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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 32 STAT. · June 28, 1902 · Chapter 1301

Chapter 1301. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1301.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes. June 28, 1902.[[Public, No. 182](/us/pl/57/182).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Sundry civil expenses, appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter 420 expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, namely:
Treasury Department. UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT Public buildings. public buildings. Aberdeen, S. Dak. For post-office at Aberdeen, South Dakota: For completion of building under present limit, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars. Abilene, Tex. For post-office and court-house at Abilene, Texas: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Md.Custom-house. For custom-house at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Rent. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Baltimore, Maryland, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Boise, Idaho. For public building at Boise, Idaho: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Brunswick, Ga. For custom-house and post-office at Brunswick, Georgia: For completion of building, fifty thousand dollars. Cheyenne, Wyo. For public building at Cheyenne, Wyoming: For completion of building under present limit, seventy-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-four cents.
Chicago, Ill.Rent. For rental of quarters at Chicago, Illinois: For annual rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents. Post-office and court-house.Special architect, etc. For post-office and court-house at Chicago, Illinois: For continuation of building under present limit, one million dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use out of this appropriation the sum of forty thousand dollars for the employment of a special architect, assistants, experts, superintendents, and other skilled and clerical service to continue the plans, specifications, and superintendence Temporary employees. of the building. This work being essentially of a temporary and special nature, the Secretary of the Treasury may employ such assistance as he sees fit, with or without compliance with the conditions Vol. 22, p. 403. prescribed by the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and *Proviso*.Limit of expenditure. eighty-three: *Provided*, That the whole amount expended for the services mentioned herein shall not, including the sums heretofore authorized, exceed five per centum of the total limit of cost of said building.
Cleveland, Ohio. For post-office, custom-house, and court house at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Rent. For rental of quarters at Cleveland, Ohio: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, forty-nine thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars. Creston, Iowa. For post-office at Creston, Iowa: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Cumberland, Md. For court-house and post-office at Cumberland, Maryland: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Elizabeth City, N. C. For court-house and post-office at Elizabeth City, North Carolina: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Elmira, N. Y. For post-office and court-house at Elmira, New York: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and seven thousand dollars. Fergus Falls, Minn.
For court-house and post-office at Fergus Falls, Minnesota: For 421 completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Fitchburg, Massachusetts: For completion of Fitchburg, Mass. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Freeport, Illinois: For completion of building Freeport, Ill. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. For public building at Helena, Montana: For completion of building Helena, Mont. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
For post-office at Hot Springs, Arkansas: For completion of building Hot Springs, Ark. under present limit, twenty-two thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Ind. Indiana: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Rent. Government officials at Indianapolis, Indiana, thirty-one thousand dollars. That so long as the court-house and post-office property
(old)in the Fuel, etc. city of Indianapolis, Indiana, or any part thereof, continues to be occupied by the United States the following-named appropriations shall be available in connection with such portions of said property so occupied in the same manner and to the same extent as if the title to said property remained in the United States, namely: Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings; furniture and repairs of same for public buildings; pay of assistant custodians and janitors; vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings. For post-office at Jamestown, New York: For completion of building Jamestown, N. Y. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For post-office at Janesville, Wisconsin: For completion of building Janesville, Wis. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Joliet, Illinois: For completion of building under Joliet, Ill. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office at Joplin, Missouri: For continuation of building Joplin, Mo. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Lockport, New York: For completion of building Lockport, N. Y. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Los Angeles, Cal.Rent, etc. Government officials at Los Angeles, California, and for electric current for power purposes, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Public building at Mobile, Alabama: That the Secretary of the Mobile, Ala.Private sewer. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to release and transfer to the city of Mobile, Alabama, all rights, interests, claims, and demands of the United States in and to the private sewer constructed in part by the United States in connection with the post-office and custom-house building in said city and generally known as the “Battle House” or “Athelstan Association” sewer: *Provided*, *Proviso*. That the said city of Mobile will, without cost to the United States Use of public sewer. for making connection or for subsequent use, transfer the sewer connection of said Federal building from said private sewer to the sewer system of said city, and will grant to the United States for all time, without charge, the free and uninterrupted use of said public sewer. For custom-house and post-office at Newark, New Jersey: For completion Newark, N. J. of an extension to the building and changes in present building incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars. For court-house, post-office, and custom-house at Newport, Vermont: Newport, Vt. For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Newport News, Virginia: For Newport News, Va. continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For custom-house at New York, New York: For continuation of New York.Custom-house. buildings under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 422 Post-office building. For court-house and post-office at New York, New York: For completing the mazzanine story over an area of approximately five thousand square feet, including necessary changes in arrangement, thirty-five thousand dollars. Appraiser’s warehouse. Appraiser’s warehouse, New York, New York: For two fire escapes, fifteen thousand dollars. Rent of old custom-house. For rent of old custom-house at New York, New York: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars. Oskaloosa, Iowa. For post-office at Oskaloosa, Iowa: For completion of building under present limit, sixteen thousand dollars. Saint Cloud, Minn. For post-office at Saint Cloud, Minnesota: For completion of building under present limit, eighteen thousand dollars. Saint Paul, Minn. For custom-house at Saint Paul, Minnesota: For necessary repairs, improvements, and alterations in present building, fifty thousand dollars. Salt Lake City, Utah. For court-house and post-office at Salt Lake City, Utah: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Seattle, Wash. For court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Seattle, Washington: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Washington, D. C.Bureau of Standards. For National Bureau of Standards, at Washington, District of Columbia, laboratory: For construction of laboratory under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Repairs to Treasury buildings. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, including new roof for Treasury building and new floor of steel beams and concrete over entire colonnade of said building, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars. Fire alarm. 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. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.Vault. Additional vault facilities, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For additional vault facilities on the first and second floors, fifty 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 other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, four hundred thousand *Proviso*.Superintendents, etc. 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. 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, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics 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. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, thirty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal 423 services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs and inspecting work done. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals Plans, 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 supplies 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 be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations, in accordance with existing practice. Marine Hospitals: For marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio: For Marine hospitals.Cleveland, Ohio. boiler plant and expense incident thereto, six thousand dollars. For marine hospital at New York, New York: For purchase of present New York, N. Y. site covering ten acres, more or less and buildings, or purchase of a new site and erection of marine-hospital buildings thereon, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Savannah, Georgia: For commencing construction Savannah, Ga. of hospital under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For purchase of Pittsburg, Pa. site and commencing construction of hospital under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Buffalo, New York: For purchase of site and Buffalo, N. Y. commencing construction of hospital under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts Contracts. for the construction of the marine hospitals at Savannah, Georgia; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Buffalo, New York, within their respective authorized limits of cost. Books and journals for the use of the Marine-Hospital Bureau may Books, etc. be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Marine-Hospital Service. Quarantine Stations: For quarantine station, South Atlantic: For Quarantine stations.South Atlantic. protection against water encroachments, and ballast gangway, three thousand five hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Fernandina, Florida: For the purchase of Fernandina, Fla. the property of the State of Florida, in accordance with agreement between Treasury Department and the State of Florida, dated July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, five thousand dollars. For quarantine station, Mayport, Florida: For the purchase of the Mayport, Fla. property of the State of Florida, in accordance with agreement between Treasury Department and the State of Florida, dated July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, eight hundred and fifty dollars, and for boathouse and equipment, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For quarantine station, Miami, Florida: For the purchase of the Miami, Fla. property of the State of Florida, in accordance with agreement between Treasury Department and the State of Florida, dated July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, three thousand six hundred dollars; for equipment, twenty thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand six hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Boca Grande, Florida: For the purchase of Boca Grande, Fla. the property of the State of Florida, in accordance with agreement between Treasury Department and the State of Florida, dated July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, three thousand dollars, and for equipment, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars. 424 Pensacola, Fla. For quarantine station, Pensacola, Florida: For the purchase of the property of the State of Florida, in accordance with agreement between Treasury Department and the State of Florida, dated July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, twenty thousand dollars, and for improvements to station, improving new wharf, and equipment, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. San Diego, Cal. For quarantine station, San Diego, California: For steam launch, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And all that land lying north and west of the Treasury Department quarantine station, bounded on the south by the land owned by the United States and used as a quarantine station and by First street; on the west by San Antonio avenue; on the north by Colorado street; and on the east by San Diego Bay and the said Treasury Department quarantine station, containing six and one-half acres more or less, is hereby transferred to the Treasury Department for the use of a quarantine station. additional for public buildings. Additional appropriations.*Ante*, p. 310.Limit of cost increased. Toward amounts requisite for public buildings, including contracts authorized under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, and amendments thereof, namely: Under the provisions and limitations of section one of said Act, as follows: Alexandria, Va. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Alexandria, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars. Atlanta, Ga. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Atlanta, Georgia: For the acquisition of additional land for the enlargement of the site *Proviso*.Additional land. heretofore acquired: *Provided*, That the land so authorized to be acquired is the remainder of the block or square upon which the present post-office building is now located, and can be secured within the limit of cost fixed by law, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Augusta, Me. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Augusta, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Bangor, Me. For post-office and custom-house at Bangor, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. Beaumont, Tex. For post-office and court-house at Beaumont, Texas, including the acquisition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, of additional ground adjoining the present site sufficient in size to accommodate the necessary enlargement of the present building, said additional ground to cost not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars. Binghamton, N. Y. For post-office and court-house at Binghamton, New York: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire additional land for the enlargement of the site heretofore acquired, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Brunswick, Ga. For post-office and court-house at Brunswick, Georgia, thirty thousand dollars. Buffalo, N. Y. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Buffalo, New York, thirty-five thousand dollars. Burlington, Iowa. For post-office at Burlington, Iowa, twenty-five thousand dollars. Dallas, Tex. For post-office and court-house at Dallas, Texas, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Smith, Ark. For post-office and court-house at Fort Smith, Arkansas, twenty-five thousand dollars. Greensboro, N. C. For court-house and post-office at Greensboro, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars. Hartford, Conn. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Hartford, Connecticut, fifty thousand dollars. 