Chapter 1351. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1351.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes. July 1, 1902.[[Public, No. 217](/us/pl/57/217).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
Department of State. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. The Great Seal.*Post*, p. 1032. To enable the Secretary of State to have the Great Seal of the United States recut, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. “Pious fund of the Californias.”Expenses. For the payment of all necessary expenses and disbursements connected with the reference to arbitration of certain contentions arising under what is known as “the pious fund of the Californias,” as provided *Post*, p. 1916. by protocol of date May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, and covering one-half of the expenses of the arbitration, including the pay of the arbitrators, printing, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same, or so much Reimbursement. thereof as may be expended, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of any award that may be made by said arbitration.
Payment of certain claims for seizure of British schooners E. R. Nickerson and Wary. To pay certain claims of British and German subjects, growing out of the seizure of the British schooners E. R. Nickerson and Wary, during the late war with Spain, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-six of the present session, six thousand six hundred and five dollars. Foreign intercourse. foreign intercourse. Cuba.Legation expenses. For equipment of the legation of the United States in Cuba and for necessary expenses of the legation and for necessary contingent expenses of the legation, including clerk hire, messenger service, janitor, stationery, blank forms, blank books, books for the legation library, 553 and all other requisite and necessary expenses of the legation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State and to continue available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand dollars.
For clerk hire at consulates in Cuba, to be expended under the Consulates.Clerk hire. direction of the Secretary of State, and to continue available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, namely: Al Habana, two thousand Habana. dollars; at Cienfuegos, five hundred dollars; at Santiago, five hundred Cienfuegos.Santiago. dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of consulates in Cuba, to be expended Contingent expenses. under the direction of the Secretary of State, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Salaries, consular service. on account of the appropriation “Salaries, consular service,” fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Contingent expenses, consulates. on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-two cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents. For additional amount for the salary of the United States consul at Odessa, Russia. Odessa, Russia, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five hundred dollars. That the appropriations made in the Act making appropriations for Austria. the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, approved March twenty-second, *Ante*, p. 76. nineteen hundred and two, for the pay of the envoy extraordinary and. minister plenipotentiary to Austria, and the secretaries of the legations Legation appropriations available for embassy. to Austria, are hereby made applicable and payable to the ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and secretaries for said embassy for Austria, and may be used for the pay of the ambassador of Austria and the secretaries of said embassy.
To pay John C. White for services rendered as chargé d’affaires ad John C. White.Pay as chargé d’affaires. interim of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from December twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, inclusive, and from April eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, inclusive, two thousand and thirty dollars and sixty-three cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Treasury Department. contingent expenses. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Contingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand six hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-four cents. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, eight hundred dollars.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, one thousand five hundred dollars. 554 To pay the accounts of the Smithsonian Institution for the transmission of mail matter for the Treasury Department during the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and ninety dollars and fifty-five cents. File holders, etc. For purchase of file holders and file cases, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand dollars. Furniture. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. For washing and hemming towels; for the purchase of awnings and fixtures; window shades and fixtures; alcohol; benzine; turpentine; varnish; baskets; belting; bellows; bowls, brooms; buckets; brushes; canvas; crash; cloth; chamois skins; cotton waste; door and window fasteners; dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather; lye; nails; oils; plants; picks; pitchers; powders; stencil plates; hand stamps, and repairs of same; stamp ink; spittoons; soap; matches; match safes; sponges; tacks; traps; thermometers; tools; towels; towel racks; tumblers; wire; zinc; and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles; to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Removal to rented quarters. For taking down shelving, building corner Fourteenth and B streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, transferring and reerecting same in building numbered nine hundred and twenty and nine hundred and twenty-two E street northwest, and erection of new shelving in same building, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four thousand dollars. For transferring files from the Treasury building and its annexes in the city of Washington to building numbered nine hundred and twenty and nine hundred and twenty-two E street northwest, and to basement Court of Claims building, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Stationery. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, eight thousand dollars. Rent. For rent of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth floors of building numbered seven hundred and nineteen and seven hundred and twenty-one Thirteenth street northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, and two stories in rear building of same, the whole containing between fifteen thousand and sixteen thousand square feet of floor space, including stairways, halls, elevators, toilet rooms, and so forth; heat, light, and elevator service to be included, six thousand five hundred dollars; expense of moving to said building, five hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; four charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; said sums to be available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Standards.Rent, etc. National Bureau of Standards: For rent of additional quarters during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, authority is granted to use not exceeding sixty dollars per month out of the appropriation made for books and other miscellaneous expenses for said Bureau. 555 Ellis Island Immigrant Station: For necessary improvementsEllis Island Immigrant Station.Improvements, etc. and alterations at Ellis Island, including walks, grading, leveling, depositing loam, raising grade of cellar in hospital building, reconstruction and replanking of portions of old crib work, new water main, painting and certain sundries, all in accordance with estimates submitted in House Document Numbered six hundred and twenty-five of this session, and to be paid out of the immigrant fund, ninety-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For separate structure of light steel, with copper roof and sides, Steel structure. sheathed on interior, to be set between dock basin and restaurant area, to be about seventy-five by one hundred feet, including approaches, to be paid out of the immigrant fund, eighteen thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, Transportation of silver coin. including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twelve 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. Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful Chinese exclusion. entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, fifteen thousand dollars.
Paris Exposition: Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of Paris Exposition.Use of unexpended balance.Vol. 30, p. 106. the Treasury to use the balance of three thousand and twenty dollars and thirty-three cents of the appropriation made by the deficiency act of July nineteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the special commissioner to represent the United States at the International Exposition at Paris in nineteen hundred, together with the unexpended balance of one thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-four cents of the appropriation made for the pay of jurors for the Vol. 30, p. 1117. exposition made by the sundry civil act of March three, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, in all, four thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventeen cents, in the discharge of such indebtedness of the Paris Exposition as may be found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
To complete the unfinished work of the late United States Commission Completion of unfinished work.Distribution of medals, etc.Payment of expenses. to the International Exposition at Paris in nineteen hundred, and to defray the expenses of distributing the medals and diplomas awarded to exhibitors from the United States, to be expended under the direction of the President,’ there is hereby appropriated for such purposes such sums of money as have been covered into the Treasury as proceeds derived from the sale of furniture or other property used by the Commission, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty-one cents.
Pan-American Exposition: To John G. Milburn, of Buffalo, New Pan-American Exposition.Payment to certain creditors. York, as trustee, for the payment of certain creditors of the Pan-American Exposition Company, five hundred thousand dollars; the claims against said company to be paid pro rata by said Milburn as trustee aforesaid being for labor, material, services, and other expenses incident thereto and attending the work of said exposition. None Restrictions. of this money shall be paid to any stockholder of said corporation as a dividend upon such stock, nor to pay any claim against said company secured by mortgage, nor to any holder of bonds or securities 556 of said company on account of said bonds or securities, nor shall any payment be made for rents of said grounds or for the restoration of Report of John G.
Milburn, trustee. the same. The said Milburn as trustee shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury a report giving the names of the creditors so paid, and the respective amounts, and on what account, accompanied with a voucher, under oath, showing the furnishing of such labor, material, services, and other expenses as aforesaid, and the payment therefor Unexpended balance. by said trustee. The unexpended balance, if any, shall be returned by said trustee to the Treasury with said report, which shall be filed within one year after said appropriation shall be paid to said trustee.
Successor to trustee in case of death. In case of the death, resignation, or removal of said trustee, the circuit court of the United States for the western district of New York shall, upon application of any interested party, appoint a successor who shall discharge said trust. Bond. The said trustee or his successor may be required by the Secretary of the Treasury to give a bond to be approved by him for the faithful discharge of said trust hereby created. Interstate and West Indian Exposition.Payment of certain claims.
South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition: For the payment of legal claims against the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition Company for labor, articles, and services rendered to said company for the work of said exposition, or for the reimbursement of any officer of said company who has advanced money or paid such claims, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Retained bounty fund.[R. S., sec. 2035, p. 358, repealed](/us/rs/s2035/p358).
Retained bounty fund: That section two thousand and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed, and the unexpended balance of the fund formerly in the custody of the Freedmen’s Bureau and referred to in said section is hereby covered into the Treasury as *Proviso*.Payment. “Miscellaneous receipts”: *Provided*, That upon application by parties entitled to any portion of the moneys so covered in, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay the amount found due in the same manner and from the same appropriation as claims for bounty to volunteer soldiers are now paid.
