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Chapter 1007. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1007.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. [[Public, No. 157](/us/pl/57/157).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Aberdeen, South Dakota, post-office: For completion of buildingAberdeen, S. Dak. under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Adrian, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building underAdrian, Mich. present limit, ten thousand dollars. Alexandria, Virginia, custom-house and post-office: For completionAlexandria, Va. of extension under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Allentown, Pennsylvania, post-office:
For continuation of buildingAllentown, Pa. under present limit, twenty five thousand dollars. Amesbury, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of buildingAmesbury, Mass. under present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Anderson, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building underAnderson, Ind. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Anniston, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building underAnniston, Ala, present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofAthens, Ga. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Atlantic, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building underAtlantic, Iowa, present limit, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Atlantic City, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of buildingAtlantic City, N. J. under present limit, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Augusta, Maine, post-office, court-house, etc.: For completion ofAugusta, Me. extension under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Baltimore, Maryland, custom-house: For continuation of buildingBaltimore, Md.Custom-house. under present limit, four hundred thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certainRent. Government officials at Baltimore, Maryland, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For the erection of an addition to the quarters now occupied by theSubtreasury, additional quarters. subtreasury at Baltimore, Maryland, in the space between the present old court-house and the post-office and court-house building, and for changes in connection therewith, five thousand dollars.
Bangor, Maine, custom-house and post-office: For completion of extensionBangor, Me. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Government’s share of one-half of the estimated costRepairing bridge etc. of repairing the bridge which spans the Kenduskeag stream and furnishes the approach to the custom-house and post-office at Bangor. Maine, six thousand dollars. Baraboo, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building underBaraboo, Wis. present limit, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Batesville, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For continuationBatesville, Ark. of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of buildingBattle Creek, Mich, under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Beaumont, Texas, post-office and court-house: For completion ofBeaumont, Tex. extension under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. 1084 Biloxi, Miss.Biloxi, Mississippi, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Boone, Iowa.Boone, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Burlington, Iowa.Burlington, Iowa, post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Burlington, Vt.Burlington, Vermont, post-office and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Butte Mont.Butte, Montana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Centerville, Iowa.Centerville, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Charlottesville, Va.Charlottesville, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Chicago, Ill.Rent.Chicago, Illinois, temporary building for post-office:
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents. New building.Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, five hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Chillicothe, Ohio.Chillicothe, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Cleveland, Ohio.Cleveland, Ohio, post-office, custom-house, and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, four hundred thousand dollars. Rent.Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty-two thousand dollars. Colorado-Springs, Colo.Colorado Springs, Colorado, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Crawfordsville, Ind.Crawfordsville, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Cumberland, Md.Cumberland, Maryland, court-house and post-office: For completion of building under the present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Dallas, Tex.Dallas, Texas, court-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Deadwood, S. Dak.Deadwood, South Dakota, post-office and court-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Decatur, Ill.Decatur, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Dekalb, Ill.Dekalb, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Denver, Colo.Mint.Denver, Colorado, mint building: For completion of building, three hundred thousand dollars. Durham, N. C.Durham, North Carolina, post-office:
For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Easton, Pa.Easton, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Eau Claire, Wis.Eau Claire, Wisconsin, court-house and post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Elizabeth, N. J.Elizabeth, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Ellis Island, immigrant station, N. Y.Ellis Island, New York, immigrant station: For an extension and additions to the present hospital on Ellis Island, one hundred thousand dollars; 1085 For the construction or purchase of a steel twin-screw ferryboat,Ferryboat. one hundred and ten thousand dollars; For sundries, additions, repairs, and alterations to the GovernmentRepairs, etc. property at Ellis Island as from time to time, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasure, may be deemed necessary, twenty thousand dollars;
For construction of a new island near Ellis Island, one hundred andConstruction of new island. fifty thousand five hundred dollars: in all, three hundred and eighty thousand five hundred dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the immigrant fund. Elkhart, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building underElkhart, Ind. present limit, twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Emporia, Kansas, post-office: For completion of building underEmporia, Kans. present limit, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Evanston, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building underEvanston, Ill. present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Evanston. Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For continuationEvanston, Wyo. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fergus Falls, Minnesota, court-house and post-office: For completionFergus Falls, Minn. or building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Findlay, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under presentFindlay, Ohio. limit, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Flint, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building underFlint, Mich. present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Florence, South Carolina, post-office, and court-house: For continuationFlorence, S. C. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of buildingFond du Lac, Wis. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Fort Smith. Arkansas, court-house, post-office, and so forth:
ForFort Smith, Ark. completion of extension under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fresno, California, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofFresno, Cal. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gainesville, Florida, post-office: For continuation of building underGainesville, Fla. present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Gainesville, Texas, post-office: For continuation of building underGainesville, Tex. present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Geneva, New York, post-office: For continuation of building underGeneva, N. Y. present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Georgetown. South Carolina, post-office and custom-house: For continuationGeorgetown, S. C. of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Gloversville, New York, post-office: For continuation of buildingGloversville, N. Y. under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Goldsboro, North Carolina, post-office:
For continuation of buildingGoldsboro, N. C. under present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Grand Forks, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuationGrand Forks, N. Dak. of building under present limit, forty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Grand Haven. Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For continuationGrand Haven, Mich. of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Green Bay, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house:
For continuationGreen Bay Wis. of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Greenville, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For continuationGreenville, Tenn. of building under present limit, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. 1086 Greensboro, N. C.Greensboro, North Carolina, court-house, post-office, and so forth: For completion of extension under present limit, forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Rent.For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Greensboro, North Carolina, and for expenses incidental thereto, three thousand dollars.
Guthrie, Okla.Guthrie, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Hammond, Ind.Hammond, Indiana, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five, thousand dollars. Harrison, Ark.Harrison, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Hartford, Conn.Hartford, Connecticut, custom-house and post-office:
For completion of extension under present limit, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Hastings, Nebr.Hustings, Nebraska, post-office: For continuation of building-under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Henderson, Ky.Henderson, Kentucky, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Holyoke, Mass.Holyoke, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollar’s.
Honolulu, Hawaii.Immigrant station.For the complete establishment of an immigration station and the erection of necessary buildings at Honolulu, Hawaii, on land owned by the United States, adjoining wharf known as Channel Wharf, and for each and every purpose connected therewith and necessary to complete said station in all of its details within the sum hereby appropriated, thirty thousand dollars. Huntington, W. Va.Huntington, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Hutchinson, Kans.Hutchinson, Kansas, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Indianapolis, Ind.Indianapolis, Indiana, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, six hundred thousand dollars. Rent.Indianapolis, Indiana, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and all expenses incident thereto, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Iowa City, Iowa.Iowa City, Iowa, post-offfice: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Ironton, Ohio.Ironton, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Ithaca, N. Y.Ithaca, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Jacksonville, Fla.Jacksonville, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and so forth: For completion of extension under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Jacksonville, Ill.Jacksonville, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Jamestown, N. Y.Jamestown, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Joplin, Mo.For post-office at Joplin, Missouri: For completion of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Kalamazoo, Mich.Kalamazoo, Michigan, post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Kankakee, Ill.Kankakee, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Kingston, N. Y.Kingston, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. 1087 Kirksville, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building underKirksville, Mo. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Laramie, Wyoming, post-office: For continuation of building underLaramie, Wyo. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Laredo, Texas, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: ForLaredo, Tex. continuation of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Lawrence, Kansas, post-office: For continuation of building underLawrence, Kans. present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Leadville, Colorado, post-office: For completion of building underLeadville, Colo. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingLebanon, Pa. under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Lincoln, Nebraska, court-house and post-office: For continuation ofLincoln, Nebr. extension under present limit, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Lincoln. Nebraska, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quartersRent. for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, five thousand dollars. Little Falls, New York, post-office: For continuation of buildingLittle Falls, N. Y. under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For post-office at Lockport, New York: For completion of buildingLockport, N. Y. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Logansport, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building underLogansport, Ind. present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Los Angeles, California, post-office and court-house: For continuationLos Angeles, Cal. of building under present limit, two hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings:
For rental of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Louisiana. Missouri, post-office: For continuation of building underLouisiana, Mo. present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Macon, Georgia, court-house, and post-office: For continuation ofMacon, Ga. extension under present limit, forty-eight thousand dollars.
Marblehead, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of buildingMarblehead, Mass. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Marshalltown. Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building underMarshalltown, Iowa present limit, twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Martinsville, Virginia, post-office: For continuation of buildingMartinsville, Va. under present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Maysville, Kentucky, post-office: For continuation of building underMaysville, Ky. present limit, ten thousand dollars.
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingMcKeesport, Pa. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Memphis, Tennessee, custom-house, court-house, and post-office:Memphis, Tenn. For continuation of extension under present limit, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Meriden, Connecticut, post-office: For continuation of buildingMeriden, Conn. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Minneapolis, Minnesota, post-office: For continuation of extensionMinneapolis, Minn. under present limit, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Montgomery, Alabama, court-house and post-office: For completionMontgomery, Ala. of extension under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Muncie. Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building underMuncie, Ind. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Muskegon, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For continuationMuskegon, Mich. of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. 1088 Nashua, N. H.Nashua, New Hampshire, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Nashville, Tenn.Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Natchez, Miss.Natchez, Mississippi, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Nevada, Mo.Nevada, Missouri, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Newcastle, Pa.Newcastle, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
New Brunswick, N. J.New Brunswick, New Jersey, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Newport, Vt.Newport, Vermont, court-house, post-office, and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Newport News, Va.Newport News, Virginia, custom-house and post-office: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. New York, N. Y.Custom-house.New York, New York, custom-house:
For continuation of buildings under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars. Rent.New York, New York, rent of old custom-house: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars. Appraisers’ warehouse, elevators, etc.New York, New York, appraisers warehouse: For new elevators, and repairs to old elevators, in the appraisers’ warehouse, New York, New York, thirty thousand dollars. Barge office.New York, New York, barge office:
For alterations and improvements, six thousand dollars. Niagara Falls, N. Y.Niagara Falls, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Norfolk, Nebr.Norfolk, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, eighty-five thousand dollars. Norristown, Pa.Norristown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Northampton, Mass.Nortnampton, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Oak Park, Ill.Oak Park, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Ogden, Utah.Ogden, Utah, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Oil City, Pa.Oil City, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.
