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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 32 STAT. · March 3, 1901 · Chapter 1006

Chapter 1006. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1006.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. [[Public, No. 156](/us/pl/57/156).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sumsDeficiencies appropriations. be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.Executive Office. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationeryContingent expenses therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriages, horses, and harness, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Executive Office,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-three cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Executive Office,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seven cents. STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchaseStationery, etc. of passport paper, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horses,Contingent expenses. to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, 1032and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and miscellaneous items not included in the fore-going on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixteen cents. Purchase of horses, etc.For the purchase of horses and vehicles for the official use of the Department of State, one thousand two hundred dollars. Editing laws.To reimburse the law clerk of this Department for expenses incurred in connection with the editing of the laws of the first session of the Fifty-seventh Congress, namely:
Clerk hire, expert assistance, indexing, and so forth, one thousand five hundred dollars. Assistant.To pay the assistant law clerk to be appointed by the Secretary of State to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as *Ante*, p. 867.may be required of him, as provided for by the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes, for services from December first, nineteen hundred and two, until July first, nineteen hundred and three, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Great Seal.Amount for recutting continued.To enable the Secretary of State to have the Great Seal of the United States recut from the original model, and to purchase a suitable press for its use and a cover to protect the same from dust, the *Ante*, p. 562,sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars appropriated by the deficiency act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, “To enable the Secretary of State to have the Great Seal of the United States recut,” is hereby reappropriated for the purposes above mentioned.
Italy.Indemnity for subjects killed, etc., Erwin, Miss.To pay, out of humane consideration, without reference to the question of liability therefor to the Italian Government, as full indemnity to the heirs of Giovanni and Vincenzo Serio, who were slain, and to Salvatore Liberto, who was injured by an armed mob at Erwin. Mississippi, on July eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, five thousand dollars. Dispatch agency.Rent.For rent of offices for the United States dispatch agency, New York City, from January first, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, one thousand five hundred dollars. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse.
Contingent expenses, missions.Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of cavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department, of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, twenty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-three cents. Solomon Hirsch.Payment to estate of.To pay to the estate of Solomon Hirsch, deceased, late United States minister to Turkey, under the following appropriations, namely: Salaries of diplomatic officers while receiving instructions and en transit, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, sixty-three dollars and 1033sixty-five cents; and steam launch for legation at Constantinople, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven dollars and four cents; total, seventy dollars and sixty-nine cents.
Continuent expenses, United States consulates: For expensesContingent expenses, consulates. of providing all such stationery, blanks, records and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, forty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, fifty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, twelve thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-six cents.
Salaries, chargé d’affaires ad interim: To pay amounts foundChargés d’affaires ad interim. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, chargé d’affaires ad interim,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four hundred and twelve dollars and seventysix cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, chargé d’affaires ad interim,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents.
International Union of American Republics: To pay amountsInternational Union of American Republics. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “International Union of American Republics,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two dollars and seventy-four cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two dollars and seventy-four cents. Publication of diplomatic, consular, and commercial reports:Consular, etc., reports.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Publication of diplomatic, consular, and commercial reports,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-five cents. Authority is hereby given to extend the leave of absence from hisMinister to Venezuela.Leave extended. post of duty, with pay, of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Venezuela for such time as the President may direct.
The appropriation of seven thousand five hundred dollars, made forPersia.Appropriation available for envoy.*Ante,* p. 808. the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, for salary of a minister resident and consul-general to Persia is hereby made available for the salary of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Persia for said fiscal year. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of Treasurer of the United States (national currency to be reimbursed by national banks):Treasurer’s office.Redemption of national currency.
For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three: For two clerks of class one; two clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum; two clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum; and three clerks, at the rate of seven hundred dollars each per 1034annum; in all, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Counters.For the temporary employment by detailing from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of additional counters adequate to assort the congested notes in the national bank redemption agency of the office of the Treasurer of the United States, to be used to reimburse the appropriations of the Bureau for the force so detailed, three thousand dollars.
Register’s office.Counters.Office of the Register: For the following for the remainder of the current fiscal year, namely: For nine counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; and one laborer, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum; two thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents, or so much thereof as may he necessary. Supervising Architect.Additional draftsmen, etc.Office of Supervising Architect: The services of skilled drafts-men, civil engineers, computers, accountants, assistants to the photographer, copyists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed, in addition to those now authorized, in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against *Proviso.*Limit of increase.such appropriations: *Provided,* That the additional expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars: and the Secretary of the Treasury shall in the next annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
Contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses: For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, four thousand dollars. Stationery.For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, eight thousand dollars. Rent, additional quarters.For rent of buildings (for rental of additional quarters in building numbered nine hundred and twenty to nine hundred and twenty-two E street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, two sections on sixth floor, for files and storage purposes (at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum) as follows:
From March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand dollars); in all, two thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents. For the erection of shelving on the sixth floor of buildings numbered nine hundred and twenty and nine hundred and twenty-two E street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, and to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two thousand two hundred dollars.
Transferring records, etc.For transferring documents and records from Treasury building and annexes to buildings numbered nine hundred and twenty and nine hundred and twenty-two E street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, and to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars. For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, three hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department:
Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and ninety cents. For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to 1035be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, five hundred dollars. For purchase of file holders and file cases, one thousand dollars. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, ventilators, typewriters, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, five thousand dollars.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,Lighting. gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, three thousand five hundred dollars. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings andMiscellaneous. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters;
Hower garden, street and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates; hand stamps, and repairs of same; stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public, auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, five thousand dollars.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage, etc. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, three hundred and one dollars and fifty-six cents. To pay the account of the Smithsonian Institution for the transmission of mail matter for the Treasury Department on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and forty-nine dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-five cents.
Purchase of registering accountants, numbering machines, and otherNumbering machines, etc. machines of a similar character, and repairs thereto, one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia: ForRewiring building. rewiring Treasury building for electric lighting, twenty thousand dollars. For the new roadway west side Treasury premises, including coalRoadway. scales, two thousand five hundred dollars. For remodeling printing office, fourth floor Treasury building, forPhotograph gallery. accommodation of photograph gallery, one thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses, independent treasury: To supply a deficiencyIndependent treasury, contingent expenses. in the appropriation for contingent expenses, independent treasury, twenty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: To supply a deficiency in theTransporting silver coin. appropriation for transportation of silver coin, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand seven hundred and four dollars and thirty-one cents.
Recoinage of gold coins: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationRecoinage gold coins. for recoinage of gold coins, three thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Recoinage of gold coins” for 1036the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars and nine cents. Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents.
Compensation in lien of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Compensation in lieu of moieties” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and fifty dollars. Alaskan natives.Supplies for native inhabitants of Alaska: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Supplies for native inhabitants of Alaska” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eighty-six dollars and twenty cents.
Quarantine service.Repairs to vessels.Quarantine service: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Repairs to vessels, quarantine service,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, ten cents. Antoria, Oreg.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Quarantine station, Astoria, Oregon,” five dollars and twenty-five cents. Chinese exclusion.Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act:
To prevent unlawful 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, fifty thousand dollars. Deportation to Hongkong.For bills incidental to the deportation of Chinamen to Hongkong, China, and payment of salaries of Chinese inspectors, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Collecting customs revenue.Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, two million three hundred thousand dollars. Blanks and Norton.Reimbursement.Reimbursement to Blanks and Norton: To reimburse Blanks and Norton, of Shreveport, Louisiana, the amount of a certified cheek (thirty-five dollars) deposited by them to guarantee the faithful performance of a contract to supply fuel to the court-house and post-office building at Shreveport, Louisiana, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and wrongfully used by the custodian of said building, who died before said illegal use was disclosed, thirty-five dollars.
J. N. Ornelas, etc.Payment to.Payment to J. N. Ornelas and other Mexican citizens for cattle seized: To pay J. N. Ornelas and other Mexican citizens the appraised foreign value of certain seventy-two head of cattle improperly seized and sold by the collector of customs at El Paso, Texas, and the proceeds covered into the Treasury, three hundred and ninety-one dollars. San Francisco. Cal., harbor commissioners.Payment to.Payment to board of State harbor commissioners, San Francisco, California:
To pay the board of State harbor commissioners, San Francisco, California, for damages caused by the revenue steamer Thetis to Howard street wharf and shed April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, as found by a board of investigation convened for that purpose, sixty-four dollars. C. W. Battle.Reimbursing postal revenues, accounts of.Reimbursement to postal revenues on account of C. W. Battle: To reimburse the postal revenues the amount of judgment recovered in case United States against C.
W. Battle and the sureties on his 1037bond as postmaster at Brattleboro, North Carolina, and erroneously covered into the General Treasury, two hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. Distinctive paper for United States securities: To supply aDistinctive paper, securities. deficiency in the appropriation for distinctive paper for United States securities, one hundred and three thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities:
For materialsSealing, etc., securities. required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink, printers varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, five hundred dollars. Payment to Propeller Towboat Company: To enable the SecretaryPropeller Towboat Company.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1613. of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of the “Act for the relief of the Propeller Towboat Company, of Savannah,” approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, two thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty-five cents.
Reimbursement of First National Rank of Navasota, Texas:First National Bank, Navasota, Tex.Reimbursement. To pay to the First National Bank of Navasota, Texas, to reimburse said bank for the loss of five hundred dollars in mutilated currency by tire at Charlottesville, Virginia, while said money was en route by mail, properly registered, to the Secretary of the Treasury for redemption, five hundred dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to paySuperintendents.Use of balances to pay increased salaries.*Ante,* p. 484. from the unexpended balances of the appropriations “Life-Saving Service,” nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and three, an amount sufficient to meet the increase in the salaries of the district superintendents of the Life-Saving Service, as provided under the Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two. public buildings.Public buildings.
For immediate repairs to the wharf at Wilmington, North Carolina,Wilmington, N. C.Repairs to wharf.*Ante*, p. 497. recently purchased by the United States, there may be used not exceeding two thousand dollars out of the unexpended balance remaining of the appropriation made for “purchase of property for customs purposes at Wilmington, North Carolina.” For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certainWaco, Tex.Rent, etc. Government officials at Waco, Texas, and for moving and other expenses incidental thereto pending the extension of the post-office and court-house, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certainGreensboro, N. C.Rent, etc. Government officials at Greensboro, North Carolina, and for moving and other expenses incidental thereto pending the extension of the post-office and court-house, one thousand dollars. For completing the building for the laboratory for the Marine-HospitalMarine-Hospital laboratory. Service, one thousand dollars. For the expenses of the investigation required by the “Act for theCharleston, S.