W. G. Brownlow and others.Payment to. Payment to legal representatives of W. G. Brownlow and others: To pay amounts ascertained by the Attorney-General to be due, under the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the legal representatives of W. G. Brownlow, Brownlow and Haws, and Brownlow, Haws and Company, late owners and proprietors, respectively, of the Knoxville Whig, Knoxville, Tennessee, and certified in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eight of the present session, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars.
Chamberlain, Delany and Scott.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1426. Payment to Chamberlain, Delany and Scott: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Chamberlain, Delany and Scott, of the city of Richmond, State of Virginia, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and four dollars and forty-six cents, the amount provided for by the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and two, it now appearing that all appropriations for the Marblehead light-house have been exhausted. Credit in accounts of certain engineer officers.
Credit in accounts of certain officers, Corps of Engineers: Authority is hereby granted to the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of certain officers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, amounts standing against them on the books of the Treasury as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. H. Benyaurd, twenty-nine dollars and seventy cents; Major F. A. Mahan, fifteen dollars; Captain C. H. McKinstry, nine dollars and twenty-two cents; Lieutenant-Colonel O.
H. Ernst, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and four cents; Major Dan C. Kingman, ten dollars and thirty cents; Captain Charles L. Potter, seventy-nine dollars and sixty-five cents; and Captain Henry S. Taber, one thousand and twenty-five 557 dollars and eighty-six cents; in all, one thousand six hundred and four dollars and seventy-seven cents. Credit in account of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Jacobs: The Lieut. Col. J. W. Jacobs.Credit in accounts. accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen the accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel J.
W. Jacobs, Deputy Quartermaster-General, and to credit him with the amount, not exceeding six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents, expended by him, under orders of the Secretary of War, for the entertainment of the military organizations of foreign governments accompanying the Army of the United States in the military operations before Santiago, Cuba, in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Relief of estate of George Lea Febiger: The estate of George George Lea Febiger estate.Relief of.
Lea Febiger, late first lieutenant, Thirty-third United States Infantry Volunteers, is hereby relieved from accountability for subsistence funds in the sum of one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-eight cents, that being the amount of such funds with which he was charged and for which he was accountable on October twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, on which date he was killed in action. Payment to Chase and Jameson: To compensate Messrs. Chase Chase and Jameson.Payment to. and Jameson, Boston, Massachusetts, for damages sustained by the steam tug Minnie and Irvin by collision with the revenue steamer Chandler November twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents.
Payment to William S. Beauchamp: To pay William S. Beauchamp, William S. Beauchamp.Payment to. of Baltimore, Maryland, for loss sustained through the sinking of the schooner Alexander Wiley, through collision with the Government steam tug General Hunt, near Fort Carroll, Maryland, on July twenty-first, nineteen hundred, two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-two cents. Reimbursement to the Independent Line Steamers, of Tampa, Independent Line Steamers, Tampa, Fla.Reimbursement.
Florida: To pay to the Independent Line Steamers, of Tampa, Florida, in full settlement of all claims said steamer line may have against the United States for damages to the steamer Manatee, due to a collision with the United States steamer Hillsboro, in Tampa Bay, Florida, on the night of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighteen cents. Payment to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company: To pay Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.Payment to. the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company balance for transportation, as ascertained by the findings of the Court of Claims rendered on the nineteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and one, fourteen thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-three cents. collecting the revenue from customs.
Customs revenue. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being Expenses of collecting. additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. internal revenue. Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, Salaries, etc. salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Refunding taxes illegally collected. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected,” two thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-five cents. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Redemption of stamps. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps,” seven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars and sixty-nine cents. 558 Public buildings. public buildings.
Springfield, Ill.Rent. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Springfield, Illinois, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand five hundred dollars. Rand, McNally and Company.Payment to. To pay Rand, McNally and Company for repairs and improvements to the quarters in Chicago, Illinois, occupied as subtreasury and internal-revenue offices, one thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. Muncie, Ind.Additional appropriation.
For the continuation of post-office building at Muncie, Indiana, under the present limit, ten thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated. Engraving and printing. engraving and printing. Apportionment of unexpended balance. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of fifty-three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and thirteen cents of the unexpended balance to the credit of each of the following appropriations, namely:
Compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and two, and plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and two, to the appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and two, and to use the sum so transferred as though it had been originally appropriated for the purposes of said appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and two.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. coast and geodetic survey. Electrotyping plant. For the purchase and installation of new plant for the electrotyping work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, two thousand five hundred dollars. Revenue-Cutter Service. revenue-cutter service. Longevity, officers.*Ante*, p. 100. For amount necessary to meet the requirements in the matter of longevity pay for officers from April twelfth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, under the provisions of the Act approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents.
“Winona,” repairs. For amount required for new boiler and fittings for the United States ship Winona and for repairs to said vessel, fifteen thousand dollars. Revenue steamers, Great Lakes. For amount necessary for armament, boats, and equipments for revenue steamer for the Great Lakes, eight thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars. Pacific coast. For amount necessary for armament, boats, furniture, electric-light plant, and equipments for revenue steamer for Pacific coast, seventeen thousand and sixty-four dollars.
Traveling expenses. That officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service shall not be entitled to mileage when traveling on duty connected with said Life-Saving Service, but shall receive actual necessary traveling expenses. Guy N. Stockslager.Payment to. To pay Guy N. Stockslager for services performed for the months of August, September, and October, nineteen hundred, at the request of Lieutenant D. H. Jarvis, Revenue-Cutter Service, acting special agent of the Treasury Department, in assisting him in investigating the condition and taking care of the Eskimos who were sick and dying along the coast near Cape Nome, Alaska, at the salary of two hundred dollars per month, six hundred dollars. 559 fish commission.
Fish Commission. For repairs to the property occupied by the United States Commission Repairs, etc. of Fish and Fisheries in Washington, District of Columbia, including new boiler for the office building, repairs to car shed and storage sheds, and repairs to concrete pavement and fence, three thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, Maintenance of vessels, etc. 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, one thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Miscellaneous. on account of the appropriation “Miscellaneous expenses, Fish Commission,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents. light-house establishment. Light-House Establishment. Patapsco River light station, Maryland: The Secretary of the Patapsco River light station, Md.Vol. 28, p. 374.*Ante*, p. 329. Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of said light station within the sums authorized by the Acts approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and June tenth, nineteen hundred and two, relating to said light station.
For amount of decree of the circuit court of the United States for Port Austin Reef station, Mich.Additional land. the eastern district of Michigan, dated March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, equity case numbered three thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, George C. Morse, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Patrick M. Gamble, deceased, versus The United States, in the matter of additional land for the Port Austin Reef light station, Michigan, six hundred dollars. independent treasury.
Independent Treasury. For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six Contingent expenses.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). 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, twenty thousand dollars. The appropriation of three thousand dollars, made by the deficiency Salaries of special agents, etc.*Ante*, p. 10.
Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, for salaries of special agents and for actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories, under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and [R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three. mints and assay offices.
Mints and assay offices. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Seattle, Wash. on account of the appropriation, “Wages and contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eighteen dollars and five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one hundred dollars and twenty two cents. 560 Government in Territories. government in the territories. Alaska. Territory of Alaska:
For salaries of commissioners, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, whose terms of office extended into the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand dollars. All appropriations must be specifically made. Hereafter no Act of Congress shall be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States unless such Act shall, in specific terms, declare an appropriation to be made for the purpose or purposes specified in the Act. District of Columbia.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Coroner’s office.Pay of deputy coroner, etc. Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, forty-five dollars. Contingent expenses. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For general advertising, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand nine hundred and one dollars and thirty-seven cents.
Witness fees, etc. For witness fees and additional amounts required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for coroner’s office for the service of the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, nine hundred dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and forty dollars and sixty-four cents. Fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one dollar. Judicial expenses. For judicial expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy cents.
Pay of board of survey.Vol. 30, p. 923. For amount required to pay a board of survey appointed under the Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings, and so forth, thirty dollars. United States Electric Lighting Company. For amount required to pay the United States Electric Lighting Company for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirteen dollars and seventy-three cents. Street lighting. Streets: For additional amount required for electric lighting, one thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Contingent expenses. Public schools: For contingent expenses, to pay John F. Ellis and Company, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty dollars and fifty-six cents. Fuel, etc. For amount required for fuel, for service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three thousand and fifty-three dollars and ninety-six cents. Manual training. For amount required for manual training, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four dollars and eighty cents. Vol. 31, p. 834.