Oklahoma City, Okla.Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Omaha, Nebr.Omaha, Nebraska, court-house, custom-house, and post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Ottawa, Ill.Ottawa, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Owosso, Mich.Owosso, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Paducah, Ky.Paducah, Kentucky, post-office, court-house, and so forth: For completion of extension under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Pekin, Ill.Pekin, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, Perth Amboy, N. J.Perth Amboy, New Jersey, post-office and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Pittsburg, Pa.Marine-hospital site.United States marine hospital, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania:
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, upon the application of the Secretary of the Treasury, to transfer to the custody and control of the Treasury Department, as a marine-1089hospital site, so much of the United States Arsenal grounds in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, as may be required for that purpose, not exceeding five acres in extent, fronting on Pennsylvania avenue, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth streets. Portland, Oregon, post-office and court-house:
For completion ofPortland, Oreg. extension under present limit, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For moving expenses, rent of temporary quarters for the accommodationRent, etc. of certain Government officials at Portland. Oregon, and all expenses incident thereto, twenty-five thousand dollars. Providence, Rhode Island, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:Providence, R. I. For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-rive thousand dollars.
Reno, Nevada, post-office: For continuation of building under presentReno, Nev. limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Richmond, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building underRichmond, Ind. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Richmond, Virginia, post-office: For acquiring by purchase, condemnation,Richmond, Va.Additional land.*Post*, p. 1210. or otherwise, the Shafer property adjoining the present post-office the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in addition to the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars already appropriated.
Rock Hill, South Carolina, post-office: For continuation of buildingRock Hill, S. C. under present limit, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Rome, New York, post-office: For completion of building underRome, N. Y. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Saint Louis, Missouri, post-office: For continuation of buildingSaint Louis, Mo. under present limit, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Salt Lake City, Utah, court-house and post-office: For continuationSalt Lake City, Utah. of building under present limit, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
San Francisco, California, custom-house: For continuation of buildingSan Francisco, Cal. under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Scranton, Pennsylvania, post-office, and so forth: For completion ofScranton, Pa. extension under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. Selina, Alabama, post-office: For continuation of building underSelma, Ala. present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Sherman, Texas, post-office and court-house:
For continuation ofSherman, Tex. building under present limit, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Spartanburg, South Carolina, post-office: For continuation of buildingSpartanburg, S. C. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Springfield, Illinois, court-house and post-office: For completion ofSpringfield, Ill. extension under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Springfield, Illinois, rent of buildings: For rental of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, four thousand dollars.
Stillwater, Minnesota, post-office: For continuation of building underStillwater, Minn. present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Superior, Wisconsin, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: ForSuperior, Wis. continuation of building under present limit, fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Tampa, Florida, court-house, post-office, and custom-house: ForTampa, Fla completion of building under present limit, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Torrington, Connecticut, post-office:
For continuation of buildingTorrington, Conn. under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. 1090 Vincennes, Ind.Vincennes, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Waco, Tex.Waco, Texas, court-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Rent, etc.For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Waco, Texas, and for expenses incidental thereto, five thousand dollars.
Warren, Ohio.Warren, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Washington, Pa.Washington, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Waterbury, Conn.Waterbury, Connecticut, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Waterloo, Iowa.Waterloo, Iowa, post-office and court-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Wausau, Wis.Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. West Chester, Pa.West Chester, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Wheeling, W. Va.Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars, Washington, D. C.Bureau of Standards.Washington. District of Columbia, laboratory National Bureau of Standards: For completion of laboratory under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Zanesville, Ohio.Zanesville, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Washington, D.
C.Treasury buildings, repairs.For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fire-alarm system.Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Ventilating apparatus.Ventilating apparatus, Treasury building: For installing ventilating apparatus and making necessary changes in connection therewith, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs and preservation.For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, four hundred *Proviso*.Superintendents, etc.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment, outside of the District of Columbia, of superintendents and others, including mechanical labor force, at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.
Protection to mail matter.Brooklyn, N. Y.Philadelphia, Pa.Saint Louis, Mo.Detroit, Mich.For the construction of lookout facilities for the protection of mail matter in the following post-office, buildings: Brooklyn, New York, two thousand seven hundred dollars; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, three thousand five hundred dollars; Saint Louis, Missouri, nine thousand dollars, and Detroit, Michigan, one thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars. Heating apparatus, etc.Heating apparatus for public buildings:
For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations and exclusive of marine hospitals, 1091under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may he expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs or inspecting work done on heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, andVaults, safes, and locks. locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, thirty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia in making repairs and inspecting work done.
For the installation of necessary electrical protection to vaults inElectrical protection to vaults. certain public buildings named in House Document Numbered Thirty-eight, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session, thirty thousand dollars. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicalsPlans, etc. and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like, nature for use of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars; and hereafter the purchase of specially prepared paper for the duplication of plans, and such other incidental expenses and suppliesExpenses to be paid from amounts for each building. as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order for the use of the office of the Supervising Architect, exclusively for the purpose of carrying into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, shall he paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations, in accordance with existing practice. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations.
Portland, Maine, quarantine station: For purchase of site, erectionPortland, Me. of buildings, and equipment of station, fifty thousand dollars. Pensacola, Florida, quarantine station: For wharf, quarters, hospital,Pensacola, Fla. water supply, telephone line, and improvements to station, fourteen thousand dollars. That so much of the sundry civil Act approved June sixth, nineteenBrunswick, Ga.Vol. 31, p. 592, amended. hundred, as relates to the removal of the quarantine station at Brunswick, Georgia, in words as follows:
“The quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For removal of station, purchase of site, erection of buildings, and equipment of station, twenty thousand dollars,” be amended so as to read: " “The quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For removal of station,Punchase of present station site, etc. purchase of site, erection of buildings, and equipment of station, or, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purchase of the site of the present station and the improvement thereof by the erection of buildings and otherwise, twenty thousand dollars.
” " San Diego, California, quarantine station: For quarters and bathSan Diego, Cal. house and improvements to station, six thousand dollars. For construction of wharf at United States quarantine station, Honolulu,Honolulu, Hawaii, wharf, etc. Hawaii, fifty-five thousand dollars; for a runway to connect wharf with the island, ten thousand dollars; for retaining wall around the island, ten thousand dollars; for laundry plant, five thousand dollars; in all, eighty thousand dollars, which sum shall be expended in such manner and under such plans as will complete in every detail each and every object mentioned in this paragraph.
LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. Kam Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine: For continuing constructionPortland, Me. of a light-house and fog signal on Ram Island Ledge at the entrance to Portland Harbor, fifty thousand dollars. 1092 Boston Harbor, Mass.Light station.*Ante*, p. 430, amended.Broad Sound Channel light station. Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: The provision in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three for a first-order light and fog signal at the Northeast Grave, Boston Harbor, is hereby amended by striking out the words “the Northeast Grave” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “The Graves,” so as to read as follows:
Broad Sound Channel Location changed to The Graves.light station, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: For constructing a first-order light and fog signal at The Graves on a granite tower, to mark the entrance to the new Broad Sound Channel in Boston Harbor, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of said light station at a total cost not exceeding one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars.
Third light-house district.Relief light vessel.Relief light vessel for the Third light-house district: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting complete for service a first-class light vessel, with steam fog signal, for the Third light-house district, ninety thousand dollars; and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for said vessel when this appropriation is made, and to be paid therefrom, such employment to cease on or before the date when, the plans for such vessel being finished, proposals for building same are invited by advertisement.
Norwalk, Conn.Peeks Ledge light and fog-signal station, Connecticut: For establishing a light and fog-signal station at Peeks Ledge, Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut, twenty-nine thousand dollars Staten Island light-house depot, N. Y.Staten Island light-house depot, New York: For the erection of a lamp shop at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, fifty thousand dollars. Five Fathom Bank, N. J.Five Fathom Bank light vessel, New Jersey: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light vessel, with a steam fog signal; and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the light vessel for which appropriation may be made; such draftsmen to be paid from the appropriation for building said vessel; such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessel being finished, proposals for building said vessel are invited by advertisement, ninety thousand dollars.
Cape Lookout Shoals, N. C.Cape Lookout Shoalslight vessel, North Carolina: For constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a first-class steam light vessel with a steam fog signal; and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the light-house vessel for which appropriation may be made; such draftsmen to be paid from the appropriation for building said vessel; such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessel being finished, proposals for building said vessel are invited by advertisement, ninety thousand dollars.
Hillsboro Inlet, Fla.Hillsboro Inlet light station, Florida: For continuing construction of a first-order light station at or near Hillsboro Inlet, east coast of Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars. Tender, Seventh district.Tender for the engineer of the Seventh light-house district: For completing a steam tender for construction and repair service., forty thousand dollars. Heald Bank, Tex.Heald Bank light vessel, Texas: For constructing, equipping, and out-fitting, complete for service, a first-class steel steam light vessel with a steam fog signal: and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the light-house vessel for which appropriation may be made; such draftsmen to be paid from the appropria-1093tion for building said vessel; such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessel being finished, proposals for building said vessel are invited by advertisement, ninety thousand dollars.
Racine Reef light and fog-signal station, Wisconsin; For establishingRacine Reef, Wis, a light tower and fog-signal winter quarters for keepers on Racine Reef, entrance to Racine Harbor, Wisconsin, seventy-five thousand dollars. Relief light vessel for the Ninth and Eleventh light-house districts:Charlevoix, Mich. For establishing a steel steam relief light vessel to be stationed at the Charlevoix. Michigan, light-house depot, and used as needed for a relief light vessel for both the Ninth light-house district and the Eleventh light-house district, thirty thousand dollars.