C.*Post*, p. 1610. relief of William M. Bird, James F. Redding, Henry F. Welch, and others,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the following sums, under the Act entitled “An Act to increaseExpenditures authorized in omnibus bill.*Post*, p. 1203. the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, namely:
Rome, Georgia, post-office: For continuation of building under presentRome, Ga. limit, forty thousand dollars. 1038 Emporia, Kans.Emporia, Kansas, post-office: For completion of building, nine thousand dollars. Council Bluffs, Iowa.Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-office: For purchase of additional land, seven thousand five, hundred dollars. Fitchburg, Mass.Fitchburg, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of building, five thousand dollars. Centerville, Iowa.Centerville, Iowa, post-office:
For continuation of building, five thousand dollars. Durham, N. C.Durham, North Carolina, post-office: For continuation of building, thirty thousand dollars. Goldsboro, N. C.Goldsboro, North Carolina, court-house, post-office, and so forth: For continuation of building, fifteen thousand dollars. Elizabeth, N. J.Elizabeth, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of building, sixty thousand dollars. Rochester, N. Y.Rochester, New-York, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building, twenty thousand dollars.
Martinsville, Va.Martinsville, Virginia, post-office: For continuation of building, ten thousand dollars. Janesville, Wis.Janesville, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building, six thousand dollars. Atlantic City, N. J.Atlantic City, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. Batesville, Ark.Batesville, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building, ten thousand dollars. Saint Joseph, Mo.Saint Joseph, Missouri, post-office:
For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars. Sterling, Ill.Sterling, Illinois, post-office: For commencement of building, twenty thousand dollars. Champaign, Ill.Champaign, Illinois, post-office: For commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars. Traverse City, Mich.Traverse City, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For commencement of building, twenty thousand dollars. Moberly, Mo.Moberly, Missouri, post-office: For commencement of building, twenty thousand dollars.
Columbia, Mo.Columbia, Missouri, post-office: For commencement of building, twenty thousand dollars. Tacoma, Wash.Tacoma, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars. Spokane, Wash.Spokane, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars. Pierre, S. Dak.Pierre, South Dakota, post-office and court-house: For commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars.
Yankton, S. Dak.Yankton, South Dakota, post-office: For commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars. Natchitoches, La.Natchitoches, Louisiana post-office: For commencement of building, thirty thousand dollars. Bar Harbor, Me.Bar Harbor, Maine, post-office: Additional for purchase of site, six thousand dollars. Calais, Me.Calais, Maine, post-office and court-house: Additional for purchase of site, six thousand dollars. Hamilton, Ohio.Hamilton, Ohio, post-office: Additional for purchase of site, ten thousand dollars.
Albert Lea, Minn.Albert Lea, Minnesota, post-office: Additional for purchase of site and commencement of building, fifteen thousand dollars. Crookston, Minn.Crookston, Minnesota, post-office: Additional for purchase of site, two thousand dollars. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.Saratoga Springs, New York, post-office: Additional for purchase of site, five thousand dollars. Dixon, Ill.Dixon, Illinois, post-office: For site, ten thousand dollars. Tuscaloosa, Ala.Tuscaloosa, Alabama, post-office:
For site, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 1039 Hagerstown, Maryland, post-office: For site, ten thousand dollars.Hagerstown, Md. East Liverpool, Ohio, post-office: For site, thirty thousand dollars.East Liverpool Ohio. Florence, Alabama, post-office: For site, seven thousand five hundredFlorence, Ala. dollars. York, Nebraska, post-office: For site, ten thousand dollars.York, Nebr. Ann Arbor, Michigan, post-office: For site, twelve thousand dollars.Ann Arbor, Mich. Carbondale, Pennsylvania, post-office:
For site, twelve thousandCarbondale, Pa. dollars. Grand Island, Nebraska, post-office: For site, ten thousand dollars.Grand Island, Nebr. Woonsocket, Rhode Island, post-office: For site, fifteen thousandWoonsocket, R. I. dollars. Bluefields, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For site, tenBlueflelds, W. Va. thousand dollars. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, post-office: For site, ten thousandChippewa Falls, Wis. dollars. Portland, Maine, court-house: For site, sixty thousand dollars.Portland.
Me. Bedford, Indiana, post-office: For site, six thousand dollars.Bedford, Ind. Marinette, Wisconsin, post-office: For site, ten thousand dollars.Marinette. Wis. Gainesville, Georgia, post-office: For site, five thousand dollars.Gainesville, Ga. Valdosta, Georgia, post-office: For site, eight thousand dollars.Valdosta, Ga. Webster City, Iowa, post-office: For site, eight thousand dollars.Webster City, Iowa. Butler, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site, twenty thousand dollars.Butler, Pa.
Corning, New York, post-office: For site, fifteen thousand dollars.Corning, N. Y. Westminster, Maryland, post-office: For site, four thousand dollars.Westminster, Md. Meadville, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site, eight thousand dollars.Meadville, Pa. Mason City, Iowa, post-office: For site, eight thousand dollars.Mason City, Iowa. Marion, Indiana, post-office: For site, twenty-five thousand dollars.Marion, Ind. Pine Bluff. Arkansas, post-office: For site, seven thousand dollars.Pine Bluff, Ark.
Houston, Texas, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: ForHouston, Tex. site, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Baker City, Oregon, post-office: For site, five thousand dollars.Baker City, Oreg. Bessemer, Alabama, post-office: For site, twelve thousand dollars.Bessemer, Ala. Ocala, Florida, post-office: For site, four thousand dollars.Ocala, Fla. Burlington, Vermont, post-office and custom-house: TemporaryBurlington, Vt. quarters, moving, and all incident expenses, ten thousand dollars.
Richmond, Virginia, custom-house and post-office: Additional forRichmond, Va. site, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Bureau Engraving and Printing, Washington, District of Columbia:Engraving and Printing Bureau. For additional land and commencement of buildings, one hundred thousand dollars. Atlanta, Georgia, post-office and court-house: Additional for site,Atlanta, Ga. thirty thousand dollars. Toledo, Ohio, post-office: Additional for site, one hundred andToledo, Ohio. eighteen thousand dollars.
For municipal building for the joint use of the United States andMunicipal building, District of Columbia. the District of Columbia, at Washington, District of Columbia; For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenuesHalf from District revenues. of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Jacksonville, Florida, post-office and custom-house:
For commencementJacksonville, Fla. of building, fifty thousand dollars. For the acquisition of square numbered one hundred and forty-threeWashington, D. C.Hall of Records, site in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as a site for the Hall of Records, four hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have preliminary plansPreliminary plans.Limit of cost. prepared for a Hall of Records, five thousand dollars; said plans shall not be upon a basis of construction of a building involving a total*Post,* p. 1212, cost exceeding two million dollars, and no plan shall be adopted unless authorized by legislation hereafter to be enacted, and said plan or any 1040compensation connected therewith shall only be preliminary and shall not in any way run with the construction of the building, and no obligation for such preliminary plans shall be incurred to cost in excess of five thousand dollars herein appropriated. 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, one hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-five cents, to be expended under the *Proviso.*Large notes.direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executingVol. 31. p. 45. the requirements of the Act “to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the purity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants when employed, two hundred and eighty thousand and ten dollars and ninety-five cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,**Proviso.*Large notes. That no portion of this sum shall he expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing Vol. 81, p. 45.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.
Materials.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seven cents. Rent.For rent of building now occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for storage and other purposes, at a rental of sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. collecting internal revenue.Internal revenue. Salaries.For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Paper for stamps.For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, fifteen thousand dollars. Relate of tobacco tax.For the payment of drawback or rebate on original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured tobacco and snuff, *Ante,* p. 97.as provided in section four of “An Act to repeal war-revenue taxation, and for other purposes,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, one million three hundred and seventy thousand dollars, or *Provisos.*Time limit extended.so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That claims for rebates on tobacco and snuff as set out in section four of the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, which were presented after the sixty days’ limit therein specified shall be allowed and paid uponClaims to be presented by Apr. 1, 1901. proper proof: *Provided,* That the tobacco and snuff on which such rebates are claimed were duly inventoried on July first, nineteen hundred and two, in accordance with the regulations of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, but no such claims shall be paid unless presented prior to April first, nineteen hundred and three. 1041 To pay amounts which may be found due by the accounting officersRedemption of stamps.*Ante*, p. 506. of the Treasury for redemption of stamps under the Act of June thirtieth. nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps,” one hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-six cents. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of theRefunding taxes. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected,” twenty-six thousand four hundred and four dollars and twenty-two cents. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
For amount, necessary to meet the requirements of the Revenue-CutterExpenses. Service, in addition to the regular appropriation for said service, thirty-five thousand dollars. For amount necessary to meet the requirements of “An Act to promote*Ante*, p. 100. the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other expenses incident to the service during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-three cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySeattle, Wash, on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seventy-four dollars and seventeen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Wages and contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eleven dollars and twenty-nine cents. light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment.
To enable the United States to obtain ownership of the present sites,Saint Marys River, Mich. named on page eight, House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, of the present, session, upon which range lights have beenRange light sites. established along the Saint Marys River, Michigan, which were and are now urgently needed as permanent aids to navigation, including the necessary expenses of vesting the titles to the same in the United States, eight hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To enable the United States to obtain ownership of the present, sitesLight-station sites. of the light stations named on page eight, House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, of the present session, upon which range lights have been established along the Saint Marys River, Michigan, which were and are now urgently needed as permanent aids to navigation, including the necessary expenses of vesting the titles to the same in the United States, two thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 1042 government in the territories.Territories.
Oklahoma.Oklahoma: For legislative expenses, namely: For rent of office and clerk hire, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents. Porto Rico.Traveling expenses, Federico Degetau.*Ante*, p. 732.Porto Rico: To pay Federico Degetau, resident commissioner from Porto Rico to the united States, the amount found due him by the accounting officers of the Treasury under the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, for traveling expenses, Washington, District of Columbia, to Porto Rico and return, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. interstate commerce commission.Interstate Commerce Commission.
Expenses.To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, twenty thousand dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty dollars.
Assessor’s office.Assessor’s office: For temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars. Personal-tax board.Personal-tax board: Authority is hereby granted the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to use five hundred dollars, in addition to the one thousand dollars heretofore authorized, for the hire of temporary clerks from contingent expenses of the personal-tax board. Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For rent of office rooms occupied by the superintendent of property, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses required for the office of the superintendent of insurance, including rent, furniture, stationery, printing, books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, and other general necessary expenses of his office, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and ninety-five cents. For general advertising, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents. Judicial expenses.For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-eight cents. W. C. Dodge.Expert services.That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to allow W. C. Dodge twenty-five dollars for services as expert witness in eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to be paid from the appropriation for judicial expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. Bathing beach.Bathing beach:
For amount required for the care, operation, maintenance, and repair of the bathing beach, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents. Street sweeping.Street sweeping: For amount due William Wendehuth for services rendered in connection with the contract for street sweeping for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, thirty-four dollars. Electrical department.Electrical department: For amount required for general expenses, service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-three cents. 1043 Metropolitan police:
For additional amounts required to meet thePolice. objects set forth in the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-two cents. For additional amounts required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for the house of detention for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and four dollars and forty-one cents. For additional amount for the house of detention, one thousand dollars.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedPublic-comfort stations.Use of balance.*Ante,* p. 748. to use from the unexpended balance of the appropriation “To maintain public order, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and three,” the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars in addition to the one thousand dollars heretofore made available for the construction, maintenance, and operation of public-comfort stations. Fire department: For rent of fire department headquarters, fiscalFire Department. year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and sixty dollars.