That the appropriations. “For furniture for and equipment of Manual Training Schools Number one and Number two” are hereby made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three for the purchase of books and books of reference for use of teachers, machinery, tools, apparatus, material, and other necessary objects for the equipment of these schools. Militia. Militia: For expenses of camps, instruction, practice marches, and practice cruises, two thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
Printing, etc. For printing and stationery, one hundred and fifty dollars. Naval militia. Naval Militia: For amount required for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty-five dollars. Metropolitan police. Metropolitan Police: For additional amount required for the house of detention, five hundred dollars. 561 For additional amounts required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the fiscal years as follows:
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty-six cents. For amount required to pay outstanding bills incurred in providing a place of detention for women and children, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifty-eight dollars and thirteen cents. For amount required for the service of the fiscal year nineteen Public order. hundred and one to maintain public order, thirty-two dollars and two cents.
Fire Department: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia Fire department. are hereby authorized to pay J. P. Agnew and Company forty-two dollars for fuel purchased without inspection required by law. For additional amounts required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the following fiscal years: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For forage, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and Forage. thirty-eight dollars and forty-seven cents. For repairs to engine houses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, Repairs. three dollars and seventy-five cents. Electrical Department: For an additional amount required to Electrical department. meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for general supplies, two thousand dollars. Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall, on Apportionment of appropriations to prevent deficiencies. or before the beginning of each fiscal year, so apportion appropriations made for contingent and miscellaneous expenses under the Metropolitan police, fire department, electrical department, and other offices or departments of the government of the District of Columbia as to prevent deficiences in said appropriations.
Telegraph and telephone service: For amount required for Telegraph and telephone service. general supplies for the service of the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifty dollars and ninety-one cents. Fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two dollars. Courts: For repairs to police court building, fiscal year nineteen Police court. hundred and one, nine dollars and ninety cents. For amount required for repairs to police court, service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three dollars.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized Jurors. to pay the jurors who served in the police court during January, nineteen hundred and two. And hereafter there shall be paid to witnesses in cases in the police Witnesses. court of the District of Columbia, not exceeding seventy-five cents per diem for each day of attendance, to be allowed only in the discretion of the court. Indexing Code of the District: To pay Edwin C. Brandenburg Edwin C. Brandenburg.Indexing code. for indexing the code of laws for the District of Columbia, five hundred dollars.
Defending Suits in Court of Claims: Defending suits in claims: Defending suits in Court of Claims. For defending suits in the United States Court of Claims, one thousand dollars. Support of Prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail Support of prisoners. of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against Judgments. 562 the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight and Six hundred and thirteen, of this session, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars and eleven cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Writs of lunacy. Writs of lunacy: To defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia for the service of the fiscal years, as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and ten dollars. Washington Asylum. Washington Asylum: For additional amount required for repairs to buildings, sixty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents. For repairs to water-closets and bathrooms in the female ward of the hospital, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, to continue available during fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six hundred and fifty dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum:
For subsistence, service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-seven cents. For additional amounts required for fuel and light and other objects mentioned under this head in the appropriation for the service of the fiscal years, as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and two cents. Fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven dollars and fifty cents. Howard University.Reimbursement.
For amount required to reimburse the Howard University for repairs to buildings, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. Board of Children’s Guardians. Board of Children’s Guardians: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for administrative expenses, five hundred dollars. S. S. Parkman.Reimbursement. For amount required to reimburse S. S. Parkman, late disbursing officer of the board, the amount paid by him for a city directory, fiscal year nineteen hundred, five dollars.
Payment to sectarian institutions. The Board of Children’s Guardians of the District of Columbia shall have authority to pay to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control not more than one thousand dollars out of the appropriation of nine thousand dollars made for said board in the urgent deficiency *Ante*, p. 119. appropriation Act approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, and one-half of the last-named sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Garfield Hospital. Garfield Hospital: For maintenance of the isolating wards at Garfield Hospital, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the support of patients treated wholly or partly at public expense. Disbursing officer.Credit in accounts of The accounting officers of the United States Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to credit in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia the amounts heretofore paid for the purchase of directories-out of appropriations which do not in terms authorize expenditures for books of reference.
Filtration plant. Filtration plant: For office expenses and pay of watchmen and 563 other necessary employees for the month of June, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fifty dollars. Increasing the water supply: For office expenses and pay of Increasing water supply. watchmen and other necessary employees for the month of June, nineteen hundred and two, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to One-half from District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. Contingent expenses: To pay amounts found due by the accounting Contingent expenses. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation, “Contingent expenses, War Department,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents. Statement of receipts and expenditures in Cuba and the Cuba and Philippines.Statement of receipts and expenditures. Philippine Islands: To enable the Secretary of War to employ temporary force and to pay all necessary expenses, including rent of rooms not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, in compiling for the information of Congress a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures by the military government of Cuba since May first, nineteen hundred, in continuation and completion of the statement heretofore furnished of such receipts and expenditures covering the period from the beginning of American occupation to and including April thirtieth, nineteen hundred; and to enable the Secretary of War to pay all necessary expenses in compiling for the information of Congress a similar statement relating to the Philippine Islands of all receipts and expenditures from the date of American occupation, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available until expended.
Deposit of certain military stores funds: All funds received Deposit of military stores funds. as the value of military stores transferred by the several staff departments of the Army to the insular government of the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. For payment of accounts for transportation of destitute citizens from Transportation of destitute citizens, etc.
Alaska to San Francisco and Seattle, eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Rivers and harbors: For the improvement of the Ohio River Ohio River.Improvement between Cairo and Mound City. between Cairo and Mound City, twenty-five thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and to be expended only if in the opinion of the Secretary of War an emergency exists and such expenditure is required in the interest of navigation. military establishment.
Military Establishment. Pay Department: For pay of officers of the staff and line, six hundred Pay Department.Army pay. thousand dollars; for pay of enlisted men, nine hundred thousand dollars; in all, one million five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. For mileage to officers traveling without troops, when authorized by Mileage, officers.Vol. 31, p. 901. law, one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Mileage to officers traveling without troops” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, which is hereby reappropriated for said purpose. 564 Subsistence.Civilian cooks, etc., on transports.
Subsistence of the Army: Authority is hereby granted to the accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and allow certain accounts for services and subsistence of civilian cooks, butchers, and bakers employed on steamships chartered by the Government for the military expedition to Manila in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as set forth in Appendix D of House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of the present session, two thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Military Academy. military academy. Pay of general army service.Longevity. Pay: For pay of general army service: For sixteen privates, two thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars; for additional pay for length of service, one thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars; Clothing. for clothing on discharge, one thousand and twenty-four dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
Dayton, Ohio. Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio: To reimburse the post fund of the Central Branch for amount taken from that fund for the purpose of making repairs to the mess hall at the Central Branch damaged by fire, six thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty-one cents. Leavenworth, Kans. Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For household expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Hampton, Va. At the Southern Branch at Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ten thousand dollars. Household expenses. For household expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six thousand dollars. Danville, Ill. At the Danville Branch at Danville, Illinois:
For commissary’s residence, six thousand dollars. Payment of judgments.Dayton Branch. To enable the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to pay judgments obtained in the court of common pleas for Montgomery County, Ohio, on account of the Dayton Branch of said Home, together with the amount of costs in connection therewith, one thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and one cent, together with a further sum sufficient to pay interest on each of said judgments at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of their rendition until paid.
Payment of pension money to widow, etc. Hereafter any balance of pension money due a member of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at the time of his death shall be paid to his widow, minor children or dependent mother or father in the order named, and should no widow, minor child, or dependent parent be discovered within one year from the time of the death of the pensioner, said balance shall be paid to the post fund of the Branch of said National Home of which the pensioner was a member at the time of his death, to be used for the common benefit of the members of the Home under the direction of the Board of Managers, subject to future reclamation by the relatives hereinbefore designated, upon application filed with the Board of Managers within five years after the pensioner’s death.
Miscellaneous. miscellaneous, war department. Governors Island, N. Y.Enlargement. Governors Island, New York: For continuing the enlargement of Governors Island by construction of wharf, dredging, bulkhead, 565 and filling, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred thousand dollars. To pay E. A. McIlhenny in full compensation for rescuing, housing, E. A. McIlhenny.Payment to. feeding, clothing, and caring for shipwrecked sailors in the Arctic Ocean, in the years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-five cents.