Spectacle Reef light station, Michigan: For reconstructing theSpectacle Reef, Lake Huron. foundation of the light and fog-signal station on Spectacle Reef, Lake Huron, Michigan, fifty-four thousand one hundred dollars. Middle Island, Michigan, light and fog-signal station: For establishingMiddle Island, Lake Huron. a light and fog-signal station on Middle Island, Lake Huron, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. Tender for Saint Marys River, Michigan: Construction of a steamSaint Marys River, Mich. tender for use in Saint Marys River and adjacent waters, Michigan, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Light-house depot for the Eleventh light-house district: For establishingMinnesota Point, Minn. a light-house depot on light-house reservation at Minnesota Point, Minnesota, fourteen thousand dollars. Yerba Buena Island, California: For construction of an oil houseYerba Buena Island, Cal. at Yerba Buena Island, eight thousand dollars. Fog bell and Lens-lantern Light on the southeastern end of SouthamptonSouthampton Shoal, San Francisco Bay, Cal. Shoal, San Francisco Bay, California:
For establishing on the southeastern end of Southampton Shoal, San Francisco Bay. California, a fog bell and lens-lantern light, thirty thousand dollars. Piedras Blancas light station, California: To establish a fog signalPiedras Blancas, Cal. and dwelling for its keeper at Piedras Blancas light station, California, fifteen thousand dollars. Blunts Reef light vessel, Pacific Ocean, off Cape Mendocino, California:Blunts Reef, Cal For constructing, equipping, and outfitting complete for service a first-class steam light vessel with steam fog signal, ninety thousand dollars.
Light-House Establishment.Light-House Establishment Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improvingRepairs. light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pier-head and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, 1094including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, seven hundred thousand dollars.
Keepers’ salaries.Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, eight hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Light-vessels.Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred thousand dollars.
Buoyage.Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fog signals.Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers, and at light-house depots, two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers.Lighting of rivers: For the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London. Connecticut: the Delaware River, between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown. New Jersey: the Elk River, Maryland;
York River, James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida: at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake. Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon: on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of sites.Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Oil housesOil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses *Proviso.*Limit.for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.
Porto Rico.Porto Rican light-house service: For maintaining existing aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional day marks and beacon lights and buoys, where required on Porto Rico and adjacent 1095islands, including purchase of land for same and the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspector and light-house engineer and at the light-house depot, seventy-five thousand dollars. Light-house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters:
ToAlaska. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue to establish, under the direction and supervision of the Light-House Board, light-houses and fog signals in Alaskan waters, two hundred thousand dollars. Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes: To enableGreat Lakes. the Secretary of the Treasury, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting water-ways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars.
Pointe au Pelee light-vessel, Lake Erie: For maintenance of a light-vesselPointe au Pelee, Lake Erie. on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows:Superintendents’ salaries. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand dollars:
For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand seven hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and eighty-two keeper’s of life-savingKeepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-four thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boatCrews. stations, including the old Chicago station and at the building to be erected on the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at Saint Louis, Missouri, under authority of section fifteen of the Act of CongressVol. 31, p. 1443.*Ante*, p. 445. approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for an 1096exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine: pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise: fuel for stations and houses of refuge: repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department;
Commutation of quarters.commutation of quarters and purchase of fuel in kind for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; Vol. 22, p. 57.for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent, expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million five hundred and thirty-two thousand six hundred and ten dollars.
New stations.For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, thirty-five thousand dollars. Plum Island, Wis.Telephone, cable, etc.For constructing and establishing, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a telephone, cable, or telegraph line or lines from the mainland forming the eastern side of Green Bay, Wisconsin, across Deaths Door to the Plum Island life-saving station, and from the said Plum Island life-saving station across Washington Island, Wisconsin, thence to Rock Island, terminating at the light-house on said island, said line or lines to be operated under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasure for the use of the Life-Saving Service, eight thousand Use of line by Weather Bureau.dollars; and the Weather Bureau shall be entitled to the use of said line or lines under such regulations as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
Salaries and expenses.For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowances of captains, lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers, assistant engineers, and a constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service; pay of cadets, and surgeons and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the.
Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department: commutation of Seal fisheries.quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisionsAnchorage.Vol. 25, p. 151. of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March third, eighteen Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 30, p. 1081.Vol, 29, p. 54.hundred and ninety-nine; and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, 1097eighteen hundred and ninety-six: and an Act relating to the anchorageVol. 31, p. 682. of vessels in the Kennebec River at or near Bath, Maine, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, includingContingent expenses. wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the construction, under the direction of the Secretary of theRevenue cutter for Maine coast. Treasury, of a steam revenue cutter of the first class, for service on the coast of Maine, two hundred thousand dollars. For additional amount for the construction, under the direction ofPhiladelphia, Pa.Revenue cutter. the Secretary of the Treasury, of a steam revenue cutter for service at the port of Philadelphia, twenty thousand dollars. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.Engraving and printing.
For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salariesSalaries. of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million forty-three thousand five hundred and forty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury : *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.Large notes. for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parityVol. 31, p. 45 of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million one hundred and fifty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended*Proviso*.Large notes. for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parityVol. 31, p. 45. of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, exceptMaterials. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, five hundred and forty thousand one hundred and twenty-six dollars. For rent of office now occupied by agent, of the Post-Office DepartmentRent. to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the rate of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of theSurvey of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States. coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, 1098and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance, of the complement of vessels; to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the *Proviso.*Advances.Treasury, and under the following heads: *Provided,* That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer, or to a civilian chief of party, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
Field expenses.For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately*Proviso.*Limit of expenditures. available, and to continue available until expended: *Provided. *That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars.
Pacific coast, etc.For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the, United States, to be immediately available, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars.
Coast Pilot.For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars. Magnetic observations.For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels Points to State surveys.between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars.
Special surveys.For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, twelve thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the, actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Treasury regulations, and for the 1099expenses or the attendance of the American delegate at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be*Proviso.*Interchangeable expenditures. available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation.
In all, for field expenses, two hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. For the installation of a tidal indicator on the floor of the exchangeTidal indicator. of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, one thousand dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenanceRepairs of vessels, etc. of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For new steamer and outfit for Coast and Geodetic Survey: ForNew steamer, etc. one new steamer and outfit, including plans and specifications, and for rebuilding the Coast and Geodetic vessel Cosmos, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For allVessels. necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.
Pay and subsistence of professional seamen: For pay and subsistenceProfessional sea-men. of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on the vessels of the Survey, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Salaries Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, fiveSalaries.Superintendent. thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as theAssistants. Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each;
For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each: For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars; For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
For eight assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at nine hundred dollars each; For twenty-three aids, at not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand fiveOffice force. hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; 1100 For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, type-writers, and copyists, namely: For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars: For nine, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;
For one, at six hundred dollars: For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each;
For one, at seven hundred dollars; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each; For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For eight, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars;
For ten, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each: For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For six, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers and laborers, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each;
For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Office expenses.Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for mate-rials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, anti chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies: and for photolithographing 1101charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, other than for buildings, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousandPublication, etc., of observations. dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law.
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-six thousand dollars. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesAmerican ethnology. among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of AstrophysicalAstrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. National Museum:
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliancesNational Museum.Furniture, etc. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeating, etc. service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collectionsPreserving collections. from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum, and all other necessary incidental expenses.
For purchase of specimens to supply deficiencies in the collectionsSpecimens. of the National Museum, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference inBooks, etc. the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, includingRepairs. all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. 1102 Rent.For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand four hundred dollars.
Stamps, etc.For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. National Museum.New building authorized.Building for National Museum: To enable the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to commence the erection of a suitable fire-proof building with granite fronts, for the use of the National Location.Museum, to be erected on the north side of the Mall, between Ninth and Twelfth streets northwest, substantially in accordance with the Plan A, prepared and submitted to Congress by the secretary of the *Ante*, p. 440.Smithsonian Institution under the provisions of the Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fifty Cost.thousand dollars.
Said building complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus and elevators, shall cost not to exceed three million Contracts.five hundred thousand dollars, and a contract or contracts for its completion is hereby authorized to be entered into subject to appropriationsSuperintendent of construction. to be made by Congress. The construction shall be in charge of Bernard R. Green, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Library of Congress, who shall make the contracts herein authorized and disburse all appropriations made for the work, and shall receive as full compensation for his services hereunder the sum of two thousand dollars annually in addition to his present salary, to be paid out of said appropriations.
National Zoological Park.Expenses.National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise Half from District revenues.provided for, ninety-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
FISH COMMISSION.Fish Commission. Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc.Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; private secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, thirty thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Office of accounts.Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one: bookkeeper, one thousand and eighty dollars; in all, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Office of architect and engineer.Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture.Office.Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, 1103one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Station employees; Central Station, Washington,Station employees.Central Station.
District of Columbia: Clerk, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Aquaria, Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixtyAquaria. dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fishponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, oneFish ponds. thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, tour thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveGreen Lake. Me. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCraigs Brook, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousandSaint Johnsbury, Vt. five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Gloucester, Mass.five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.
Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station; Superintendent, one thousandWoods Hole, Mass. five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand one hundred dollars. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCape Vincent, N.