425 For post-office and court-house at Jackson, Mississippi, five thousand Jackson, Miss. dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Jacksonville, Florida, twenty Jacksonville, Fla. thousand dollars. For post-office at Kalamazoo, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Kalamazoo, Mich. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Lynn, Massachusetts, one thousand two hundred Lynn, Mass. dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Menominee, Michigan, one thousand five hundred Menominee, Mich. dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Monmouth, Illinois, one thousand dollars. Monmouth, Ill. For post-office and court-house at Montgomery, Alabama, twenty-five Montgomery, Ala. thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. New Brighton, Pa. For post-office and court-house at Norfolk, Virginia, eight thousand Norfolk, Va. dollars. For court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebr. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Oskaloosa, Iowa, four thousand dollars. Oskaloosa, Iowa. For post-office at Ottumwa, Iowa: To enable the Secretary of the Ottumwa, Iowa.Additional land. Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire additional land for the enlargement of the site heretofore acquired: *Provided*, That the land so *Proviso*.Site. authorized to be acquired has a frontage of ninety-nine feet on the public park and a depth of one hundred and thirty-two feet, and is the property now owned by the Hawley estate, adjoining the present post-office site, six thousand five hundred dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Paducah, Kentucky, Paducah, Ky. twenty-five thousand dollars. For mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars. Philadelphia, Pa.Mint. For custom-house at Portland, Oregon, ten thousand dollars. Portland, Oreg. For post-office and custom-house at Portland, Oregon, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Richmond, Kentucky, twenty Richmond, Ky. thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Richmond, Virginia: Richmond, Va. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the Shafer property adjoining the present post-office site in Richmond, Virginia, having a frontage of sixty feet on Main and Bank streets and a depth of one hundred and sixty feet from Main to Bank streets, containing about nine thousand six hundred square feet, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Rochester, New York: To enable Rochester, N. Y. the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire, as additional land for the enlargement of the present site, a plot of ground, including the buildings thereon, adjoining the Government building site and between North Fitzhugh street and Pindell alley, containing about eleven thousand and eighty-six square feet, forty thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Rome, Georgia: To enable the Rome, Ga. Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire a tract of land immediately adjoining the post-office site in said city having a frontage of eighty-eight feet on East First street and a depth of one hundred and thirty-two feet, eight thousand dollars. For court-house and custom-house at Saint Joseph, Missouri: To Saint Joseph, Mo. 426 enable the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a tract of ground immediately adjoining the present site, with a frontage of not less than sixty feet on Eighth street and a depth of one hundred and forty feet, not to exceed eighteen thousand dollars. Sandusky, Ohio. For post-office and custom-house at Sandusky, Ohio: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire, as additional land for the enlargement of the present site, seventy feet front on Market street and one hundred and thirty-two feet deep, running south from the west parts of lots seven and nine, Columbus avenue, including building thereon, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. Scranton, Pa. For post-office and court-house at Scranton, Pennsylvania twenty thousand dollars. Springfield, Ill. For post-office and court-house at Springfield, Illinois, twenty-five thousand dollars. Waco, Tex. For post-office and court-house at Waco, Texas, twenty-five thousand dollars. Youngstown, Ohio. For post-office at Youngstown, Ohio: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire, as additional land for the enlargement of the present site, seventy-three and one-half feet on Front street and one hundred and thirty feet deep adjoining the present site, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars. *Ante*, p. 316.New buildings on Government land. Under the provisions and limitations of section two of said act, as follows: Emporia, Kans. For post-office at Emporia, Kansas, fifteen thousand dollars. Guthrie, Okla. For post-office and court-house at Guthrie, Oklahoma, fifteen thousand dollars. Hastings, Nebr. For post-office and court-house at Hastings, Nebraska, fifteen thousand dollars. Norfolk, Nebr. For post-office and court-house at Norfolk, Nebraska, fifteen thousand dollars. Oklahoma City, Okla. For post-office and other Government offices at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, fifteen thousand dollars. San Francisco, Cal., custom-house. For custom-house at San Francisco, California, twenty-five thousand dollars. New buildings on site at nominal cost.*Ante*, p. 316. Under the provisions and limitations of Section Three of said Act, including cost of site not exceeding one dollar in each case, as follows: Adrian Mich. For post-office at Adrian, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Atlantic, Iowa. For post-office at Atlantic, Iowa, ten thousand dollars. Centerville, Iowa. For post-office at Centerville, Iowa, ten thousand dollars. Easton, Pa. For post-office at Easton, Pennsylvania, ten thousand dollars. Florence, S. C. For post-office and court-house at Florence, South Carolina, ten thousand dollars. Gainesville, Fla. For post-office and land office at Gainesville, Florida, ten thousand dollars. Grand Haven, Mich. For post-office and custom-house at Grand Haven, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Ironton, Ohio. For post-office at Ironton, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Louisiana, Mo. For post-office and revenue office at Louisiana, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. Muskegon, Mich. For post-office and custom-house at Muskegon, Michigan, ten thousand *Proviso*.Site. dollars: *Provided*, That lots seven, eight, and nine, in block sixty-nine, situate at the corner of Third and Clay streets, in said city, are satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury as a site. Ogden, Utah. For post-office and court-house at Ogden, Utah, ten thousand dollars. Owosso, Mich. For post-office at Owosso, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Perth Amboy, N. J. For post-office and custom-house at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars. New buildings authorized.*Ante*, p. 317. Under the provisions and limitations of section four of said Act, as follows: Allentown, Pa. For post-office at Allentown, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars. 427 For post-office at Amesbury, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars. Amesbury, Mass. For post-office at Anderson, Indiana, twenty thousand dollars. Anderson, Ind. For post-office and court-house at Athens, Georgia, fifteen thousand Athens, Ga. dollars. For post-office at Atlantic City, New Jersey, thirty thousand dollars. Atlantic City, N. J. For post-office at Baraboo, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars. Baraboo, Wis. For post-office and court-house at Batesville, Arkansas, fifteen Batesville, Ark. thousand dollars. For post-office at Battlecreek, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Battlecreek, Mich. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Biloxi, Mississippi, Biloxi, Miss. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Boone, Iowa, twenty thousand dollars. Boone, Iowa. For post-office and court-house at Charlottesville, Virginia, twenty Charlottesville, Va. thousand dollars. For post-office and revenue office at Chillicothe, Ohio, fifteen Chillicothe, Ohio. thousand dollars. For post-office at Colorado Springs, Colorado, thirty thousand Colorado Springs, Colo. dollars. For post-office at Crawfordsville, Indiana, ten thousand dollars. Crawfordsville, Ind. For post-office, court-house, and assay office at Deadwood, South Deadwood, S. Dak. Dakota, thirty thousand dollars. For post-office at Decatur, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Decatur, Ill. For post-office at Dekalb, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Dekalb, Ill. For post-office and revenue office at Durham, North Carolina, fifteen Durham, N. C. thousand dollars. For post-office at Elizabeth, New Jersey, sixty thousand dollars. Elizabeth, N. J. For post-office at Elkhart, Indiana, twenty thousand dollars. Elkhart, Ind. For post-office at Evanston, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. Evanston, Ill. For post-office and court-house at Evanston, Wyoming, twenty-five Evanston, Wyo. thousand dollars. For post-office at Findlay, Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars. Findlay, Ohio. For post-office at Flint, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. Flint, Mich. For post-office at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. Fond du Lac, Wis. For post-office, court-house, and revenue office at Fresno, California, Fresno, Cal. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Gainesville, Texas, fifteen thousand dollars. Gainesville, Tex. For post-office at Geneva, New York, fifteen thousand dollars. Geneva, N. Y. For post-office and custom-house at Georgetown, South Carolina, Georgetown, S. C. fifteen thousand dollars. For post-office at Gloversville, New York, fifteen thousand dollars. Gloversville, N. Y. For post-office at Goldsboro, North Carolina, ten thousand dollars. Goldsboro, N. C. For post-office and court-house at Grand Forks, North Dakota, Grand Forks, N. Dak. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Green Bay, Wisconsin, twenty-five Green Bay, Wis. thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Greeneville, Tennessee, twenty Greeneville, Tenn. thousand dollars. For post-office and court-house at Hammond, Indiana, thirty thousand Hammond, Ind. dollars. For post-office and court-house at Harrison, Arkansas, fifteen thousand Harrison, Ark. dollars. For post-office at Henderson, Kentucky, fifteen thousand dollars. Henderson, Ky. For post-office at Holyoke, Massachusetts, forty thousand dollars. Holyoke, Mass. For post-office and court-house at Huntington, West Virginia, Huntington, W. Va. twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Hutchison, Kansas, fifteen thousand dollars. Hutchison, Kans. For post-office at Iowa City, Iowa, ten thousand dollars. Iowa City, Iowa. For post-office at Ithaca, New York, twenty thousand dollars. Ithaca, N. Y. For post-office at Jacksonville, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Jacksonville, Ill. For post-office at Kankakee, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. Kankakee, Ill. For post-office at Kingston, New York, twenty thousand dollars. Kingston, N. Y. 428 Kirksville, Mo. For post-office at Kirksville, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. Laramie, Wyo. For post-office at Laramie, Wyoming, twenty-five thousand dollars. Laredo, Tex. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Laredo, Texas, thirty-five thousand dollars. Lawrence, Kans. For post-office at Lawrence, Kansas, ten thousand dollars. Lebanon, Pa. For post-office at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars. Little Falls, N. Y. For post-office at Little Falls, New York, fifteen thousand dollars. Logansport, Ind. For post-office at Logansport, Indiana, fifteen thousand dollars. McKeesport, Pa. For post-office at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars. Marblehead, Mass. For post-office at Marblehead, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars. Marshalltown, Iowa. For post-office at Marshalltown, Iowa, twenty thousand dollars. Martinsville, Va. For post-office and revenue office at Martinsville, Virginia, ten thousand dollars. Maysville, Ky. For post-office at Maysville, Kentucky, ten thousand dollars. Meriden, Conn. For post-office at Meriden, Connecticut, forty-five thousand dollars. Muncie, Ind. For post-office at Muncie, Indiana, ten thousand dollars. Nashua, N. H. For post-office at Nashua, New Hampshire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Natchez, Miss. For post-office at Natchez, Mississippi, ten thousand dollars. Nevada, Mo. For post-office at Nevada, Missouri, ten thousand dollars. Newcastle, Pa. For post-office at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars. Niagara Falls, N. Y. For post-office at Niagara Falks, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Norristown, Pa. For post-office at Norristown, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars. Northampton, Mass. For post-office at Northampton, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars. Oak Park, Ill. For post-office at Oak Park, Illinois, ten thousand dollars. Oil City, Pa. For post-office at Oil City, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. Ottawa, Ill. For post-office at Ottawa, Illinois, ten thousand dollars. Pekin, Ill. For post-office and revenue office at Pekin, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Reno, Nev. For post-office at Reno, Nevada, fifteen thousand dollars. Richmond, Ind. For post-office at Richmond, Indiana, twenty thousand dollars. Rock Hill, S. C. For post-office at Rock Hill, South Carolina, ten thousand dollars. Selma, Ala. For post-office at Selma, Alabama, fifteen thousand dollars. Sherman, Tex. For post-office and court-house at Sherman, Texas, thirty thousand dollars. Spartanburg, S. C. For post-office and revenue office at Spartanburg, South Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars. Stillwater, Minn. For post-office at Stillwater, Minnesota, fifteen thousand dollars. Superior, Wis. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Superior, Wisconsin, thirty-five thousand dollars. Torrington, Conn. For post-office at Torrington, Connecticut, fifteen thousand dollars. Vincennes, Ind. For post-office at Vincennes, Indiana, fifteen thousand dollars. Warren, Ohio. For post-office at Warren, Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars. Washington, Pa. For post-office at Washington, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. Waterbury, Conn. For post-office at Waterbury, Connecticut, forty-five thousand dollars. Waterloo, Iowa. For post-office and court-house at Waterloo, Iowa, thirty-five thousand dollars. Wausau, Wis. For post-office at Wausau, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars. Westchester, Pa. For post-office at Westchester, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars. Zanesville, Ohio. For post-office at Zanesville, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars. Purchase of sites.*Ante*, p. 320. Under the provisions and limitations of section five of said Act, as follows: Albert Lea, Minn. For post-office at Albert Lea, Minnesota, three thousand dollars. Albuquerque, N. Mex. For post-office at Albuquerque, New Mexico, ten thousand dollars. Bar Harbor, Me. For post-office at Bar Harbor, Maine, six thousand dollars. 429 For post-office and custom-house at Calais, Maine, six thousand dollars. Calais, Me. For post-office at Champaign, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Champaign, Ill. For post-office at Columbia, Missouri, five thousand dollars. Columbia, Mo. For post-office and other Government offices at Crookston, Minnesota, Crookston, Minn. four thousand dollars. For post-office at Hamilton, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars. Hamilton, Ohio. For post-office at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars. Johnstown, Pa. For post-office at Moberly, Missouri, five thousand dollars. Moberly, Mo. For post-office at Muscatine, Iowa, fifteen thousand dollars. Muscatine, Iowa. For post-office and land office at Natchitoches, Louisiana, five thousand Natchitoches, La. dollars. For post-office and court-house at Pierre, South Dakota, five thousand Pierre, S. Dak. dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Portsmouth, Virginia, fifteen Portsmouth, Va. thousand dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Quincy, Massachusetts, twelve Quincy, Mass. thousand dollars. For post-office at Saratoga Springs, New York, fifteen thousand Saratoga Springs, N. Y. dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Spokane, Washington, Spokane, Wash. one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at Yankton, South Dakota, seven thousand dollars. Yankton, S. Dak. For post-office at Sterling, Illinois, five thousand dollars. Sterling, Ill. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, Wash. one hundred thousand dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Traverse City, Michigan, six Traverse City, Mich. thousand dollars. For post-office and custom-house at Burlington, Vermont, under the Burlington, Vt.*Ante*, p. 325. provisions and limitations of section eighteen of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.*Ante*, p. 324. under the provisions and limitations of section fifteen of said Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Los Angeles, California, under Los Angeles, Cal.*Ante*, p. 324. the provisions and limitations of section seventeen of said Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at New Orleans, Louisiana, under the provisions and New Orleans, La.*Ante*, p. 322. limitations of section nine of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred thousand dollars. For post-office at New York, New York, under the provisions and New York, N. Y.*Ante*, p. 323. limitations of section thirteen of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Providence, Rhode Providence, R. I.*Ante*, p. 322. Island, under the provisions and limitations of section ten of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri, under the provisions and Saint Louis, Mo.*Ante*, p. 322. limitations of section eight of said Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. For post-office at Toledo, Ohio, under the provisions and limitations Toledo, Ohio.*Ante*, p. 323. of section fourteen of said Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, eighty-two thousand dollars. For municipal building for the joint use of the United States and Washington, D. C.Municipal building.*Ante*, p. 321.*Post*, p. 1206. the District of Columbia at Washington, District of Columbia, under the provisions and limitations of section six of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, six hundred thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Wheeling, West Wheeling, W. Va.*Ante*, p. 323. 430 Virginia, under the provisions and limitations of said Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Inquiry and report.*Ante*, p. 326. For inquiry and report to Congress concerning public buildings at the cities named in section twenty-two of said Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, ten thousand dollars. Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS. Portland, Me. Ram Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine: For constructing a light-house and fog signal on Ram Island Ledge at the entrance to Portland Harbor, eighty-three thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of said light-house and fog signal at a total cost of one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars. Castle Island, Mass., depot.*Post*, p. 853. Castle Island light-house depot, Massachusetts: For establishing a light-house depot for the Second light-house district at Castle Island, twenty-five thousand dollars. Boston Harbor, Mass.Light-station.*Post*, p. 1092. Broad Sound Channel light station, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: For constructing a first-order light and fog signal at the Northeast Grave, 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. Lovell’s Island.Range lights. Lovell’s Island range lights, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: For the establishment of two range lights on Lovell’s Island, at the mouth of Boston Harbor, ten thousand dollars. Spectacle Island.Range lights. Spectacle Island range lights, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: For the establishment of two range lights on Spectacle Island, at the mouth of Boston Harbor, thirteen thousand dollars. Orient Point, N. Y. Orient Point light station, New York: For construction of a breakwater for the protection of the light-house, eighteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Staten Island, N. Y., depot. Staten Island light-house depot, New York: For the erection of a new oil house, forty thousand dollars; for the erection of a new coal shed, twenty thousand dollars; in all, sixty thousand dollars. Delaware River.Range lights. Port Penn range, Reedy Island range, Finns Point range, Delaware River, New Jersey: For completing the reestablishment of ranges, thirty thousand dollars. Schooner Ledge, Pa. Schooner Ledge light station, Pennsylvania: For purchase of right of way to the Schooner Ledge rear range light station, two hundred dollars. Tender, Fifth district. Tender for the Fifth light-house district: To complete the steam tender for the Fifth light-house district, said amount to be immediately available, twelve thousand dollars. Sapelo, Ga. Sapelo light station, Georgia: For the construction of a combined light tower and keeper’s dwelling, forty thousand dollars. Tender, Seventh district. Tender for the engineer of the Seventh light-house district: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a steam tender for construction and repair service, heretofore authorized for the Seventh light-house district, at a total cost not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Hillsboro, Fla. Hillsboro Inlet light station, Florida: For constructing a first-order light station at or near Hillsboro Inlet, east coast of Florida, forty-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 ninety thousand dollars. 431 Oyster Bayou light station, Louisiana: For establishing a light-house Oyster Bayou, La. at the mouth of Oyster Bayou, near the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, five thousand dollars. Kewaunee light station, Wisconsin: For the erection of a dwelling Kewaunee, Wis. for the keeper of the light-house at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, five thousand dollars. Saint Martin Island light and fog-signal station, Michigan: For completing Saint Martin, Mich. establishment of a light and fog-signal station on Saint Martin Island, Saint Martin Passage, entrance to Green Bay, Lake Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Tender for the inspector Ninth light-house district: For completing Tender, Ninth district. a steam tender for buoy, supply, and inspection in the Ninth light-house district, thirty thousand dollars. Tender for the engineer Ninth light-house district: For completing a new steam tender for construction and repair service in the Ninth light-house district, sixty-five thousand dollars. Calumet Harbor, Lake Michigan, Illinois: For the construction of a Calument Harbor, Ill. keeper’s dwelling, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Peshtigo Reef light-vessel, Wisconsin: For establishing a light-vessel Peshtigo Reef, Wis. with a fog signal at or near Peshtigo Reef, Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. Toledo Harbor light and fog-signal station, Ohio: For completing a Toledo Harbor, Ohio. light and fog-signal station to mark the outer end of the main channel, entrance to Toledo Harbor, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Crisps Point light and fog-signal station, Michigan: For the establishment Crisps Point, Mich. of a light and fog-signal station on or near Crisps Point, Lake Superior, Michigan, eighteen thousand dollars. Grassy Island range light station (Ecorse), Michigan: For building Grassy Island, Mich. a dwelling for the keeper of Grassy Island range (Ecorse), Michigan, five thousand dollars. Point au Pelee Passage light-ship: For constructing a modern steel Point au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie. auxiliary steamship with a fog signal, to be established on Southeast Shoal, Point au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, forty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain a light-ship on Southeast Shoal, Point au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. Conneaut Harbor light station, Ohio: For constructing a light-house Conneaut, Ohio. on the new pier head for the front light, and to raise the existing structure on the old pier head to a proper height to have it serve with the proposed new front light as a range for vessels approaching Conneaut Harbor, eight thousand four hundred dollars. Ashtabula Harbor light station, Ohio: For establishing a light and Ashtabula, Ohio. fog-signal station on the new pier head at the end of the west break-water at Ashtabula, Ohio, eighteen thousand dollars. Fort Winfield Scott fog signal, California: To establish on Fort Fort Winfield Scott, Cal. Winfield Scott, Fort Point, California, a fog signal, seven thousand dollars. Oakland light-house and fog-signal station, California: For constructing Oakland, Cal. a light-house and fog signal at the entrance of Oakland Harbor, California, nineteen thousand dollars. Mile Rocks light and fog-signal station, California: For constructing Mile Rocks, Cal. a light and fog-signal station on one of the Mile Rocks, San Francisco Bay, California, one hundred thousand dollars. Browns Point light-house and fog signal, Washington: For completing Browns Point, Wash. light-house and fog signal at Browns Point, State of Washington, three thousand two hundred dollars. Battery Point fog signal, Washington: For the construction of a Battery Point, Wash. fog signal at Battery Point, Puget Sound, opposite the city of Seattle, State of Washington, six thousand dollars. 432 Lands owned by Government other than those held for settlement.Statement required. The President is hereby requested to cause to be prepared and submitted to Congress at the commencement of its next session a statement showing what lots or parcels of land, other than public lands held for settlement under the public-land laws, are owned by the United States and held by the several Executive Departments or other branches of the public service, the area of each, the purposes for which each is held or occupied, in what State, Territory, or country, and in or near what town or city each is located. Light-House Establishment. Light-House Establishment. Supplies. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian member of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, 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. Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improving 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, 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, six hundred and seventy 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 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, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. 433 Lighting of rivers: For the pay of officers and crews of light-house Lighting of rivers. 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 light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, Survey of sites. and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Oil houses for light-stations: For establishing isolated oil houses Oil houses. 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 Rican light-house establishment: For maintaining existing Porto Rico. aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional day marks and beacon lights and buoys, where required on Porto Rico and adjacent islands, 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: To Alaska. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue to establish, under the direction and supervision of the Light-House Board, light-house and fog-signal stations in Alaskan waters, one hundred and twenty-six thousand and thirteen dollars. Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes: To enable Great 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 waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars. Hereafter there shall be submitted in the annual Book of Estimates, Employees. under each item of appropriation under the head of “Light-House Establishment,” notes showing the number of persons employed and the rate of compensation paid to each from each of said appropriations during the fiscal year next preceding the fiscal year for which estimates are submitted. 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, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand six hundred dollars; 434 For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand live hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand one hundred dollars. Keepers. For salaries of two hundred and eighty keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. Crews. For pay of crews of surf men employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, including the old Chicago station, 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 ship-wrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers Commutation of quarters. under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Vol. 22, p. 57. Life-Saving Service; 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 Height, 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 fifteen thousand seven hundred and thirty 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. Revenue-Cutter Service. revenue-cutter service. Salaries and expenses. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers and assistant engi-435neers, for pay of a constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for Seal fisheries. protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to Anchorage. the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, February Vol. 25, p. 151. sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three and March third, eighteen Vol. 27, p. 431. hundred and ninety-nine; and an Act relating to the anchorage and Vol. 30, p. 1081. movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, Vol. 29, p. 54. eighteen hundred and ninety-six; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, Contingent expenses. including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For longevity pay authorized by the “Act to promote the efficiency Longevity.*Ante*, p. 100. of the Revenue-Cutter Service,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For the completion of one revenue cutter of the third class, under Saint Marys River.Revenue cutter. the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for service on the Saint Marys River, Michigan, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. To complete the purchase or construction of a suitable launch for Astoria, Oreg.Launch. the customs service, at and in the vicinity of Astoria, Oregon, five thousand dollars in addition to the sum of five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for this purpose, which sum is hereby reappropriated and made available therefor. For the construction, under the direction of the Secretary of the Philadelphia, Pa.Revenue cutter. Treasury, of a steam revenue cutter for service at the port of Philadelphia, fifty thousand dollars. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of Salaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, nine hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Large notes. no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the Vol. 31, p. 45. standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, nine hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall *Proviso*.Large notes. be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain Vol. 31, p. 45. the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, 436 to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. Materials. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, four hundred thousand dollars. Rent. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-Office Department 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.Survey of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury; for special examinations that may be required by 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 Treasury, and under the following heads: *Proviso*.Advances. *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 officer, 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 *Proviso*. immediately available and to continue available until expended: *Provided*, Limit of expenditures. 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, five thousand dollars. For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the Coast Pilot. 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. 