Credit in accounts of Major J. B. Bellinger: The accounting Maj. J. B. Bellinger.Credit in accounts of. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen the accounts of Major J. B. Bellinger, quartermaster, United States Army, and to credit him with the amount of one hundred and forty-three dollars and twenty cents, expended by him in September, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under orders of the Quartermaster-General, with the approval of the then Assistant Secretary of War, as a settlement of all claims that were duo or thereafter might be due for restoring the steamship Fanita to the same condition as when she entered the service of the Government, in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to enter Rent of additional quarters. into a contract for the rent of a suitable fireproof building, containing not less than approximately sixty thousand square feet of floor space in the vicinity of the State, War, and Navy Department building, for the use of the Navy Department for the period of ten years at an annual rental of not exceeding twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars;
Maximum. and for the rent of such building during the last half of the fiscal Expenses. year nineteen hundred and three at an annual rate not exceeding that heretofore specified, and for fuel and light, miscellaneous articles, and an assistant engineer at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; four firemen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; two elevator conductors, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; ten charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each; four laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; five watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; one plumber, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum; there is hereby appropriated, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, the sum of twenty-two thousand and thirty dollars.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Naval Establishment. general account of advances. General account of advances. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act Reimbursement.Vol. 20, p. 167. of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:
For emergency fund, Navy Department, eighteen hundred and Emergency fund. ninety-nine, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and nineteen cents; For emergency fund, Navy Department, January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, nine hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty-four cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighty-four Pay. dollars and sixty-five cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seven dollars and sixty cents; 566 Contingent.
For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and twenty-two dollars and twelve cents; For contingent, Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and forty dollars and eight cents; Marine Corps. For fuel, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, two thousand and sixty-three dollars and twenty cents; For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-four cents;
For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, three thousand nine hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-three cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four dollars and sixteen cents. Bureau of Navigation. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and one, two thousand four hundred and ten dollars and forty-two cents; For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred, two thousand and one dollars and three cents;
For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents; Bureau of Ordnance. For repairs, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and one, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-eight cents; Bureau of Equipment. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred, seventeen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and sixty-six cents;
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and ten cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-four dollars; Bureau of Yards and Docks. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and one, fifteen thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty dollars and ninety-five cents; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ten dollars; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and one, three thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-five cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred, eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-seven cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eighty-three dollars and ninety-five cents; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and seven dollars and fifty-five cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-seven dollars;
For contingent. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, thirteen dollars and ninety cents; Bureau of Steam Engineering. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, four thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-one cents; 567 For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight dollars;
For repairs and preservation, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen Bureau of Yards and Docks.Repairs, etc. hundred and one, thirty-four thousand and forty-six dollars and twenty-two cents; in all, ninety-nine thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and one cent. Bureau of Navigation: For expenses of recruiting for the naval Bureau of Navigation.Transportation and recruiting. service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, and of officers accompanying them; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training apprentices, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation unforeseen and impossible to classify, twenty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Vol. 31, p. 685. on account of the appropriation “Transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. Bureau of Equipment: To pay the following voucher, not received Bureau of Equipment.Payment of certain vouchers. at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation “Equipment of vessels,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, had been covered into the Treasury, namely, Charles F.
Hoser, one dollar. To pay the following voucher, not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation “Equipment of vessels,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, had been covered into the Treasury, namely, Western Electric Company, sixteen dollars and eighty cents. Bureau of Yards and Docks: General maintenance of yards and Bureau of Yards and Docks.Maintenance. docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools, and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards and for the Bureau of Yards and Docks; coal and other fuel, candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax; tolls and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
To pay for water supplied to navy-yard, New York, during fourth quarter of fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, six thousand two hundred and seven dollars and forty-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Vol. 31, p. 690. on account of the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand and seventy dollars and seventy-seven cents. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, ten thousand Repairs and preservation. dollars. 568 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For surgeons’ necessaries for. vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars. For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical records, unbound books and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.
For repairing damage by fire to naval laboratory, Brooklyn, New York, including equipment, ten thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars. Commander Richardson Clover.Payment to. To pay Commander Richardson Clover, United States Navy, for reimbursement for medical expenses incurred in accordance with section fifteen hundred and eighty-six, Revised Statutes, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ten cents. Commander W.
H. Beehler.Payment to. To pay Commander W. H. Beehler, United States Navy, for reimbursement for medical expenses incurred in accordance with section fifteen hundred and eighty-six, Revised Statutes, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and fourteen dollars and thirteen cents. Contingent. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-three cents.
Bureau of Steam Engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Steam machinery, nineteen hundred: To pay balance due under contract for boilers for the United States steamer Raleigh, six thousand dollars. Naval Academy. Naval Academy: For building and furnishing additional temporary quarters and recitation rooms for cadets, to be available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty thousand dollars. Marine Corps. Marine Corps: To reimburse Ordnance Department, United States Army, for three hundred thousand rifle-ball cartridges, caliber thirty one-hundredths, delivered to quartermaster, First Regiment United States Marines, at Tientsin, China, in August, nineteen hundred, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, seven thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
To pay account on file for transportation and subsistence of enlisted men, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-four dollars. To pay account on file for telegraphic service, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ninety-nine cents. 569 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of the appropriation “Contingent. Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and Allowance of credit for commutation of rations, etc. directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursing officers of the Navy and Marine Corps involved, credit for commutation of rations and subsistence of marines serving on shore in island possessions prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, to relieve the suspensions and disallowances of expenditures for the purpose stated appearing in the accounts of such disbursing officers for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, nineteen hundred, and nineteen hundred and one.
The Auditor for the Navy Department be, and is hereby, authorized Advertising. and directed to credit voucher numbered five hundred and sixty-three, fourth quarter, nineteen hundred and one, in favor of the New York World, amounting to forty-six dollars and eighty cents, for advertising for recruits. miscellaneous, naval establishment. Miscellaneous. To compensate the owners of barge Export for damages sustained “Export.”Payment to owners. by collision with the United States tug Traffic, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To reimburse Assistant Paymaster Jonathan Brooks in the sum of Jonathan Brooks.Reimbursement. one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and forty-two cents. To reimburse Passed Assistant Paymaster Howard P. Ash, twenty-four Howard P. Ash.Reimbursement. dollars and fifty-three cents. To compensate the owners of a wherry belonging to the schooner “Florence Whelan.”Payment to owners. Florence Whelan, in collision with the steam launch of the United States steamship Dolphin, thirty-two dollars.
To reimburse Captain W. H. Whiting, United States Navy, amount W. H. Whiting.Credit in accounts. checked against his accounts for moneys paid to Chinese injured by falling of a boat of the United States steamship Charleston, two hundred and thirty-six dollars. To reimburse officers of the Navy for amounts checked against their Credit in accounts for officers’ effects. accounts and to authorize the disbursing officers to be credited in their accounts for payments, upon the presentation of proper vouchers, of the expenses for transportation of officers’ effects, two thousand five hundred dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Department of the Interior. Contingent Expenses.—To pay amounts found due by the accounting Contingent expenses. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-one cents. Electric-Light Plant.—For electric-light plant for the Department Electric-light plant. of the Interior buildings, for the establishment of an electric-lighting plant for buildings occupied by offices of the Department of the Interior, the Patent Office building, the old Post-Office building now occupied by the General Land and Indian bureaus, and the Pension Office building, and for the improvement in the heating of the Patent Office building, including necessary conduits, the laying and construction of which are hereby authorized, to be immediately available, and to be continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Maps Prepared in the General Land Office: That the fourteen General Land Office.Maps.Vol. 31, p. 121. thousand eight hundred and forty dollars appropriated by the 570 Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred, for the connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office of the United States, which appropriation was made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two Vol. 31, p. 1034. by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same is hereby, made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three; and that the fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars appropriated by Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, for the connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office be, and the same is hereby, made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.
Capitol.General repairs. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, eight thousand dollars. For reconstruction of carpenter shop and tool shops on the south side of the Capitol grounds, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. For refitting document room of the House of Representatives, including steel shelving, wooden shelving in space under new roof over the library section of the building, and for document carrier and communication, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
For metallic book shelving in Library of House of Representatives, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. S. H. Woodbridge.Payment to. To pay S. H. Woodbridge for professional services as heating and ventilating expert in connection with House of Representatives Report Numbered Twenty-two hundred and six, Fifty-fifth Congress, third session, and for services following, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-six cents.
Dallas Jones, Edward Minor, Edward Poindexter, and Joshua W. Barkley.Extra compensation to. For extra compensation to Dallas Jones, Edward Minor, Edward Poindexter, and Joshua W. Barkley for the period from July first, nineteen hundred and one, to December first, nineteen hundred and one, in connection with the reconstruction of the roof, central portion of the Capitol, to be determined by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, one thousand dollars. Lighting Capitol and grounds.
Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, three thousand eight hundred dollars. Improving Capitol grounds.
Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capito1 grounds and for care of the grounds, one thousand nine hundred dollars. Twelfth Census.H. A. Barrows.Credit in accounts of. Twelfth Census: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of H. A. Barrows, disbursing clerk of the Census Office, the sum of one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, being amount expended by him for crayon portraits and frames disallowed by the said accounting officers.
Burr index. The Director of the Census is hereby authorized to pay the sum of thirty-three dollars and fifty cents for one Burr index purchased through error, and which has been in constant use in the Census Office for over two years. Charles W. Parker.Payment to. The Director of the Census is hereby authorized to pay to Charles W. Parker the sum of eighty-one dollars for money expended by him 571 as acting superintendent of printing in the Census Office in the matter of sale of census proofs.
The repeal of the supplementary Acts amendatory of the Act of Temporary organization.Vol. 30, p. 1014.*Ante*, p. 53. March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, enumerated in section twelve of the Act of March sixth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office,” shall not be construed to take effect until the termination of the temporary organization of the office as provided in the last-named Act: *And provided *Proviso*. further*, That the disbursing clerk of the Census Office may pay out Pay for leave of absence time. of the census fund on or after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, to employees of the office who are not to be reappointed on July first, for whatever leave of absence the Director of the Census may, in his dircretion, allow them, not to exceed, however, the annual leave authorized by existing law; such payment to be in addition to the salary due them for services rendered to that date. government hospital for the insane.
Government Hospital for the Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: Current expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, thirty-five thousand dollars. public land service.
Public land service. Improvement of the Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: Crater Lake National Park, Oreg. For protection and improvement of the park, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand dollars. Payment to Mrs. Alice Gershel: For payment to Mrs. Alice Alice Gershel.Payment to. Gershel, for rent of building for United States land office at Circle, Alaska, for months of July and August, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at fifty dollars per month, and for furnishing ten cords of wood, cut and delivered for use in said office, at thirty dollars per cord, as per account rendered, four hundred dollars.
Payment to Roland C. Nichols: For payment to Roland C. Roland C. Nichols.Payment to. Nichols, late receiver of public moneys and special disbursing agent at the land office at Peavey, Alaska, the difference between the amount of salary at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, certified by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as due to him from July first, nineteen hundred, to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, and the amount allowed and paid him in the settlement of his account for said period by the Auditor for the Interior Department, one thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents.
Payment to Albert E. Rose: For payment to Albert E. Rose, Albert E. Rose.Payment to. late register of the land office at Peavey, Alaska, the difference between the amount of salary at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, certified by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as due him from July first, nineteen hundred, to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, and the amount allowed and paid him in the settlement of his account for said period by the Auditor for the Interior Department, one thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents. 572 North American Transportation and Trading Company.Payment to.
Payment to the North American Transportation and Trading Company: For payment to the North American Transportation and Trading Company for supplies furnished, and for rent of building for United States land office at Circle, Alaska, per account rendered and set forth on page twenty-one, House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session, one thousand one hundred and twenty-six dollars. Washington.Reimbursement. Reimbursement to the State of Washington: To reimburse the State of Washington as provided in the Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (Twenty-eighth Statutes, sections three hundred and ninety-four and three hundred and ninety-five), for moneys advanced by said State to the United States, under the provisions of said Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to secure the survey of lands granted to said State, seventeen thousand and thirty-two dollars.
Emma L. Taylor.Payment to. Payment to Emma L. Taylor: For payment to Emma L. Taylor, widow and administratrix of Henry L. Taylor, for clerical services rendered by him to the United States land office at Montgomery, Alabama, from May sixth to May twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, fifteen days, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, thirty-seven dollars and nine cents. Payments to certain deputy surveyors.Carl R. Caudle Payments to Certain Deputy Surveyors: For payment to Carl R.
Caudle, United States deputy surveyor, for resurveys of public lands executed by him within the limits of the grant to the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company, in the Territory of Arizona, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session, ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents. Louis Wolfley. For payment to Louis Wolfley, United States deputy surveyor, for surveys of public lands executed by him within the limits of the grant to the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company, in the Territory of Arizona, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session, one thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-nine cents.
Frank E. Baxter and David H. Blossom. For payment to Frank E. Baxter and David H. Blossom, United States deputy surveyors, for surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by them within the limits of the grant to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in the State of Utah, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, eight hundred and ninety dollars and one cent. E. T. Wright. For payment to E. T. Wright, United States deputy surveyor, for resurveys of public lands executed by him in sections one and seven, township three north, ranges sixteen and seventeen west, State of California, as set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, three hundred dollars.
Philip Contzen. For payment to Philip Contzen, United States deputy surveyor, for surveys and resurveys of public lands in the Territory of Arizona, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, five hundred and fifty-five dollars. John Bowen. For payment to John Bowen, United States deputy surveyor, for surveys and resurveys of public lands in the State of North Dakota, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents.
John B. David and Harold A. Rands. For payment to John B. David and Harold A. Rands, United States deputy surveyors, for surveys and resurveys of public lands in the State of Oregon, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, four hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents. Edward F. Stable. For payment to Edward F. Stable, United States deputy surveyor, for surveying and marking the western boundary of the Yellowstone 573 National Park, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, thirteen dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For payment to Edward F. Stahle, United States deputy surveyor, Additional allowance. an additional allowance for surveying and marking a portion of the southern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park, under instructions dated August twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-one cents. For payment to Louis A. Ogaard, United States deputy surveyor, Louis A. Ogaard. for surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by him in the State of Minnesota, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session, two hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-one cents.
For payment to John E. Mulligan and John Kirwan, United States John E. Mulligan and John Kirwan. deputy surveyors, for surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by them in the State of Minnesota, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session, three hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-two cents. For payment to Philip Contzen, United States deputy surveyor, for Philip Contzen. surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by him in the Territory of Arizona, as submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight, of this session, fifty-two dollars and four cents.
For payment to Bart A. Nymeyer, United States deputy surveyor, Bart A. Nymeyer. for surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by him in the Territory of New Mexico, as submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty, of this session, four hundred and ten dollars and ninety-eight cents. For payment of balances due from the United States, for making C. Edward Artist. land surveys in the State of Wyoming, to C. Edward Artist, for balance due under contract numbered two hundred and seventy-nine, dated May eighth, nineteen hundred, two hundred and forty-two dollars and forty-one cents; to Edward F.
Stahle, for balance due under contract Edward E. Stahle. numbered two hundred and seventy-six, dated June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred dollars and thirty-six cents, and to Stahle and Artist, for balance due under contract numbered Stahle and Artist. two hundred and sixty-eight, dated March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents; in all, three hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-four cents.
To pay R. F. Pettigrew, administrator of the estate of Frederick Frederick W. Pettigrew. W. Pettigrew, deceased, balance due on surveying contract numbered one hundred and thirty-six, dated August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred and twenty dollars and forty-five cents. Office of surveyor-general of Arizona: For payment of Arizona.Office of surveyor-general.Expenses. expenses incident to the removal of the office of the United States surveyor-general of Arizona from Tucson, Arizona, to Phoenix, Arizona, in pursuance of Executive order dated February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for the purchase of such additional furniture and cases as may be necessary for the equipment of the office at Phoenix, this appropriation to be available for expenditure during the fiscal years of nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars.
Office of surveyor-general of Minnesota: To pay amounts Minnesota.Office of surveyor-general.Expenses. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Minnesota,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ninety-eight cents. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: To pay Registers and receivers.Salaries, etc. amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and commissions of registers 574 and receivers” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Contingent expenses of land offices. Contingent expenses of land offices: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses of land offices” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents. Clerk hire, etc. For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, ten thousand dollars. Mineral lands, Montana and Idaho. Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho:
For publication of reports of lands classified by the board of mineral-land commissioners in the Helena and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and in the Coeur d’Alene land district, in the Vol. 28, p. 683. State of Idaho, as authorized by the Act of February twenty-sixth, Vol. 31, p. 615. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, to meet the payment of the following unsettled bills for publications chargeable to the appropriation for “Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one,” namely:
Payment of certain accounts. The Monitor Publishing Company, of Twin Bridges, Montana, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; The Record Publishing Company, of Helena, Montana, four hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-two cents; in all, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. Protection of forest reserves.Payment of certain claims.[R. S., sec. 3477, p. 689](/us/rs/s3477/p689). Protection of forest reserves: The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to pay, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-seven of the Revised Statutes, the claims of Charles Grimes, Frank C.
