris A. Walters, five hundred and ninety-four dollars; To Charles N. Thomas, three hundred dollars: To Joseph H. Johnson, sixty-four dollars and ten cents; To Jesse G. Bunnell, three hundred dollars: To Guy Underwood, one thousand and eighty dollars; To Samuel F. Leavitt, two hundred and ten dollars; To John W. Deards, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars; To John Iredale, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and nine cents;
To James A. Gibson, four hundred and eighty dollars; To H. A. Dumont, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and nine cents, To Don C. Walters, five hundred and ninety-four dollars; To John Hollingsworth, nine hundred dollars; To George C. Randall, three hundred dollars; To Charles O. Houk, three hundred and sixty dollars; To Ed. H. Sharp, three hundred dollars; To John B. Fletcher, three hundred dollars; To O. M. Enyart, four hundred dollars; To William A. Forbis, two hundred dollars;
To Minot Reed Stewart, two hundred and ninety-five dollars; To O. A. Harvey, eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-two cents; To Thomas F. Tracy, four hundred and three dollars and forty-eight cents; In all, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars and twenty-five cents. 1051 To pay William A. Watson, special messenger, authorized in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives February seventh, nineteen hundred, at the rate of one thousand two 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 cents.
To pay George C. Randall, B. W. Armstrong, John W. Herndon, J. M. McKay, and F. B. Lyon, each a sum equal to two months' pay at the rate of compensation respectively received by them January first, nineteen hundred and one, for extra services rendered in the folding room under resolution of the House Numbered Two hundred and fifty-three, one thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents. library of congress. That the appropriation of two thousand dollars heretofore made in Congressional Library.the legislative and judicial appropriation bill for special, temporary, and miscellaneous service at the discretion of the Librarian of Congress shall be immediately available. public printing and binding.
For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for Public printing and binding.the public printing, including the costs of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for rents, books of reference, and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, five hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Leaves of absence, Government Printing Office.law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, twenty-live thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph DeFontes Messengers, night duty, payment to.as messengers on night duty during the second session of the present Congress for extra services, one hundred and fifty dollars each, in all, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, one hundred Departments.and twenty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department, seventy-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, including three thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office, eighteen thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, thirty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, three thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, fifty thousand dollars. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Judgments, Indian depredation claims.Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and eighty-nine and Two hundred and seventeen, four hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars; said judgments to be paid after the —deductions.
Vol. 26, p. 853.deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 1052entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may *Proviso*.
Certificate of lack of ground for new trial.decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided,* That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-four and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and eleven, seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand four *Provisos.* Appeal.hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-seven cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired: *Provided further*, That the payment, Payments for destruction of enemy’s vessels, how made.
R. S., sec. 4635, p. 902.to officers and enlisted men severally entitled, of the judgments of the Court of Claims for bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, under section forty-six hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, be made on settlements by the Auditor for the Navy Department in the manner prescribed by law and Treasury regulation for the payment of prize money, the distribution of such individual share to be in accordance with the orders, rules, and findings of the Court of Claims.
Payment authorized to Chas. F. Adams as administrator Of Peter C. Brooks, etc. Vol. 30, p. 1193, etc. That the sum or sums appropriated to be paid to the administrator of Peter C. Brooks, deceased, in the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” be paid Charles F.
Adams as the administrator of said estate; but the amount thus appropriated shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the administrator of said estate represents the next of kin of the said Peter C. Brooks, and the court which granted the administration shall have certified that said administrator has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the amounts. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts.
Vol. 24, p. 505. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General, in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-seven, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-two, and which have not been appealed, three thousand and fifty-two dollars and seventy cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation *Proviso.* Appeal.is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. 1053 For payment of interest at four per centum per annum on the final Payment authorized of interest on judgment of Winston against United States.judgment against the United States in favor of Patrick Henry Winston, rendered by the circuit court of the United States for the district of Washington, on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, under and by virtue of jurisdiction conferred by the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, four hundred and six dollars and twenty-six cents.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under Vol. 19, p 110.appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and Vol. 22, p. 254.eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-nine, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. For inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings, twenty-four dollars and fifteen cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, three hundred and two dollars and seventy-two cents. For suppressing the slave trade, one hundred and eight dollars and ninety cents. For contingent expenses, mint at Carson, one dollar and twenty-three cents. For contingent expenses, mint at New Orleans, six dollars and eighty-four cents.
For contingent expenses, assay office at Boise, one dollar and ninety-seven cents. For salaries and expenses, assay office at Deadwood, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty-one cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, one thousand and forty-two dollars and nineteen cents. For enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act, two hundred and seventy-six dollars and six cents. For Quarantine Service, twenty-one dollars and ten cents. For Life-Saving Service, fifty-eight dollars and five cents.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, thirty-five dollars and fifty-two cents. For redemption of stamps, fifty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, twenty-eight thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars and four cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. For pay of the Army, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-six cents.