437 For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian Magnetic observations. lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points Points to State surveys. to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars. For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Special surveys. Board or other proper authority and contingent expenses incident thereto, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous. 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 expenses of the attendance of the American delegate at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That ten per centum *Proviso*.Interchangeable expenditures. of the foregoing amounts shall be 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 repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance Repairs 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. Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Vessels. all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. Pay and subsistence of professional seamen: For pay and subsistence Professional seamen. of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on the vessels of the Survey, to be immediately available, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Salaries Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, five Salaries.Superintendent. thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the Assistants. 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 438 dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Office force. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely: For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For 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, packers and folders, and miscellaneous work, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; 439 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 two, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For one laborer, at five hundred and fifty dollars; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; in all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for Office expenses. materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and 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 two thousand dollars; in all, forty thousand dollars. For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Allowances. 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 inter International exchanges. national 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 researches American 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, fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, 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 appliances National 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 telephonic Heating, etc. service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections Preserving collections. from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern-440ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum live thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum; and all other necessary incidental expenses. Specimens. For purchase of specimens to supply deficiencies in the collections of the National Museum, ten thousand dollars. Books, etc. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. Repairs. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. 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. United States National Herbarium For printing and publishing the contributions from the United States National Herbarium, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, including the preparation of necessary illustrations, proof reading, bibliographical work, and special editorial work, seven *Proviso*.Sale of copies. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of said copies shall be placed on sale at an advance of ten per centum over their cost. New building authorized.*Post*, p. 1102. For the preparation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, of preliminary plans for an additional fire-proof steel-frame brick-and-terra-cotta building, to cost not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars, for the United States National Museum, to be erected when appropriated for, on the Mall, between Ninth and Twelfth streets west, said plans when completed to be transmitted by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to Congress, five thousand dollars. 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 provided for, ninety thousand dollars. Elephant house. For the construction of an elephant house, with bathing pools and other accessories, including labor and materials and all necessary incidental Half from District revenues. expenses, ten thousand dollars; one-half of which sums for the National Zoological Park 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; 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; four janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each: one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Office of accounts. Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; prop-441erty 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: Architect and engineer, two thousand Office of architect and engineer. 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: Assistant in charge, two thousand Division of fish culture.Office. seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station, Washington, 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 sixty Aquaria. dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, one Fish ponds. thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Green Lake, Me. 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 five Craig’s 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 thousand Saint 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 thousand Woods 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 Cape Vincent, N. Y. five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and Battery Island, Md. sixty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and Bryans Point, Md. sixty dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Wytheville, 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 hun-Put in Bay, Ohio. 442dred 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, Mich. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five 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. 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; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville, Colo. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturists, 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 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. 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 Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, 443 at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Cold Springs, Ga. 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 (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Spearfish, S. Dak. 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. West Virginia Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred West Virginia Station. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand Employees at large. eight hundred dollars each; two fish-culturists, 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 two Distribution employees. hundred dollars each; five car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; four assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; four car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food-fishes: Assistant in charge, two Division 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 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, seven hundred Biological station, N. C. 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 in Division 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 thousand Vessels.“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; “Grampus.” first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the office Administration 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 oper-Propagation expenses. 444ations of the fish-cultural stations of the Commission, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels. 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, thirty-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 interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. San Marcos, Tex., station.Completion. For completion of the fish-cultural station at San Marcos, Texas, including the purchase of additional land, two thousand five hundred dollars. Interstate Commerce Commission. interstate commerce commission. Salaries.Vol. 24, p. 386. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; Expenses.Vol. 24, p. 379. For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and nine thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars 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 fifty thousand dollars. Arbitration of railroad differences.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090. The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. Railway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the ‘‘Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred Expenses of enforcing law. and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, thirty-five thousand dollars. 445 miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Miscellaneous. Louisiana Purchase Exposition: Government exhibit: For the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles and materials Government exhibit.*Post*, p. 1108. as the heads of the several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, the United States Fish Commission, the Department of Labor, and the Library of Congress may respectively decide shall be embraced in the Government exhibit, including the exhibit of the Bureau of the American Republics, and such additional articles as the President may designate for said exposition, and for the installation of said exhibit, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants to the United States Government board in the management of the Government exhibit in accordance with the provisions of “An Act to provide for celebrating Vol. 31, p. 1442. the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, eight hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That all expenditures *Proviso*.Allotment, etc. made for the purposes and from the appropriations specified herein, and the number, compensation, and selection of persons not already in the Government service shall be under the direction of the United States Government board and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the appropriations herein made shall be so allotted and distributed among the several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, the United States Fish Commission, the Department of Labor, the Bureau of the American Republics, and the Library of Congress as to prevent any deficiency therein. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause to be assembled Representatives of Indian tribes, etc. at the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, at such time and for such period as he may designate, and as a part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held at the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, pursuant to an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, such representatives Vol. 31, p. 1440. of the different Indian tribes and such exhibits from Indian agencies, schools, and archives as he may deem advisable or necessary to illustrate the past and present conditions of the Indians and the Indian tribes of the United States, and progress made by such in education, art, and industry, and the methods of education and government, and such other matters and things as will fully illustrate Indian advancement in civilization, the details of which shall be in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. And for the purpose of carrying into effect this provision the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated; but the Secretary of the Interior is prohibited from making, or causing to be made, any expenditure or creating any liability on behalf of the United States in excess of the sum hereby appropriated. That section fifteen of the Act above entitled, approved March third, Life-saving station exhibit.Vol. 31, p. 1443.*Post*, p. 1095. nineteen hundred and one, shall be amended so as to read as follows: “That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be erected in connection with the exhibit of his Department, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for the purpose by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, a building for an exhibit of 446 the United States Life-Saving Service, at a cost of not to exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars, the said exposition company to furnish suitable water facilities for exhibition drills with the beach apparatus and boats used in said Life-Saving Service, and the sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the erection of said building and making of said exhibit, is hereby appropriated for said purpose.” Government building.Additional amount. For the erection of a suitable Government building for said Government exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for said purpose, two hundred thousand dollars; said sum to be immediately available and to be expended Vol. 31, p. 1443. in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of *Provisos*. Missouri,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one: *Provided*, Limit of appropriations. That the said appropriations herein made under the heading of “Louisiana Purchase Exposition” shall be in full for all and every expense relating to the collection, installation, safe-keeping, and maintenance of the entire Government exhibit in said exposition, and for the safe return of all of said Government exhibit, and no claim against the United States shall be created or made in addition thereto, and there shall be no deficiency under said appropriation or any part of it: Dates of dedication, etc. *And provided further*, That sections eight and twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 8. Dedication.Vol. 31, p. 1441, amended. That said commission shall provide for the dedication of the buildings of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in said city of Saint Louis, not later than the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred Opening.*Post*, pp. 1986, 2011. and three, with appropriate ceremonies, and thereafter said exposition shall be opened to visitors at such time as may be designated by said company, subject to the approval of said commission, not later than Closing. the first day of May, nineteen hundred and four, and shall be closed at such time as the national commission may determine, subject to the approval of said company, but not later than the first day of December thereafter. “Sec. 12. Termination of commission.*Provisos*.Issue of gold dollars authorized. That the national commission hereby authorized shall cease to exist on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and five: *Provided*, That upon the approval of this Act the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be coined at the mints of the United States two hundred and fifty thousand gold dollars of legal weight and fineness, to be known as the Louisiana Exposition gold dollar, struck in commemoration of said exposition. The exact words, devices, and designs upon said gold dollars shall be determined and prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and all provisions of law relative to the coinage and legal-tender quality of all other gold coin shall be applicable to the coin issued under and in accordance with the provisions Deduction from total appropriation.Vol. 31, p. 1444. of this Act. And in payment of so much of the five million dollars appropriated by said Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, to aid in carrying forward said Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay said two hundred and fifty thousand gold dollars so coined as aforesaid to the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, subject to all the provisions of said Act, except that payment of said gold dollars may be made at any time upon the 447 request of said exposition company, and upon said company filing with the Secretary of the Treasury a bond in a sum sufficient to protect the Government and satisfy him as to the future performance of all the conditions under which said five million dollars so appropriated is to be paid to the said exposition company: *And provided further*, That the proviso of section twenty-one of said Act, approved March Operation of branch national bank. third, nineteen hundred and one, be amended so as to read as follows: ‘ *Provided*, That the branch office authorized hereby, if the same shall Vol. 31, p. 1444. be a branch of a national bank, shall not be operated for a period longer than three years, beginning not earlier than July first, nineteen hundred and two, and closing not later than July first, nineteen hundred and five:’ *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Salary of Secretary. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission shall hereafter receive a salary of four thousand dollars.” " Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including Internal-revenue stamp paper, etc. freight, fifty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For Punishing 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 *Proviso*.Purchase of books, etc. books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, 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 contingent Contingent 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 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. 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 subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold Recoining gold coins. coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and [R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, three thousand dollars. 448 San Francisco, Cal., mint. Mint at San Francisco, California: For new machinery and appliances, thirty thousand dollars. United States securities.Paper etc. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, including transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, three counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Witness, destruction. Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Sealing and separating. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as ink, printers’ varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand dollars. National currency expenses. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, express charges, and other 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 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 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, two hundred and fifty 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. 449 Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase Fuel, lights, and water. of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, assay offices, and immigration stations, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, eight hundred and ninety 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 *Proviso*.Gas governors. no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated Use for pneumatic mail tubes forbidden. shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter. Suppressing counter feiting and other crimes: For expenses Suppressing 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 the Act of March Vol. 28, p. 964. second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for no other purpose whatever, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of *Provisos*.Witnesses. 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 Investigation of pensioners’ burial expenses. the investigation of claims for the reimbursement 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 Reimbursements excluded. of any accrued pension shall hereafter be used 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 of Compensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessary Local 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 of Alaskan 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 450 Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Food to natives. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, fifteen thousand dollars. Salmon fisheries. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars. Fur sealing logbooks, etc.Vol. 28, p. 54. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expenses of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred dollars. 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 Additional compensation. seaboard for deportation, two 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 as additional compensation. Alien contract-labor laws. Enforcement of alien contract-lab or 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 auctioneers’ fees, four hundred dollars. Rebate on tobacco. Rebate on tobacco: For the payment of drawback or rebate on original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured *Ante*, p. 97. tobacco and snuff, as provided in section four of “An Act to repeal war-revenue taxation, and for other purposes,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, two million seven hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 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, Punta Rassa, Gulf, San 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 three, 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. 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, 451 smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by Vol. 31, p. 1156. the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, 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 of Repairs. Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the General Post-Office building occupied by the Interior Department, ten thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Capitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and not exceeding fifty dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, fifty thousand dollars. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Flags. 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 in Cleaning 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. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the Capitol grounds. improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial pavement, walls, and roadways, twenty thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and Lighting. 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. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house and Senate Stables, etc. and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and court-yards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. For steel shelving for the Senate library, for the principal office Steel shelving, Senate. room and for rooms under the roof, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. And the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds is hereby authorized to pay, out of the appropriation heretofore Vol. 31, p. 719. made for the construction of rooms in the old library space, the sum of twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars for steel shelving already contracted for and erected in place in the upper rooms of the Senate library. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public Public lands. lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries Salaries, registers and receivers. and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses, land offices. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be *Provisos*.Per diem, etc. available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not 452 exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including Restriction on expenses. necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Depositing moneys. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars. Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp-land claims. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Agents’ per diem. *Provided*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. Forest reserves.Expenses of protecting.Vol. 30, p. 34. Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations: *Provisos*.Selection, etc., of employees. *Provided*, That forest 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 Additional duties. car fares, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided further*, That forest agents, superintendents, supervisors, and all other persons employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game. Hearings in land entries. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, six thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the 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. Desert lands.Examination of selections. Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as be may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the Vol. 28, p. 422. provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Expenses. *Provided*, That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual neces-453sary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Preservation of records, General Land Office: For continuing Preserving records.Balance available. the work of rearranging, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder’s office of the General Land Office, the appropriation for Vol. 31, p. 1159. this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two is hereby made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three for the purposes indicated. Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For Transcripts from records. furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That copyists employed under this appropriation shall be *Proviso*.Copyists. 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. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, three hundred and twenty Surveys, rates. five thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation *Provisos*.Preferences. preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-sixth, Vol. 11, pp. 167, 285. eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and May eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen Vol. 25, p. 676. hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. 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 otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except Extra 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 dollars for section lines: *Provided further*, That in the States Lands in California, etc. 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 Discretionary allowance. 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, the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, [R. S., sec. 2411, p. 441](/us/rs/s2411/p441). Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby Resurveys, etc. appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examina-454tion of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, not exceeding six dollars per day, and such per-diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, 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 Inspecting mineral lands, etc. or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber 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. Survey of private land claims. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, Vol. 26, p. 854. confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys and for the examination of the surveys in the field. Abandoned military reservations. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Vol. 23, p. 103. Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 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 repair and protection of the ruin of Casa Grande, two thousand dollars. Fort Sherman. For pay of a custodian of Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation, Idaho, four hundred and eighty dollars. Geological Survey. united states geological survey. Salaries of Director, etc. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. Scientific assistants. 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. 455 Hereafter, in lieu of the specific estimates for personal services now Notes of employees in estimates. required by law, there shall be submitted in the Annual Book of Estimates, under each item of appropriation under “General expenses of the Geological Survey,” notes showing the number of persons employed and the rate of compensation paid to each from each of said appropriations during the fiscal year next preceding the fiscal year for which estimates are submitted. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the geological Expenses. 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: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty Laborers. thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surveys. three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geological surveys. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United Paleontologic researches. States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical, etc., researches. United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, Illustrations. eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mineral resources. United States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume, and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories Books, etc. and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, and not exceeding four thousand dollars for the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the purchase of professional *Proviso*.Authority for books. and scientific books and periodicals needed for statistical purposes hereafter by the scientific divisions of the United States Geological Survey is hereby authorized to be made and paid for out of appropriations made for the said Survey. For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, Maps. one hundred thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the Water supply. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing water resources two hundred thousand dollars; For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or Survey of forest reserves. 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 and sixty-six thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior. Miscellaneous. Office of Commissioner of Railroads: For Commissioner, four Commissioner of Railroads.Salaries. thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thou-456sand *Proviso*.Termination of office.*Post*, p. 1119. two hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That the office of Commissioner of Railroads is hereby continued until the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and three, when the same shall terminate, and the duties of the Commissioner shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior together with the records and files of the office. Census Office.Balance available.Vol. 31, p. 1162. Census Office: The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen *Post*, p. 1059. hundred and one, for salaries and necessary expenses for taking and compiling results of the Twelfth Census is hereby reappropriated and made available for continuing the work of taking the Twelfth Census, and for all expenses, including cost of all printing, arising under and *Ante*, p. 53. authorized by the Act to provide for a permanent Census Office, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, including the purchase of necessary law books, books of reference and periodicals, and *Proviso*.Estimates. manuscripts: *Provided*, That estimates in detail for the expenses of the permanent Census Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four and annually thereafter shall be submitted in the regular Book of Estimates. Hot Springs, Ark.Protection, etc. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For protection and improvement, as follows: For repairs to roads and drives, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars; repairs to walks and footpaths, three hundred and sixty dollars; completion of retaining walls, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; loam and soil, one thousand dollars; repairs to drainage system, one thousand four hundred and two dollars; trees, shrubbery, flowers, and grass seed, three hundred and fifty dollars; United States free bath house, remodeling, enlarging, equipping, and furnishing complete in every respect, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars. Yellowstone Park. Protection of Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand dollars. Survey of eastern boundary. For the completion of the survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, of the eastern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park, estimated at fifty miles, at the rate of fifty dollars per mile, including an examination of the survey in the field, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Yosemite Park. Improvement of the Yosemite National Park: For protection and improvement of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, six thousand dollars. Sequoia Park. Improvement of the Sequoia National Park: For the protection and improvement of the 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. General Grant Park. Improvement of the General Grant National Park: For protection and improvement of the park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars. Supreme Court Reports. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States for seventy-six copies, each, of volumes one hundred and eighty-seven to one hundred and ninety, inclusive, of the United States Reports, at a rate not exceeding two Vol. 25, p. 661. dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, six hundred and eight dollars. 457 Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, Reindeer for 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 the Insane: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for Insane.Expenses. 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 seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty 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. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Buildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars. For new gas plant, two thousand five hundred dollars. For office and administration building, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For central heating and lighting plant for entire hospital, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for sewers, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For enlarging kitchen for Toner group of buildings, twenty thousand dollars. Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.Expenses. 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. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam heating apparatus, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. To provide suitable protection against disaster by fire to the buildings of the institution, three thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars, to be immediately available. 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 purchase and installation of a steam heating system, five thousand five hundred dollars; In all, forty-two thousand one hundred dollars. 458 War Department. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Armories and arsenals. armories and arsenals. Rock Island, Ill. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: Machinery. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. Care. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds, and roads, ten thousand dollars. Bridge. For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Benicia, Cal. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For one magazine on the Pacific coast, forty thousand dollars. Fort Constitution, N. H.Additional land. Fort Constitution, Newcastle, New Hampshire: For acquiring, by purchase or condemnation, the land in the square surrounding Fort Constitution, at Newcastle, New Hampshire, to be used for barracks and quarters for troops, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much Vol. 31, p. 624. thereof as may be necessary, in addition to the thirty thousand dollars specially appropriated for this purpose by the sundry civil appropriation Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred. Sandy Hook proving ground. Sandy Hook proving ground, New Jersey: For building and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, storehouses, and quarters, one thousand five hundred dollars. Dover, N. J. Powder Depot, near Dover, New Jersey: For one magazine for high explosives, loading houses for explosives, and boiler house for service of same, storehouse for fused projectiles, detonating fuse house, house for fusing high explosive shell, four lathes with fixtures complete, shop fixtures, press for assembling caps on projectiles, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Springfield, Mass. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For general care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars. For putting in new flume and water wheel, five thousand five hundred dollars., Schuylkill, Pa. Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For completing *Post*, p. 1130. construction of an addition to fireproof storehouse at the clothing depot at Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and installing elevators, twenty-five thousand dollars. San Antonio, Tex. San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For new storehouse for artillery and ordnance supplies, fifteen thousand dollars; For new sewers, one thousand dollars; in all, sixteen 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. Barracks. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For completing barracks for one company of enlisted men, seven thousand five hundred 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 thousand dollars. Buildings and grounds, District of Columbia. buildings and grounds in and around washington. Improvement and care. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. 459 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. For care and improvement of Monument grounds, five thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, Old canal. and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other *Proviso*.Expenditure. 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, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars. For improvement, 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 grading, resetting street curb, providing park curb, park walks, planting, and for each and every object necessary for improving the grounds of Mount Vernon square around the Free Public Library building, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of that part of Potomac Park west of and adjacent Potomac Park. to Monument Park from the intersection of Virginia avenue and B street, northwest, to Maryland avenue, southwest, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, in accordance with existing plans made by him, who is authorized to appoint the necessary employees in connection therewith, to be immediately available, seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Bathing beach to be removed.Vol. 26, p. 490. authority given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia by Act approved September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, “To construct a beach and dressing houses upon the east shore of the tidal reservoir against the Washington Monument Grounds,” is hereby revoked; and they are directed to remove immediately said bath houses, floats, wharves, pipes, and so forth, either to such other point as may be agreed upon between them and the Secretary of War, or to barges constructed to carry dressing rooms, which may be anchored at such point around an inclosed water space, or along the shore, as may be agreed on between the Secretary of War and the said Commissioners. For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars. For curbing and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. For the improvement of Iowa Circle, two thousand five hundred dollars. One-half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in One-half 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. 460 Limit for concrete pavements. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), one thousand dollars. Engineer. 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, and for grading around the building, two thousand dollars. Sherman statue.Roadways, etc.Vol. 31, p. 292. Sherman statue: The unexpended balance of the sum of eight thousand dollars appropriated by Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for stone coping around the Sherman statue is hereby made available for construction of roadways and paths and for each and every object connected with improvement of the grounds about said statue, and, in addition thereto, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars is appropriated for the same purpose. Completion, etc. For completing and unveiling the statue, four thousand dollars. Grant memorial.Construction.Vol. 31, p. 803. Grant memorial: To enable the commission authorized by the Act of February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, to commence the erection of a memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, fifty thousand dollars; and said commission is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said memorial for a sum not exceeding two hundred and forty thousand dollars, including the amount herein appropriated. Executive Mansion.Repair, etc. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. Offices for President. For a building to accommodate the offices of the President, to be located in the grounds of the Executive Mansion, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including heating apparatus and light fixtures, furniture, and removal of green-houses, all to be done according to plans, the details of which shall be approved by the President, and completed in every respect within the sum hereby appropriated, sixty-five thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise in the discretion of, and under the direction of, the President, and to be immediately available; and said building shall be constructed with sufficient foundation and walls suitable for a durable, permanent building, and of sufficient strength for an additional story when needed. Extraordinary repairs, refurnishing, etc. For extraordinary repairs and refurnishing of the Executive Mansion and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including all necessary alterations and additions, cabinet work, decoration of rooms, covered ways and approaches, grading, paving, port cochere, gates, and electric wiring and light fixtures for house and grounds, all to be done according to plans, the details of which shall be approved by the President, and completed in every detail within the sum hereby appropriated, four hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, to be immediately available and to be expended by contract or otherwise in the discretion of, under the direction of, the President. Rent of temporary offices. For rent of temporary offices for the President, to be immediately available, two thousand dollars. Fuel, etc. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. 461 For material and labor for subdraining driveways in south grounds of Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of conservatory and greenhouses, seven thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, and greenhouses, Executive Mansion, *Post*, p. 1046. three thousand 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, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That for each five-foot burner not *Provisos*.Maximum per lamp. connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That three thousand four hundred dollars of the Part from District revenues. 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 are electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds Electric lights. within the iron fence three hundred and sixty-five nights, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For introducing, lighting, and maintaining six are electric lights at the propagating gardens, at seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said are electric lights, four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For lighting are 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 seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sums shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, three thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes, Repairs to 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. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments Government telegraph. and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant 462 on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. 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 car 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-light plant in good order, two thousand five hundred dollars. Portrait of William McKinley. Portrait of William McKinley.—For purchase for the Executive Mansion of an oil portrait of the late President McKinley, a sum not to exceed (including frame) two thousand five hundred 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, fifty thousand dollars. Vol. 29, p. 202. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Allegheny River, Pa.Locks and dams. Locks and dams in Allegheny River, Pennsylvania: For continuing construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, above the head of Six-mile Island, and at Springdale, one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. Boston, Mass. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For completing improvement, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Buffalo, N. Y. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and seven thousand dollars. Cumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing improvement, four hundred thousand dollars. Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: For completing improvement, four hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Grays Harbor, Wash. Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For completing improvement of harbor and bar entrance, one hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For completing construction, seven hundred and thirty-three thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Kentucky River. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Waterway, Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior. Improving waterway from Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior, Michigan: For completing improvement of water communication across Keweenaw Point, ten thousand dollars. Monongahela River W. Va. Improving Monongahela River, West Virginia: For continuing improvement by the construction of six locks and dams on the Upper Monongahela River, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Providence River and Narragansett Bay R. I. Improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement, eighty-four thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. San Pedro, Cal. Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater, three hundred and eleven thousand and eighty-five dollars. Winyaw Bay, S. C. Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of harbor at Winyaw Bay, thirty-five thousand dollars. Vol. 30. p. 1121. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: 463 Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Ashtabula, Ohio. two hundred thousand dollars. Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuing Gowanus Bay, New York Harbor. improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Black River, Ohio. three hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Calumet, Illinois: For continuing improvement, Calumet, Ill. two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Congaree River, South Carolina: For completing improvement Congaree River, S. C. from Gervais street bridge, Columbia, to Granby, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For completing improvement, Detroit River, Mich. one hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Everett, Washington: For continuing improvement, Everett, Wash. one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi: For dredging channel Gulfport, Miss. from Gulfport to Ship Island Harbor, including anchorage basin, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Marys River, Michigan: For Hay Lake Channel, Mich. completing improvement, one hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and fifteen 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 fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuing improvement New York Harbor.Ambrose Channel.*Post*, p. 751. of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: For continuing New Haven, Conn. improvement, sixty-seven thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing Ohio River, Pa. construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, forty-six Dams 13 and 18. thousand six hundred dollars. Improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia: For continuing improvement, Ocmulgee River, Ga. fifty-six thousand dollars. Improving Savannah River, Georgia: For continuing improvement Savannah River, Ga. between Augusta and Savannah, eighty-six thousand dollars. Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement of Tampa Bay, Fla. channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Port Tampa, eighty-six thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Toledo, Ohio. two hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars. national cemeteries. National cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national Maintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of Superintendents. seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of Headstones for soldiers’ graves. 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 Vol. 17, p. 545. seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, Vol. 20, p. 281. fifty thousand dollars. 464 Roadways. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special *Proviso*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. 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 wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. Road to Springfield, Mo. Road to national cemetery, Springfield, Missouri: For repairing and improving the Government road from Springfield, Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars. Camp Chase, Ohio. For reconstruction of stone wall inclosing the Confederate cemetery at Camp Chase, Ohio, two 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, one thousand five hundred 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 be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. 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 to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, eighty thousand dollars. Bringing home remains of civil employees and soldiers dying on transports. Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, ten thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. miscellaneous objects, war department. Military posts.Construction, etc. Military posts: For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with adopted project for sea-coast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said *Proviso*.Hawaii. barracks and quarters, two million dollars: *Provided*, That the Secre-465tary of War is authorized to acquire leases in such lands in Hawaii as have been set aside for purposes of a military post. That of the amount appropriated for the construction of a military Manila post.Purchase of land.*Ante*, p. 12. post in the vicinity of Manila, Philippine Islands, in the Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” a sum not to exceed fifty-five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion the Secretary of War, for the purchase of the necessary land. For the purchase of five hundred and twenty-five acres of land near Des Moines, Iowa.Target range. the proposed site of Fort Des Moines, Iowa, for use as a target range, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the purchase of small tracts of land adjoining the military Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Additional land. reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, necessary for the maneuvering of the troops, nine thousand three hundred dollars. For the improvement and repair of the military cemetery on the Fort Crawford, Wis. Fort Crawford Reservation at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and for the purpose of purchasing a suitable approach to such cemetery, three thousand dollars. For constructing a spur from the railway to location of storehouses Fort Snelling, Minn. and such other purposes as the Secretary of War may designate at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase, on such terms as the Secretary of War deems fair Fort Myer, Va.Roadway. and reasonable, of the land forming the roadway from the Aqueduct Bridge to Fort Myer, in Alexandria County, Virginia, where the said land has not been dedicated to the public and is owned by private parties: *Provided*, That the United States shall acquire said land free *Proviso*.Title. from any obligation to keep said road in repair or open to the public, and that the parties from whom the land is purchased shall warrant the same to the United States against all claims of every kind and nature whatsoever, four thousand five hundred dollars. For construction of macadamized road thirty feet wide and three Fort Sheridan, Ill.Roadway. thousand four hundred and fifty feet long on Fort Sheridan military reservation, Illinois, for the purpose of connecting present road on reservation with that known as the Sheridan road at the northern boundary of reservation, eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Garrison. use of said road shall not be permitted to interfere with or obstruct the garrison in any of its military exercises, drills, maneuvers, target practice, and so forth, or to disturb the quiet of the garrison at night. Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, Fort Monroe, Va.General expenses. including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel, oil, and supplies for waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, six thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, four thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and Roads, etc. general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; stone and labor for macadamizing streets, brick, cement, terra-cotta drainpipe, and catch basins; electric lights for streets; repairs to roads, pavements, walks, and street crossings, three thousand and forty dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and Sewers. pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five 466 hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Yellowstone National Park. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For the improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, in accordance with the approved project, including the maintenance 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: *Provisos*.Contracts. *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such labor and materials as may be necessary for the completion of the project, including annual maintenance and repairs, or the work may be done and the materials purchased otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in any one year two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: *And provided further*, That of the amounts so appropriated not to exceed fifty thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary Forest reserves. of War, be expended in the Yellowstone forest reserve east of the park, and not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the Yellowstone and Teton forest reserves south of the park. Military parks.Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Expenses. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners and the assistant in historical work; maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, and for the purchase of land already authorized by law; in all, fifty thousand dollars. Shiloh.Expenses. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work 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, forty thousand dollars. Gettysburg.Expenses. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing 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, seventy-five thousand dollars. Vicksburg.Expenses. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work 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, one hundred thousand dollars. Maps. Maps, War Department: For publication of maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars. 467 Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of Survey 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: For Transportation 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, or Artificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, five hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical 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 disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For Providence Hospital.Destitute patients. 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 the Army, nineteen thousand dollars; for the reconstruction, in part, of the present Providence Hospital building and finishing of nurses’ Nurses’ home. home, fifty thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand dollars, one hair of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to Garfield Hospital. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, 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. For the purchase of land belonging to heirs of M. H. Schneider, Purchase of additional land. adjoining the present Garfield Memorial Hospital land on the west, from the boundary street back to Clifton street, in Washington, District of Columbia, containing about sixty-seven thousand square feet, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 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: *Provided*, That the land shall *Provisos*.Grading. be graded by present owners to an elevation satisfactory to the trustees of the above hospital: *And provided further*, That the District of Special assessments. Columbia assume all special assessments pending against said lands of the heirs of M. H. Schneider. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the California Débris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507. commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses Inspectors, etc. of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of five steam tugs and three Crews, etc. launches, sixty thousand dollars; In all, seventy thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Establishment of Apache prisoners at Fort Sill, Oklahoma: Fort Sill, Okla.Apache prisoners. For the erection of buildings and repairs to same, purchase of draft animals and live stock for breeding purposes, farm and household utensils, blacksmith and wheelwright tools and repairs to same, and 468 all other necessary articles absolutely needed for the support and maintenance of the Apache prisoners of war permanently established at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, under control of the War Department, four thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. National Home for Disabled Volunteers. 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: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased *Proviso*.Effects of dead member. members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall be also available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-three thousand dollars. Subsistence. For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, 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. Household. For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ 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 and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars. Hospital. For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all 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-five thousand dollars; 469 For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Transportation. Home, two thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, Repairs. carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars; For increase and betterment of the water supply, six thousand dollars; Water supply. 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, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, five hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand two hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, sixty-four thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand and fifty dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five Transportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs. the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; For extension of electric-light plant, fifteen thousand seven hundred Electric light. dollars; For greenhouse, six thousand dollars; Greenhouse. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm. the Central Branch, ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; In all, three hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, Togus, Me.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 head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand and twenty-five dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred Transportation. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs. the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For new barrack, thirty thousand dollars; New barracks. For new boilers, three thousand five hundred dollars; For guard barrack, seven thousand dollars; 470 Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-five 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-two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and eighty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy-three thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand and fifty dollars; For new water-tube boilers, eight thousand dollars; For new frame barrack, thirteen 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 eighty-nine thousand one 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 one hundred and twenty-five dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; Chaplain’s quarters. For completion of chaplain’s quarters, one thousand five hundred dollars; Electric light. For extension of electric-light plant, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For extension of boiler house, to be immediately available, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For additional boilers, six thousand five hundred dollars; Barrack. For one combination barrack, forty thousand dollars; For extension to laundry, two thousand five hundred dollars; Headquarters building. For headquarters building, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; For open feed shed for cattle, one thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; 471 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital. the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs. the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For repairing and completing attics over north and south wings of hospital, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For repairing and completing attics in four barracks, with fire escapes, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For addition to general dining room, twelve thousand one hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, Marion, Ind. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil and water, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred Transportation. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs. the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil and water, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for *Proviso*.Construction. repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For heating plant, one hundred thousand dollars; Heating plant. For combination barrack, sixteen thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm. 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 forty-seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, Danville, Ill.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-one thousand three hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand eight hundred dollars; 472 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, twenty-five thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; In all, three hundred and six 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, twenty-five thousand dollars; Construction.*Ante*, p. 13. 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 and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, three hundred thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Clothing, all branches. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred and. ten thousand dollars. Salaries for officers, etc., of Board of Managers.