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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · March 3, 1901 · Chapter 853

Chapter 853. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 853.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Appropriations for sundry civil expenses. and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Public Buildings.Public buildings. For post-office and court-house at Abilene, Texas: For completionAbilene, Tex. of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For court-house and post-office at Altoona, Pennsylvania: For completionAltoona, Pa. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Annapolis, Maryland: For completion of buildingAnnapolis, Md. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
For post-office at Anniston, Alabama: For continuation of buildingAnniston. Ala. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For custom-house at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuation ofBaltimore, Md. building under present limit, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Baltimore, Maryland, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Maryland:
For new boiler plant, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and subtreasury building at Boston, Massachusetts:Boston, Mass. To complete the repairs and additions, and for painting and cleaning the walls, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Brooklyn, New York: To provide facilities forBrooklyn. N. Y. loading and unloading mail matter from the post-office working room carried on electric cars throughout the city, ten thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Beaumont, Texas:
For completionBeaumont, Tex. of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For rental of quarters at Chicago, Illinois: For annual rental ofChicago, Ill. temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and six dollars and sixty cents. For post-office and court-house at Chicago, Illinois: For continuation of building under present limit, one million dollars. 1134 Cleveland, Ohio.For post-office, custom-house, and court-house at Cleveland, Ohio:
For continuation of building, two hundred thousand dollars. For rental of quarters at Cleveland. Ohio: For rental of temporary quarters for six months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. for the accommodation of Government officials, and for moving furniture, fixtures, safes, and other Government property, and other contingent expenses incidental to such removal, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Clinton, Iowa.For post-office at Clinton. Iowa: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Creston, Iowa.For post-office at Creston, Iowa: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Elizabeth City, N. C.For court-house and post-office at Elizabeth City, North Carolina: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ellis Island, N. Y.For buildings on Ellis Island, and work in connection with said island necessary to properly complete the immigrant station, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be paid from the immigrant fund, which sum is hereby transferred to the appropriation for immigrant station at Ellis Island.
New York. Elmira, N. Y.For post-office and court-house at Elmira. New York: For continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fergus Falls, MinnFor court-house and post-office at Fergus Falls, Minnesota: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Fitchburg, Mass.For post-office at Fitchburg. Massachusetts: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Helena, Mont.For public building at Helena, Montana:
For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy-two cents. Hot Springs, Ark.For post-office at Hot Springs, Arkansas: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-nine thousand dollars. Indianapolis, Ind.For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Indianapolis. Indiana: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Indianapolis, Indiana, sixteen thousand dollars.
Joplin, Mo.For post-office and court-house at Joplin, Missouri: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Kansas City, Kans.For post-office at Kansas City, Kansas: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Lawrence, Mass.For post-office at Lawrence, Massachusetts: For purchase of site and completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Leadville, Colo.For post-office at Leadville, Colorado: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Los Angeles, Cal.For court-house and post-office at Los Angeles, California: For completion of addition to present building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Los Angeles, California, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Lockport, N. Y.For post-office at Lockport, New York: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Macon, Ga.For rental of quarters at Macon, Georgia:
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, six thousand dollars. New Iberia, La.For post-office at New Iberia, Louisiana: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. New York, N. Y.For custom-house at New York, New York: For continuation of buildings under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars 1135 For rent of old custom-house at New York, New York: For rentalRent, old custom-house. of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, from August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and twelve cents; from July first, nineteen hundred, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars: from July first, nineteen hundred and one. to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and seventy-one thousand and forty-seven dollars and twelve cents.
For custom-house and post-office at New Orleans. Louisiana: ForNew Orleans, La. new boilers and heating apparatus, and for new electric elevators and work incident thereto, sixty thousand dollars. For necessary alterations in the Newport, Rhode Island, post-office,Newport, R. I. and to provide additional space for the money-order, registry, and stamp divisions, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For post-office at Norwich, Connecticut: For completion of buildingNorwich, Conn. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
For custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia: For alterations and repairs,Norfolk, Va. twenty thousand dollars. For post-office at Oakland. California: For completion of buildingOakland, Cal. under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the completion of the custom-house and post-office building atNewark, N.J. Newark. New Jersey, by a one-story addition, with basement, heating and ventilating apparatus, as required for carriers’ room and storage, according to plans of the Secretary of the Treasury, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska:Omaha, Nebr. For completion of the addition to the building under present limit, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Oskaloosa. Iowa: For completion of building underOskaloosa, Iowa. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Rome. New York: For completion of building underRome, N. Y. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Salem, Oregon: For completion of building underSalem, Oreg. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For court-house and post-office at Salt Lake City. Utah: For continuationSalt Lake City, Utah. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Seattle, Washington:Seattle, Wash. For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Stockton, California: For completion of buildingStockton, Cal. under present limit, forty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For post-office and court-house at San Francisco, California:
ForSan Francisco, Cal. completion of building under present limit, one million one hundred and fifty-five thousand and fifty-five dollars and four cents. For court-house, post-office, and custom-house at Tampa, Florida:Tampa, Fla. For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania: For purchase of siteWilkesbarre, Pa. and completion of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of the property known as the Corcoran Art Gallery,Corcoran Art Gallery, District of Columbia.Purchase authorized. in the city of Washington.
District of Columbia, three hundred thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to acquire for and in the name of the United States, for the purpose hereinafter provided, the following-described real estate, with the improvements thereon, known and designated as original lots numbered five, six. seven, and eight, in square one hun1136dred and sixty-seven, in the city of Washington. District of Columbia, and containing seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty-three square feet, lying and being at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth street northwest, fronting on Pennsylvania avenue one hundred and six feet and on Seventeenth street one hundred and sixty To be used by Court of Claims.feet, and being the property of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Said property to .be used by the Court of Claims or for such other purposes *Proviso.*—limit price.Repeal.Vol. 30, p.1359.as may be determined: *Provided*, That the same can be secured for a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars: and so much of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the erection of a building for the Department of Justice.” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as provides “that said building shall be constructed so as to provide a court room and necessary accommodations for the Court of Claims.” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Treasury buildings.For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury.,Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars. Fire-alarm system.Fire-alarm system. Treasury Department: For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings. two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Public buildings.Repairs and preservation.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 *Proviso.*Superintendents.hospitals, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment of superintendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.
Heating apparatus.Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations, and exclusive of marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.
Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, thirty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only. Plans.Plans for public buildings: For books, technical periodicals and journals, photographic materials, and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars.
St. Paul, Minn.Post-office, court-house, and custom-house, Saint Paul. Minnesota: Retention of old building directed.Vol. 26, p. 768.That so much of the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act for the erection of a public building at Saint Paul, Minnesota,” approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as authorized the Secretary of the Treasury, after the completion of the new United States post-office, court-house, and custom-house building, to sell and convey the present property of the United States in said city now occupied as a court-house, custom-house, and post-office, and Vol. 30, p. 598.of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as 1137directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cause suitable accommodations to be provided in the new United States post-office, court-house, and custom-house building for all officials of the United States located in said city who are entitled to quarters in public buildings, are hereby repealed; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to retain the custody and control of the property of the United States in said city now occupied as a court-house, custom-house, and post-office, to rearrange and remodel the same as may be necessary forRemodeling, etc. public business, and to assign the space therein to such officials located in said city who are entitled to offices in public buildings as in his judgment shall be proper; and that all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Marine Hospitals: For building for laboratory, Marine-HospitalMarine hospitals.Laboratory authorized. Service: For the erection of the necessary buildings and quarters for a laboratory for the investigation of infectious and contagious diseases, and matters pertaining to the public health, under the direction of the Supervising Surgeon-General, thirty-five thousand dollars; and the—site. Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury, for use as a site for said laboratory, five acres of the reservation now occupied by the Naval Museum of Hygiene.
Books and journals for the use of the Marine-Hospital Bureau mayBooks, etc., for Bureau. be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Marine-Hospital Service. Quarantine Stations: For quarantine station, Reedy Island, DelawareQuarantinestations. River: For reclamation of ground and additional quarters, twelve thousand dollars; for boarding vessel, fifty thousand dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand dollars.