Y. hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred andBattery Island, Md sixty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred andBryans Point, Md. sixty dollars. Wytheville, (Virginia) Station:
Superintendent, one thousand fiveWytheville, Va. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredPutin Bay, Ohio. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNorthville Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. 1104 Alpena, Mich.Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth, Minn.Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho, Mo.Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville, Colo.Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturist, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos, Tex.San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars: three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Baird and Fort Gaston, Cal.Baird (California) and Fort Gaston (California) stations: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars: laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas, Oreg.Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester, Iowa.Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman, Mont.Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five bundled dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin, Tenn.Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars: three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua, N. H.Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton, N. C.Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake, Wash.Baker Luke (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs, Ga.Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Spearfish, S. Dak.Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, 1105at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveTupelo, Miss. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at oneEmployees at large. thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish-culturist, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two coxswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Four car captains, at one thousand twoDistribution employees. hundred dollars each; five car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant ear messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; four car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four ear cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, twoDivision of inquiry respecting food fishes. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Custodian and collector,Biological station, N. C. seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant inDivision of statistics, etc. charge, two thousand five hundred dollars: one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one, thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousandVessels.“Albatross.” eight hundred dollars; one general, assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars.“Fish Hawk.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first“Grampus.” mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the officeAdministration expenses. of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operationsPropagation expenses. of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, 1106contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, forty-five thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes.Field, etc., expenses.Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish-culture: for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Statistical inquiries.Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expenses in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Interchangeable expenditures.And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchange-ably for expenditure on the subjects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Immediately available.For the following, under the Fish Commission, to be immediately available, namely: Fish-culture stations, etc.Nashua, N. H.For fish-cultural station at Nashua, New Hampshire, including construction and repair of buildings, construction and repair of ponds, construction of a pipe line and improvement of water supply, grading of roads, and improvement of grounds, five thousand dollars. Washington, D. C.For improvement of the fish ponds in Washington, District of Columbia, including the construction and repair of ponds, improvement of water supply, construction and repair of buildings, heating apparatus for superintendent’s dwelling, and grading and improvement of grounds, seven thousand dollars. . Northville. Mich.For the fish-cultural station at Northville, Michigan, including the repair of buildings, improvement of water supply, and construction and repair of ponds, five thousand dollars. Put in Bay, Ohio.For completion of the fish-cultural station at Put in Bay, Ohio, including the purchase of land, the construction of a superintendent’s residence, construction and repair of buildings, purchase of machinery and equipment, extension of wharf, and other improvements, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Leadville, Colo.For the fish-cultural station at Leadville, Colorado, including construction and repair of ponds and improvement of water supply and grounds, three thousand eight hundred dollars. Neosho, Mo.For the fish-cultural station at Neosho, Missouri, including the purchase of land and water rights, the construction of additional pipe lines, and other improvements to the water supply, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Bozeman, Mont.For the fish-cultural station at Bozeman, Montana, including installation of heating apparatus in hatchery building, construction and repair of ponds, extension of water supply, and improvement of grounds, three thousand five hundred dollars. Launches.For purchase or construction of two launches for use at the fish-cultural stations at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Battery Island, Maryland, two thousand dollars. Maine coast.Lobster hatchery, etc.For the completion of lobster hatchery on the Maine coast, including purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, purchase of equipment, and other improvements, ten thousand dollars: and the said 1107lobster hatchery shall be erected, furnished, and equipped in all of its details ready for operation within the limit of cost hereby extended to and fixed at twenty thousand dollars. For the fish-cultural station at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. including the purchase, of land, construction of superintendent’s residence and other buildings, extension of water supply and construction of ponds, and for equipment, ten thousand dollars. For the fish cultural station at Erwin, Tennessee, including constructionErwin, Tenn. of superintendent’s residence and other buildings, construction and repair of ponds, and improvement of water supply and grounds, six thousand dollars. For the fish-cultural station at Spearfish. South Dakota, includingSpearfish, S. Dak. the purchase of land, construction of residence for superintendent and other buildings, and improvement of water supply and grounds, ten thousand dollars. For the fish-cultural station at Duluth, Minnesota, including purchaseDuluth, Minn. of land and improvement of water supply, two thousand dollars. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station at or near the townMammoth Spring, Ark. of Mammoth Spring, in the State of Arkansas, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment, at a point to be selected by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, provided that suitable ground can be procured at such place at a reasonable price to the Government, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs to the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross,Steamer “Albatross.”Repairs. including necessary alterations and additions to the machinery, boilers, hull, and rigging, the purchase and installation of an electric-lighting plant, and for the purchase or construction of a steam cutter, twenty-eight thousand dollars. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulateSalaries. commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,”Vol. 24, p. 386. three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission toExpenses.Vol. 24, p. 379. give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, In all, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriatedArbitration of railroad differences.Balance reappropriated. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090.*Ante*, p. 444. which was reappropriated by the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531. regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads.” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to*Ante*, p. 943. execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, fifty thousand dollars. 1108 MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Miscellaneous. louisiana purchase exposition.Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Agricultural exhibit, etc.Additional Government exhibit: For the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles, animals, and materials, belonging to or used by the agricultural colleges and experiment stations, Vol. 31, p. 1442.*Ante*, p. 445.hereinafter referred to, as the Government Board created by Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, may decide to exhibit as a part of the Government exhibit to show the progress of education and experimentation in agriculture, mechanic arts, and animal husbandry at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held Vol, 12, p. 503.under authority of said Act, of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts and agricultural experiment stations receiving the benefits of the Vol. 34, p. 440.Acts of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Vol. 26, p. 417.March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; which sum shall be expended for that purpose*Proviso.*Space for Government exhibit. only, and upon the authority of said Government Board: *Provided,* That the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, at its own cost and expense, shall furnish to said Government Board adequate and suitable space in an appropriate building or buildings for the installation of said exhibit and its exhibition during the continuance of said Exposition. Alaskan exhibit.District of Alaska exhibit: To enable the inhabitants of the District of Alaska to provide and maintain an appropriate and creditable exhibit of the products and resources of that District at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen hundred and four, and to erect and maintain on the site of said Exposition a suitable building to he used for the purpose of exhibiting the products and resources of said District, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be subject to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby authorized to expend the same in such manner as in his judgment will best promote the objects for which said sum is appropriated, in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by him. Indian Territory exhibit.Indian Territory exhibit: To enable the inhabitants of the Indian Territory to provide and maintain an appropriate and creditable exhibit of the products and resources of that Territory at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen hundred and four, and to erect and maintain on the site of said Exposition a suitable building to be used in exhibiting the products and resources of said Territory, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, provided that the inhabitants of said Territory shall contribute and pay into the Treasury of the United States a like sum for that purpose; the whole, to wit, fifty thousand dollars, to be subject to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby authorized to expend the same in such manner as in his judgment will best promote the object for which the same is made available under this Act, and in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: *Proviso.*Dependent upon contribution from Territory.*Provided,* That if the inhabitants of said Territory fail to so contribute and pay into the Treasury of the United States the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars on or before the first day of June, nineteen hundred and three, the sum hereby appropriated shall be turned back into the Treasury of the United States. Paper and stamps.Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, sixty-five thousand dollars. 1109 Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: ForPunishing violations of internal revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act: *Provided,* That necessary books of reference*Proviso*.Purchase of books, etc. and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentContingent expenses.Independent treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin,Transporting silver coin. including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, one hundred thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin, when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been*Proviso*.Deposits. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. That the authority given to the Secretary of the TreasurySubsidiary coinage. to coin subsidiary silver coin by the eighth section of an Act entitled “An Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parityVol. 31, p. 47, amended. 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, may hereafter be exercised without limitation as to the amount of such subsidiary coin outstanding. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin,Transporting minor coins. fifteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been*Proviso*.Deposits. deposited in the Treasury or such sub treasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coinsRecoining gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). of the Revised Statutes of the United States, six thousand dollars. Denver, Colorado, Mint: For new machinery, appliances, andDenver, Colo.Mint, machinery. furniture, two hundred thousand dollars; and a contract is hereby authorized to be entered into for such machinery, appliances, and furniture, complete in every detail for the operation of said mint, at a total cost not exceeding two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper,United States securities.Paper, etc. including transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, three counters, five, watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, two hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:Witness, destruction. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness 1110the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Sealing and separating.Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials 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, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. National currency, expenses.Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including express charges, mill, and other necessary expenses, twenty-four thousand dollars. Canceling, etc.Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same: and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other necessary expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand dollars. Public buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors.Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, assay offices, and immigration stations, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of supplies.General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture, etc.Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Furniture and repairs.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of same, carpets, and gas and electric light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, assay offices, and immigration stations, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water.Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secre-1111tary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, assay offices, and immigration stations, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors*Proviso.*Gas governors. greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amountUse of appropriation for pneumatic tubes prohibited. herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other[R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/s4718/p919). purpose whatever, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,**Provisos.*Witnesses. That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts:” *Provided further,* That the investigation of claims for the reimbursementInvestigation of pensioners’ burial expenses. of expenses of the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners shall be at the instance and under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and no part of any accrued pension shall hereafter be usedReimbursement. to reimburse any State, county, or municipal corporation for expenses incurred by such State, county, or municipal corporation under State law for expenses of the last sickness or burial of a deceased pensioner. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain eases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessaryLocal appraisers’ meetings. expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaskan seal fisheries.Agents’ salaries, etc. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, andFood for natives. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, fifteen thousand dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the directionSalmon fisheries. of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expensesFur-sealing log books, etc.Vol. 28, p. 54. of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award 1112rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred dollars. 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 Additional compensation.for deportation, five hundred thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the collector of customs at Port Townsend as additional compensation and one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of Immigration *Proviso*.Bertillon system.as additional compensation: *Provided,* That so much of the amount hereby appropriated as may be necessary shall be available for the establishment and maintenance of the Bertillon system of identification Vol. 28, p. 1211.at the various ports of entry; but this proviso shall not apply to persons embraced in Article Three of the treaty with China of eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Alien contract-labor laws.Enforcement of alien contract-labor laws: For the enforcement of the alien contract-labor laws and to prevent the immigration of convicts, lunatics, idiots, and persons liable to become a public charge from foreign contiguous territory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s foes, four hundred dollars. Sale of lands acquired by devise.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell such lands as have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States by devise, upon such terms and after such public notice by advertisement as he may deem best for the public interest. quarantine service.Quarantine service. Maintenance.For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island. Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Cumberland Sound. Saint Johns River. Biscayne Bay. Key West, Boca Grande, Tampa Bay, Cedar Key, Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass), Pensacola, Gulf. Sun Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River. Port Townsend and supplemental stations, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Printing.An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation. “Preventing the spread of epidemic diseases.” Books, etc.Books and journals for use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau may be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Rent.For rent of stable for the purpose of keeping horses and small animals of the Hygienic Laboratory, two hundred and forty dollars. prevention of epidemics. Prevention of epidemics.The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, 1113smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-eighth,*Ante*, p. 450. nineteen hundred and two, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs ofRepairs. Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building, ten thousand dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital: For the construction of a new Freedmen’sFreedmen’s Hospital.Construction of new building. Hospital building and accessories on the ground now occupied by the Freedmen’s Hospital, fifty thousand dollars, said buildings to be constructed upon plans to be approved by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and sufficient when completed to provide for not less than two hundred patients; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorizedContracts. to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of said buildings at a cost not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars which sum, including the amount herein appropriated, shall be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That before any portion of the*Provisos*.Lease. sum herein appropriated shall he expended, the proper authorities owning the ground upon which said buildings are to be erected shall lease the, same to the Government of the United States at an annual rental of one dollar per annum during the period of their occupation of the same: *Provided further,* That the trustees of Howard UniversityMedical, etc., service. shall he required to supply all medical and surgical service without cost to the United States or the District of Columbia. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general and specialCapitol.Repairs, etc. repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and not exceeding fifty dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary hooks, two hundred and ninety-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available, cf which sum not exceeding seven thousand dollars may be used for models, but nothing in this appropriation shall be considered as initiating any change in the East front of the Capitol or in any way committing Congress to the same. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of theFlags. Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inCleaning works of art. the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. To procure two new steel boilers of the water-tube type of aboutNew steel boilers, Senate. two hundred and twenty-five horsepower for the Senate wing of the Capitol, ten thousand five hundred dollars. To authorize the Superintendent, of the Capitol Building and GroundsSteel cases, Senate files. to continue the construction of steel cases for the proper protection of the files of the Senate, sixteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. To acquire a site for, and toward the construction of, a fireproofNew office building for House of Representatives. building for committee rooms, folding room and other offices for the House of Representatives, and for necessary office rooms for Members thereof, to be erected on one of the squares bounded by B Street south,Location. 1114C Street south. First Street east and First Street west, as the Com-mission hereinafter provided shall determine, seven hundred and fifty Plans.thousand dollars; and said building shall be constructed substantially according to the plans prepared under the provisions of an Act of Vol. 31, p. 1156.Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, with such Cost.modifications as may be found necessary or advantageous, and at a cost, exclusive of site, not to exceed three million one hundred thousand dollars, for any part or all of which sum contracts are authorized to Construction and contracts.be entered into. Said construction and letting of contracts including the employment of all necessary skilled and other services shall be Commission.Members of.under the control of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the direction and supervision of a Commission, which is hereby created, to be composed of three Members-elect to Vacancies.the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth Congress to be appointed by the Speaker of the Fifty-seventh Congress; vacancies occurring, by resignation or otherwise, in the membership of said Commission shall be filled by succeeding Speakers of the House. The Selection of site.Commission herein authorized shall, within thirty days after their appointment, determine which of the squares above described shall be acquired and used for a site for the building herein provided for, and shall notify the Secretary of the Interior in writing of their determination, whereupon the Secretary of the Interior shall, within thirty days after the receipt of such notice, proceed in the manner prescribed for providing a site for an addition to the Government Printing Office Vol. 30, p. 643.in so much of the Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as is set forth on pages six hundred and forty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine of volume thirty of the Statutes at Large, to acquire the square so determined upon; and for the purposes of such acquisition the Secretary of the Interior shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon the Public Printer in said Act. Disbursement of appropriations.The appropriations herein and hereafter made for said site and building shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Interior. Capitol grounds.Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care, of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walks, and roadways, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighting Capitol and grounds.Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs.For repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house and Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and court-yards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.Public lands. Salaries, registers and receivers.Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, six hundred thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, land offices.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred thousand*Provisos.*Per diem, etc. dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three 1115dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening now land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That no expensesRestriction on 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. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, three thousand dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp-land claims. To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity tor swamp lands, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That agents and others employed under this appropriation*Proviso.*Agents’ per diem. shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet theForest reserves.Expenses of protecting.Vol. 30, p. 34. expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations: *Provided,**Provisos.*Selection, etc., of employees. That forestry agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and other persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided further,* That forestry agents, superintendents, supervisors, andAdditional duties. all other persons employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the Commissioner of the General Laud Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that, character or have been made in compliance with law, nine thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of theDesert lands.Examinations of selections.Vol. 28, p. 422. Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or*Proviso.*Expenses. 1116employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Transcripts from records.Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the *Proviso.*Copyists.direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That copyists employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand. surveying the public lands.Surveying. Surveys, rates.For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section*Provisos*.Preferences. lines: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States Vol. 11, pp. 167, 285.by the Acts approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 25, p. 676.fifty-seven, and May eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or other-wise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except in the case of forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, exceptExtra rates for heavily timbered, etc., lands. that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve Lands in California, etc.dollars for section lines: *Provided further,* That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada. Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district, of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines, [R. S., sec. 2411, p. 441](/us/rs/s2411/p441).the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon are hereby extended to all of the above-named Resurveys, etc.States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office, may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, Per diem.at such compensation not exceeding six dollars per day, and such per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars, while 1117engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timberInspecting mineral lands, etc. districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada,Survey of private land claims. Wyoming, and I tab, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “AnVol. 26, p. 854. Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys and for the examination of the surveys in the field. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandonedAbandoned military reservations. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved JulyVol. 23, p. 103. fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars.Casa Grande. For pay of a custodian of Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation,Fort Sherman. Idaho, four hundred and eighty dollars. The appropriation of thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars forBoundary line, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.Resurvey, etc.*Ante*, p. 574.Reappropriation. the resurvey and reestablishment of the boundary line between the State of Colorado and the Territories of New Mexico and Oklahoma contained in the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes, is hereby continued and made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four. Survey of the boundary line between Idaho and Montana:Boundary line, Idaho and Montana.Survey. For the ascertainment, survey, marking, and permanent establishment of that portion of the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Montana from the intersection of the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude from Washington with the Continental Divide; thence northwestwardly following said Continental Divide and the crest of the Bitter Hoot range of mountains to the intersection with the thirty-ninth meridian of west longitude from Washington, an estimated distance of four hundred and fifty miles, including the expense of an examination of the survey in the field, the rate of compensation perCompensation. mile to the surveyor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the same to include the cost of the preparation of the plats and field notes of the survey in triplicate, fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: ForSalaries of Director, etc. Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four 1118clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each: janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Scientific assistants.Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars: For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Expenses.For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the geological survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington. District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: Skilled laborers.For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty thousand dollars; Topographic surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Geological surveys.For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Paleontologic researches.For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, ten thousand dollars; Mineral resources, Alaska.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Chemical, etc., researches.For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; Illustrations.For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; Mineral resources.For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, fifty thousand dollars; Books, etc.For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, not to exceed two thousand dollars, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, four thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars; Maps.For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars: Water supply.For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, two hundred thousand dollars; Survey of forest reserves.For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million one hundred and twenty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. 1119 The Secretary of the Interior may authorize such expenditure asRent of office, reclamation service. may be necessary, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, for rent of office accommodations in the city of Washington for the reclamation service, established by Act approved June seventeenth,*Ante*, p. 388. nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.” That the Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase ofLaw books, etc. such law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications as are needed in carrying out the surveys and examinations authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred*Ante,* p. 388. and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories for the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” and such expenditures shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior.Miscellaneous. Office of Commissioner of Railroads: For Commissioner, fourCommissioner of railroads.Salaries. thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided,* That the office*Proviso.*Termination of office. of Commissioner of Railroads is hereby continued until the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and four, when the same shall terminate, and the duties of the Commissioner shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior together with the records and riles of the office. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For protection and improvement,Hot Springs, Ark.Protection, etc. as follows: For extension of West Mountain road, eighteen thousand dollars; construction of storage reservoir for hot water, eleven thousand rive hundred dollars; repairs to walks and footpaths, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand rive hundred dollars. Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protectionYellowstone Park. of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, including two thousand rive hundred dollars for maintenance of buffalo, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Yosemite National Park: For protection and improvement of theYosemite Park. Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, six thousand dollars. Sequoia National Park: For the protection and improvement ofSequoia Park. the Sequoia National Park and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. General Grant National Park: For protection and improvementGeneral Grant Park. of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. Crater Lake National Park: For protection and improvementCrater Lake Park. of the Crater Lake National Park, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. Wind Cave National Park: For the management, improvement,Wind Cave Park. and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisionsSupreme Court reports. of the Supreme Court for one hundred and four copies each of vol-1120umes one hundred and eighty-seven to one hundred and ninety, and one hundred and eighty copies each of volumes one hundred and ninety-one to one hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, of said reports, Vol. 25, p. 661.at a rate not exceeding two dollars per volume, under the provisions *Ante*, p. 680.of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, two thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars. Reindeer for Alaska.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Government Hospital for Insane.Expenses.Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the, Insane of the insane 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, two hundred and ninety-four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. Buildings and grounds.For the building and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, as follows; For general repairs and improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the following under Government Hospital for the Insane, to be immediately available: For furniture for new buildings, including provision for one thousand patients and one hundred and twelve nurses and employees, window guards and window screens for thirteen buildings, and all furniture necessary for four kitchens, ninety-nine thousand dollars. For subway under Nichols avenue to connect the two portions of the hospital, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For railway trestle to new boiler house, construction of walls of coal bin, and area way, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For roadways, walks, and grading, ten thousand dollars. For additional laundry machinery, three thousand dollars. Electrical apparatus.*Ante*, p. 457.Vol. 31. 1163.For electrical apparatus the sum of one thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-five cents is reappropriated of the balance left in the appropriations for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, for additional electric machinery. Removal of pathological laboratory.To remove and rebuild pathological laboratory and morgue, ten thousand dollars. Water supply.For additional wells and water filters, six thousand dollars. Fire alarm.To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and after due investigation, to install or place an electrical fire-alarm apparatus in the buildings at the Government Hospital for the Insane, or in such parts thereof as in his judgment may be required for the protection of the lives of the inmates of the institution from fire and for the greater security of the buildings from destruction or damage by fire, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.Expenses.Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. 1121 For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. For additions to the buildings of the institution to provide additionalAdditional buildings. accommodations for students and officers, for schoolrooms, and to enlarge the laundry, thirty thousand dollars. Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University,Howard University.Maintenance. to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, thirty thousand five hundred dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural-history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, thirty-nine thousand one hundred dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:Rock Island, Ill. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars.Machinery. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting andCare. care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds, and roads, ten thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:Bridge. For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island Bridge and Viaduct, twelve thousand five Hundred dollars. Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For necessary connectionAugusta, Ga. with sewer system of the village of Summerville, Georgia, provided that no other or further charge shall be, made against the United States for the future use of said sewer system, three thousand dollars. Sandy Hook proving ground, New Jersey: For building andSandy Hook proving ground. repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, store-houses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars; For one passenger and freight boat, sixty-five thousand dollars; For one fireproof brick magazine for storing ammunition, eight thousand dollars; In all, seventy-five thousand five hundred dollars. Powder depot, near Dover, New Jersey: For storehouse forDover, N. J.Powder depot. nitrate of soda, ten thousand dollars. Toward increase of transportation facilities, fifteen thousand dollars. For constructing new wagon road, five thousand dollars. For power house, to contain also carpenter, machine, blacksmith, and tin shops, thirty thousand dollars. For wheel and dynamo house, five thousand dollars. For installation of electric lighting plant, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For generalSpringfield, Mass. care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars;s 1122 For shed for cuttings, tilings, and so forth, one thousand five hundred dollars; For iron girder bridge across canal in front of newshops, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars. Watertown Mass.Testing machines.Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materials in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machines at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, fifteen thousand dollars. Lavatory.Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For lavatory and water-closet for shops, three thousand five hundred dollars. Watervliet, N. Y.Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York: For introducing steam heat in barracks and hospital building, five thousand dollars. Repairs.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, District of Columbia. Improvement and care.For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. Monument Grounds, etc.For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex (Poto mac Park) to Monument Grounds, seven thousand dollars. Playgrounds for Children, etc.The officer in charge of public buildings and grounds may hereafter authorize the temporary use of the Monument Grounds or grounds south of the Executive Mansion or other reservations in the District of Columbia for playgrounds for children and adults, under regulations to be prescribed by him. Old canal.For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred *Proviso.*Expenditure.dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, white-washing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or other-wise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars. For curbing and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. 1123 One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds inHalf from District revenues. and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be madeLimit for concrete pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and seventy cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, two thousand dollars. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of ExecutiveExecutive Mansion.Repair, etc. Mansion, sixty thousand dollars, to he expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, eight thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, seven thousand dollars. For repairs to and reerection of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. To procure for the Executive Mansion an oil portrait of the President, two thousand five hundred dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas,Lighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watch-men’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That for each five-foot burner not connected with*Provisos*Maximum per lamp. a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further,* ThatPart from District revenues. three thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion groundsElectric lights. within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and eighty dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, four hundred and eighty dollars. 1124 For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding eighty dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, four thousand two hundred and forty dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States, Repairs to water pipes.Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Government telegraph.Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument.Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attend-ant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watch-men, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Expenses.For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator ear and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Rivers and harbors.Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: Charleston, S. C.Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: For continuing improvement, sixty thousand dollars. Vol. 29. p. 202.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Cumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla.Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing improvement, four hundred thousand dollars. Kentucky River.Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. San Pedro, Cal.Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater, five hundred thousand dollars. Winyaw Bay, S. C.Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of harbor at Winyaw Bay, one hundred thousand dollars. Vol. 30, p. 1121.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: Ashtabula, Ohio.Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For completing improvement, one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Gowanus Bay, New York Harbor.Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuing improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, two hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars. 1125 Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: For continuing improvements,Black River, Ohio. nine thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For completing improvement,Calumet, Ill. two hundred and four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to Minneapolis,Mississippi River.Saint Paul to Minneapolis, Minn. Minnesota: For continuing improvement between Saint Paul and Minneapolis, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-three cents. Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuingNew York, N. Y.Ambrose Channel. improvement of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, seven hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For continuingNew Haven, Conn. improvement in accordance with the adopted and extended projects, sixty-three thousand and seventy-three dollars and ninety cents. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River.Dams 13 and 18. construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Francisco, California: For continuingSan, Francisco, Cal.Blossam Rock. improvement by the removal of Blossam Rock, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement ofTampa Bay, Fla. channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Port Tampa, one hundred and eighty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For continuing improvement,Toledo, Ohio. one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred*Ante*, p. 331. and two, as follows: Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuingBoston, Mass. improvement by providing channels thirty-five feet deep, and of authorized widths, from the navy-yard at Charlestown and the Chelsea and Charles river bridges to President Roads, and thence by route designated as numbered three through Broad Sound to the ocean, one hundred and fifty, thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Fall River, Massachusetts: For completingFall River, Mass. improvement, one hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and twelve dollars. Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: For continuingGloucester, Mass. improvement in accordance with the approved and modified project, sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New London, Connecticut: For continuingNew London, Conn. improvement, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Lake Erie entrance to Black Rock Harbor and ErieLake Erie, N. Y.Black Rock Harbor. Basin, New York: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For continuingArthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. improvement of channel from Kill von Kull to Raritan Bay, in connection with adopted or modified project as authorized, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: For completing improvementBaltimore, Md.Southwest Baltimore. of harbor at Southwest Baltimore (Spring Garden), two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. For completing improvement of channel of Curtis Bay, BaltimoreCurtis Bay. Harbor, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. Improving Hampton Roads, Virginia: For completing improvementHampton Roads, Va. by removal of Middle Ground Bar, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing improvementNorfolk, Va. by removal of Hospital Point, one hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars. 1126 Savannah, Ga,Improving Harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement in accordance with approved or modified project as authorized, seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Biscayne Bay, Fla.Improving Biscayne Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mobile, Ala.Improving Harbor at Mobile, Alabama: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Galveston, Tex.Improving Harbor at Galveston, Texas: For continuing work of restoration of channel and jetties in accordance with approved or modified plan as authorized, three hundred thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of channel. Galveston, Texas, from outer end of inner bar to Fifty-first street, two hundred thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio.Improving harbor at Cleveland. Ohio: For continuing improvement in accordance with the plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Conneaut, Ohio,Improving harbor at Conneaut. Ohio: For continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Waukegan, Ill.Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For completing improvements in accordance with the modified project as authorized, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Ludington, Mich.Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For completing improvement, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Marquette, Mich.Improving harbor at. Marquette, Michigan: For completing improvement, eighty thousand dollars. Saugatuck and Kalamazoo River, Mich.Improving harbor at Saugatuck and Kalamazoo River, Michigan: For continuing improvement according to the alternative project involving a new cut to Lake Michigan, one hundred thousand dollars. Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal.Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal: For completing improvement of Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal and harbor of refuge connected therewith, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars. Oakland, Cal.Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. San Diego, Cal.Improving harbor at San Diego, California: For completing improvement, one hundred and ninety-two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. San Pablo Bay, Cal.Improving San Pablo Bay, California: For continuing improvement by constructing a channel between the Straits of Karquines and the Golden Gate, off Point Pinole, Point Wilson, and Lone Tree Point, two hundred thousand dollars. Tacoma, Wash.Improving harbor at Tacoma, Washington: For continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Passaic River, N. J.Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvement from the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad bridge to deep water in Staten Island Sound, one hundred thousand dollars. Delaware River, Pa. and N. J.Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement from Christian street, Philadelphia, to Delaware Bay, one million four hundred thousand dollars. Appomattox River, Va.Improving Appomattox River, Virginia: For continuing improvement by the deflection and improvement of the river at Petersburg, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Great Pedee River, S. C.Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of upper portion of river, forty thousand dollars. Saint Johns River, Fla.Improving of Saint Johns River, Florida: For continuing improvement from Jacksonville to the ocean in accordance with the approved and modified project, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Ala.Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and 1127dams numbered one, two, and three in the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: For continuing improvementPascagoula River, Miss. from three miles above the mouth of Dog River to the seven-teen-foot contour in Mississippi Sound, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: For continuing improvementMississippi River, Southwest Pass. in accordance with the approved or modified project as authorized, one million dollars. Improving Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: ForGalveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Tex. continuing improvement to a uniform depth in divisions one and two, five hundred thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: For continuing improvement byTrinity River, Tex. the construction of locks and dams and the operation of snag boats upon the river between the mouth and section one, and by clearing this portion of the river for through navigation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuingOuachita River, Ark. and La. improvement of Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana, by the construction of lock numbered four, near Monroe, Louisiana, and of lock numbered six, near Roland Raft, Arkansas, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to MinneapolisMississippi River.From mouth of Ohio River to the Missouri., Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri RiverFrom mouth of Missouri River to Saint Paul, Minn. to Saint Paul, Minnesota, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama,Tennessee River, Colbert and Bee Tree shoals. and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals by the construction of a lateral canal, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River.Dams 2, 3, 4, and 5. construction of dams numbered two, three, four, and five, three hundred thousand dollars. For continuing construction of lock at dam numbered eight, twoLock, dam No. 8. hundred thousand dollars. For continuing construction of lock at dam numbered eleven, twoLock, dam No. 11. hundred thousand dollars. For continuing construction of dam numbered thirty-seven, fourDam No. 37. hundred thousand dollars. Improving Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: For completing theMonongahela River, Pa. reconstruction of lock and dam numbered two, four hundred and fifty-five thousand nine hundred and sixty-one dollars. Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: For continuingBig Sandy River, W. Va., and Ky. improvement by the construction of locks and dams on Big Sandy River and Tug and Levisa forks of the same, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvementDetroit River, Mich. from Detroit to Lake Erie, in accordance with “Plan A,” four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Middle and West Neebish channels, Saint Marys River,Saint Marys River, Mich. Michigan: For continuing improvement, eight hundred thousand dollars. Improving Stockton and Mormon channels, California: For continuingStockton and Mormon channels, Cal. improvement by dredging and by the construction of a canal to divert the waters of Mormon Channel into Calaveras River at and near the city of Stockton, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: ForColumbia River Oreg, and Wash. continuing improvement in accordance with the approved or modified project, as authorized, one million dollars. 1128 under the mississippi river commission.Mississippi River Commission. From Head of Passes to mouth of the Ohio.Expenses.Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from Read of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. Maintenance.For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Fort Crawford Reservation, Wis.*Ante*, p. 465.For the improvement and repair of the military cemetery on the Fort Crawford Reservation at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and for the purpose of purchasing a suitable approach to said cemetery, the sum of three thousand dollars heretofore appropriated is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. Superintendents.For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, fifty thousand dollars. Roadways.Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by *Proviso*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden.special authority of Congress: *Provided,* That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers.Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Road to Presidio, Cal.Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California: For continuation of stone Avail on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. Antietam battlefield, Md.Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. Superintendent.For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to he selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. “ Bringing home remains from abroad.Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause 1129to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, forty thousand dollars. Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports:Bringing home remains of civil employees and soldiers dying on transports. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army, who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China. Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, war department.Miscellaneous. Philippine Islands: For the relief of the distress in the PhilippinePhilippine Islands.Relief of distress in. Islands, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Philippine government in such proportions as they deem wise, in the direct purchase and distribution or sale of farm implements, farm animals, supplies, and necessaries of life, and through the employment of labor in the construction of government wagon roads, and other public works, to be immediately available, three million dollars. And the Governor of the Philippines shall submit to theExpenditures. Secretary of War a statement of all expenditures hereunder. Care of civil records of the late military government of Cuba:Cuba.Care of civil records, etc. For classification, arrangement, care, and storage of the civil records of the late military government of occupation of Cuba, including hire of clerks, messengers, and every other necessary expense in connection therewith, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty dollars, to be immediately available. Military posts: For the construction of buildings at and theMilitary posts. enlargement of such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with adopted project for sea-coast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, one million five hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For additional amount necessary for purchase of land for a militaryIndianapolis, Ind.Purchase of land, etc. post at or near Indianapolis, Indiana, and for necessary expenses incident to the appraisal and sale of the arsenal property in said city, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the establishment in the vicinity of Manila, PhilippineManila, P. I.Construction of barracks, etc. Islands, of a military post, including the construction of barracks, quarters for officers, hospital, storehouses, and other buildings, as well as water supply, lighting, sewerage, and drainage necessary for the accommodation of a garrison of two full regiments of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and two batteries of artillery, to be immediately available, one million dollars. For the purchase of about eight hundred and forty-five acres ofFort Snelling, Minn.Land for target range. land lying south of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, for use as a target range; also for purchase of the improvements thereon, at not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For purchase of not less than one hundred and ten acres of landFort Sheridan, Ill.Sites for additional buildings. adjoining the military post at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and lying between that post and the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, the same being required for sites for the additional buildings necessary for the accom-1130modation of the increased garrison and for drill ground, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia.Storehouse.For construction, including heating and plumbing, of a three-story and basement storehouse at Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia depot of the Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Unexpended balance available.*Ante*, p. 458.The unexpended appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars in sundry civil Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for completing construction of an addition to fireproof storehouse at the clothing depot at the Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and installing elevators, is hereby made available for putting a new roof on fireproof annex to storehouse numbered three, including such repairs to walls and upper story as may be necessitated thereby, and repairing roofs of three iron storehouses, all at the said depot. Skagway, Alaska.For purchase of a tract of hind at Skagway, Alaska, to be used as a site for a military post, five hundred dollars. Governors Island, N. Y.Enlargement of Governors Island, New York: For continuing plan of improvement for the enlargement of Governors Island, New York Harbor, by wharf work, dredging, bulkhead, and filling, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fort Monroe, Va.Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including ail necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, seven thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars: wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred” and twenty dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, four thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. Roads, etc.Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to streets, macadamizing, brick, cement, terracotta drainpipe, and catch-basins; electric, lights tor streets, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer policing roads, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and ten dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars. Sewers.Maintenance.Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, new roof, sewerage tank, one thousand seven hundred dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollar’s. Yellowstone Park.Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For the improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, in accordance with the approved project, including maintenance and repair of existing improvements, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. Use of electricity by private parties.Private parties or companies doing business in the Yellowstone National Park under authority from the Government may be permitted, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, to use electricity furnished by the electric lighting and power plant of Fort Yellowstone and Mammoth Hot Springs at actual cost to the Government for operation, maintenance, and depreciation of the plant and ten per centum additional, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Mount Rainier Park.Mount Rainier National Park : To enable the Secretary of War to cause a survey to be made of the most practicable route for a wagon road into said park, and toward the construction of said road 1131after the survey herein provided for shall have been made, ten thousand dollars. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuingMilitary parks.Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Expenses. 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; for roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized by law, forty thousand dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the workShiloh.Expenses. of establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, iron gun carriages and historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, twenty thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingGettysburg.Expenses. the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps: constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, sixty thousand dollars. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the workVicksburg.Expenses. of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners, the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; office and other necessary expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Maps, War Department: For publication of maps for use of theMaps. War Department, inclusive of war maps, the unexpended balance of the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey ofSurvey of northern and northwestern lakes. northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: ForTransportation of reports, etc. the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disa-1132bilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Providence Hospital.Destitute patients.Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of Reconstruction, etc., of old building.the Army, nineteen thousand dollars; for the reconstruction and completion of the old Providence Hospital building and renovation and Morgue.rearrangement of grades and approaches to the hospital and the fitting up and equipping of a modern morgue, one hundred thousand dollars; Half from District revenues.in all, one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital.Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay there-for, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the New building authorized.District of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars; for the erection of a building on the Garfield Memorial Hospital grounds for heating, cooking, laundry, and electric-elevator purposes and furnishing the same for use, and for the erection and furnishing of new surgical rooms with modern appliances, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the trustees of Garfield Memorial Hospital; in all, one hundred and nineteen thousand Half from District revenues.dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. California Debris Commission.Vol 27, p. 507.California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. New York Harbor.Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent, waters of New York City: Inspectors, etc.For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; Crews.For pay of crews and maintenance of five steam tugs and three launches, sixty thousand dollars; Steam tugs.For generally overhauling and repairing steam tug Lamont, five thousand dollars; For purchase or construction of one steam tug to replace the launches Active and Alert and the tug Argus, forty-five thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. NATIONAL HOME FOK DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.National Home for Disabled Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Fay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home: and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments clue heirs of deceased members: *Proviso*.Effects of dead members.*Provided,* That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall be also available for such payments; 1133and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other beads of expenditure, fifty-four thousand dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissarySubsistence. clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the Branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’Household. quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the Branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards, and for the quarters of the assistant surgeons, nurses, and other civilian employees attached to the hospital permanently employed and residing at the Branch; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture, and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining-room employees; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-six thousand five dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, four thousand dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Repairs. carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tin-smiths, steam titters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars; For tire escapes for hospital, one thousand six hundred dollars;Fire escapes. For one barrack, fifty-five thousand dollars;Barracks. For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Farm. farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; for rent of leased lands, and for repairs not done by the Home, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, six hundred and forty thousand six hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: ForMilwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-four thousand eight hundred dollars; 1134 Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; Elevator.For elevator in hospital, six thousand one hundred dollars; Addition to quartermaster’s storehouse.For addition to quartermaster’s storehouse, with equipment, eight thousand five hundred dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars. Togas, Me.Current expenses.At the Eastern Branch at Torus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-two thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; Storehouse.For quartermaster’s storehouse and equipment, twenty-five thousand dollars; Gateways, etc.For gateways and lodges for main entrances, five thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars; Greenhouse.For greenhouse, six thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; In all, three hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars. Hampton, Va.Current expenses.At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand one hundred dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy-five thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; Officers’ quarters.For officers’ quarters, four thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred dollars. Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses.At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars; 1135 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For elevators for hospital, five thousand dollars;Elevators. For carpenter shop, throe thousand dollars;Carpenter shop. For conservatory, six thousand dollars;Conservatory. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, seventeen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy-six thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: ForSanta Monica, Cal.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand three hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For one additional barrack, thirty thousand dollars;New barracks, For additional wing to hospital and detention ward, twenty-fiveNew wing to hospital. thousand dollars; For installation of new boilers, pumps, and so forth, eight thousandNew boilers, etc. dollars; For band stand, three thousand dollars;Band stand. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, thirteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For currentMarion, Ind.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold, etc. for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, thirty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs, etc. the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the*Proviso.*Restriction on use of amount for repairs. appropriations for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For quartermaster’s storehouse and equipment, twenty-seven thousandQuartermaster’s storehouse. dollars; 1136 Remodeling present storehouse.For remodeling present quartermaster’s storehouse, eight thousand dollars; Laundry.For laundry building, fifteen thousand dollars; Officers’ quarters.For officers’ quarters, four thousand dollars; Farm, etcFor farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. Danville, Ill.Current expenses.At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and to procure electric-light poles, wire, and arc lamps, and for erection of the same in the grounds, complete, for electric current to be procured under contract, seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars; Transportation,For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; Officers’ quarters.For officers’ quarters, four thousand dollars: Greenhouse.For greenhouse, five thousand dollars: Fencing.For fencing, three thousand five hundred dollars; Grading.For grading of grounds, ten thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred dollars. Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.At the Mountain Branch, at Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under these heads for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; Construction.For construction, namely: For the objects specified under this head in “Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred*Ante*, p. 13. and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for the entire completion of the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers near Johnson City, Tennessee, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including also nurses’ quarters, memorial nail, greenhouse, band stand, stable, and an additional lodge Plans.and gateway; and the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall cause to be procured plans for all of said buildings and other objects mentioned in said Act and authorized herein, based upon accurate estimates, and cause the same to be constructed or furnished within said estimates, to the end that said Mountain Branch shall he completed and ready for occupancy and operation in all of its details within the sums herein and heretofore appropriated for the establishment of said Mountain Branch, nine hundred thousand dollars; In all, one million and seventy-five thousand dollars. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses, subsistence, etc.*Ante*, p. 282.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, at Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, appropriated by the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, 1137for the equipment and maintenance of said Battle Mountain Sanitarium is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. For the completion of said Battle Mountain Sanitarium, and forSanitarium. each and every purpose connected therewith, including all buildings necessary in the discretion of and approved by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; and the said*Ante*, p. 282. Board shall cause to be procured plans for all buildings authorized herein and in the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, establishing said sanitarium, based upon accurate estimates, and cause the same to be constructed within said estimates, and cause to be furnished all other needful objects authorized herein or by said Act, to the end that said sanitarium shall be completed and ready for occupancy and operation in all of its details within the sums herein and heretofore appropriated for the establishment of said sanitarium, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purpose of acquiring additional lands in connection with theAdditional lands. site heretofore donated by the people of Hot Springs, South Dakota, for the National Sanitarium for disabled volunteer soldiers, which may be acquired either by purchase or condemnation, the sum of ten thousand dollars. Appropriations herein, or that may hereafter be made, for constructionAppropriations immediately available. of buildings and appurtenances at any of the Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, shall be available immediately after the approval of the Act containing the same. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures forClothing; all Branches. clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, hoots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers,Salaries for officers, etc., of Board of Managers.[R. S., sec. 4827, p. 936](/us/rs/s4827/p936). and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general, three thousand dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors-general, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, twelve thousand dollars; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, three thousand nine hundred dollars; agents, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board ofExpenses. Managers, their officers and employees, fifteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, six thousand dollars; in all sixty thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars. In all, four million nine hundred and two thousand eight hundred and eight 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 hundredVol. 25, p. 450. and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That one-half of any sum or sums retained*Proviso*.Deductions. by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of payBack pay and bounty. of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth,Vol. 14, p. 322. 