[R. S., sec. 4827, p. 936](/us/rs/s4827/p936). For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general, 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, ten thousand five hundred 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 Expenses. eight hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, fifteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, six thousand dollars; in all, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty-four dollars. In all, three million seven hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars. Appointment of officers. Hereafter the officers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and officers under the Board of Managers thereof, shall be appointed, so far as may be practicable, from persons whose military or naval service would render them eligible, if disabled and not otherwise provided for, for admission to the Home, and they may be appointed, removed, and transferred, from time to time, as the interests of the institution may require, by the Board of Managers. State and Territorial Homes.Vol. 25, p. 450. State or Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, nine hundred *Proviso*.Deductions. and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. Back pay and bounty. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their 473 widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, Vol. 14, p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter members of the *Proviso*.Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry. Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry and their heirs shall be paid from the appropriation for “Arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth (certified claims),” the pay and allowances due them in accordance with the findings and report made by the referee, appointed under the provisions Vol. 30, p. 894. of the Act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act for the relief of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry.” For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on War with Spain.Arrears of pay, etc., of officers and men. 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 three, and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual Court-house, D. C. repairs, as per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, two thousand dollars. For continuing construction of the new United States penitentiary Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended. Toward building a stone-cutting shed, barn, carpenter shop, blacksmith Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary. shop, tool house, residence of warden and deputy warden, and purchase of material to keep convicts employed for next fiscal year at United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars. Defense of suits before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: Spanish Treats 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 Salaries. in charge as fixed by law, and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington 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 March Vol. 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 one thousand dollars, to be immediately available, may be expended for law Books. books and books of reference. 474 Punishing violation of intercourse acts.Indian service. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. Prosecution of crime. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars. Traveling, 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 [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). 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, ten 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 and maintenance 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, eight thousand 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 seat 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. Spanish Claims Commission.General expenses.Vol. 31, p. 878. Salaries and expenses, Spanish Claims Commission: For general expenses of the Commission for all the purposes mentioned in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one, in addition to the continuing annual appropriation of fifty thousand dollars provided in 475 said Act, five thousand dollars. The Commission may pay a fixed Compensation of commissioners to take testimony, in Cuba. compensation, not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars annually, with allowance for subsistence instead of fees, to commissioners, not exceeding two in number, whom the Commission under existing law may appoint to take testimony in the island of Cuba. The Commission may, in the place of two clerks now in service, employ an assistant clerk at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum and one clerk at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum. JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. United States courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the Expenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land Claims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals Marshals’ salaries, etc. and their deputies, one million two hundred thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with Advances. existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and two, 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 two or prior years: *Provided*, That from and *Proviso*.Fees, etc., in extradition cases. after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, all the fees and costs in extradition cases shall be paid out of the appropriations to defray the expenses of the judiciary, and the Attorney-General shall certify to the Secretary of State the amounts to be paid to the United States on account of said fees and costs in extradition cases by the foreign government requesting the extradition, and the Secretary of State shall cause said amounts to be collected and transmitted to the Attorney-General for deposit in the Treasury of the United States. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys’ salaries, etc. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, District attorney for District of Columbia twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United Special assistants. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, sixty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, Clerks’ fees.*Provisos*.Returns, etc. That each clerk of the district and circuit courts shall, on the first days of January and July of each year, or within thirty days thereafter, make to the Attorney-General, in such form as he may prescribe, written returns for the half year ending on said days, respectively, of all fees and emoluments of his office of every name and character, and 476 of all necessary expenses of his office, including necessary clerk hire, together with the vouchers for the payment of the same for such last half year; and the word “emoluments” shall be understood as including all amounts received in connection with the admission of attorneys to practice in the court, all amounts received for services in naturalization proceedings, whether rendered as clerk, as commissioner, or in any other capacity, and all other amounts received for services in any way Fee of admission to practice. connected with the clerk’s office: *Provided further*, That no amount in excess of one dollar shall be received from any attorney in connection with his admission to practice in a circuit or district court. Commissioners’ fees, etc. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section ten hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Jurors’ fees. For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Witnesses’ fees. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars. Rent. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Bailiffs, etc. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one *Provisos*. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*, Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136). That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *And provided Vacation, etc.Expenses of judges, etc. further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation: of reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of 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. jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Indian Territory.Salaries of clerks, etc. For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges, in the Indian Territory, fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Supplies. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand *Proviso*.Distribution. dollars: *Provided*, That the money heretofore, or that shall hereafter be, appropriated for this purpose shall be expended in payment for such supplies only as have been, or shall hereafter be, purchased by the Department of Justice for distribution. New York, southern district, district attorney’s fees.[R. S., sec. 825, p. 154](/us/rs/s825/p154). For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, one hundred dollars. 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 dollars for repair of United States jails, seven hundred and twenty-five 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 477 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-three thousand two hundred dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such Clothing, etc. clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona 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 thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney-General, Miscellaneous. 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, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in 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 necessary by the Attorney-General, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*. That this appropriation and the appropriations heretofore made for Medical treatment of guards. 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 guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, and for the payment of burial expenses of guards killed while so engaged, which have been or which may hereafter be incurred; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and Hospital. surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand 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 storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, sixty thousand nine hundred dollars. For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, Foremen, etc. tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars. In all, one hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred dollars. 478 Atlanta, Ga., Penitentiary. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: Maintenance. For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, and deputy warden, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils; farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, twenty-five thousand dollars; Clothing, etc. For clothing and transportation, 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, twelve thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, 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, fifteen thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical 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; 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, ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Department of State. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Mexican boundary line monuments. Toward the proper proportional expenses of the United States for inspection and repair of the monuments marking the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. Legislative. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Senate.Thomas G. Garrett.Services. Senate: To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Thomas G. Garrett, as provided by Senate resolution of March ninth, nineteen 479 hundred and one, for compiling the debates in the Senate and the House of Representatives, the reports of committees, and other papers and documents by the direction of the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, three hundred dollars, to be immediately available. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to William B. Turner, William B. Turner.Services. for preparing table of contents for reports of the Isthmian Canal Commission, being Senate Document Numbered Fifty-four, parts one and two, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and twenty-three, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, as provided by resolution of the Senate of date March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, seventy-seven dollars and forty cents, to be immediately available. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay William M. Malloy William M. Malloy.Services. for reporting hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and securing and translating treaties between France and European countries for use of the committee, one hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For rent for the storage of public documents of the Senate, one Rent. thousand eight hundred dollars. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations. 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 first session of the Fifty seventh Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred Vol. 25, p. 587. and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Capitol police: The board of Capitol police is hereby authorized Capitol police.E. D. Turnure. and directed to place on the roll of the Capitol police, as an additional member thereof, E. D. Turnure, formerly belonging to said force, who was injured for life in the discharge of his duties, and pay him at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, which sum is hereby appropriated; and when appointed under the authority of this Act the Appointment. said E. D. Turnure shall be assigned to duty as a watchman in the Dome of the Capitol. Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc. buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, and for extending store greenhouses, south side of Maryland avenue, 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 for Public printing and binding. the public printing, including the costs of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, 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 necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, five million two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotment of appropriation. and debates, and for rents, two million nine hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee 480 on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, four hundred thousand dollars. For the War Department, two hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, and excluding the Census Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletine” 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, 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 dol lars; and said amount shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey. For the Department of Justice, thirteen thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, three hundred thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including twenty thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, one hundred and seventy-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, ninety-five thousand dollars. The Librarian of Congress is hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may desire to buy them, such copies of the card indexes and other publications of the Library as may not be required for its ordinary transactions, and charge for the same a price which will cover their cost and ten per centum added, and all moneys received by him shall be deposited in the Treasury. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. Vol. 28, p. 612. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eight-481een hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated Division of appropriations. 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 allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided*, That so much as may *Proviso*.Agricultural Report. be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January Vol. 28, p. 612. twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotment. The Public Printer is authorized hereafter to procure and supply, Duplicating and filing devices. on the requisition of the head of any Executive Department or other Government establishment, complete manifold blanks, books, and forms, required in duplicating processes; also complete patented devices with which to file money-order statements, or other uniform official papers, and to charge such supplies to the allotment for printing and binding of the Department or Government establishment requiring the same. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Leaves of absence. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers Sums for salaries to to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 28, 1902.
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