For quarantine station, Delaware Breakwater, Delaware: For bulk-heading,Delaware Breakwater. two thousand five hundred dollars. For Cape Fear quarantine station: For quarters for detained crews,Cape Fear. two thousand dollars. For quarantine station, Savannah. Georgia: For ballast gangway,Savannah, Ga. with tracks and cars and sheds, four thousand five hundred dollars. For Columbia River quarantine station: For hospital and lazaretto,Columbia River. for pumping station, and for mooring buoy and anchor, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For Port Townsend quarantine station: For boarding vessel, fortyPort Townsend. thousand dollars. Light-houses, Beacons, and Fog Signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. Fort Wadsworth light and fog-signal station, New York: For movingFort Wadsworth, N. Y.Removal to, of Fort Tompkins light. the light and fog signal now at Fort Tompkins to Fort Wadsworth both in the Narrows, New York Harbor, New York, and establishing a light and fog signal at Fort Wadsworth. New York, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars.
Norwalk Harbor lighted beacons, Connecticut: For completing establishmentNorwalk, Conn. of beacons at Round Beach, Fitchs Point. White Rock Reef, and Grassy Hammock, Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut, four hundred dollars. For a light and fog-signal station on Pecks Ledge. Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. For a light on Long Beach day beacon. Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a beacon light near Grubbs Landing, Delaware River, Delaware,Grubbs Landling, Delaware River. eight thousand dollars.
Tender for the inspector, Third light-house district: For completingTender, Third district. tender in accordance with authorized contract, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. 1138 Stuten Island, N. Y.Staten Island light-house depot, New York: For continuing the repairs and improvements to present buildings and grounds and the erection of a new oil house and lamp shop at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Ranges, Delaware River.Port Penn range, Reedy Island range, Finns Point range, Delaware River, New Jersey: For reestablishment of ranges, sixty thousand dollars. Hambrook Bar, Choptank River, Md.For the establishment of a beacon light on Hambrook Bar, Choptank River, Maryland, and beacon range lights to guide into the harbor of Cambridge, Maryland, ten thousand dollars. Point-no-Point, Md.For the establishment of a light-house and fog signal at Point-no-Point. Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, between Cove Point and Smiths Point, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Point Royal, N.C.Northwest Point Royal Shoal light-station, North Carolina: For rebuilding this light-house, thirty thousand dollars. Cape Fear, N.C.Cape Fear light-station, North Carolina: For completing the first-order light-station at or near the pitch of Cape Fear, North Carolina, thirty-five thousand dollars. Tender, Seventh district.Tender for the engineer of the Seventh light-house district: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for construction and repair service in the Seventh light-houseAdditional temporary draftsmen authorized. district, eighty-five thousand dollars.
And the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington not exceeding three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the tenders for which appropriations are made by this Act: such draftsmen to be paid from and equitably charged to the appropriations for building said vessels; such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessels being finished, proposals for building said vessels are invited by advertisement.
Sabine Bank, Tex.Sabine Bank light and fog-signal station, Texas: For completing light and fog-signal station on Sabine Bank, in the Gulf of Mexico, off Sabine Pass, forty thousand dollars. Tender, Eighth district.Tender for the Eighth light-house district: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Eighth light-house district, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Tender, Ninth district.Tender for the inspector Ninth light-house district:
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection, heretofore authorized for the Ninth light-house district, at a total cost not exceeding one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Tender for the engineer Ninth light-house district: The total cost of said tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Toledo, Ohio.Toledo Harbor light and fog-signal station, Ohio:
For completing a light and fog-signal station to mark the outer end of the main channel, entrance to Toledo Harbor, Ohio, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Point Dume, Cal.Point Dume, California: For the establishment of a light and fog signal station provided for by the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, sixty-three thousand dollars. Tender, Tenth district.Tender for the Tenth light house district: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the Tenth light-house district, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Table Bluff, Cal.Table Bluff light-station, California: To construct a telephone line from the light-house at Table Bluff, California, to connect with the general telephone system at Salmon Creek, Humboldt County, California, one thousand four hundred and eight dollars and forty-four cents. 1139 Relief light vessel for the Twelfth and Thirteenth light-house districtsRelief vessel, Twelfth and Thirteenth districts. (Pacific coast): For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light vessel, with steam fog signal: and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily atTemporary draftsmen.
Washington three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the light-house vessel for which appropriation may be made; such draftsmen to be paid from the appropriation for building said vessel: such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessel being finished, proposals for building said vessel are invited by advertisement, ninety thousand dollars. Admiralty Head, Washington: For the removal and reconstructionAdmiralty Head, Wash. of light-house buildings, to make way for new fortifications.
To be expended in part payment of the cost, twelve thousand dollars. Tender for the Thirteenth light-house district: For the completionTender, Thirteenth district. of a powerful seagoing tender for the Thirteenth light-house district, twenty thousand dollars. Tender for the Sixteenth light-house district: For completing steam—Sixteenth district. tender for the inspector Sixteenth light-house district, thirty thousand dollars. Light-House Establishment.Light-House Establishment.
Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption: for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian member of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improvingRepairs light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pier-head and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, six-hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations,Keepers’ salaries. rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, seven hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment, and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, andBuoyage. maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals; For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For establishing, supplying, and maintainingLighting of rivers. post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York: the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between 1140Philadelphia and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; York River; James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River. North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers;
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of sites.Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Oil houses.Oil houses for eight-stations: For establishing isolated oil houses *Proviso.*—limit cost.for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed live hundred and fifty dollars in cost.
Lights on channels of Great Lakes.Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars.
Porto Rico.Porto Rican light-house establishment: For maintaining existing aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional day marks, buoys, and beacon lights where required for Porto Rico and adjacent islands, seventy-five thousand dollars. Alaska.Light-house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue to establish, under the direction and supervision of the Light-House Board, light-house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters, two hundred thousand dollars.
Life-Saving Service.Life-Saving Service Superintendents.For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware. Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand live hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on 1141the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand one hundred dollars.
For Lyle gun, the beach apparatus used with it, and two surfboatsApparatus, Cape Nome, Alaska. of the latest improved construction for use on the coast at or near Cape Nome, Alaska, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For salaries of two hundred and eighty keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews. stations, including the old Chicago station, and at the building erected on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, New York,—Buffalo exposition. under authority of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge, repairs and outfits for same, rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters for officers of the Revenue-CutterCommutation of quarters.
Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the ActVol. 22, p. 57. approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same: and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head or life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million four hundred and seventy-two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
For a Lyle gun and the necessary beach apparatus used in connectionApparatus, Port Day, Niagara River. with it, together with a suitable boat, all to be placed at or near Port Day, on the Niagara River, at such point as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Bond. bond shall be given by proper individuals living in the neighborhood, conditioned for the care and preservation of the same and their application to the saving of life and property, five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theNew stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, forty thousand dollars. Revenue-Cutter Service.Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains,Salaries and expenses. lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers, and assistant engi1142neers, for pay of a constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law Anchorage.Vol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 30, p. 1081.in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March third, eighteen Vol. 27, p. 431.hundred and ninety-nine: and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million two hundred thousand dollars.
Revenue cutters; Pacific coast service.For the completion of one revenue cutter of the first class, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Pacific Vol. 30, p. 1081.coast, authorized by sundry civil Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. —on Great Lakes.For the completion of one revenue cutter of the first class, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Vol. 30. p.1081.Great Lakes, authorized by sundry civil Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars. —on St.
Marys River, Mich.For the construction, or purchase, under the direction of the Secretary of the, Treasury, of a vessel to be used and equipped as a revenue, cutter of the third class for service on the Saint Marys River, Michigan, for the purpose of protecting the revenue and enforcing the rules of navigation on said river, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the total cost of said vessel, either by purchase or under a contract, which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars. —at Boston, Mass.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase or build a suitable vessel to be used as a revenue cutter of the third class at Boston, Massachusetts, as provided in the Act approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and one, fifty thousand dollars.
Launch, Gloucester, Mass.For the purchase or construction of a launch for the customs service at Gloucester, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Engraving and Printing.Engraving and Printing. Salaries.For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers' assistants, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars, to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso.*Notes of larger denomination.*Ante*, p. 45.Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary 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.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secre1143tary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers' assistants, when employed, eight hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for*Proviso.*Notes of larger denomination. 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, exceptMaterials. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, two hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-three dollars. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-Office DepartmentRent. to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. Coast and Geodetic Survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of theExpenses survey of seacoasts, etc. coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts: tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip. and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by tue Light-House Board or other proper authority, and including traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and .maintenance of the complement of vessels; to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided*,Proviso.