For pay of volunteers, seventy-seven dollars and ninety-five cents. For bounty under Act of July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one hundred dollars. For bounty under Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred dollars. For subsistence of the Army, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-one cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, ninety-five dollars and eighteen cents. 1054 For incidental expenses, Quartermaster's Department, three hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-one cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, three hundred and Seventy-six dollars and eight cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, four dollars and thirteen cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, eight dollars and fifty cents. For artificial limbs, eight hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-one cents. For operating snagboats on the Ohio River, twenty-two cents.
For expenses California Débris Commission, four dollars and thirty-seven cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, ninety dollars. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, eighty-six dollars and four cents. For pay of mounted riflemen under Colonel John C. Frémont in eighteen hundred and forty-six, fifty-one dollars and four cents. For traveling expenses of First Michigan Cavalry, two hundred and six dollars and twenty-one cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington Volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, forty-eight dollars and fifty two cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents. For pay, miscellaneous, sixty-six dollars and twenty-four cents. For pay of the Marine Corps, one hundred and fifteen dollars and three cents. For pay, Naval Academy, one hundred and forty-four dollars. For outfits for naval apprentices. Bureau of Navigation, forty-five dollars. For indemnity for lost clothing, nine hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-five cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, seventy dollars and twenty-seven cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, six hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. For extra pay to officers and men who served in the Pacific, five dollars and seventy cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department.
For investigation of pension cases, Pension Office, two dollars and eighty-six cents. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys, excess of deposits, five dollars and eighty cents. For salaries and commissions of registeis and receivers, two hundred and ninety-six dollars. For contingent expenses of land offices, twenty dollars and ninety cents. For surveying the public lands, nine thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty-one cents. For Geological Survey, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-one cents. 1055 For pay of Indian police, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For pay of matrons, twelve dollars. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, fifty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, four hundred and fifty dollars and seventeen cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, beneficial objects, five hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety cents. For support of Mission Indians, one dollar and ninety-five cents. For Indian schools, support, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-five cents.
For Indian school buildings, two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, thirty-three dollars and forty-eight cents. For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, two dollars and sixty-seven cents. For army pensions, fifty-four dollars. For navy pensions, twenty-four dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, two dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments.
For salaries, consular service, one thousand four hundred and two dollars. For allowance for clerks at consulates, one hundred and twenty dollars. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, one hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-four cents. For loss by exchange, consular service, eleven cents. For fees and costs in extradition cases, one hundred and nine dollars and eighty-seven cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, five hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty cents.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents. For Interstate Commerce Commission, fifty-one dollars. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, two hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty-four cents. For forestry investigations, one dollar and forty-nine cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, forty-two dollars and sixty-two cents. For rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska, eight hundred and ten dollars.
For salaries and expenses, United States courts, Indian Territory, one hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-five cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and Sixty-four cents. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, one hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-seven cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, fifty-four dollars and fifty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and thirty cents.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, four hundred and fifty-one dollars. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, forty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, sixty-four dollars and sixty cents. 1056 For rent of court rooms, United States courts, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, eight dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.
Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For rent, light, and fuel, one hundred and nine dollars and thirty-five cents. For free-delivery service, one dollar. For clerk hire, two hundred and fifteen dollars. For compensation of postmasters, one hundred and ten dollars and eight cents. For rewards, five hundred dollars. For inland mail transportation (star), three hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-seven cents. No part of sum appropriated by this Act for pay of cadets shall be paid to any cadet who shall have been found guilty of any brutal form of hazing.
Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 18, p. 110.Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and twelve, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirteen cents. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, ten dollars and ninety-five cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, five dollars and thirty cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, six dollars and forty cents.
For additional compensation to certain employees in the civil service at Washington, District of Columbia, under joint resolution of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand and seventy dollars and eighty-four cents. For collecting the revenues from customs, seventy-eight dollars and thirty cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, two hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-five cents. For redemption of stamps, four hundred and five dollars and eighty-three cents.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, eighteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-two cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the War Department. For contingent expenses, War Department, one dollar and thirty-five cents. 1057 For pay, and so forth, of the Army, seven hundred and forty-three dollars and nine cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eight dollars and five cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, forty dollars and one cent. For headstones for graves of soldiers, one dollar and twenty-five cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington Volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-two cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and nineteen cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, sixty-five dollars and twelve cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, four thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-five cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighteen cents. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, five dollars and sixty-three cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, four dollars and forty-three cents. For appraisal and sale of abandoned military reservations, one hundred dollars. For surveying the public lands, fourteen thousand one hundred and ten dollars and eighty-three cents.
For surveying private land claims, three hundred and seventy-two dollars and three cents. For pay of matrons, seven dollars. For payment to Overton Love, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For army pensions, thirty dollars. For navy pensions, ten dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments. department of state.
For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, eleven cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, eighteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, forty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, twenty-five dollars and four cents. 1058 department of agriculture. For forestry investigations, five dollars and seventy-seven cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, twelve dollars and forty-four cents. department of justice.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, four hundred and forty dollars and twenty-nine cents. For fees of commissioners. United States courts, one hundred and nineteen dollars and fifteen cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, twenty-four dollars and thirty cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department. Claims allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For advertising, eight dollars and fifty cents. For railroad transportation, seventy-two dollars and thirty-three cents.
For star transportation, nine dollars and fifty-four cents. Approved, March 3, 1901.
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