For repairs to engine houses and grounds, five hundred dollars. For forage, six thousand five hundred dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedTransfer of appropriation. to transfer one thousand dollars from the appropriation for the purchase of hose to the appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedFuel. to pay S. S. Daish and Sons sixteen dollars and Charles Werner seventeen dollars for fuel delivered, without inspection required by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.
Public schools: For amount required for contingent expenses,Public schools. made necessary by the increased rates of insurance, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars. Courts: For witness fees, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six,Witness fees. one dollar and twenty-five cents. Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, againstJudgments. the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four of this session, six thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-four cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the executionLunacy writs. of writs de lunatico inquirendo in all eases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia, three thousand five hundred dollars. That hereafter proceedings by the Commissioners of the District ofEquity court to commit indigent insane. Columbia to commit indigent insane persons, and insane persons having violent or dangerous tendencies, to the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be taken in the equity court of said District, and shall be in conformity with the law in force in said District on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
That sections one, two, three, four, five, six, and eight of the ActProceedings in orphan’s court abolished.Vol. 30, p. 811. of Congress approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” and all other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Washington Asylum: For additional amounts required to meet theWashington Asylum. objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal years that follow:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixteen cents. 1044 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. Freedmen’s Hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For additional amounts required for fuel and light, and other objects mentioned under this head in the appropriation for the service of the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven dollars and fifty cents.
Fiscal year nineteen hundred; twelve dollars and two cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eight dollars and thirty-one cents. Garfield Hospital.Isolation ward.Garfield Hospital isolating ward, District of Columbia: For additional amount required for maintenance of the isolation ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars. Industrial Home School.Industrial Home School, District of Columbia:
For additional amount required for maintenance, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four thousand dollars. Foundlings’ Hospital.Washington Hospital for Foundlings: To provide suitable protection against disaster by fire to the buildings of the institution, one thousand one hundred dollars. Board of Children’s Guardians.Care of children.Board of Children’s Guardians: For amount required to pay to various institutions obligations incurred for board and cue of children committed to the guardianship of the Board of Children’s Guardians, with authority to pay eighty-seven dollars and five cents to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-six cents.
Alleys.Condemnation expenses.Alleys: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to pay jurors’ fees, and the fee of the United States marshal in condemnation proceedings for the opening of a minor street in square twenty-four, from the appropriation for alleys, District of Columbia. Adams Mill road.Adams Mill road: For additional amount required to pay the award for damages in the matter of the widening of Adams Mill road, three thousand two hundred and six dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Deporting insane.Hospital for the insane: For amount required for the deportation of nonresident insane, one thousand dollars. Prevention of contagious diseases.Vol. 26, p. 691.Health department: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred Vol. 29, p. 635.and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, including purchase and, maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand dollars.
Jail.For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-seven cents. Half from District revenues.Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Typhoid fever in military camps.Completing report.For completion and publication of report of board of medical officers appointed to investigate the origin and spread of typhoid fever in United States military camps in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, including pay of professional assistance of surviving member of the 1045board, two thousand five hundred dollars; two stenographers and typewriters, at not exceeding eighty dollars per month each, and for printing and binding five thousand copies in two volumes; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars, to remain available dining the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military Establishment. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies.Reappropriation.*Ante,* p. 514. Department, including all objects specified under this head in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.
Transportation of the Army and its supplies: To enableMorgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company.Payment to. the accounting officers of the Treasury to reopen and pay certain claims of the Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company for amounts deducted and withheld from an account recently rendered for transportation service performed over eighty miles of nonland-grant railroad between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Morgan City, Louisiana, in eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine to eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, which had been erroneously considered as land grant, one thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: For continuing thePhilippine Islands.Quarters. work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including the acquisition of title to building sites where necessary, and including also shelter for animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administrative purposes, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Shooting ranges, etc. ranges for small-arm target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Military post, Fort Snelling, Minnesota: For constructing aFort Snelling, Minn.Railway spur. spur from the railway to location of storehouses and such other purposes as the Secretary of War may designate, at Fort Snelling. Minnesota, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Military post at Fort Brady, Michigan:
For the construction,Fort Brady, Mich.Rebuilding barracks. complete, including plumbing, water supply, sewerage, heating and lighting appliances, of barracks for four companies of infantry at Fort Brady. Michigan, to replace buildings at that post wholly destroyed by fire on the second instant, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars. Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction andHospitals, repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for officers, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, nine hundred and fifty dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department.
Harbor of New York: Prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of crews and maintenance of five steam tugs and three launches, ten thousand dollars. 1046 ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Rock Island ArsenalReplacing stores, etc., destroyed by fire.For replacing the following ordnance and ordnance stores destroyed by fire at the Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, on February eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, as follows:
For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery harness for field, mountain, and siege artillery, one hundred and thirty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents; For Gatling guns, with carriages and equipments, twenty thousand dollars; For implements and equipments for mountain, field, and siege rifles and carriages, one hundred and two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars; For miscellaneous spare parts pertaining to infantry, cavalry, and horse equipments, paints, cleaning material and similar stores, paper targets, leather, portable forges, armament chests, breech corers, paulins, and so forth, and the various tools and material and supplies for issue, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, eight hundred and eighty thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
Storehouse A.Rebuilding.For rebuilding and equipping Storehouse A at Rock Island Arsenal, which was destroyed by fire on February eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington in charge of the chief of engineers.Buildings and grounds. D. C. Executive Mansion.Grounds.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), one thousand dollars.
Repairs, etc.Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. Fuel.For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. Lighting.For gas, electric lights, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters and laborers, and so forth, four thousand dollars. Conservatories.Balance continued.*Ante*, p. 461.The unexpended balance of the sum of three thousand dollars appropriated by the Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for repairs to conservatory and greenhouses, Executive Mansion, is hereby made available for the reconstruction of said conservatory and greenhouses, and for each and every purpose connected therewith. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
Alaska.Transporting destitute citizens.Transportation of destitute citizens from Alaska: For payment of accounts for transportation of destitute citizens from Alaska to San Francisco and Port Townsend, five thousand one hundred and forty dollars and ten cents. Chippewa River, Wis.Improvement of.Improving Chippewa River, Wisconsin: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Improving Chippewa River, Wisconsin,” six dollars one cent.
Winfield T. Durbin.Reimbursement.Reimbursement to Winfield T. Durbin: To reimburse Winfield T. Durbin, late colonel One hundred and sixty-first Indiana Volunteers, for amount expended in defending cases brought against him in Florida, one thousand three hundred and two dollars and seventy-six cents, and for reimbursement for cost of erection of one hospital building, and for purchase of one garbage burner for use of the One hun-1047dred and sixty-first Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, which were afterwards left for use of the Third Division, Seventh Army Corps, Hospital, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-six cents; in all, one thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-two cents.
Reimbursement to Captain O. B. Mitcham: For expenses incurredO. B. Mitcham.Reimbursement. by Captain O. B. Mitcham, Ordnance Department, United States Army, while in Europe in nineteen hundred, under orders from the Secretary of War and Chief of Ordnance, four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. Payment to Alaska Commercial Company: For payment to theAlaska Commercial Company.Payment to. Alaska Commercial Company, of San Francisco, California, for logs and cord wood purchased by the United States in Alaska, as fully set forth on pages eight and nine of House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty-five of the present session: *Provided,* That*Proviso.*Indemnity bond. before payment is made for the said logs and cord wood the said Alaska Commercial Company shall be required to furnish a good and sufficient bond securing the United States against all adverse claimants, seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-four cents.
Credit in accounts of James E. McDonald, lieutenant, Twenty-Fourth Infantry, United States Army:James E. McDonald.Credit in accounts for funds burned. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to credit the accounts of Lieutenant James E. McDonald, Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, with one thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-four cents, balance of quartermaster’s funds fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, with which he remains accountable, being the difference between three thousand and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents, the amount of public funds in his possession and destroyed by fire at Humingan, Pangasinan, Philippine Islands, on April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, and one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and twelve cents, representing the value of the ashes of these funds which were found possible of identification and redemption by the Treasury.
Credit in accounts of Colonel John Simpson: The accountingJohn Simpson.Credit in accounts. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in his accounts for July, nineteen hundred and one, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the sum of two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents. Credit in accounts of Captain Marion P. Maus: Authority isMarion P. Maus.Credit in accounts. hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow a credit in the accounts of Captain Marion P.
Maus, First Infantry, acting paymaster, for the sum of five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. Credit in accounts of J. W. Pullman, lieutenant-colonel, deputy quartermaster-general, United States Army:J. W. Pullman.Credit in accounts. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen the accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Pullman, deputy quarter master-general, United States Army, and to credit him with the amounts of vouchers 1B, April, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-seven cents, and 1B, May, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents, “Army transportation,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, total of throe hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty-five cents, being for payments of transportation accounts made under misapprehension of law, from the appropriation of fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, which lapsed June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one. 1048 Chickamauga and Chattanooga Park.Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park:
For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners; 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; and for roads and their maintenance, thirty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Confederate soldiers’ claims.*Ante,* p. 43.Payment to Confederate soldiers:
For payment of claims filed with the Quartermaster-General under Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, Final date for filing.fifty thousand dollars; and all claims under said Act shall be filed within one year from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and three, or be forever barred. Alaska Commercial Company and others.Claims for relief of destitute Alaskans to be examined.Accounts of Alaska Commercial Company and others:
The Secretary of the. Treasury is hereby authorized and required to examine and adjust the accounts of the Alaska Commercial Company, the North American Transportation and Trading Company, and the Alaska Exploration Company for supplies furnished and services rendered to the sick, destitute, and starving natives of Alaska during an epidemic of disease over that country in the year nineteen hundred, and to determine whether such services and supplies were furnished in an exigency at the request of the Government officials, consisting of the governor of Alaska, the officers of the United States Army, the officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service, the special agents of the Treasury Department, and the superintendent of education.
Department of the Interior, division of Alaska, and report the result of such adjustment and determination to Congress, with such recommendation as he may deem proper. “Mogul,” British steamship.Claim for damages from collision with transport to be examined.British steamship Mogul: That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to examine the claim of Messrs. Gallatly, Hankey and Company, of London, England, owners of the British steamship Mogul, for damages alleged to be due said owners by reason of the collision between said steamship Mogul and the United States transport Warren in Manila Bay on December thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and determine what damages, if any, are due thereby to said owners of said steamship Mogul, and to certify the amount of such damages, if any are so found to be due, to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the.
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to report the same to Congress for its action. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Dayton, Ohio.Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, including the, same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand five hundred dollars. For household expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six thousand dollars.