Munroe, the Pasadena Board of Trade, and others, the present holders, by assignment or purchase, of the claims of persons employed under authority of the Interior Department in the extinguishment of fires which occurred during the months of July, August, and September, nineteen hundred, in the San Gabriel Forest Reserve, in the State of California, said payments to be made from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for protection of forest reserves, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and not to exceed the sum of six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found due.
Boundary line, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.Resurvey, etc.*Post*, p. 1117. Boundary line, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma: For the resurvey and reestablishment, on the line of the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, of the boundary line between the State of Colorado and the Territories of New Mexico and Oklahoma, which is coincident with said parallel between the twenty-fifth and thirty-second degrees of west of longitude from Washington, at a rate per mile to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and. for the examination in the field of said resurvey, a calculated distance of three hundred and eighty-seven and one-eighth miles, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Fort Buford abandoned military reservation.Survey. Surveying Fort Buford abandoned military reservation: For the completion of the survey of lands in the Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, in the States of North Dakota and Montana, to be made in the manner as other surveys of public lands are made, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars. Yellowstone National Park.Purchase of buffalo, etc. Yellowstone National Park: For the purchase of buffalo for the Yellowstone National Park, construction of a wire fence, and other suitable inclosure therefor, and the purchase of necessary feed for the herd for one year, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. 575 indian affairs.
Indian affairs. Surveys of Indian Reservations: The Secretary of the Interior Surveys of reservations.*Post*, p. 997. is hereby authorized and directed to cause careful estimates to be made and submitted to Congress at the beginning of its next session for survey of the Walker River Reservation in Nevada, the Uintah Reservation in Utah, and the Spokane Reservation in Washington. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Traveling expenses Inspectors. of Indian inspectors,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-three cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses of Indian inspectors,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-six cents. For the purchase of teams, farming implements, seeds, and other Kicking Kickapoos. necessary articles for the Mexican Kickapoo Indians, known as the “Kicking Kickapoos,” in Oklahoma Territory, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal years as follows:
Fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Flatheads, etc. on account of the appropriation “Support of Flatheads and other confederated tribes,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-one cents.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for “Indian school transportation,” for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Schools.Transportation. on account of the appropriation “Indian school transportation,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Fort Mojave. on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, ninety-four dollars and five cents. To pay to Walter McM. Luttrell, late superintendent Mescalero Walter McM. Luttrell. Indian Training School in New Mexico, for expenses incurred by him while in charge of that school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and paid by him from private funds, two hundred and seventy dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to settle an indebtedness, Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa. amounting to two thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and five cents, incurred at the Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa, during the third and fourth quarters, nineteen hundred and one, in the employment of labor and the purchase of supplies for the boarding school at said agency, to be paid from the balance on hand appropriated for said school for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one.
To reimburse Horace M. Rebok, formerly Indian agent for the Sac Horace M. Rebok.Reimbursement. and Fox tribe in Iowa, and W. G. Malin, Indian agent for said tribe, for costs and expenses of defending suits brought in the United States circuit court at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on behalf of Y. Ta Tah Wah, a tribal Indian, against said Rebok and Malin, respectively, for damages for false imprisonment, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-four cents. 576 Post-Office Department.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses. For amount required to meet unpaid bills for telegraphing for the Post-Office Department for the months of March, April, May, and June, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand six hundred and five dollars and forty-five cents. Furniture. For furniture, one thousand dollars. Repairing roof. For labor and material required in repairing the roof of the Post-Office Department building, to continue available during fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven thousand three hundred dollars.
Katie A. Nolan.Payment to. To enable the Postmaster-General to pay Katie A. Nolan balance of salary due her as a stamp clerk in the post-office at San Antonio, Texas, from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, eight hundred dollars. Postal service. out of the postal revenues. Star routes, transportation. Mail transportation: For inland transportation by star routes, year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight for inland mail transportation by star routes on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and nineteen cents. Steamboat routes. For inland transporation by steamboat, thirteen thousand dollars. Freight on postal cards, etc.Vol. 31, p. 1104. Out of the sum appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, for inland transportation by railroad routes, twenty-five thousand dollars additional may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, stamped paper, mail equipment, and other supplies from the manufactories or depositories to the post-offices and depots of distribution.
Free-delivery service. Free-delivery service: To pay the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session for free-delivery service on account of the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four thousand one hundred and six dollars and ninety-two cents; Fiscal year nineteen hundred, two dollars and forty cents. Rural free delivery. Rural free-delivery service: To pay the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of this session, for rural free-delivery service on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and nineteen cents.
Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Repairs court-house, D. C. For annual repairs, court-house, Washington, District of Columbia, per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, nine hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses. For books for law library of the Department, five hundred dollars. For furniture and repairs for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three thousand dollars; Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents.
Stationery. For stationery for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-eight cents. Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, books 577 of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and forty-six dollars and nine cents. For the rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Rent. Columbia used by the Department of Justice for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand and forty dollars and fifty cents;
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty thousand one hundred dollars. miscellaneous, department of justice. Miscellaneous. For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the Alaska. district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, two thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Traveling expenses. on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and twenty-five cents.
For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary Suits in claims. employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal year as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ten thousand dollars.
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-six cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Indian depredations. on account of the appropriation “Defense in Indian depredation claims” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, seventeen dollars. For the payment of William T. Paty, of Honolulu, Hawaii, for William T.
Paty.Payment to. services rendered and material furnished during the month of September, nineteen hundred, in fitting up certain rooms in the judiciary building at Honolulu and preparing them for use for United States court purposes, eight hundred and eighty dollars. For the payment of Myron E. Wheeler for services rendered during Myron E. Wheeler.Payment to. the months of January, February, and March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as stenographer in the office of the United States attorney for the district of Nebraska, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the payment of R. L. Manley, of Moran, Kansas, for rent of R. L. Manley.Payment to. hall at Moran, Kansas, used from August sixth to September second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for taking testimony before the special master in chancery in the case of the United States against Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents. To pay J. H. Slater, of Saint Augustine, Florida, for making abstract J. H. Slater.Payment to. of title to the lot of land known as the Hedrick lot, in square forty-four in said city of Saint Augustine, Florida, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, forty-three dollars. 578 Jail at Eagle City, Alaska.Payment of claims.
The judge of the United States district court for the third division of the district of Alaska is hereby authorized to order the clerk of said court to pay to the proper claimants, from court funds, the sum of three hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty-one cents, being the excess beyond the limit prescribed by law in the cost of the construction of the United States-jail at Eagle City, Alaska. John W. Langley.Payment to. To pay John W. Langley for services rendered by him in taking testimony and performing other stenographic work in defense of Indian depredation claims, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy cents. judicial.
United States courts.Court of Private Land Claims.Assistant attorneys, etc. To enable the Attorney-General to employ such assistant attorneys, agents, stenographers, and experts to aid the United States attorney for said court as may be necessary to conduct the business of the Court of Private Land Claims, three thousand dollars. Salary of additional circuit judge.*Ante*, p. 106. For the payment of the salary of the additional circuit judge, under the Act of April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand and five dollars and fifty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six thousand dollars. Salaries of judges, etc.Judge of southern district of Texas.*Ante*, p. 65. For the payment of the salary of the district judge for the southern district of Texas for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, Act of March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars. Chief justice, etc., Oklahoma.*Ante*, p. 184.
For additional salaries as established by the Act of May second, nineteen hundred and two, for the chief justice and associate justices in the Territory of Oklahoma for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand nine hundred dollars. Additional salaries. For additional salaries as established by the Act of May second, nineteen hundred and two, for the chief justice and associate justices in the Territory of Oklahoma for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirteen thousand dollars.
Indian Territory.Judges, clerks, etc. For salaries and expenses of clerks, deputy clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of judges in the Indian Territory, including the salaries of three deputy clerks, one at Muscogee, one at South McAlester, and one at Ardmore, for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eleven thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fourteen thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-five cents.
Western district.*Ante*, p. 275. Salaries and expenses, United States courts, Indian Territory: For the payment of the salaries of the clerk, commissioner, and constables authorized by the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and of the commissioners and constables authorized by this Act, sixteen *Provisos*.Additional commissioners, western district. thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the judge for the western district of the Indian Territory shall be authorized and required to appoint three additional United States commissioners for said district and a constable for each of said commissioners; and the judge for the northern district of said Territory shall be authorized and required to appoint three additional United States commissioners for said district and a constable for each of said commissioners.