That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriationAdvance of money. shall be made unless to a commissioned officer, or to a civilian officer, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of theField expenses. Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be. immediately available, and to continue available until expended: *Provided*,*Proviso.* That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amountOutlying islands. shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars.
For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, includingHawaiian Islands, Alaska etc. the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars. 1144 For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, five thousand dollars.
For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the, employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, ten thousand one hundred dollars. For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars.
For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars, to be immediately available and remain available until expended. International Geodetic Association.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to he paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars. *Proviso*.Interchangeable expenditures.*Provided*, That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall he available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation;
And hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to purchase, from the appropriation for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, provisions, clothing, and small stores for the enlisted men, and food supplies for field parties working in remote localities, such provisions, clothing, small stores, and food supplies to be sold to the employees of said Survey and the appropriation reimbursed; in all, for field expenses, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Repairs of vessels.For repairs and maintenance of vessels:
For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. Pay of officers and men.Officers and men, vessels, Coast Survey: For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.
Pay of seamen.Pay and subsistence of professional seamen: For pay and subsistence of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on the vessels of the Survey, to be immediately available, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Salaries.Superintendent.Salaries. Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, five thousand dollars; Assistants.For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; 1145 For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars;
For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars; For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For eight assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at nine hundred dollars each; For twenty-three aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousandOffice force. two hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each: For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely: For two. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;
For one, at six hundred dollars: For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two. at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at one thousand dollars each: For two, at nine hundred dollars each;
For one, at seven hundred dollars; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two. at two thousand dollars each; For one, at one thousand eight, hundred dollars; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, 1146instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For one, at one, thousand six hundred dollars;
For nine, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For one, at nine hundred dollars; For six, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each;
For two, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For one laborer, at five hundred and fifty dollars; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Office expenses.Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and sup-plies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting. and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs other than for buildings, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, contingencies or all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. Allowance.That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSmithsonian Institution.
International exchanges.International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-four thousand dollars. American ethnology.American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.
Astrophysical observatory.Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary hooks and periodicals, apparatus, printing and publishing results of researches, 1147not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, twelve thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is directed to report to Congress on the first day of the next regular session an entire account of all appropriations heretofore expended by the Astrophysical Observatory, what results have been reached, and what is the present condition of the work of said observatory.
National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliancesNational Museum. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, including five thousand dollars for electric installation, twenty-three thousand dollars. For removing old boilers in the National Museum building, and for the purchase and installation of new boilers, including material and labor for necessary alterations and connections, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum; and all other necessary incidental expenses. For purchase of specimens to supply deficiencies in the collections of the National Museum, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. For construction of two galleries in the National Museum building, five thousand dollars. For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand four hundred dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars.
National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction ofZoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, eighty thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Cathedral avenue and opening driveway into Zoological Park, including necessary grading and removal of earth.
FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars;Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc. chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer to Com-missioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; private secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one 1148thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars: one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Office of accounts.Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one: bookkeeper, one thousand and eighty dollars: in all, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Office of architect and engineer.Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand and twenty dollars.
Division of fish-culture.Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three: one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station. Washington, District of Columbia: Clerk, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars.
Central Station.Aquaria, Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixty dollars: skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds.Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Green Lake. Me.Green Lake (Maine) Station:
Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Craigs Brook, Me.Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
St Johnsbury, Vt.Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.
Woods Hole, Mass.Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist. nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand one hundred dollars. Cape Vincent, N. Y.Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all. five thousand seven hundred dollars.
Battery Island, Md.Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. 1149 Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixtyMarch 3, 1901. dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveBryans Point, Md. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fishculturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
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(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredWytheville, Va. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fivePut in Bay, Ohio. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one, thousand two hundredNorthville, Mich. dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveAlpena, Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fishculturist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredDuluth, Minn. dollars: foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNeosho, Mo. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fishculturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredLeadville, Colo. dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: Superintendent,San Marcos, Tex. one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveBaird and Fort Gaston, Cal. hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredClackamas, Oreg dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredManchester, Iowa dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredBozeman, Mont. dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveErwin, Tenn. hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at1150 five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Nashua, N. H.Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton, N. C.Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake, Wash.Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs, Ga.Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fishculturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Spearfish, S. Dak.Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fishculturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each: two fishculturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two coxswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Employees at large.Distribution employees: Four car captains, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant ear messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; four car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four ear cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Distribution employees.Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars: two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one clerk class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Division of inquiry, food-fishes.Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Division of statistics, etc.Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. Vessels.“Albatross.”Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars. “Fish Hawk.”Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. “Grampus.”Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs1151 to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operationsAdministration expenses. of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches,Propagation of food-fishes. including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, thirty-five thousand dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: For the purchase or construction of aMaintenance of vessels. vessel to be used on the Mississippi River for the Manchester
(Iowa)Station, five thousand dollars. Green Lake (Maine) Station: For the construction of additionalManchester, Iowa. ponds and procurement of increased water supply; for building railway and boathouse for steamer Senator, and for repairs to that vessel; for extension of wharf, repair of main Hume, and construction of road from station to county road, four thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses ofGreen Lake, Me. the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fishculture; for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesInquiry, food-fishes. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available inter-changeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. For the purchase of additional land and water rights and constructionStatistical inquiry. of additional ponds at the San Marcos, Texas, station, eight thousand dollars. For the establishment of a fish-hatching and fishculture station atSan Marcos, Tex. the town of Tupelo, in the State of Mississippi, twenty thousand dollars. For constructing and equipping a lobster hatchery upon the coast ofTupelo, Miss. Maine, including the purchase of land and water rights, authorized by the Act approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and one, ten thousand dollars. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Maine lobster hatchery.*Ante*, p. 759. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateInterstate Commerce Commission. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to giveSalaries. effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and nine thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may1152 be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office. In all, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses.Vol. 24, p. 379.Vol. 25, p. 855.Vol. 26, p. 743.The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “ Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and reappropriated by Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. Unexpended balance for expenses under “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce,” etc., reappropriated.Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090. etc.To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to enforce the requirements of the said Act, twenty-five thousand dollars. Enforcement of “Act to promote safety of employees, etc., on railroads.”Vol. 27, p. 531.MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Miscellaneous.Payment of debt of Hawaii: To carry into effect the agreement embodied in joint resolution “To provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands,” approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: For payment of the public debt of the Republic of Hawaii lawfully existing at the date of the passage of said resolution, three million two hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents; for payment of interest accruing thereon after June fifteenth, nineteen hundred, the date on which the Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii went into effect, until paid, or so much thereof as may be necessary, two hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-eight cents; for payment of commissions and all other expenses incurred in carrying into effect the terms of said resolution, or so much thereof as may be necessary, twenty thousand dollars; in all, three million four hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventeen cents, the same to be immediately available. Hawaii.Appropriation for paying public debt of.Vol. 30. p. 751.Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, sixty thousand dollars. Paper and stamps.Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hunred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriationPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. is made in this Act: *Provided*, That necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses 1153 Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent*Proviso*.Purchase of books for chemical laboratory. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin,Contingent expenses.Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/sec3653/p719). including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, one hundred thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have beenTransporting silver coin. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins*Proviso*.—condition. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, three thousand dollars. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin,Recoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/sec3512/p696). fifteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have beenTransporting minor coin. 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. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,*Proviso*.—condition. including transportation, salaries of register, three counters, five watch men, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:United States securities.Distinctive paper. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials—witness of destruction. required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printers’ varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, express—sealing and separating. charges, and other expenses, thirty-four thousand dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctiveExpenses, national currency. paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same: and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies,Canceling, etc. rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars: two subcustodians, one at two thousand and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, one million and eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury1154 shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein, and hereafter no other fund appropriated shall be used for this service. Public buildings.Assistant custodians janitors.General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of supplies.Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Inspector of furniture.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Furniture and repairs.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, nine hundred andFuel, lights, and water. fifteen thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by theGas. Secretary of the 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*Proviso*.Gas governors. shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter. Pheumatic tubes.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-sevenSuppressing counterfeiting. hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United1155 States court or preliminary examination before any United States com-missioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses. United States courts.” Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of[R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/sec4718/p919).*Proviso*.Witnesses. moieties in certain eases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisees’ meetings: For defraying the necessaryCompensation in lieu of moieties. expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofLocal appraisers meetings. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each: necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, andAlaskan seal fisheries. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska under the directionFood to natives. of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expensesSalmon fisheries. of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred dollars. Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent unlawfulEnforcing award of Paris tribunal.Vol. 28, p. 52. 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 May fifth,Chinese exclusion eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” two hundred thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid toVol. 57, p. 25. the collector of customs at Port Townsend as additional compensation, and one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of Immigration as additional compensation. Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcementAdditional compensation to collector, Port Townsend, and CommissionerGeneral of Immigration. of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge, from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter nothing in section four of theEnforcing alien contract-labor laws. Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Twenty-two Statutes, two hundred and fifty-five), shall be construed to prevent the detailing of one officer employed in the enforcement of the alien contract-labor laws for duty at the Treasury Department at Washington. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody,*Proviso*.Detail of officer for Washington. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. quarantine service.Lands For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officersQuarantine service. and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy1156 Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Key West, Mullet Key, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River, Port Townsend, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. prevention of epidemics. Maintenance.The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved Juno sixth, nineteen hundred,Prevention of epidemics. and five hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or other-wise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force. *Ante*, p. 612.UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department.public buildings. Public buildings.Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the General Post-Office building occupied by the Interior Department, ten thousand dollars. Repairs.Electric-light plant for the Department of the Interior buildings: For the establishment of an electric-lighting plant for buildings occupied by offices of Department of the Interior, the Patent Office building, the old Post-Office building, now occupied by the General Land and Indian bureaus, and the Pension Office building, and for improvement in the heating of the Patent Office buildings, including necessary conduits, the laying and construction of which are hereby authorized, seventy-four thousand dollars. Electric-light plant.That the appropriation of five thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to build an area and sewer from the west entrance of the Pension building and extending along the south side thereof to the eastern entrance, is hereby reappropriated for said objects and made available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. That the appropriation of seven thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for coal bin for storage of coal, to be built in connection with areaway of the Pension Office building, is hereby continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two for the same purpose. Area, etc., Pension building.Reappropriations.For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and not exceeding fifty dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, thirty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. For reconstructing and fireproofing the roof of the central portion of the Capitol building, including the restoration in fireproof construction of the ceilings of the Supreme Court room and Statuary Hall: for material and labor and necessary expenses incident thereto, one hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Capitol.Repairs, etc.To enable the Architect of the Capitol to prepare and submit to Congress at its next session plans, specifications, and estimates of cost for reconstructing and extending in a fireproof manner the central1157 portion of the Capitol building; the renovation and decoration of the rotunda; also for the construction of a fireproof building adjacent to the grounds of the Capitol building, to be used for offices, storage and power plant purposes connected with the Capitol building, one thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the—plans authorized for extending central portion of building. Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inFlags. the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of theCleaning works of art. 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, sixteen thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol andCapitol grounds. grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, thirty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house and Senate andLighting. House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and court-yards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary repairs and improvements of the steam heating andEngine house and stables. ventilating apparatus in the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the Supreme Court, legislative bell service and elevators, under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For the purpose of providing the document rooms of the SenateSenate; heating, etc. with fireproof shelving, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For repairs to the elevator in the Maltby Building, including new—shelving, document room. steel guides, ear platform, and cage and safety devices, and for labor and material, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For improving the ventilation of the Hall of Representatives andMaltby Building. the corridors adjacent thereto, including new floor for the Hall and the installation of new ventilating and heating apparatus, the ventilation of the House restaurant and kitchen, for materials, labor, appliances, and so forth, fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For refurnishing the Hall of the House of Representatives, theHouse of Representatives.Improving ventilation, etc. Speaker’s rooms, and the office of Sergeant-at-Arms, and for furniture for the new committee rooms in the old library portion of the building, sixty-one thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. For refitting the file room of the House of Representatives with metal fireproof eases, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. The three foregoing appropriations shall be expended under the—refurnishing Hall, etc. direction and supervision of a commission, consisting of three members-elect to the House of Representatives of the Fifty-seventh Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-sixth Congress. The Clerk of the House of Representatives, on written notice from—commission to supervise expenditures. any member of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-sixth Congress that he desires to purchase any one of the desks now used in the House, shall withhold such desk from public sale, and shall deliver the same to such member on his payment of an amount equal to the aver1158 age price received at public sale for the remaining desks, and all money so received shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. Purchase of old desks authorized.expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. Public lands.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, five hundred thousand dollars. Salaries registers and receivers.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred andContingent expenses, land offices. sixty thousand 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. *Proviso*.Authorization of expenditures.Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars. Depositing public moneys.Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp lands and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules 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, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars:Timber depredations, protecting public ands swampland. *Provided*, That agents 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. *Proviso*.Agents per diem.Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the 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,Forest reserves.Protection, etc., of.Vol. 30, p. 34. three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That 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,*Provisos*.Employees selected because, of fitness, etc. including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, That forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other persons employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game. Protection of fish.Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to deter-mine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, six thousand dollars. 1159 Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner ofHearings in land entries. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on tile and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of theReproducing plats of surveys. Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved AugustExaminations of desert lands. eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars. Preservation of records, General Land Office: For continuingVol. 28, p. 42. the work of rearranging, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder’s office of the General Land Office, one thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any balance remaining to the credit of the appropriationGeneral Land Office.Indexing, etc., recorder’s office. for this purpose for the current fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and uncontracted for on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two for the purposes indicated. Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For*Proviso*.Balance of appropriation available. furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*,Transcripts of records and plats. That copyists employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day each while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand. Payment of fees, and so forth, General Land Office: For the*Proviso*.—copyists. payment of revenue stamps, notarial and recording fees on reconveyances of land to the United States, five hundred dollars. surveying the public lands.Payment of fees, etc. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty-fiveSurveying public lands. thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, to be immediately available: *Provided*,Surveys, rates, etc. That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved*Provisos*.Preferences. February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for landVol. 25, p. 676. grants to the several States, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture, linos of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of theVol. 26, pp. 215, 222. General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, whereExtra rates for heavily timbered lands. the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided, further*, That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,—exceptional difficulties.1160 Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars forLands in California, Colorado, Idaho, etc. township, and twenty dollars for section lines. The provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, not exceeding six dollars per day, and such per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the Held, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making by such competent surveyors such fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. Provisions for compensation by the day instead of the mile in Oregon and California extended to above States.[R. S., sec. 2411, p. 441](/us/rs/sec2411/p441).Resurveys.For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah, and in rhe Territories of Arizona and New Mexico,Confirmed private land claims. confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys and for the examination of the surveys in the field. Vol. 26, p.S34.For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of theAbandoned military reservations. Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth,Vol. 23. p. 103. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. Casa Grande.For pay of a custodian of Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation, Idaho, four hundred and eighty dollars. Fort Sherman Reservation, Idaho.For survey of and marking, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the unsurveyed portions of the northern and western boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, estimated at sixty miles, at not exceeding fifty dollars per mile, three thousand dollars, and for the examination of said survey in the field, three hundred dollars: in all, three thousand three hundred dollars. Yellowstone National Park.Marking boundaries.united states geological survey. Geological Survey.Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Director, six thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: chief disbursing clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars: librarian, two thousand dollars: photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dol1161 lars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists,Salaries.Director, etc. at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars: For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars: For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Hereafter specific estimates shall be annually submitted to CongressScientific assistants. for all personal services, including those of a technical or scientific character, necessary to be employed in the office of the Geological Survey at Washington, District of Columbia. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For theSpecific estimates for personal services to be submitted annually. Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, sixteenExpenses. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Laborers. including examination of and report on the topography and geology of the territory adjacent to the forty-ninth parallel west of the one hundred and tenth meridian, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofGeological surveys. Alaska, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedAlaska resources. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of thePaleontologic researches. United States, twenty thousand dollars: For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Chemical, etc., researches. sixteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars: For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of theIllustrations. United States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume, and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directoriesMineral resources. and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, not to exceed one thousand dollars, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States,Books, etc. seventy thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of theMaps. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells in arid and semiarid sections, and the preparation of1162 reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources of said sections, one hundred thousand dollars; Water supply.For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Surveying forest re-serves.For rent of office rooms in Washington, District of Columbia, eleven thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, nine hundred and fifty thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. Rent.That the Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to lease from the Wiminuchi Ute tribe of Indians, for a period not exceeding ten years, all that tract of land known as the “Mesa Verde,” situated in the county of Montezuma in the State of Colorado, said tract of land to be described by metes and bounds, and the lease to include and cover all ruins and prehistoric remains situated therein, and said Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association to have the right to use and occupy said tract of land for the purpose of preserving and controlling said ruins and remains and protecting them from depredations. expenses twelfth census. Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association may lease the “Mesa Verde” tract of land, etc.For salaries and necessary expenses for taking and compiling the results of the Twelfth Census, in accordance with the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, providing for the Twelfth and subsequent censuses, and amendments thereto, three million five hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred and ten dollars, to continue available until expended. Twelfth Census.Vol. 30, p. 1014.miscellaneous objects. Miscellaneous.Yellowstone Park: For necessary repairs to the United States commissioners’ building in the Yellowstone National Park, and for the erection of a barn in connection therewith, four hundred and fifty dollars. Yellowstone Park.Expenses.Improvement of the Yosemite National Park: For protection of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars. Yosemite Park.Expenses.Improvement of the Sequoia National Park: For the protection of the park and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails and improvement and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Sequoia Park.Expenses.Improvement of the General Grant National Park: For protection and improvement of the park, construction of fences and trails and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand live hundred dollars. General Grant Park.Expenses.Supreme Court Reports: To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and eighty-six, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding twoSupreme Court Reports. dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven hundred and sixty dollars. Vol. 25, p. 661.Supplement to Revised Statutes: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, when the work shall be completed, for preparing1163 and editing a Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States for the Fifty-sixth Congress, under the Acts of February twenty-seventh,Supplement to Revises Statutes. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and June fourth, eighteenVol. 27, p. 477. hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand dollars. Biennial Register of the United States: For preparation ofVol. 30, p.30. the Official Register of the United States for nineteen hundred and one, including editing, proof reading, and indexing, five thousand dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses ofBiennial Register of the United States. 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, per-sons 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, three hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. The Secretary of War may, in his discretion, contract for the care,Government Hospital for the Insane.Expenses. maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Army, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on the Pacific coast at any State asylum in California, in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theSecretary of War may contract for care of army insane in California, etc. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars. To complete the renewal of the plumbing, and for fireproofing lavatory sections of the old building, six thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For additional electric machinery sufficient to furnish the necessary light for the present group of buildings, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For additional laundry machinery, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For kitchen furnishings for new kitchen and six-oven range for main kitchen, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For continuing the work of the extension of the hospital sufficientBuildings and grounds. to provide for one thousand patients, as authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, nineExtension of hospital. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and*Ante*, p. 619. directed to exchange a tract of land containing sixty acres, more or less, east of Nichols avenue and south of Congress Heights, for sixty acres, more, or less, adjoining the grounds or the Government Hospital for the Insane on the south, to be selected by said Secretary, the exchange to be made acre for acre. And the Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, if in his judgment advisable, to exchange such portion as he may deem equitable of the, agricultural land now owned by the Government, or of the farm opposite Alexandria, and known as Godding Croft, for eighty acres, more or less, lying immediately adjoining this said sixty acres and south of the present building1164 site of the hospital. In case such exchange is made the Secretary is also authorized in his discretion to grant a roadway along the south side of said tract, from Nichols avenue to the river, not exceeding ninety feet in width. Any of the buildings authorized in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for the Government Hospital for the Insane may be erected on land now owned or that may be acquired hereunder by the United States for the Government Hospital for the Insane. Exchange of lands authorized.For construction of a new stable building to be erected on the opposite side of Nichols avenue, adjacent to the other farm buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. New stable.Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam heating apparatus, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.Current expenses.Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars: For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars: For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history studies, and use in laboratories, including eases and shelving, two hundred dollars: In all, thirty-live thousand one hundred dollars. Howard University.Maintenance.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Alaska.Reindeer for.UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department.armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals.For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars. For entire completion of excavating rock, earth, and other matter from tailrace of the Government water-power dam at the Rock Island Arsenal below the junction of the tailraces of the Moline and Government dams of said power, one hundred and thirty thousand five hundred dollars. For replanking and repainting the Moline Bridge, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. 1165 Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For newRock Island, Ill. two-story carpenter shop, twenty-five thousand dollars; For new two-story-storehouse for factory supplies, fifteen thousand dollars: For one two-story brick shop for large caliber cartridge plant and additional machinery, fifty-five thousand dollars; East storehouse: For one Morse improved belt power elevator of two thousand pounds capacity, to operate at a speed of forty feet per minute, also a number two Crane electric motor, and the cutting and framing of hatchways and preparation of pit in cellar, and for renewal of six hundred square feet of flooring in first story, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; in all, ninety-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For the constructionFrankford Arsenal, Pa. of one fireproof building for storage and other purposes, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey: For building andSchuylkill Arsenal, Pa. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, storehouses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For generalSandy Hook Proving Ground, N.J. care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars. The unexpended balance of the sum appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for curbing and macadamizing Magazine street, is hereby made available for grading and macadamizing Lincoln street. Testing machine, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materialsSpringfield, Mass. in earing for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, fifteen thousand dollars. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For moving the old brick two-storied administration building to a new site, and converting it into two sets of noncommissioned officers’ quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars; For barracks for one company of enlisted men, thirty thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals andWatertown, Mass. powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, ninety thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Repairs. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows:Washington, D. C. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.Buildings and grounds. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, five thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, andImprovement and care. site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other thanReservation No. 17. property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting1166 watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools: trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand live hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. *Proviso*.Expenditure.One-half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Of the whole amount appropriated in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, under the title “Public buildings and grounds,” the sum of twenty--eight thousand three hundred and ninety dollars shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States. Half appropriations from District revenues.That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), one thousand dollars. For taking down, repairing, and resetting the Lincoln statue in front of Court-House, six hundred dollars. For placing inscriptions on the unmarked statues of Lafayette and Hancock, one hundred dollars. For construction of a brick building for shops, for carpenter, plumber, blacksmith, painter, and for each and every purpose connected there-with, for the entire system of parks under Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, eight thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For construction of a plant house at propagating gardens, two thousand live hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. Executive Mansion.Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers: purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of1167 all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That for each five-foot burner not connectedLighting. with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the*Provisos*.—maximum per lamp. average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That three thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoing—to burn every night, etc. sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States. For lighting six are electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds—amount payable from District revenues. within the iron fence three hundred and sixty-five nights, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: ForElectric lights. seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sums shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, three thousand eight hundred and six-teen dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes,—in parks. purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments andRepair of water pipes. Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theTelegraph, Capitol, Departments, etc Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month: one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month: one fireman, at fifty dollars per month: one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month: one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each: in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Washington Monument.Maintenance. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator ear and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of ail kinds connected with the Monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. That the appropriation of six thousand five hundred dollars forFuel, etc. addition to boiler house of the Washington Monument, made by sun-dry civil Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, is hereby alsoAddition to boiler house.1168 made available for the necessary water-pipe connections and for each and every purpose necessary to make said boiler house most effective for the elevator service. *Ante*, p. 623.military posts. Military posts.For the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement of, such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defense, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Construction.The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for continuing construction and improvements at the military post at Spokane, Washington, is hereby reappropriated and made available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, together with such additional sum out of the amount appropriated for construction of buildings at and enlargement of military posts as may in the discretion of the Secretary of War be necessary to be expended for continuing construction and improvements at said military post until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. Spokane, Wash.Unexpended ba1ance made available.Vol. 30, pp. 42, 629.For continuing work of rebuilding quarters, and for rebuilding commanding officer’s quarters at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty-five thousand dollars. Fort P. A. Russell, Wyo.For the construction of permanent buildings at Fort Meade, South Dakota, and for other necessary improvements, thirty-five thousand dollars. Fort Meade, S. Dak.For continuing the work of constructing the necessary buildings, quarters, barracks, and stables for the military post of Fort MacKenzie, in the vicinity of Sheridan, Wyoming, thirty-five thousand dollars. Fort MacKenzie, Wyo.For continuing the work of constructing the necessary buildings, quarters, barracks, and stables for the military post of Fort Lincoln, at Bismarck, North Dakota, thirty-five thousand dollars. Fort Lincoln, N. Dak.Toward the enlargement of Governor’s Island, two hundred thousand dollars; and for the erection of storehouses and other necessary buildings, in accordance with the plan reported by a board composed of Major-General John R. Brooke, Colonel George L. Gillespie, and Colonel Amos S. Kimball, dated July twenty-first, nineteen hundred, sixty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Governor’s Island.Enlarging, etc.Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, painting freight house, cleaning, painting and repairs to ironwork of wharf, and fuel, oil, and supplies for waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, seven thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eight thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, four thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; stone and labor for macadamizing streets, brick, cement, terracotta drainpipe, and catch basins: electric lights for streets; repairs to roads, pavements, walks, and street crossings, three thousand and forty-five dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. 1169 Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollar’s. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For theFort Monroe, Va. improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, and for the maintenance and repair of existing improvements, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That of thisYellowstone National Park. amount twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, expended in the Yellowstone and Teton forest reserves east and south of the park. For the administration and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand dollars. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For compensation*Proviso*.Amount available for Yellowstone and Teton forest reserves, east and south of park. and expenses of two civilian commissioners and the assistant in historical work; maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized by law: in all, fifty-eight thousand six hundred dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work ofNational parks.Chickamauga and Chattanooga. establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, iron gun carriages and historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingShiloh. the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, eighty thousand dollars. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work ofGettysburg. establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners, the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; oilice and other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated for that purpose, may be used in the purchase of lands as a part of the site for said park. 1170 Vicksburg.ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Engineer Department.Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under con-tract or otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Rivers and harbors improvements.Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuing construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six mile Island, and at Springdale, one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. Locks, etc., Allegheny River, Pa.Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For completing improvement, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Bayou Plaquemine, La.Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For continuing improvement, four hundred thousand dollars. Buffalo, N. Y.Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Cumberland Sound, Ga, and Fla.Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For continuing construction, two hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. Harbor of Refuge, Delaware Bay.Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis.Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement of harbor and bar entrance, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. Grays Harbor, Wash.Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For continuing construction, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Illinois and Mississippi canal.Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Kentucky River, Ky.Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Michigan: For continuing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Mich.Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: For continuing improvement, twenty-one thousand dollars. Portland, Me.Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement, fifty-nine thousand dollars. Providence River and Narragansett Bay, R. I.San Pedro, Cal.Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. Winyaw Bay, S. C.Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of harbor at Winyaw Bay, five hundred thousand dollars. Yazoo River, Miss.Improving Yazoo River, Mississippi: For completing improvement of mouth of Yazoo River and harbor of Vicksburg, five hundred and ten thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: Ashtabula, Ohio.Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For continuing improvement, two thousand dollars. Boston, Mass.Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For completing improvement under project for thirty-foot depth through Broad Sound Channel, one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. Bridgeport, Conn.Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For continuing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Gowanus Bay, N. Y.Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuing improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Black Warrior Riv-er, Ala.Improving Black Warrior River, Alabama: For completing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Four, above Tuscaloosa, fifty-three thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars. Big Sandy River, W. Va. and Ky.Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: For continuing improvement by the construction of two locks and dams1171 between Louisa and mouth of the river, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Improving Calumet Harbor, Illinois: For continuing improvement,Calumet Harbor, Ill. two hundred and fifty-live thousand dollars. Improving Congaree River, South Carolina: For continuing improvementCongaree River, S. C. from Gervais street bridge, Columbia, to Granby, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuingDelaware River, Pa.and N.J. improvement, sixty-one thousand live hundred dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvement,Detroit River, Mich. three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Everett, Washington: For continuing improvement,Everett, Wash. ninety thousand dollars. Improving Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement,Hudson River, N. Y. one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to Minneapolis,Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio to Minneapolis. Minnesota: For continuing improvement between Saint Paul and Minneapolis, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuing improvementNew York Harbor, Ambrose Channel. of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For continuingNew Haven, Conn. improvements, fifty thousand dollars. Improving waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to sounds of NorthWaterway from Norfolk to Sounds of North Carolina. Carolina: For continuing improvement of Deep Creek, Virginia, Turners Cut, Croatan Sound, and Pasquotank River, North Carolina, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River below Pittsburg, Pa. construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, forty thousand dollars. Improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia: For continuing improvement,Ocmulgee River, Ga. forty thousand dollars. Improving Patapsco River, Maryland: For continuing improvementPatapsco River, Md. of channel to Baltimore, four hundred and seventy-five thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars. Improving Potomac River: For improvement below the city ofPotomac River. Washington, ninety-eight thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan: For completingSt. Joseph, Mich. improvement, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River, Georgia: For continuing improvementSavannah River, Ga. between Augusta and Savannah, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement ofTampa Bay, Fla. channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Port Tampa, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For continuing improvement,Toledo, Ohio, harbor. eight thousand dollars. Improving Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi:Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Ala, and Miss. For continuing improvement of Warrior River by the construction of the three locks and dams next below Tuscaloosa, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalMaintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay ofSuperintendents. seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. 1172 Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones fob graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and otherVol. 17, p. 545. burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 20, p. 218. seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Roadways.Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by*Proviso*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. special authority of Congress: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. Staunton, Va.For repairing and improving Government roadway from Staunton, Virginia, to the national cemetery, two thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers.Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Presidio of San Francisco.Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. Antietam battle-field.Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, war department. Bringing home deceased soldiers.Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be 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. —civilian employees, Army.Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, fifty thousand dollars. Maps.Maps, War Department: For publication of maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars. 1173 Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey ofSurvey of northern, etc., lakes. northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses of correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be available until expended, one hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transporting maps. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limits. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesAppliances for disabled soldiers. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For theProvidence Hospital.Destitute patients. support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars; for the erection and equipment of a power house and nurses’ home to be erected at Providence Hospital, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Com-missioners of the District of Columbia; in all, sixty-nine thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provideGarfield Hospital.Maintenance. medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars; for pointing up and painting all the interior walls and ceilings of the isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at the Garfield Hospital, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, one-half of which sum hall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. establishment of apache prisoners at fort sill, oklahomaEstablishing Apache Indians at Fort Sill, Okla. Territory: For the erection of buildings and repairs to same, purchase of draft animals, and livestock for breeding purposes, farm and house-hold utensils, blacksmith and wheelwright tools, and repairs to same, and all other necessary articles absolutely needed for the support and maintenance of the Apache prisoners of war permanently established at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, under control of the War Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of theCalifornia Dëbris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507. commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, andInspectors, etc. expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of five steam tugs and three launches, fifty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars; For electric plant and steam steering gear and installing same, andRepairs, tug Nimrod. generally overhauling and repairing steam tug Nimrod, four thousand two hundred dollars; In all, seventy-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Statue of General John A. Logan: To defray the expensesStatue of Gen. John A. Logan.Expenses unveiling. attending the unveiling of the statue of General John A. Logan, lately1174 erected in Iowa circle, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the commission charged with the selection of a site and erection of a pedestal for said statue, to be immediately available. —of Gen. George B. McClellan.Site and pedestal authorized. Statue of General George B. McClellan: For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of the late Major-General George B. McClellan in the city of Washington, said site to be selected by and said pedestal erected under the supervision of the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, the Secretary of War, and the chairman of the McClellan statue committee of the *Provisos*.Society of the Army of the Potomac, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, —balance available for statue.That any part of this sum not required for the site and pedestal may be used and expended for the completion of the statue of General —location.McClellan: *And provided further*, That said statue shall not be located in the grounds of the Capitol or Library of Congress. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio. At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members, and for such other expenditures as cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Subsistence. For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Household. For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officer’s quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light: for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Hospital. For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all 1175other articles necessary for the wards: for hospital kitchen and dining room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining-room employees: carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins: for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Transportation,Home, two thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, Repairs, etc.carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas titters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, sixty-five thousand dollars: For extension of electric-light plant, ten thousand dollars; For improvement and general overhauling of hospital, twelve thousand dollars; For cement walks and crossings, ten thousand dollars; For one barrack dining room and kitchen combined, and furniture, forty-five thousand dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, Farm.farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work: for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; for rent of leased lands, and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, six hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For Milwaukee, Wis.current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For nurses’ quarters and furniture, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For chaplains’ quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. That the jurisdiction over the places purchased and used for the Jurisdiction over sites Branch Homes ceded to States.location of the Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under and by the authority of an Act of Congress approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in Milwaukee —Milwaukee County, Wis.County, State of Wisconsin, and upon which said Branch Home is located, and by authority of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, 1176—Leavenworth County, Kans.Vol. 14, p. 10, etc. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in the county of Leavenworth, State of Kansas, and upon which said Branch Home is located, is hereby ceded to the respective States in which said Branches are located and relinquished by the United States, and the United States shall claim or exercise no jurisdiction over said places after the passage of this Act: *Proviso*.Powers Board of Managers animpaired.*Provided*, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to impair the powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in and on said places. Togus, Me. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same object specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars: For new cemetery, two thousand five hundred dollars; For road, necessary drainage, and excavation, five thousand dollars; For two boilers, connections, and setting up, to replace old and worn-out boilers, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For commissary quarters and furniture, six thousand five hundred dollars; The four preceding sums shall be immediately available: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; In all, two hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Hampton, Va. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-six thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For completing repairs to breakwater, six thousand five hundred dollars; For extension of hospital complete, four thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and fifty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Leavenworth, Kans. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand seven hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-five thousand dollars; 1177 For hospital, including the same objects specified under this bead for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand dollars; For extension of boiler house and plant, six thousand five hundred dollars; For chaplain’s quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the, Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and forty-three thousand two hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current Santa Monica, Calexpenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For addition to hospital dining room and kitchen, and septic tank for hospital sewage, eleven thousand dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and sixty thousand five hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current Marion, Ind.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand dollars: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for repairs for any of the *Proviso*.Appropriations for repairs not available for new buildings.Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For barrack, dining room, and kitchen (combined), thirty-eight thousand dollars: For blacksmith’s shop, one thousand dollars: For officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars: In all, two hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, Danville, Ill.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; 1178 For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the, Home, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and seventy-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. Board of Managers.Salaries, etc. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars: assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, two thousand dollars; two assistant inspectors-general, at two thousand dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, ten thousand dollars; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, three thousand four hundred dollars; agents, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, fifteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, five thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-four dollars. Amount. In all, three million and seventy-three thousand one hundred and *Proviso*.Auditing accounts.forty-four dollars: *Provided*, That the accounts relating to the expenditure of all public moneys appropriated for the support and maintenance of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be audited by the Board of Managers of said Home in the same manner as is provided for the accounts of the various Departments of the United States Government, and thereupon immediately transmitted directly to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department for final audit and settlement. Designation of officer to act for treasurer and quartermaster at Branch Homes. Hereafter the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may, in their discretion, designate and authorize an officer at each or any of the several Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to perform such duties in connection with the offices of the treasurer and quartermaster at any such Branch as they may direct, and in the necessary absence or inability of either of said officers from any cause whatever to have power to act in their places and perform all of the duties connected with the said respective —bond of.offices. All officers so designated and authorized to act as provided hereunder shall give bond to the general treasurer of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in such amount as he may require, and to be approved by him, faithfully to account for all public moneys and property which they may receive. State or Territorial Homes. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in 1179conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen Vol. 25, p.450.hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums *Proviso*.Deductions.retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay Arrears of pay and bounty.of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, Vol. 14, p. 322.eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, and to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to members of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry.Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, their heirs, or the duly authorized attorney of either, the pay and allowances of such officers and soldiers in accordance with the findings and report made by the referee appointed under the provisions of the Act approved February twenty-seventh, Vol. 30, p. 894.Payments to authorized.eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act for the relief of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry,” that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the, Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account Arrears of pay, etc., Spanish war.of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. International Conference of American States: The appropriation International conference of American States.of twenty-five thousand dollars made in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for actual and *Ante*, p. 637.necessary expenses of delegates to the proposed International Conference of American States, and for necessary clerical assistance, is hereby made available for and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. United States and Chilean Claims Commission: To carry into United States and Chilean Claims Commission.Appropriation for.effect the convention between the United States and Chile of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to revive the convention for the settlement of certain claims of the citizens of either country against the other, signed at Santiago on the seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the, direction of the President, in such manner as he shall deem reasonable and proper, for the compensation of the commissioner, the secretary, and the agent on the part of *Provisos*.Salaries of commissioner, etc.the United States, for the employment of special counsel as assistant to the agent of the United States, and for the contingent expenses of the commission, including the moiety of the compensation of the third commissioner and the taking of testimony on behalf of the United States: *Provided*, That the compensation of the commissioner on the part of the United States shall be five thousand dollars; that of the secretary on the part of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars; that of the agent of the United States, four thousand dollars, and that of the special counsel, three thousand dollars, and that the ratable Ratable deduction on awards, etc.deduction on the amount of the sums awarded by the commissioners, not exceeding the rate of five per centum on the sums so awarded, which, in accordance with the provisions of the tenth article of the Vol. 27, p. 965.revived convention of August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-1180two, is to be retained in reimbursement of the expenses of the commission, Reimbursement of “Emergency” appropriation on account of payments for prior expenses of commission.shall be covered into the Treasury: *And provided further*, That out of the money hereby appropriated the Secretary of the Treasury shall credit and reimburse to the appropriation for “ Emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service, nineteen hundred and one,” the total amount withdrawn therefrom, under the President’s direction, to meet the expenses of the commission prior to the passage of this Act. Department of Justice. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Court-house, District of Columbia. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs, as per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. Fort Leavenworth, Kans., penitentiary. For continuing construction of the new United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended. Miscellaneous. miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For 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, forty-five thousand dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts, Indian service. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes.Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars. Traveling expenses.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Prosecution of claims. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Alaska.Traveling expenses. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, three thousand dollars. Rent. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals, attorneys, and salaried commissioners in the district of Alaska, ten thousand dollars. 1181 Temporary quarters for Court of Claims: For rental of temporary —for Court of Claims.quarters for the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses Defense in Indian depredation claims.in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty-two thousand dollars. Counsel for Mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-General to Counsel for Mission Indians.employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. Opinions of the Attorney-General: To enable the Attorney-General Digest of opinions of the Attorney-General.to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the twenty-third volume of the Opinions of the Attorney-General in such manner as will, in his judgment, best accomplish the work, five hundred dollars, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes. Care and maintenance of buildings rented by Department of Care rented buildings.Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General and to be expended under his direction, eight thousand dollars. JUDICIAL. Judicial. That the commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act making Revision and codification of laws of a permanent and general nature authorized.Vol 30, p. 58, etc.appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States, is hereby, directed to revise and codify, in accordance with the terms and provisions of said Act and the Acts supplementary thereto, all laws of the United States of a permanent and general nature in force at the time when the same shall be reported. That in performing this duty the said commission shall bring together Changes in existing law authorized.all statutes and parts of statutes relating to the same subjects, shall omit redundant and obsolete enactments, and shall make such alterations as may be necessary to reconcile the contradictions, supply the omissions, and amend the imperfections of the original text; and may propose and embody in such revision changes in the substance of existing law; but all such changes shall be clearly set forth in an —report on.accompanying report, which shall briefly explain the reasons for the same. That the said commission shall arrange such revision under titles, Arrangement of chapters, etc.chapters, and sections, or other suitable divisions and subdivisions, with head notes briefly expressive of the matter contained in such division, and with marginal notes so drawn as to point to the contents of the text, and with references to the original text from which each section is compiled, and to the decisions of the courts of the United States explaining or construing the same; and shall provide by an index for an easy reference to every portion of such revision. That when the commission have completed such revision in accordance Reenactment by Congress.herewith, it shall cause a copy of the same, in print, to be submitted to Congress, that the statutes so revised and codified may be reenacted if Congress shall so determine. 1182 Additional district judges.Salaries. For salaries of the additional district judges of the United States for the northern district of Ohio, the southern district of West Virginia, and the eastern district of Kentucky, at five thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. United States courts. united states courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims; of the district court of the United States for Porto Rico; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations namely: Marshals.—salaries. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses or United States marshals and their deputies, one million two hundred thousand dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States —advances to.or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and one, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one or prior years. District attorneys. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred *Proviso*.Appropriation available for Supreme Court cases.and ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation, and the like appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, shall be available for the payment, upon approval of the Attorney-General, of expenses of United States district attorneys, or their regular assistants, m connection with services rendered or to be rendered by direction of the Attorney-General within the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, respectively, in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. United States attorney, D. C. For fees of United States districts attorney for the District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. Regular assistants to district attorneys. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special eases, sixty thousand dollars. Clerks’ fees. For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Commissioners’ fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section ten hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Jurors’ fees. For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Witnesses’ fees. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Rent of court rooms. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, *Proviso*.Skagway, Alaska.Purchase of certain property authorized in lieu of construction of court-house and jail.*Ante*, p. 333.one hundred and five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in lieu of the construction of a court-house and jail at Skagway, Alaska, as authorized by section thirty-one, chapter one, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, the property described in House Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-eight, second session Fifty-sixth Congress, may be purchased by order of the first division of the district court for 1183Alaska, at an expense not exceeding eight thousand dollars, to be paid as provided in said section thirty-one, after the United States district judge and attorney shall have carefully examined the title to said property and certified the same to be good and sufficient. 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*, *Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).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.Traveling expenses, judges, etc.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 Meals for jurors, etc.cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars —jury commissioners.per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Miscellaneous.by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of clerks, deputy clerks, commissioners, Indian Territory.Salaries, etc.and constables, and expenses of judges, in the Indian Territory, including the salaries of three deputy clerks, one at Muscogee, one at South McAlester, and one at Ardmore, sixty thousand dollars. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be Supplies.expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. Fees of district attorney, southern district of New York: District attorney, southern district of New York.[R. S., sec. 825, p. 154](/us/rs/s825/p154).For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five. Revised Statutes, one hundred dollars. 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, and not exceeding three thousand dollars for repair of United States jails, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the support of the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, United States penitentiary. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such Clothing, etc.clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty thousand dollars; For fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for Fuel, etc.generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage 1184for issue to public animals and hay or straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, type writing supplies for use in offices and prisoners’ school, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam heating plant, electric plant, and water circulation, and drainage; for materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in news papers proposals for supplies, and other necessary advertisements; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney-General, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; Salaries. For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, three hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, eight hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, sixty thousand nine hundred dollars; For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows; Supplies, etc. For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, and deputy warden, tobacco for prisoners: kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils: farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice, twenty-five thousand dollars; Nothing, etc. For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can he made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and tor rewards for their recapture, twelve thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, hay, straw, light, water, stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing stream heating plant, electric plant, water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for 1185general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, electrical supplies; for advertising in newspapers; for telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in eases of emergency: and for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical Hospital.instruments, and supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Salaries.Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; assistant deputy warden, or captain of day watch, nine hundred dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; stenographer and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; captain of night watch, nine hundred dollars; steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; farmer and master of transportation, one thousand dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; guards (thirty, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each), twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, forty thousand seven hundred dollars; In all, ninety-four thousand two hundred dollars. *Provided*, That said United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, *Proviso*.Provisions for conduct of.Vol 26, p. 839.shall be carried on in accordance with sections four, five, eight, and nine of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act for the erection of United States prisons and for the imprisonment of United States prisoners, and for other purposes:” *Provided further*, That the Attorney-General is authorized to Transfer to Atlanta of certain prisoners.transfer, in his discretion, to said United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, such persons now undergoing sentences of confinement, imposed by the United States courts, in other institutions, as can conveniently be accommodated therein: *Provided further*, That convicts —limit of employment of convict labor.in said United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, may be employed in the manufacture of articles and the production of supplies for said penitentiary; in the manufacture of supplies for the Government that can be manufactured without the use of machinery; in the construction, extension, and repairs of buildings and inclosures of the prison, and in making necessary materials therefor; and in the cultivation and care of the prison grounds and farm. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Senate: For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others Senate.Clerks to Senators.in the service of the Semite, namely, for ten clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture for the new committee rooms of the Senate in the, old library portion of the Capitol, twenty-one thousand dollars. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, 1186or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fifty-sixth Congress, as required by Vol. 25, p.587.the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Chester H. Rowell.Payment to. For the payment to Chester H. Rowell for the manuscript, together with a complete index, of a Digest of all the Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives from the First to the Fifty-sixth Congress, inclusive, and for the proof reading and supervising the printing of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc. BOTANIC Garden: For reconstructing roofs of plant house numbered five and propagating houses numbered one and two, south side of Maryland avenue, with cast-iron sills and wrought-iron rafters and purlins, and reconstructing roofs of west side of plant house numbered one and east side of plant house numbered two, south side of Maryland avenue, erecting new soil sheds with tin roof, and for painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. Employees, for additional rooms allotted to House, in old library space. Under Architect of the Capitol: For the following, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol and be appointed with the approval of the Speaker, for service in connection with the additional rooms allotted to the House in the old Furniture, new committee rooms.library space, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, namely: One laborer to care for toilet rooms, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum: and two elevator conductors, at the rate of one thousand one hundred dollars per annum each; in all, three thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twelve cents. Statue of Rochambeau.Purchase of replica of, etc. Statue of Rochambeau: For the purchase by the Joint Committee on the Library of a replica of the bronze statue of Rochambeau by Ferdinand Hamar, and pedestal for the same, seven thousand five hundred dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for 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, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, 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, four Amountmillion six hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Allotment. For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, and for rents, two million eight hundred and thirty thousand five hundred dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, thirty thousand dollars. 1187 For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the War Department, two hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion by the Record and Pension Office is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. For the Navy Department, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office, and not exceeding seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available, for publication of the International Code of Signals and copies of said International Code of Signals may be sold to the public at cost of printing, including cost of composition, presswork, folding, paper, binding, engraving, and electrotyping. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletins” and “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, seventeen thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, fifteen thousand dollars; and said sum shall complete all engravings and illustrations for said report, and no deficiency shall be made in this appropriation, and said report shall be confined to four volumes. For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twenty thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, thirteen thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twelve thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agricultural report Vol. 28 p. 612.Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated Division of appropriation.shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, 1188in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments *Proviso*.Agricultural report excepted.for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided*, That so much as may be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotments. Leaves of absence. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Webster statue.Proceedings on reception of; report ordered printed, etc. That there be printed and bound one thousand six hundred copies of the proceedings in connection with the reception of the Webster statue on January eighteenth, nineteen hundred, in the form prescribed by law for eulogies, of which one hundred shall be for the use of the donor of the statue, three hundred delivered to the Senators and Representatives of the States of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, four hundred for the use of the Senate, and eight hundred for the use of the House of Representatives, and that the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to procure a photogravure of the said statue, and photogravures of each of the two bronze panels, and of the unveiling, for insertion in said volumes. Appropriation for new building. For completion of construction of a fire-proof building for the use of the Government Printing Office and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the cost of all professional and other personal services that the Chief of Engineer’s of the Army may deem necessary and for necessary books and periodicals, and for the rent of office rooms in a locality convenient to the work, to be expended under the direction Statement of appropriations.and supervision of the said Chief of Engineers, one million three hundred and four thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. Sec. 2. Appropriation for salaries to be in full, etc.That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 3. Arid lands.When time limit for reclamation, etc., by States begins to run.Vol. 28, p. 422.That section four of the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended so that the ten years’ period within which any State shall cause the lands applied for under said Act to be irrigated Vol. 29, p. 434.and reclaimed, as provided in said section as amended by the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall begin to run from the date of approval by the Secretary of the Interior of the —failure to reclaim, etc.—restoration to public domain.State’s application for the segregation of such lands; and if the State fails within said ten years to cause the whole or any part of the lands so segregated to be so irrigated and reclaimed, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, continue said segregation for a period of not exceeding five years, or may, in his discretion, restore such lands to the public domain. Sec. 4. Hot Springs, Ark.Determination of value of certain condemned buildings destroyed by lire authorized.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to determine the value of certain condemned buildings formerly located on Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, and on the east side of Valley street, in the city of Hot Springs, in the State of Arkansas, which buildings were condemned by the Hot Springs Commission, and proof of value taken by said commission, under authority of law, and which were destroyed by fire on the night of the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, before said commission had issued certificates for the value thereof, as they were authorized and directed, and did afterwards do for buildings similarly 1189situated, but not burned. That the value of each building so condemned and burned shall be determined by the Secretary from the petitions and evidence filed before said commission by the owners or occupiers thereof, by order of said commission, and now on tile in the Interior Department, or such other evidence as the claimants may tile, and after such investigation as he may think proper. Sec. 5. That a sum of money sufficient to pay for such investigation —payment of values to claimants.and the claims so ascertained and fixed by the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to such person or persons, claimants, their executors, administrators, the sum or sums of money equal to the values so as aforesaid found by him. Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Interior is required to report to —report.Congress the results of his action under the foregoing sections. Approved, March 3, 1901.
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