For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars. Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand five hundred dollars. For transportation of members of the Home for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and one dollars and forty-five cents. 1049 Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine:
For household, including the sameTogas, Me. objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifteen thousand dollars. Southern Branch at Hampton, Virginia: For household, includingHampton, Va. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirty thousand dollars. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand dollars.
At the Western Branch at Leavenworth, Kansas: For householdLeavenworth, Kans expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven thousand dollars. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and ten dollars. Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, includingMarion, Ind. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, ten thousand dollars.
Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, includingDanville, Ill. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand dollars. State or Territorial homes: For continuing aid to State or TerritorialState and Territorial homes. homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eighty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-three cents: *Provided,* That one-half of any*Proviso.*Pensions retained. sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Naval Observatory: For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, andNaval Observatory. other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water supply system: purchase and maintenance of teams; materials for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, two thousand dollars. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval establishment.
General account of advances: To reimburse “General accountGeneral account of advances.Reimbursement.Vol. 20, p. 167. of advances.” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums 1050appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:
Emergency fund.For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred, thirteen dollars and twenty-four cents; For emergency fund, Navy, January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-four cents; Pay.For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twelve dollars; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eleven dollars and seventeen cents; Pay, miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-four cents;
For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and one, five thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-five cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents; Contingent.For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred, one hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-six cents; Marine Corps.For provisions, Marine Dorps, nineteen hundred, fifty-two thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and ten cents;
For provisions, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars; For fuel, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and twelve cents; For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, thirty-six dollars and forty-four cents; For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, three thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-three cents;
For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, eight hundred and twenty-four dollars; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents; For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, two thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-four cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, seventy-five dollars and six cents; Bureau of Navigation.For outfits for landsmen.
Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-three thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents; For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, four thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars anti thirty cents; For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-throe cents; Bureau of Ordnance.For repairs, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and two, two thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents;
Bureau of Equipment.For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred, thirty-five cents; For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, seven dollars and fifty-two cents; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred ind two, two thousand three hundred and eight dollars and ten cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents; 1051 For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteenBureau of Supplies and Accounts. hundred, one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-two cents;
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and forty-three dollars and twenty cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteenBureau of Steam Engineering, hundred, forty-three cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents;
For indemnity for lost property, naval service, certified claims,Lost property. fourteen dollars and seventy cents; in all, one hundred and forty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-six cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, including all objectsTransportation, recruiting, and contingent. mentioned under this title of appropriation for the naval service in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty thousand dollars.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: For purchase of coal,Training stations.Rhode Island. three thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Naval training station, Rhode Island, Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents. Naval training station, California: For amount necessary toCalifornia. reimburse the current appropriation for cost of a building for contagious diseases, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-six cents. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material;Ordnance. for the armament of ships: for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, five hundred thousand dollars. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. For equipment of vessels, including all objects specified under thisEquipment of vessels. title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To pay the following voucher, not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named had been covered into the Treasury, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: Western Electric Company, eight dollars. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. For general maintenance of yards and docks, including all objectsMaintenance. mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: To supply a deficiency in theSurgeons’ necessaries. appropriation for Medical Department for surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and 1052for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene and medical school, and Naval Academy, fifty thousand dollars. ContingentTo supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten thousand dollars.
Naval hospital, New York.To pay the Kuy-Scheerer Company, New York, for final payment for renovation of operating room at the naval hospital, New York, New York, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents. To pay John Kenny, junior, New York, for final payment for repairs to coal shed at naval hospital, New York. New York, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, nine hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-four cents.
H. W. Wingard.Reimbursement.To reimburse H. W. Wingard for expenses incurred in transporting to his late home the body of Edward Hett, junior, late an enlisted man in the Navy who lost his life in the line of duty on the United States steamer Boston at San Francisco, California, on January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to use so much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made June seventh, nineteen hundred, to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps who die or are killed in action, ashore or afloat, outside of the continental limits of the United States. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Guam naval stationIsland of Guam: For repairs and improvements of barracks, quarters, and storehouse, naval station, island of Guam, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. Barracks.Repairs of barracks: Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; New port, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia: Port Royal, South Carolina;
Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-six cents.
Fuel, etc.Fuel: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Fuel, Marine Corps,” for fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety cents. To pay accounts on file for fuel, Marine Corps, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and nineteen cents. For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Fuel, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-one cents. 1053 Forage: To reimburse Quartermaster’s Department, United StatesForage. Anny, for forage furnished the Marine Corps in the Philippines for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-eight cents. Military stores:
Military stores for the Marine Corps, includingMilitary stores. all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand dollars. Contingent: For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps, includingContingent all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-four thousand dollars. To pay accounts on file for freight, transportation, and rubber stamps for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-eight cents.
To reimburse Quartermaster’s Department, United States Army, for miscellaneous contingent supplies furnished the Marine Corps in the Philippines for the-fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars and ninety-nine cents. Public works: For the purchase and installation of necessary plumbingPublic works.Washington Barracks. fixtures and two iron water tanks, marine barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, four thousand dollars. To pay accounts in favor of the estate of Charles McCaul for refillingLeague Island, Pa. basement, furnishing and installing electric-light fixtures, also material and labor for installing water-supply pipes, new marine barracks, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, two thousand one hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty cents.
To pay account in favor of Henry Ives Cobb, architect, for professionalHenry Ives Cobb. services rendered in connection with the new marine barracks, navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania, one hundred and nine dollars and six cents. That the Auditor for the Navy Department be, and is hereby, authorizedQuartermaster’s accounts.Credits authorized. and directed to credit in the accounts of quartermaster, United States Marine Corps, for first quarter nineteen hundred and two, under appropriation “Military stores.
Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one,” under appropriation “Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one,” and under appropriation “Transportation and recruiting, nineteen hundred,” the vouchers set forth on page seventeen of House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four of this session. For completing, grading, filling, and improving parade ground andAnnapolis, Md.Parade ground. approaches, new site, marine barracks, Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
To compensate Michael Connolly, owner of a float and launch, forMichael Connolly.Compensation. injuries clone by the Newport, Rhode Island, station ferry launch, fifty dollars. To compensate Piper, Aden, Goodall Company for injuries to the“Grace Barton.”Payment to owner. steamer Grace Barton in collision with the United States tug Vigilant, five hundred dollars. To compensate the owner of the American ship Louis Walsh for“Louis Walsh.”Payment to owner. damages sustained in collision with the United States steamship Mohican, three hundred dollars.
To compensate owners of scow Delaware for injuries sustained in“Delaware.”Payment to owners. collision with the United States tug Apache, one hundred dollars. To compensate the owners of the Canacao shipyard, Cavite, PhilippineCanacao shipyard, P. I.Payment to owners. Islands, for damages sustained from the United States steamship Piscataqua running into its wharf and a small steamer, San Jose, two hundred and fifty dollars. 1054 Charles W. Littlefield.Allowance in accounts.To allow in the accounts of Pay Inspector Charles W.
Littlefield amounts paid for damages to a house and articles lost at Great Point, Nantucket, inflicted by sailors and marines of North Atlantic Station while in camp, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty cents. E. D. Ryan.Allowance in accounts.To allow in the accounts of Paymaster E. D. Ryan amounts paid to two enlisted men who had received medals of honor of gratuities of one hundred dollars each. F. T. Evans.Allowance in accountsTo allow in the accounts of Ensign F.
T. Evans, while acting pay-master of the United States steamship Brutus, one hundred and eleven dollars and forty-one cents. Livingston Hunt.Reimbursement.To reimburse Paymaster Livingston Hunt amount paid for injury to gondola ear numbered eighty-one hundred and forty-four, belonging to the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Company, damaged while sinking on board a Government barge near the wharf at Indian Head, ninety-eight dollars and seventy-three cents. California State prison.Reimbursement.To reimburse the California State prison for clothing and money furnished sixteen prisoners of the Navy upon their discharge, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents.
Woosung Bar lightship.Payment to owners.To compensate owners of light-ship on the inner Woosung Bar injured in collision with the United States steamship Wilmington, one hundred and four dollars and eighty-eight cents. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. General Land Office.Additional clerks.General Land Office: For the following clerks for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, namely: For four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; five clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum; and five copyists at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty cents.
Patent Office.Copies of drawings, etcPatent Office: For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding Vol. 28, p. 620.paragraph to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Proviso.*Work at Government Printing Office.*Provided,* That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or, if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, sixty thousand dollars.
Official Gazette.For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, fifty-nine thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: To pay the Adams Express Company for expressage on packages of goods, December fifth, nineteen hundred, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and from Northeast. Pennsylvania, to Interior Department, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two dollars and sixty cents.
To pay the United States Electric Lighting Company for electric light furnished the United States Geological Survey office for the month of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty dollars and twenty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty-five cents.
Special land inspectors.Expenses, special land inspectors: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropria-1055tion “Expenses, special land inspectors. Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs of buildings. Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building, four thousand dollars.
For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For reconstruction of carpenter and tool shops on the south side ofShops, etc. the Capitol grounds, and for apparatus and woodworking machinery for laboratory and shops, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: To pay the Washington GaslightLighting. Company for gas service during the months of February, March, April, May, and June, nineteen hundred and two, for lighting the Capitol and grounds, one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty cents. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane.
For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
For general repairs and improvements, six thousand five hundredRepairs, etc. dollars. For hospital extension, administration building; to replace two andHospital extension. one-fourth inch sashes and transoms instead of one and three-fourths inch, plate glass instead of double-thick sheet glass; stone quoins on all angles of building; stone frieze and entablature on north, south, and rear elevations of building; indirect steam radiation, as specified in original specifications; and tile for roofing and copper for all exterior work instead of slate and galvanized iron, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Deaf and Dumb Institution.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidentalExpenses. expenses, for books and illustrative, apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars. public land service.Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForRegisters and receivers.Salaries, etc. salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, fifty-five thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriations “Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay the salary due A. E. Rose, as receiver of the land office atA. E. Rose.Salary. Saint Michaels, Alaska, from May thirty-first to July seventh, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-five cents.
Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expenses, land offices. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, seventy-five thou-1056sand 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. Depositing moneys.Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp-land claims and indemnity.Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land 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*Proviso.*Agents’ per diem. for swamp lands, forty thousand dollars: *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.
Mineral hinds, Montana and Idaho.Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho: For publication of reports of lands classified by the board of mineral land commissioners in the Helena and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and in the Coeur d’Alene land district, in the State Vol. 28, p. 683.Vol. 31, p. 615.of Idaho, as authorized by the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the payment of the unsettled bills for publications chargeable to the appropriation for “Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one,” as set forth on pages twenty-five and twenty-six of House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four of the present session.
Hearings.Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by older of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, three thousand dollars. Surveyors-general.Arizona.Offices of surveyor-general: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Arizona,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven dollars and seventy-one cents.
Idaho.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Idaho,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one dollar and six cents. Minnesota.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Minnesota,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eighty-seven cents. Montana.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Montana,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two dollars and five cents.