Said commissioners and constables shall be located at places designated by Terms of court. said judges, respectively: *Provided*, That each of such judges may, in his discretion, require any commissioner appointed for his district whose headquarters are not permanently fixed by law to hold terms of court at more than one place, and in that case he shall fix the places Salaries, duties, and powers of commissioners. and times of holding such terms and the length of each term. All laws applicable to the salaries duties, powers, and responsibilities of other United States commissioners and constables in the Indian Terri-579tory shall be applicable to the commissioners and constables appointed under the provisions of this Act.
This proviso shall be in force from and after July first, nineteen hundred and two. united states courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals Marshals, etc. and their deputies, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, fifty thousand dollars. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys, etc. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners. and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, one hundred thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Rent. on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the fiscal years, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventy-five dollars. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For clothing, Leavenworth, Kans., penitentiary. transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, one thousand dollars.
For the construction of sidewalks around the United States jail lot Fort Smith, Ark., jail. at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and other necessary improvements, including grading of lot, purchase of grass seed or sodding for same, and construction of roadway and walk from entrance to jail to the street, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General and to remain available until expended, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of steam launch for use of the penitentiary at McNeil Island, Wash., penitentiary.Steam launch.
McNeil Island, Washington, between said island and the mainland, eight hundred dollars. Court of Claims: To pay the account of the United States Electric Court of Claims.Lights. Lighting Company for electric current furnished during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifty-four dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized Mary E. Parker.Payment to. and directed to pay to Mary E. Parker the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for extra services rendered to the United States by her husband, I.
C. Parker, deceased, late judge of the United States district court for the western district of Arkansas. EXECUTIVE. Executive. To pay the widow of William McKinley, late President of the United William McKinley.Payment of balance of salary to widow. States, the balance of his salary for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the unpaid expenses Expenses of illness and death of President McKinley. incurred on account of the last illness and death of President McKin-580ley, including compensation of physicians, forty-five thousand dollars, *Proviso*.Just and reasonable expenses to be paid. or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the Secretary shall pay only such expenses and services as he shall determine are just and reasonable and were necessary.
All accounts shall be presented to him within two months from the date of the approval of this Act, and no payment shall be made to any officer or employee of the Government for personal or professional services. Legislative. LEGISLATIVE. Purchase of manuscript index of discussions of United States Congress. For the purchase of the manuscript index of discussions of the United States Congress, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine to nineteen hundred and two, in three parts, by William A.
Peffer, now in preparation, *Proviso*.Part of appropriation made immediately available. five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That one thousand dollars of this amount shall be immediately available, and hereafter proportional payments may be made for the several parts of the index when completed to the satisfaction of the Librarian of Congress, and upon his certificate thereof. Senate. senate. Pages. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely:
Sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, one thousand two hundred and forty dollars, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. Official reporters.Reimbursement. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and two, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.
Paul Cockerille.Payment to. To pay Paul Cockerille for services as a laborer in the Senate Folding Room in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventeen dollars and sixty-one cents. R. G. Proctor.Payment to. To pay R. G. Proctor for indexing and for extra services as clerk to the Committee on the Philippines, five hundred dollars. J. H. Jones.Payment to. To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the first session of the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Indexing Executive Journals. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who performed the work of arranging and preparing the copy for and indexing the Executive Journals of the Senate from March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, four thousand eight hundred dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States. A. H. Howe.Payment to. To pay to A.
H. Howe, for expenses incurred and for services in compiling and indexing the records, briefs, and arguments of counsel, in the insular cases, in the October term of the Supreme Court of the United States, nineteen hundred, including appendices, provided for in House concurrent resolution of February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, the sum of one thousand dollars. Dennis M. Kerr.Payment to. To pay Dennis M. Kerr, for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
John H. Walker.Payment to. To pay John H. Walker for extra services as clerk to the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. Record and index of private claims. To enable the Committee on Claims to prepare a record and index of private claims introduced in the Senate during the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, with a view of reporting the same to the Senate at the beginning of the next session of Congress, one thousand 581 two hundred dollars, to be paid upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee; and said sum, or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman, may be paid as additional compensation to any officer or employee of the United States and to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Members and Delegates. Delegates from Territories, ten thousand dollars. For payment of expenses incurred by the Sergeant-at-Arms on Funeral expenses of President McKinley. account of attendance of the committee of members of the House of Representatives at the funeral of the late President William McKinley, two hundred and nine dollars and fifty-nine cents. For miscellaneous items; twenty thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous items. For hire of horses, feed, repair of wagons and harness, office of the Horses, etc. Doorkeeper, five hundred dollars. For stationery for the use of the committees and officers, House of Stationery. Representatives, seven hundred dollars. For stationery for members of the House of Representatives, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay the widow of M. Brosius, late a Representative in Congress M. Brosius.Pay to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, three thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eight cents.
To pay the widow of R. E. Burke, late a Representative in Congress R. E. Burke.Pay to widow. from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of R. O. Crump, late a Representative in Congress R. O. Crump.Pay to widow. from the State of Michigan, four thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-two cents. To pay the widow of A. J. Cummings, late a Representative in A. J. Cummings.Pay to widow. Congress from the State of New York, four thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars.
To pay the widow of P. J. Otey, late a Representative in Congress P. J. Otey.Pay to widow. from the State of Virginia, four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-nine cents. To pay the widow of R. K. Polk, late a Representative in Congress R. K. Polk.Pay to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, four thousand nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty cents. To pay the widow of J. S. Salmon, late a Representative in Congress J. S. Salmon.Pay to widow. from the State of New Jersey, four thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents.
To pay the widow of J. W. Stokes, late a Representative in Congress J. W. Stokes.Pay to widow. from the State of South Carolina, five thousand dollars. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for Contested election expenses. expenses incurred by them in contested election cases as audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections: To George H. Higgins, two thousand dollars; George H. Higgins. To William H. Ryan, two thousand dollars; William H. Ryan. To J.
William Stokes, one thousand and eight dollars and sixty J. William Stokes. cents; To A. F. Lever, nine hundred find five dollars and thirty-five cents; A. F. Lever. To A. D. Dantzler, two thousand dollars; A. D. Dantzler. To John J. Lentz, two thousand dollars; John J. Lentz. To Emmett Tompkins, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Emmett Tompkins. dollars and sixty cents; To John E. Fowler, two thousand dollars; John E. Fowler. To Charles R. Thomas, two thousand dollars;
Charles R. Thomas. To William Jasper Talbert, one thousand five hundred dollars; William Jasper Talbert. To N. B. Spears, two thousand dollars; N. B. Spears. To William M. Horton, two thousand dollars; William M. Horton. 582 James A. Walker. To James A. Walker, two thousand dollars; W. F. Rhea. To W. F. Rhea, two thousand dollars; Charles W. Thompson. To Charles W. Thompson, one thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; John L. Burnett. To John L. Burnett, two thousand dollars;
James J. Butler. To James J. Butler, two thousand dollars; John S. Rhea. To John S. Rhea, two thousand dollars; J. McKenzie Moss. To J. McKenzie Moss, two thousand dollars; C. E. Wilson. To C. E. Wilson, two thousand dollars; F. R. Lassiter To F. R. Lassiter, two thousand dollars; In all, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and five cents. List of private claims. To enable the Clerk of the House to prepare and complete a digested summary and alphabetical list of private claims presented to the House of Representatives from the Fifty-second to the Fifty-seventh Congress, inclusive; three clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
And said work shall be completed and ready to be printed on or before July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four. Laborer clerk’s office. For one laborer during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, under the Clerk of the House of Representatives, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Janitor, reporters’ rooms. For a janitor for rooms of official reporters to debates and official stenographers to committees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Minority conference, clerk. For clerk to conference minority of the House of Representatives, in lieu of a messenger, at one thousand two hundred dollars heretofore provided for, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand dollars and to pay the difference between the salary of the said messenger and two thousand dollars per annum, from December first, nineteen hundred and one, to July first, nineteen hundred and two, six hundred and fifty dollars. Official reporters and stenographers.Extra services.
To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates, and the official stenographers to committees of the House of Representatives, for clerk hire and extra clerical services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and two, John J. Cameron. at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and to John J. Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Alexander McDowell.Contested election digest.
To pay Alexander McDowell, Clerk of the House of Representatives, the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Fifty-seventh Congress, Vol. 24, p. 445. as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,” two thousand and twenty-four dollars and eighty-six cents, and an additional sum of one thousand six hundred dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, three thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-six cents.