1138eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred thousand dollars. War with Spain.Arrears of pay, etc., of officers and men.For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Newport, R. I.Purchase of wharf, etc.Purchase of wharf and adjoining land, Newport, Rhode Island: For the purchase by the Secretary of the Navy of a wharf and necessary adjoining land at Newport, Rhode Island, for the use of the Army and Navy, and for the Treasury and other Departments and branches of the Government service, and for the repair and improvement*Provisos*.Control. of the same: *Provided,* That said wharf property and any improvements thereon which may hereafter be made shall be under the control of the Secretary of the Navy, one hundred thousand dollars: Jurisdiction.*And provided further,* That exclusive jurisdiction shall have been ceded to the United States over said property by the State of Rhode Island. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Boundary line, United States and Canada west of Rocky Mountains.For the more effective demarcation and mapping of the boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada along the forty-ninth parallel west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, as established by the Commission of eighteen hundred and fifty-six to Vol. 9, p. 869.eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Immediately available.State, and to be immediately available and continue available until expended, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Alaskan boundary tribunal.*Post*, p. 1961.For the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington on the twenty-fourth day of January, nineteenImmediately available. hundred and three, to become immediately available upon the exchange of ratifications of the said treaty, one hundred thousand dollars. Alaska fur seals.Commission to investigate habits, etc.Vol. 27, p. 950.In order to provide for the new examination authorized by article nine of the award of the tribunal of arbitration constituted by treaty of Washington, February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,Vol. 28, p. 1246. and made by the arbitrators at Paris August sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to be made by and under the direction of Immediately available.the Secretary of State, twenty thousand dollars, to be made immediately available. Examination of proposed Pan-American Railway.For compensation and expenses of a competent and reliable person, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, with the approval of the President, whose duty it shall he to carry out the recommendations in the tenth clause of the report of the Pan-American Railway committee to the Second International Conference of American States, held in the City of Mexico in the winter of nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, and unanimously adopted by that conference, two thousand five hundred dollars. Monetary systems of nations.Maintenance of fixed relationship of gold and silver standards inTo enable the President to cooperate through diplomatic channels with the Governments of Mexico, China, Japan, and other countries, for the purpose set forth in the message of the President and accompanying notes submitted to Congress January twenty-ninth, nineteen 1139hundred and three, and printed as Senate Document Numbered One hundred and nineteen, second session Fifty-seventh Congress, twenty-five thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Agricultural Department. To commence the erection of a new building for the Department ofNew building. Agriculture, authorized by the Act approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of*Ante*, p. 806. which sum one hundred thousand dollars shall be immediately available; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said building within theContracts. limit of cost of one million five hundred thousand dollars fixed by said Act. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt-house, D. C. repairs, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five thousand dollars. Penitentiary, Leavenworth: For continuing construction of theFort Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. new United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Opinions of the Attorney-General: To enable the Attorney-GeneralOpinions of the Attorney-General.Publication of Vol. 24. to employ, at his discretion, such competent person or persons as will, in his judgment, best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the twenty-fourth volume of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars; the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes.[R. S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/s383/p63). Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington. District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars. Defense of suits before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission:Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.Defense of suits. For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge as fixed by law, and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to be expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the Act of MarchVol. 31, p. 877. second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two hundred dollars may be expended for law books and books of reference.Books. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds:Punishing violations of intercourse acts. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian Service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. 1140 Prosecution of crimes.Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose nil the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of ail necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars. Traveling, etc., expenses.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Prosecuting and collecting claims.Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Alaska.Traveling expenses.Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Furniture, etc.Incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, five thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty-two thousand dollars. Mission Indians, counsel.Counsel for Mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-General to employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. Care, etc., of rented buildings. D. C.Care of buildings rented by Department of Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General and to be expended under his direction, nine thousand dollars. Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia used by the Department of Justice, twenty thousand four hundred dollars. Insular, etc., affairs.Insular and territorial affairs: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of insular and other territorial matters and affairs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, including the payment of necessary employees at the sent of government or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, and to be expended under his direction, twenty-five thousand dollars. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses.Expenses of the United States Courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court, and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of suits and preparations 1141for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals’ salaries, etc. and their deputies, one million three hundred thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordanceAdvances. with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall he made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and three, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made, therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys’ salaries, etc. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation*Proviso*.Services during vacancy. shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys, for services rendered during vacancy in the offices of the United States district attorney. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia,District attorney, D. C. twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistant attorneys. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the provisions*Proviso*.Northern district, Illinois.Vol. 29, p. 181. of section eight of the legislative appropriation Act approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, limiting the compensation of United States assistant district attorney to not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, shall not apply to the first assistant district attorney for the northern district of Illinois. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedSpecial assistants. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, eighty-five thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners’ fees, etc.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). acting under section ten hundred and fourteen. Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, nine bundled thousand dollars.Jurors’ fees. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars.Witnesses’ fees. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent. one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,* That all persons employed under section seven hundred and*Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136). fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided further,* That no such person shall be employed during vacation; ofVacation.Traveling, etc., expenses. reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals not to exceed ten dollars per day; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners,Compensation for jury commissioners. five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the 1142United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Indian Territory.Salaries, etc.For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges, in the Indian Territory, seventy-five thousand dollars. Supplies.For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. New York, southern district, district attorney’s fees.[R. S., sec. 825, p. 154](/us/rs/s825/p154).Fees of district attorney, southern district of New York: For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, one hundred dollars. 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 fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, and not exceeding three thousand three hundred dollars for repair of United States jails, and for the construction of a permanent sidewalk in front and on one side of the United States jail at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fort Leavenworth, Kans., penitentiary.Maintenance.For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, forty-five thousand dollars: Clothing, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-two thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay or straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bed-ding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed *Proviso*.Medical treatment of guards.necessary by the Attorney-General: *Provided,* That this appropriation and the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose shall be available also for the expense of the care and medical treatment of guards who have been or may be injured by prisoners while said 1143guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, and for the payment of burial expenses of guards killed while so engaged, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical andHospital. surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand two hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, three hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, eight hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and store-keeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, sixty thousand nine hundred dollars. For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith,Foremen. tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars. In all, one hundred and seventy thousand four hundred dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support ofAtlanta, Ga., penitentiary. the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputyMaintenance. warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, thirty-five thousand dollars; For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can beClothing, etc. made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners a release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and tor rewards for their recapture, eighteen thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General,Miscellaneous. for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils, and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam heating plant, electric plant, water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables; policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals; electrical supplies; for payment of water supply; for telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; and for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgicalHospital. instruments, and supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, one thousand five hundred dollars; 1144 Salaries.For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, one thousand dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, baker, tailor, and blacksmith, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; guards, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. McNeils Island, Wash., penitentiary.Additional buildings, etc.United States penitentiary, McNeils Island, Washington: For the construction of additional suitable buildings, prison wall, and wharf for the United States penitentiary at McNeils Island. Washington, thirty thousand dollars, of which amount seven thousand dollars may be used for the purchase of additional lands, including clay deposits. Court of Private Land Claims.Salaries.Court of Private Land Claims: For chief justice and four associate justices, at five thousand dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; attorney, three thousand five hundred dollars; interpreter and translator, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Deputy clerks.For deputy clerks, as authorized by law, so much therefor as may *Provisos*.Court continued to June 30, 1904.Vol. 26, p. 862.be necessary: *Provided,* That section nineteen of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended in legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, approved April seventeenth, nineteen Vol. 31, p. 132, amended.hundred, be, and the same is hereby, further amended to read as follows: “Sec. 19. That the powers and functions of the court established by this Act shall cease and determine on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and four, and all papers, files, and records in the possession of the said court belonging to any other public office of the United States shall be returned to such office, and all other papers, files, and records in the possession of or appertaining to said court shall be returned to and filed in the Department, of the Interior:” Preference.*Provided further,* That all eases now or hereafter pending in the appellate courts from the Court of Private Land Claims and all surveys connected therewith shall be expedited and given preference so far as practicable. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations.Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress, Vol. 25, p. 587.as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Bust of President McKinley.Bust of late President McKinley: For the purchase by the Joint Committee on the Library of a bronze portrait bust of the late President McKinley, executed by Mrs. Emma Cadwallader-Guild, to be placed in the Senate wing of the Capitol, two thousand dollars. 1145 Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs toBotanic Garden. buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, and for rebronzing and reconstructing foundation and bottom of Bartholdi fountain, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper forPublic printing and binding. the public printing, including the costs of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, 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, six million one hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotment of appropriation. and debates, and for rents, three million three hundred and eighty-two thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish to eachOfficial Records of the Rebellion.Distribution of. Senator, Representative, and Delegate to the Fifty-seventh Congress one set of the Official Records of the Rebellion, and to furnish two sets of said Records to such permanent libraries and educational institutions as may be designated by each of the said Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, and for this purpose there shall be used any volumes or parts of volumes remaining unsold or unclaimed by beneficiaries heretofore designated to receive them: *Provided,* That the Secretary*Proviso.*Additional numbers of volumes, etc. of War may call upon the Public Printer to print and bind such additional numbers of the several volumes and maps as may be necessary to complete the sets herein provided for, and that when such additional volumes shall have been printed the plates used in printing the sets now and heretofore authorized shall be destroyed. For the State Department, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, four hundred thousand dollars. For the War Department, two hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydro-graphic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the Census Office, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. 1146 For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletins” and “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, seventeen thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for additional copies of such maps included in the above as may be needed for general purposes, sixty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said amount shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey; and the Director of the Geological Survey shall hereafter distribute to public libraries that have not already received them such copies of sale publications as may remain on hand at the expiration of five years after date of delivery to the Survey document room, excepting a reserve number not to exceed two hundred copies. For the Department of Justice, twenty thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, four hundred thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including twenty-five thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Division of appropriations.And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of *Proviso*.Agricultural Report.Vol. 28, p. 612.allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided,* That so much as may be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotment. Annual leave.To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may he necessary. Sec. 2. Sums for salaries to be in full. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and all laws or parts of 1147laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 3. That no part of the appropriations herein made for printingIllustrations.Special authority quired for. and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph, in any document or report ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly authorizes the same, nor in any document or report of any Executive Department or other Government establishment until the head of the Executive Department or Government establishment shall certify in the letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business. Approved, March 3, 1901.
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