Oregon.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Oregon,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four dollars and seven cents. South Dakota.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of 1057surveyor-general of South Dakota.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eight dollars and forty-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryUtah. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Utah,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five dollars and forty-four cents. For clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Nevada, one thousandNevada. dollars. For clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Montana, oneMontana. thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars. Payments to certain deputy surveyors:
For payments to certainDeputy surveyors. deputy surveyors for surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by them, as fully set forth on pages twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight of House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, and pages thirteen and fourteen of House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty-five, and page seven of Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-seven of the present session, three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and seventy-five cents, and the amount reported in said Senate document for Frederick W.
Pettigrew mid Ernest J. Lacy, contract numbered one hundred and thirty-nine. South Dakota, dated April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be paid to R. F. Pettigrew, as administrator of Frederick W. Pettigrew. Payment to George A. S. O’Brien: Payment to George A. S.George A. S. O’Brien.Payment to. O’Brien, of Luray, Osborne County, Kansas, the amount unlawfully collected from him and covered into the Treasury by the receiver of public moneys at Colby, Kansas, on a forty-acre isolated tract of land in section thirty-four, township ten south, range fourteen west, Colby land district, fifty dollars.
Reimbursement to H. V. A. Ferguson: To reimburse H. V. A.H. V. A. Ferguson.Reimbursement. Ferguson, special agent. General Land Office, for amount paid by him for publication in newspapers published in Pocatello. Idaho, of a notice dated June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, to sheep herders and others forbidding them to graze sheep on the ceded lands of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho, after its opening to settlement, June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, said publications having been inserted by Agent Ferguson in obedience to instructions of the Land Office, but before authority for same had been granted by the Secretary of the, Interior, as provided by law, nine dollars.
Survey of Mesa Verde, Colorado: For the survey and marking,Mesa Verde, Colo.Survey.*Ante*, p. 998. under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, of the boundary line of the Mesa Verde, State of Colorado, estimated at thirty-three miles, at not exceeding twenty-five dollars per mile, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars, and for the examination of the survey hi the field, one hundred dollars; in all, nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. Payment to John L. Stevens: For payment to John L.
Stevens,John L. Stevens.Services. special commissioner to adjust the Des Moines River land-grant claims, for services rendered and expenses incurred since February fourth, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. geological survey.Geographical Survey. For installation of an electric system of power and lighting in theElectric system engraving and printing division, six thousand dollars. Iron fire and burglar proof safe necessary for the division of disbursementsSafe. and accounts, one, thousand two hundred dollars.
For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. being a deficiency for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred dollars. 1058 indian affairs.Indian affairs. Chickasaws.Payment of per capita.*Ante*, p. 656.The necessary expenses of making the forty-dollar per capita payment to the Chickasaws as provided in section seventy-two of the Choctaw and Chickasaw agreement ratified by the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, not to exceed five thousand dollars, shall be paid out of the same fund from which said forty-dollar per capita payment is authorized to be paid.
Indian inspectors.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay of Indian inspectors,” for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eight dollars and thirty-five cents. Purchasing, supplies.To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing, fifteen thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-one cents. Contingencies.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Contingencies, Indian Department,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand dollars.
Flat heads, etc., Indians.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Flatheads and other confederated tribes.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and seven dollars and eighty-five cents. Fort Hall Indians.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Indians of Fort Hail Reservation.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seven cents.
Klamath Agency Indians.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Indians of Klamath Agency,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, twelve dollars and sixty-seven cents. Indian Territory, incidentals.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Indian Territory, including employees,” tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty-six dollars and thirty-four cents.
Hayward, Wis., school.For support and education of one hundred and seventy pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, two thousand dollars. Transporting, etc., pupils.For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian schools, and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools and placing of them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupils moral, industrial, and educational training, under arrangements in which their proper care, sup-Sort, and education shall be in exchange for their labor, four thousand dollars.
Survey and allotting.For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to be allotted to Indians and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twelve thousand dollars. Superintendent of schools.For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, thirty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection 1059and investigation, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, twenty-six dollars and eighty-five cents. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to use one hundredMission Indians.Additional for commission.*Ante*, p. 267. and seven dollars and ninety-six cents of the one hundred thousand dollars appropriated for the removal and support of the Mission Indians in California by the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, to pay the expenses incurred by the Commission created by said Act, this being in addition to the one thousand dollars authorized for that purpose.
For the payment to George S. Redmon for the construction andPipestone, Minn.Warehouse. completion of one warehouse at the Pipestone Indian School, Minnesota, for which two thousand five hundred dollars was appropriatedVol. 31, p. 1081. by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars. twelfth census.Twelfth Census.
The unexpended balance of the census appropriation, which by theUse of balances continued.*Ante*, p. 466. proviso in the Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes,” which was reappropriated and made available for continuing the work of taking the Twelfth Census, and for all expenses arising under and authorized by the Act to provide for the permanent Census Office, approved*Ante*, p. 51.
March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, he, and the same is hereby, made available for the purposes indicated in said proviso during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four; and that said balance, or soPhilippine census. much thereof as may be needed for the purpose, be, and the same is hereby, also made available for such expenditures as may become necessary in complying with the proclamation of the President, dated September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, pursuant to the provisions of section six of the Act to July first, nineteen hundred and*Ante*, p. 693. two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,” including the cost of temporarily employing such number of persons as may be necessary for the performance of said work, at a compensation not to exceed that which has heretofore been paid employees in the Census Office for doing similar work, such persons to be selected and employed by the Director at such dates and for such periods of time as he may deem proper. pensions.Pensions.
Fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for servicesExamining surgeons, fees. rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant, whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: *Provided,* That if twenty or more applicants appear on one day*Provisos.*Examinations. no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made: *Provided further,* That no feeNo fee unless service rendered. 1060shall be paid to any member of an examining board who was not personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant, eighty-three thousand dollars.
Harlow Underhill.Repayment of pension to.To reimburse Harlow Underhill, an invalid pensioner under certificate numbered one hundred and seventy-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, the pension due him from February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which, through inadvertence, was paid to the superintendent of the Vol. 22, p. 330.Government Hospital for the Insane under the Act of August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and used in the support and management of the institution.
It has subsequently been ascertained that the pensioner had persons dependent upon him for support, and his case did not come within the purview of such Act, four hundred and ninety-two dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Sequoia National Park.Sequoia National Park: To pay the Southern Pacific Company the amount found due for freight, transportation of supplies from Hercules to Exeter, and from San Francisco to Exeter, for use in the Sequoia National Park, as per account rendered the Department of the Interior, eighty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents.
For expenses incurred by Ernest Britten, in charge of national parks in California during the winter months, in proceeding from the Sequoia Park to the Yosemite National Park, under instructions from the Department, dated October fourth, nineteen hundred and two, for the purpose of investigating and reporting upon the condition of the reservation, forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. General Grant National Park.Improvement.General Grant National Park: For wire, rakes, forks, chains, files, fuses, giant powder, and so forth, supplied by L.
N. Wood, of Visalia, California, to L. U. Andrews, captain and major. Fifteenth Cavalry, United States Army, acting superintendent Sequoia and General Grant national parks, in nineteen hundred and one, for use in connection with the improvement of General Grant National Park, fifty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Disbursing clerk.Office of the disbursing clerk: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, namely:
For one assistant carpenter, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; seven laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars each per annum; one assistant engineer, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one elevator conductor, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; two firemen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum; three charwomen at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars each per annum; in nil, three thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and thirty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For stationery and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, two thousand dollars. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, six thousand dollars. For telegraphing, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-seven cents. For furniture, including five hundred dollars for the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars. 1061 For expense incurred in the removal of the topographer’s office and a portion of the bureau of the First Assistant Postmaster-General to the Busch Building, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
For hardware, one thousand five hundred dollars. out of the postal revenues.Postal service. For printing, binding, and wrapping ten thousand copies of thePostal Laws and Regulations.Additional copies.Vol. 30, p. 440. revised edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations, in addition to the one hundred thousand copies provided for by the Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five thousand of which shall be retained by the Public Printer for sale to individuals at the costSales, etc. thereof and ten per centum added, the proceeds of such sales to be deposited in the Treasury as provided for bylaw; and for printing, binding, and wrapping one thousand copies of the Digest of DecisionsDigest of Decisions. prepared in connection therewith, for which entire editions so much of the amounts appropriated therefor by the Acts of June thirteenth,Vol. 30, p. 440;
Vol. 31, pp. 253, 1042. eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, June second, nineteen hundred, and March third, nineteen hundred and one, as shall be necessary, is hereby made available, five thousand and thirty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents. For wrapping twine and tying devices, ten thousand dollars.Twine. For mail-messenger service, fifteen thousand dollars.Mail-messenger service. For balance due foreign countries, ten thousand dollars.Foreign balance. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps,Stamps. sixty-six thousand dollars.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,Stamped envelopes. forty thousand dollars. For manufacture of postal cards, twenty-eight thousand dollars.Postal cards. For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, sixteenOfficial envelopes. thousand dollars. Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse the postalPostmasters.Reimbursement for amounts retained by. revenues, being the amounts retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, of this session, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Free-delivery service: To pay the amount set forth in HouseFree delivery. Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-seven, of this session, on account of the, fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-three cents. Rural free delivery:
For rural free-delivery service, includingRural free delivery. amounts certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-seven, of the present session, on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ninety thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents.
Mail transportation: To pay amounts set forth in House DocumentTransportation. Numbered Three hundred and forty-four, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-seven, of this session, for inland transportation, as follows: By railroads, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred andRailroads. two, fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and six cents. 1062 Steamboat routes..By steamboat routes, thirty-five thousand dollars. Star routes.By star routes, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, forty-five thousand and eighteen dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Railway Mail Service.Washington office rent.Railway Mail Service: To John A. Merritt, postmaster, Washington, District of Columbia, for rent of building in Washington, District of Columbia, from July one, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, for use of superintendent third division. Railway Mail Service, two thousand one hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Contingent expenses.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses.
Department of Agriculture, six thousand dollars. Publications.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for publications, Department of Agriculture, for labor and material required in the distribution of documents, four thousand dollars. W. C. Heath.Colton boll weevil investigations.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “entomological investigations” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, with which the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to adjust and pay the claim of W.
C. Heath, of Victoria, Texas, arising under a contract dated March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for growing cotton in connection with an investigation into the ravages of the cotton boll weevil with a view of ascertaining the best methods of exterminating the same, three thousand and thirteen dollars and eighteen cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Disbursing clerk.Salary.Salaries, Department of Justice: For the payment of the salary of the disbursing clerk from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, inclusive, at the rate of two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars per year instead of the, rate of two thousand three hundred dollars, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Enforcing trust, etc., laws.*Ante*, p, 903.That under, and to be paid from, the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act Assistant to Attorney-General and Assistant Attorney-General authorized.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an assistant to the Attorney-General with compensation at the rate of seven thousand dollars per annum and an Assistant Attorney-General at Confidential clerks.a compensation at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum; and the Attorney-General is authorized to appoint and employ, without reference to the rules and regulations of the civil service, two confidential clerks at a compensation at the rate of one thousand six hundred Duties of new officers.dollars each per annum, to be paid from said appropriation.
Said assistant to the Attorney-General and Assistant Attorney-General shall perform such duties as may be required of them by the Attorney-General. Indian Territory courts.For salaries and expenses of clerks, deputy clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of judges in the Indian Territory, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ten cents. Contingent expenses.For furniture and repairs, two thousand dollars.
For stationery for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and six dollars and eighty-one cents. 1063 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, twenty dollars and thirty-nine cents. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, hooks of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries directly ordered by the Attorney-General for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand dollars. For the, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For books for law library of the Department, five hundred dollars. To pay costs adjudged by the circuit court of the United States forRobert W. McClaughry.Payment of costs. the district of Kansas and by the circuit court of appeals for the Eighth judicial circuit in the case of Peter C. Deming, on the petition of John .
Atwood, against Robert W. McClaughry, warden of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, sixty-one dollars and sixty-five cents. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Rent of buildings: For the rent of buildingsRent. and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, used by the Department of Justice, two hundred dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For purchaseAtlanta, Ga., penitentiary. of building and other materials and tools to keep convicts employed in building operations at the United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, and for payment for services of architects and such foremen and citizen laborers employed as may be necessary to carry out this purpose, sixty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four.
Court-house and jail, Juneau, Alaska: For the erection, complete,Juneau, Alaska.Completion of jail. of a United States court-house and jail at Juneau. Alaska, and for other purposes incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, to remain available until expended, fifteen thousand dollars, in addition to the forty thousand dollars provided by the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.Vol. 30, p. 679. United States jails, Indian Territory:
To enable the Attorney-GeneralIndian Territory.Jails.Vol. 30, p. 679. to carry out the provisions of the Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the erection of three United States jails in the Indian Territory, and the provisions of the Act*Ante*, p. 276. approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, for the erection of said jails and one additional United States jail, fifty thousand dollars, to remain available until expended. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses:
For traveling and otherMiscellaneous. 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, one thousand dollars. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual andAlaska.Court expenses. necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety cents. Defending suits in claims against the United States: To paySuite in claims. amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Defending suits in claims against the United States,” tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seventy-three dollars and ninety cents. 1064 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, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, thirty-eight dollars and sixty cents.
W. N. Landers.Services.Payment to W. N. Landers: For the payment of W. N. Landers for clerical services rendered in the office of the United States district attorney for the district of Alaska, second division, from July twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, to April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, at the rate of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents. Herman D. Crow.Services.Payment to Herman D.
Crow: For the payment of Herman D. Crow for legal services rendered the United States from October fifth to tenth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and one, during the illness of the United States district attorney for the district of Washington, one hundred dollars. C. R. Pickard.Salary.Payment to C. R. Pickard: For the payment of the balance due C. R. Pickard on account of salary as deputy clerk of the United States district court for the northern district of Illinois for the period from January first to March eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
John B. Rector.Accrued salary to legal representatives:.Payment to legal representatives of John B. Rector: To pay the legal representatives of John B. Rector, late United States district judge, the amount of salary accrued and due him at the date of his death, April ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-three cents. judicial.Judicial. Indian Territory courts.Indian Territory: For salaries of clerks, commissioner’s, and con-stables, and expenses of commissioners and judges, in the Indian Territory, five thousand dollars.
Circuit judges.Additional judge, eighth circuit.*Ante,* p. 791.Salaries, circuit courts: For the payment of the salary of the additional circuit judge for the eighth circuit, under the Act of January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of seven thousandIncrease in salaries, 1903.*Ante*, p. 825. dollars per annum, and the increase in the salaries of circuit judges under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twelve thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents.
Salaries for 1904.For the payment of the salary of the additional circuit judge for the eighth circuit, under the Act of January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of seven thousand dollars per annum, and the increase in the salaries of circuit judges under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, thirty-three thousand dollars. District judges.Additional, New York southern district.*Ante,* p. 805.Increase in salaries, 1903.*Ante*, p. 825.Salaries, district judges:
For the payment of the salary of the additional district judge for the southern district of New York, under the Act of February ninth, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, and the increase in the salaries of the district judges under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seven cents. Additional judge Minnesota.*Ante*, p. 795.New York southern district.For the payment of the salary of the additional district judge for the district of Minnesota, under the Act of February fourth, nineteen hundred and three; the salary of the additional district judge for the southern district of New York, under the Act of February ninth, nine-1065teen hundred and three; and the increase in the salaries of districtIncrease in salaries, 1904. judges under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eighty-four thousand dollars.
Salaries, Supreme Court: For the payment of the increase in theSupreme Court.Increase in salaries, 1903.*Ante,* p. 825. salaries of the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-four cents. For the payment of the increase in the salaries of the Chief JusticeIncrease in salaries, 1904. and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Salaries, Court of Claims: For the payment of the increase inCourt of Claims.Increase in salaries, 1903*Ante*, p. 825. the salaries of the chief justice and associate justices of the Court of Claims, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three thousand and sixty-six dollars and seventy-six cents. For the payment of the increase in the salaries of the chief justiceIncrease in salaries, 1904. and associate justices of the Court of Claims, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eight thousand dollars.
Salaries, court of appeals, District of Columbia: For the paymentCourt of appeals, District of Columbia.Increase in salaries, 1903.*Ante*, p. 825.Half from District revenues. of the increase, in the salaries of the chief justice and associate justices of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents.
For the payment of the increase in the salaries of the chief justiceIncrease in salaries, 1904. and associate justices of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three thousand dollars. Salaries, supreme court, District of Columbia: For the paymentSupreme court, District of Columbia.Increase in salaries, 1903.*Ante*, p. 825.Half from District revenues. of the increase in the salaries of the chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-two cents.
For the payment of the increase in the salaries of the chief justiceIncrease in salaries, 1904. and associate justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, under the Act of February twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars. united states courts.United States courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals, etc. and their deputies, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, one hundred thousand dollars.
For fees of clerks, five thousand dollars.Clerks. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Fees of clerks, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and sixteen cents. 1066 Jurors.For fees of jurors, three hundred thousand dollars. Baliffs, etc.For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provisos.*Attendance.[R.
S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).*Provided,* 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,*Vacation, etc. That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of 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 Expenses of judges, etc.his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals not to exceed ten dollars per day; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance Jury commissioners.upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, fifteen thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized 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, forty thousand dollars. Rent of rooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, nine thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents.
Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide 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, twenty-five thousand dollars. Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary.For support of the United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, namely:
For miscellaneous expenditures, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three thousand dollars. COURT OF CLAIMS.Court of Claims. Repairs to building.For repairs to the boilers and heating apparatus in the Court of Claims building, to be expended under direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, five hundred and seventy-five dollars. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative.
Officers and employees of Senate and House.Extra month’s pay.To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and three, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W. A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-seventh Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available.
Clerks to Appropriations Committees.To pay the additional salaries of the clerks to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum, from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, inclusive, six hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty cents. 1067 senate. To pay the widow of James McMillan, late a Senator from James McMillan.Pay to widow.the State of Michigan, five thousand dollars.
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inClerks to Senators. the service of the Senate, namely: For five annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, two thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, forty thousand dollars.Miscellaneous items. For stationery and newspapers, one thousand dollars.Stationery and newspapers.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand dollars. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heatingFuel, oil, etc. apparatus, exclusive of labor, four thousand dollars. To pay C. A. Norcross for extra services for the Committee onC. A. Norcross.Payment to. Indian Affairs, two hundred dollars. To pay to Harry C. Robertson, secretary to the subcommittee ofHarry C. Robertson.Payment to. the Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, for extra services performed, five hundred dollars.
To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Reimbursement. the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and two, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and three, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. To pay W. M. Malloy for reporting hearings before Committee onW. M. Malloy.Payment to. Foreign Relations during the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress, one hundred and thirty-three, dollars and seventy-five cents.
To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the SenateJ. H. Jones.Payment to. chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars. To pay Dennis M. Kerr, for services as assistant clerk, by detail, toDennis M. Kerr.Services. the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. To pay John H. Walker, clerk to the Committee on Pensions, forJohn H. Walker.Services. extra services, five hundred dollars. To pay Parker Williams, machinist and assistant conductor of elevators,Parker Williams.Payment to. additional amount, two hundred dollars.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in thePages. service of the Senate, namely: For sixteen pages at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents a day during the session, three thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For compensation of members of the House of Representatives andMembers and Delegates. Delegates from Territories, fifty-five thousand dollars. To George C. R. Wagoner and James J. Butler each two thousandGeorge C.
R. Wagoner and James J. Buller.Contested election expenses. dollars on account of expenses incurred by them in the contested election case of Wagoner against Butler from the Twelfth Congressional district of Missouri; in all, four thousand dollars. To pay the widow of R. C. De Graffenreid, late a Representative inR. C. DeGraffenreid.Pay to widow. Congress from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of J. L. Sheppard, late a Representative in CongressJ. L.
Sheppard.Pay to widow. from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of C. A. Russell, late a Representative from theC. A. Russell.Pay to widow. State of Connecticut, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of T. H. Tongue, late a Representative from theT. H. Tongue.Pay to widow. State of Oregon, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of J. N. W. Rumple, late a Representative in CongressJ. N. W. Rumple.Pay to widow. from the State of Iowa, five thousand dollars. 1068 J.
M. Moody.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of J. M. Moody, late a Representative in Congress from the State of North Carolina, five thousand dollars. Fuel and oil.For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, nine thousand dollars. Furniture.For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, ten thousand dollars. Stationery.For stationery for members of the House of Representatives and for the use of the committees and officers of the House, five thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Official reporters, etc.Reimbursement,To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates, and the official stenographers to committees of the House of Representatives, for clerk hire and extra clerical services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and two, to March fourth, nineteen hundred John J. Cameron.and three, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and to John J. Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Herman Gauss.Services.To pay Herman Gauss, for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, five hundred dollars. D. S. Porter.Services.To pay D. S. Porter, for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. Albert Scott.Employment continued.To continue the employment of Albert Scott as a laborer in the cloakroom under resolution of December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, at fifty dollars per month from March fourth, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Folding room.Driver.For assistant driver for the folding room team, authorized by resolution of the House April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and two, at fifty dollars per month from March fourth, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and ten cents. Superintendent, Clerk’s document room.For superintendent of the Clerk’s document room, authorized by resolution of the House February twentieth, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum from March fourth, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.
O. M. Enyart.Compiling biographical Congressional Directory.*Post,* p. 1773.To pay O. M. Enyart for compiling a Congressional Directory, embracing the biographies of all members of Congress from the Continental Congress to the Fifty-seventh Congress, which has been ordered to be printed by a concurrent resolution passed February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and on the certificate of the Public Printer that the manuscript therefor has been delivered to him in complete and satisfactory condition, five thousand dollars.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.Joint committee to attend dedication.*Post,* p. 1774.To defray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of the House and Senate, authorized to attend and represent the Congress of the United States, on the occasion of the dedication of the buildings and grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held at Saint Louis, April thirtieth, and May first, and second, nineteen hundred and three, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Territory of Louisiana, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum three thousand dollars shall be accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, and two thousand dollars accredited to the Senate to be expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.
Laps D. McCord.Services, Louisiana Purchase compilation.To pay Laps D. McCord for services in preparing copy for the printer of the state papers and all correspondence and indexing the same, bearing upon the purchase of the Territory of Louisiana, ordered to be printed by concurrent resolution, to be paid on acceptance 1069of said copy by the Public Printer and on his approval one thousand dollars or so much thereof as is necessary. library or congress.Library of Congress. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric andGeneral expenses. steam apparatus, reference books, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, ten thousand dollars. botanic garden.Botanic Garden.
For fuel and labor, one thousand five hundred dollars.Fuel and labor. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and forPrinting for Congress. 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), for rents, not exceeding fifty dollars for technical books of reference, and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves to employees. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Printing and binding for the Treasury Department, thirty thousandTreasury Department. dollars. Printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus,War Department. thirty thousand dollars. Printing and binding for the Navy Department, sixteen thousandNayy Department. dollars.
For printing and binding for the Interior Department, includingInterior Department. the Civil Service Commission, ninety-seven thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Post-Office Department, exclusivePost-Office Department. of the Money-Order Office, fifty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, includingLibrary of Congress. the copyright department, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, five thousand dollars. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De FontesMessengers, night service. as messengers on night duty during the second session of the present Congress for extra services, one hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, four hundred and fifty dollars.
SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.Spanish Claims Commission. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For salaries and expenses ofSalaries. the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, five thousand dollars; and said Commission is authorized to pay to additional commissioners to take testimony in Cuba, for occasional services in special cases, not exceedingTestimony in Cuba. eight dollars per day, in lieu of fees during the time of actual service. To pay the award made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionPayment of award.Vol. 31, p. 879.
Inder the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-eight of the present session, three thousand dollars. 1070 JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. Elias E. Barnes, exception.For the payment of the judgments except the judgment in favor of Elias E. Barnes, rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty and Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and eighty-seven and two hundred, two *Provisos.*Appeal.hundred and ninety thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-nine cents: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right Restrictions on District of Columbia claims repealed.Vol. 31. p. 572.of appeal shall nave expired: *And provided further,* That the proviso contained in the Act approved the sixth day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes,” which reads as follows: *Provided,* That no judgmentVol. 21, p. 284. heretofore or hereafter rendered under the Act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to provide for the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia, and conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear the same, and for other purposes,” shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury until said judgment shall have been reported to, and specific authority for payment thereof granted by, Congress, be, and the same Appeals.is hereby, repealed; and from all final judgments or decrees heretofore rendered in suits of the character of those mentioned in said proviso an appeal shall be allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States at any time within ninety days after the passage of this Act, except in cases where the amounts found due by said court have been paid at the Treasury.
John and Thomas Gove.French spoliation claim in favor of, repealed.*Ante*, p. 220.That the appropriation of the sum of nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars in the French spoliation claim on the schooner Dolphin, Thomas Gove, master, in favor of Andrew Lacy, administrator of John Gove and Thomas Gove, in the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known us the Bow-man Act, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts.Vol. 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States, certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seventy-seven and Senate Document Numbered one hundred and ninety-four of this session, and which have not been appealed, six thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and five cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from *Proviso.*Appeal.the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided, *That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the light of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Judgments, Indian depredation claims.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation eases certified to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Eighty-one and Three hundred and 1071sixty-nine, except the judgments in favor of John S. Little, administrator of John W. Hayes, deceased, reported in said House Document Numbered Eighty-one, and in favor of Charles Probst, and in favor of C. M.
Cooper, administrator, reported in said House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-nine, and certified in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety, and one hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and sixty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents; said judgments to be paidDeductions, after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 26, p. 858. ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursedReimbursement. to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided,* That no one of said judgments provided*Proviso.*Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
JUDGMENT SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.Supreme court, D. C. For payment of the owners of wharves, warehouses, wharf structures,Potomac flats judgment.Vol. 81, p. 956. and other improvements in and over the waters of the Potomac River south of Water street, in the city of Washington, and upon the adjoining land of the United States not in or over the said waters of the Potomac River, and the claim of Richard J. Beall, referred to in the decree passed by the supreme court of the District of.
Columbia in the case of the United States against Morris and others, which wharves, warehouses, wharf structures, and other improvements and the property concerning which the claim of the said Beall arose, have been included within the limits of the improvement of the Potomac River and its flats in charge of the Secretary of War, the sum of two hundred and thirty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and four cents, which payments shall be made to and received by the respective owners of such wharves, warehouses, wharf structures, and other improvements and by said Beall in full discharge, acquittance, and release by such owners and said Beall to the United States of all their right, title, interest, and claim of every description, either at law or in equity, to compensation for wharves, warehouses, wharf structures, or for any other improvements or structures of any kind or character, as well as of all claim of such owners and said Beall on account of the impairment or injury to any rights whatsoever therein claimed or suffered by such owners or said Beall from the taking of said property or any other property, rights, or interests whatsoever, and the inclusion thereof within the limits of said improvement; and which payment shall be made upon orders of the said court to the persons and corporations who have already been determined by the said court to be the owners of some of said property, and also to the persons who shall hereafter be determined by said court to be the owners of the residue of said property; such orders to be passed from time to time upon application to the court 1072therefor by the several persons so determined or who may be hereafter determined to be such owners; the appropriation herein made to be immediately available for the purposes specified.
Prize money, battle of Manila Bay.Payment of decree.Prize money, battle of Manila Bay: To satisfy the decree ordered by the Supreme Court of the United States to be entered in accordance with the opinion of February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and three, by the supreme court of the District of Columbia in the case of George Dewey, admiral United States Navy, versus The Don Juan de Austria, numbered five hundred and fifty-nine, reported to Congress at this session in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-five, nine hundred and forty-six thousand and eighty-three dollars and eighty-nine cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Sec. 2. Claims certified by accounting officers. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and prior years, unless otherwise Vol. 23, p. 254.stated, and which have been certified to Congress tinder section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty-six, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, fifteen dollars.
For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, six dollars and ninety cents. For salaries and expenses of special inspectors of foreign steam vessels, fifty-four thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty-one cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, two hundred and seven-teen dollars and thirty-two cents. For detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, four thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and seven cents.
For quarantine service, two dollars and thirty-eight cents. For Life-Saving Service, one thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-one cents. For salaries, keepers of light-houses, fifty-five dollars and forty-three cents. For expenses of buoyage, four dollars and twenty cents- For expenses of light vessels, ten dollars and three cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, nineteen dollars and sixty-five cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, fifty-eight dollars and ten cents.
For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-two cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department For pay, and so forth, of the Army, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-six cents. 1073 For subsistence of the Army, two hundred and thirty dollars and two cents.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one dollar and fifty cents. For incidental expenses. Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and forty-three dollars and nine cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, thirty-two thousand and thirteen dollars and seventy-nine cents. For barracks and quarters, sixty-one dollars and forty-three cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, six dollars and thirty-two cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, four hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-two cents.
For ordnance stores, manufacture, one thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and four cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Pacific Branch, sixteen dollars and thirty-four cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Danville Branch, forty dollars and eighty-four cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, three dollars and twenty-seven cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, one hundred and eleven dollars and thirty cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, sixty-five dollars and ten cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, thirty-four dollars and seven cents. For emergency fund, Navy Department, sixty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents. For pay of the Navy, one thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and thirty-eight cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-two cents. For pay, Marine Corps, ten dollars and six cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, three hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, forty-seven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, two thousand five hundred and one dollars and sixty-two cents.
For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, sixty-eight cents. For contingent. Bureau of Equipment, one hundred and ninety-six dollars and eleven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, twenty-two dollars and four cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fifteen dollars and ninety cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, three hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, four dollars and forty-four cents.
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and thirteen cents. 1074 For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventeen cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, one thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, ninety three dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, ten dollars and forty-one cents. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, eight dollars. For protection of forest reserves, thirteen dollars and fifty cents.
For surveying the public lands, four thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and sixty cents. For surveying private land claims, six hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-three cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and fourteen cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes: Subsistence and civilization, one dollar and seventy-five cents. For support of Indian schools, twelve dollars and fifty-eight cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, one thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-three cents.
For surveying Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations, five thousand dollars. For payment to sundry Sioux Indians for depredations, treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, eighty-one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. For payment to George T. Wilson, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Kiowa and Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars. For army pensions, one hundred and forty dollars.
For navy pensions, twenty dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, twelve dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments For salaries of diplomatic officers while receiving instructions and in transit, sixty-two dollars and sixty-five cents. For salaries of consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit, eleven dollars and thirty-nine cents. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, fourteen dollars and fifty cents.
For salaries, consular service, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-eight cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, forty-one dollars and fifty-four cents. For salaries, interpreters to consulates, seven dollars and seventy-five cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars and eight cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, seven dollars and twelve cents. 1075 For steam launch for legation at Constantinople, seven dollars and four cents.
For relief and protection of American seamen, seventy-six dollars and thirty-three cents. For preservation of collections, National Museum, sixty cents. For Interstate Commerce Commission, one hundred and forty dollars and twenty-two cents. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, fourteen dollars and forty-eight cents. For soil investigations, fifty-two cents. For investigating the production of domestic sugar, seven dollars. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, fifty-seven dollars and two cents.
For contingent expenses, Department of Justice: Miscellaneous items, four hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents. For prosecution of crimes, eighteen dollars and eighty-two cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, two thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, seventeen dollars and sixty cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, twenty-two dollars and eighty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one thousand six hundred and nine dollars. For supplies for United States courts one dollar and sixty-one cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.
For compensation of postmasters, twenty-seven dollars and forty-two cents. For clerk hire, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, one dollar. For free-delivery service, seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-seven cents. For star transportation, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-six cents. For steamboat transportation, seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, two hundred and ninety dollars and eighty cents.
For rewards, one thousand six hundred dollars. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to beAdditional claims due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section twoVol. 23, p. 254. of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-two, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 1076 claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department For beating apparatus for public buildings, one dollar and fifty-nine cents.
For salaries and expenses of special inspectors of foreign steam vessels, twenty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-nine cents. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, one hundred and thirty dollars and twenty cents. Customs: For collecting the revenue from customs, four hundred and two dollars and sixty-eight cents. For Life-Saving Service, three hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty cents. Internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, eighty-three dollars and fifteen cents.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, two thousand and ninety-three dollars and twenty-nine cents. For relief of Continental Fire Insurance Company and others, Act February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, nine hundred and six dollars and eighty cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four thousand and ninety-eight dollars and ninety cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, five hundred and two dollars and seventy-five cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighty-three thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-seven cents. For barracks and quarters, ninety-eight dollars and forty cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, three dollars and sixty-one cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, ninety-seven dollars. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, fifty-one dollars and forty-one cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For pay of the Navy, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, twenty-five dollars and ninety cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fifty cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nine hundred dollars. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and forty dollars and thirty-one cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, ninety-two dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department For surveying the public lands, eight thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. Indians: For traveling expenses of Indian inspectors, thirty-one dollars and fifteen cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, one dollar and seventy-eight cents. 1077 For Indian moneys: Proceeds of labor, one hundred and forty-four dollars.
Payment to estate of Robert Cut chubby, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand and sixty-five dollars. Payment to estate of A. B. Johnson, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, two thousand and twenty-five dollars. Payment to estate of Aggy Daren, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from her by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Payment to estate of Ho par kin tubby, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, three thousand nine hundred dollars. Pensions: Army pensions, sixty-one dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. State Department: For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, eighty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. Department of Agriculture:
For forestry investigations, four dollars and twelve cents. Department of Justice: For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, forty dollars and sixty-five cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, thirty dollars. For rent of court rooms, United States courts, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, sixty-five dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, three hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. For star transportation, seventy-four dollars. Sec. 4. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section twoVol. 23, p. 254. of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-eight, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eight thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-one cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, four dollars and fifty-two cents. claims allowed by the comptroller of the treasury.Claims allowed by Comptroller. interior department. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-three cents. 1078 Sec. 5. Refunding States expenses raising volunteers. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, certified to Congress at this session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-four, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-four, as follows:
To the State of Kentucky, one million three hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-five cents. To the State of Wisconsin, four hundred and fifty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety cents. To the State of Maine, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-four cents. To the State of New Hampshire one hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents.
To the State of Connecticut six hundred and six thousand five hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-nine cents. To the State of New Jersey four hundred and seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty cents. To the State of Rhode Island thirty-one thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents. For the following additional payments to States, namely: South Carolina.Additional payment.To pay the State of South Carolina for balance found due from the United States to said State, according to the computation made by the Comptroller of the Treasury up to January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, as stated in his letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, dated February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, forty-seven thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, and interest upon the same at four per centum per annum until paid.
Sec. 6. Treasury settlements. To pay the following Treasury settlements heretofore certified to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, namely: Insurance companies.Settlement numbered ninety-six hundred and ninety-six, in favor of the Globe Mutual Insurance Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, Gilbert Elliot, receiver, reported in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-four, Fifty-third Congress, third session, three thousand five hundred dollars. Settlement numbered five thousand three hundred and three, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the United States Insurance Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Five, Fifty-third Congress, third session, five thousand dollars.
Settlement numbered five thousand, of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in favor of the Phoenix Insurance Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Five, Fifty-third Congress, third session, five thousand dollars. Settlement, numbered five thousand three hundred and three, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the American Central Insurance Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Five, Fifty-third Congress, third session, five thousand dollars.
Settlement numbered five thousand two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Boatmen’s Insurance and Trust Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Five, Fifty-third Congress, third session, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents. Settlement numbered five thousand two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-fire, in favor of the American Central Insurance Company, of Saint Louis, Missouri, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Five, Fifty-third Congress, third session, throe thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents.
Settlement numbered ninety-six hundred and fifty-eight, for five thousand dollars, in favor of the Eureka Insurance Company, of Pitts-1079burg, Pennsylvania, William L. Jones, receiver, reported in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-four, Fifty-third Congress, third session. Settlement numbered five thousand and three, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Phoenix Insurance Company, of New York, five thousand dollars, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Forty, Fifty-third Congress, third session.
For the following, reported in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-six at this session, namely, settlement numbered forty-eight, hundred and thirteen of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in favor of the Sun Mutual Insurance Company, New York, five thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; the Commercial Mutual Insurance Company, New York, two thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents; the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, New York, five thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; the assignees of Washington Marine Insurance Company, New York, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Settlement numbered ninety-six hundred and fifty-seven of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the assignees of Washington Marine Insurance Company, New York, five thousand dollars. To pay the Treasury settlements reported to Congress in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-one at, the present session, nineteen thousand two hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-one cents. Settlement numbered fifty-two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Eureka Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, reported in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three.
Forty-eighth Congress, second session, four thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and nineteen cents. Settlement numbered fifty-two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Citizens’ Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, reported in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, one thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-two cents. Settlement numbered fifty-two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the American Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, reported in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, one thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-two cents.
Settlement numbered fifty-two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Magnolia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Cincinnati. Ohio, reported in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three. Forty-eighth Congress, second session, two thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ten cents. Settlement numbered fifty-two hundred and one, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the City Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, reported in House Executive Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three.
Forty-eighth Congress, second session, two thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ton cents. For the following, reported in Senate Document Numbered Sixty, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, namely, settlement numbered fifty-three hundred, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Magnolia Fire and Marino Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, two thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; settlement numbered fifty-three hundred and sixty-three, of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in favor of the Magnolia Fire and 1080Marine Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, three thousand dollars; the City Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, three thousand dollars; settlement numbered fifty hundred and sixty-eight, of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in favor of the National Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, three thousand dollars; the American Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, four thousand dollars; the Central Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, three thousand dollars; settlement numbered fifty hundred and eighty-five, of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in favor of the American Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, four thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars and thirty-three cents.
Sec. 7. Stewart and Barr.Distribution of French spoliation claim to heirs of.*Ante*, p. 219. That the sum of sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents appropriated to be paid to Henry V. Lester, administrator of James Barr, deceased, as surviving partner of the firm of Stewart and Barr, in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (page two hundred and nineteen of volume thirty-two.
United States Statutes at Large), shall be paid as follows: Henry V. Lester, administrator of James Stuart, deceased, eight thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, and Henry V. Lester, administrator of James Barr, deceased, eight thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents: *Provided, however,**Proviso.*Proof required. That the same shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the administrator of said estates represents the next of kin of said James Stuart and James Barr, and the court which granted the administrations on said estates shall have certified that the administrator has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the amounts herein appropriated.
John A. Dubernat.French spoliation claim to administrator of, to be paid administrator of widow.*Ante*, p. 219.That the amount appropriated to be paid under the clause reading as follows: “On the ship Theresa, Philip Brum, master, namely, George W. Lockwood, administrator of the estate of John A. Dubernat, deceased, thirteen thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents: *Provided, however.* That the amount so appropriated shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the administrator of said estate represents the next of kin of John A.
Dubernat, or, in the event the court shall find there are no such next of kin and that there was a widow of said John A. Dubernat, then that said sum be paid to the personal representative of such widow for and on behalf of the next of kin of such widow,” in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (page two hundred and nineteen of volume thirty-two, United States Statutes at Large), be paid instead to J.
Steliman Hogg, administrator of the estate of Louisia R. C. Durkee, formerly Dubernat, widow of the said *Proviso*.Proof, etc, required.John A. Dubernat, deceased: *Provided, however,* That the same shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the administrator represents the next of kin of said widow, and the court which granted the administration to the said administrator shall certify that he has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the amount herein appropriated.
Sec. 8. *Ante*, p. 825. For payment of the salaries and expenses of the Department of Commerce and Labor, established by the “Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor,” approved February fourteenth, 1081nineteen hundred and three, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, as follows: department of commerce and labor.Department of Commerce and Labor, Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of CommercePay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. and Labor, at the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum; private secretary to the Secretary, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum;
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; chief clerk, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; disbursing clerk, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; chief of the Bureau of Manufactures, atBureau of Manufactures, chief.Commissioner of Corporations. the rate of four thousand dollars per annum;
Commissioner of Corporations, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum: Deputy Com-missioner of Corporations, at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum; chief clerk to the Bureau of Corporations, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum; in all, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For such number of clerks of class four, clerks of class three, clerks of class two, clerksClerks, messengers, etc. of class one, clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum, clerks at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum, clerks at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, messengers, assistant messengers, and for the services of such other persons, at a rate of compensation not exceeding one thousand dollars each per annum, as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may deem to he requisite and necessary in his office and in the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, in addition to the employees that may be transferred hereunder from the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding fifty-thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of CommerceContingent expenses. and Labor, and the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, namely: For the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, news-papers (not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars), stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, and adding machines, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the fore-going, fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of necessary quarters for the offices of the Secretary ofRent. Commerce and Labor, and the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, sixteen thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the offices of the Secretary of CommercePrinting and binding. and Labor, and the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, seventy-five thousand dollars. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of CommerceSpecial agents.Compensation, etc. and Labor, of such special agents in the Bureau of Corporations, and for per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding four dollars per day to each of said special agents, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses for said special agents including necessary sleeping car fares, sixty thousand dollars. 1082 Appropriations for offices, etc., transferred, available for expenditure in Department.That all appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four for the Department of Labor, Fish Commission, bureaus, offices, or other divisions of whatever designation or character, transferred or that may be transferred from any executive department to the Department of Commerce and Labor under the act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, shall be available for expenditure in and by the Department of Commerce and Labor, and shall be treated the same as though said branches of the public service had been directly named in the laws making said appropriations as parts of the Department of Commerce and Labor, under the direction *Proviso*.Allotment of printing, rent, etc.of the Secretary of the Department: *Provided,* That as to all general appropriations for printing and binding, rent, and contingent or miscellaneous expenses, the amounts that shall be transferred hereunder, except where the same are specifically fixed by law, shall in the case of each bureau, office, or other division be not less than the average amount expended on account of or allotted for expenditure to each of the same during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and three.
Transfer of Treasure employees before July 1, 1901.That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, as soon as may be practicable and before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and three, to transfer to the Department of Commerce and Labor all chiefs of division, assistant chiefs of division, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, watchmen, charwomen, and laborers now employed in the divisions of his office who are wholly engaged upon the work relating to the business of the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department transferred or to be transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor under the Act of February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three; and in proportion to the number of persons in the divisions of his office whose time and labor are partially devoted to the work of said bureaus and offices he shall transfer approximately an equivalent number of clerks and other employees to said Department of Commerce and Labor, and the appropriations made for the compensation of all persons transferred hereunder shall be credited to and disbursed by the Department of Commerce and Labor.
Annual estimates.That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall submit to Congress for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and annually thereafter, estimates in detail for all personal services and for all general and miscellaneous expenses for the Department, of Commerce and Labor. Bureaus, etc., to remain in present offices until otherwise provided for.That all bureaus, offices, and divisions transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor after July first, nineteen hundred and three, occupying quarters in any building owned by the United States shall continue therein until otherwise provided for by Congress, Exception.except the Bureau of Immigration and the Steamboat Inspection Service, which may be removed from the Treasury building to the Builders’ Exchange building, numbers seven hundred and nineteen to seven hundred and twenty-one Thirteenth street northwest, premises now rented in part by the Treasury Department. department of state.Department of State.
Chief of bureau, etc., to prepare consular reports.*Ante*, p. 830.To enable the Department of State to comply with the requirements of section eleven of the Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three: Chief of Bureau, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk of class two, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1901.
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