Herman Gauss.Payment to. To pay Herman Gauss, for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. D. S. Porter.Payment to. To pay D. S. Porter, for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. Elevator conductors.Payment to. To pay the four conductors of the elevators in the House wing of the Capitol the difference between the amounts received by them and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum for the fiscal 583 years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, two hundred dollars each; in all, eight hundred dollars.
To pay the conductors of the elevators in the House wing of the old library space of the Capitol the difference between the amounts received by them and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from March fifth, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, as follows: R. E. Walker, one R. E. Walker.Payment to. hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-nine cents; J. K. Duncan, J. K. Duncan.Payment to. one hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-nine cents; in all, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents.
To pay John Douglas for services as laborer in the Doorkeeper’s John Douglas.Payment to. department during the second session of the Fifty-sixth Congress, one hundred and sixteen dollars. To pay Albert Scott for services as laborer for eighteen days from Albert Scott.Payment to. December second, nineteen hundred and one, to December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-six dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to George W. Nichols.Payment to.
George W. Nichols, father of Charles C. Nichols, deceased, the expenses of the last illness and burial of the said Charles C. Nichols in a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and the further sum of three hundred and sixty dollars, being six months’ pay at the rate of compensation received by him at the time of his death as a laborer under the Doorkeeper; in all, six hundred and ten dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House Officers and employees of Senate and House.Extra month’s pay. of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and two, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and of the House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the Fifty-seventh Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. public printing and binding. Public printing and binding. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes Messengers, night service. as messengers on night duty during the first session of the present Congress for extra services, three hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, one thousand and fifty dollars.
To pay to John G. Ames the amount found due to him by the Auditor John G. AmesPayment to for the State and other Departments for preparing an index to the documents of the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, as provided for by the joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand dollars. Hereafter all copies of the Congressional Directory delivered to Congressional Directory.Binding. Senators and Representatives for distribution shall be bound in cloth.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Judgments, court of claims. reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Five hundred and ninety-two, and Senate Document Numbered four hundred and twenty-four, two hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents: *Provided*, *Provisos*. That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid Appeal. until the right of appeal shall have expired: *And provided further*, That settlement of the judgment in the case of the State of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania claim. shall be made by the Auditor for War Department.
To compensate the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians for Wichitas and affiliated bands.Payment for ceded lands. seventy-nine thousand six hundred and eleven and sixty-five one-hundredths acres of land, ceded by the said Indians to the United States 584 Vol. 28, p. 895. by the first article of an agreement with said Indians, concluded the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and reserved for the use of the common schools, university, agricultural college, normal schools, and public buildings of the Territory and future State of Oklahoma, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in accordance with the decree of the Court of Claims passed January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, ninety-nine thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty-six cents, or so much thereof as *Provisos*.Payment to legal representatives of Luther H.
Pike. may be necessary: *Provided*, That such amount of said sum, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, as the Secretary of the Interior may find due to Luther H. Pike, deceased, late delegate of said Indians, in accordance with his agreement with said Indians, shall be paid to the legal representatives of said Luther H. Pike, deceased: *And provided Settlement of decree. further*, That settlement of the decree in this case shall be made by the Auditor for the Interior Department on the certificates of the Secretary of the Interior.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts.Vol. 24, p. 505. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States, certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General, in House Documents Numbered Five hundred and ninety-three and Six hundred and sixty and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-two of this session, and which have not been appealed, seventeen thousand and sixty-two dollars, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from *Proviso*. the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, Appeal.
That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. For costs taxed in the suit of H. H. Thornton and others versus D. G. Brent, collector, in accordance with the judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Florida, thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents. judgments in indian depredation claims. Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and twenty-three, except the judgment in favor of Samuel S.
Gholson and Jonathan Miles which has been vacated, four hundred and forty-seven thousand Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. four hundred and eighty dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or Reimbursement. tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Proviso*.Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in 585 his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be Claims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under Vol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254. under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered Five hundred and eighty-nine, Six hundred and fifty-four, and Six hundred and fifty-nine, and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and twenty-five, Part two, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, two thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars and thirteen cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, one hundred and thirty-five dollars. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, eight dollars and five cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, seven hundred and ten dollars and thirty-seven cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, fourteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, forty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, sixty-three dollars and eighty-five cents. For North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, three dollars and thirty cents. For National Zoological Park, thirty-seven cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Fish Commission, sixty-two cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, nine dollars. For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, fifty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, thirteen dollars and forty-seven cents. For Life-Saving Service, five hundred and thirty-three dollars and forty-five cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, twenty-two dollars. For repayment of taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty, two hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, two thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-three cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For national defense, ninety-six dollars and thirty-nine cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, one thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-three cents. For mileage to officers traveling without troops, forty-nine dollars and fourteen cents. For subsistence of the Army, two thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and forty cents. 586 For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and forty-four dollars and fourteen cents.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, one hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and eighty cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, one thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents. For barracks and quarters, one thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-nine cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, two dollars and forty-two cents.
For medical and hospital department, three thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and six cents. For artificial limbs, eleven dollars and fifty cents. For ordnance service, twelve dollars. For torpedoes for harbor defense, four dollars and thirty-eight cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, as follows: To the State of Indiana, six hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty cents.
To the State of Iowa, four hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-nine cents. To the State of Michigan, three hundred and eighty-two thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-two cents. To the State of Ohio, four hundred and fifty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents. To the State of Illinois, one million five thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents. To the State of Vermont, two hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-six cents.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to reopen and adjust the claims of Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island on the basis of like claims of other States herein provided for. For horses and other property lost in the military service, claim of William K. Trabue, one hundred and fifty dollars. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy cents.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For emergency fund. Navy Department, forty-one dollars and three cents. For pay of the Navy, one thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-six cents. For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen dollars and fifty-nine cents. For pay, Marine Corps, seventeen dollars and nine cents. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and four cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fifteen dollars and thirty cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twenty-five cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, 587 eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, four thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-one cents.
For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, thirty-two dollars and forty-seven cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, nine hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For salaries, office of surveyor-general of Montana, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and nineteen cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, one thousand and eighty-eight dollars and eight cents.
For surveying the public lands, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents. For surveying private land claims, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-eight cents. For surveying lands in the Indian Territory, nineteen dollars and thirty-eight cents. For resurveying Chickasaw lands, forty-one dollars and seventy-six cents For Geological Survey, thirty-one dollars and seventy-six cents. For pay of Indian agents, three hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, forty-seven cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, twenty-one dollars and fifteen cents. For buildings at agencies and repairs, two dollars and seventy-four cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, one dollar and twenty cents. For incidentals in Montana, twenty-three dollars and eighty-six cents. For payment to estate of Ish tick i you, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For payment to estate of John Newberry, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, nine thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For Army pensions, one hundred and twenty dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. departments. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, one hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-six cents.
For salaries, consular service, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-two cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, thirty-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, two dollars. For rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska, ninety-six dollars and fifty cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, fifty-five dollars and thirty cents. 588 For fees of witnesses, United States courts, thirteen dollars and fifty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, fifty dollars and thirty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, eight dollars and eighty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and ten cents. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.
For compensation of postmasters, forty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. For inland mail transportation (star), sixteen dollars and seven cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, fourteen dollars. O. J. Salisbury. To pay O. J. Salisbury, contractor, route forty-one thousand one hundred and twelve, Utah, for remission of part of deduction ordered August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, remitted per order January twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, with interest at six per centum per annum from January twentieth, eighteen hundred Vol. 18, p. 481. and eighty-five, to date of payment, in accordance with Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same having been audited and certified to Congress for payment in House Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-eight of this session, fifteen thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and three cents.
Sec. 3. Additional claims. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254. under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. claims allowed for the auditor for the treasury department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, ninety-seven cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, four dollars and eighty-nine cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, ninety-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, two dollars and fifty cents.
For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, twelve dollars. For Life-Saving Service, one hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-two cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-five cents. For relief of Continental Fire Insurance Company and others, Act February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, twenty thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty-six cents. 589 claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents. For pay of volunteers, forty-two dollars and sixty-six cents. for subsistence of the Army, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-four cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, sixteen dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, ten dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, twenty thousand one hundred and ten dollars and nine cents.
For barracks and quarters, two hundred and twelve dollars. For medical and hospital department, five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For artificial limbs, thirty dollars and twenty-six cents. For ordnance stores, repairs, five dollars. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Southern Branch, fifteen dollars. For gunboats on Western rivers, twelve dollars. For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, eighty-five dollars and twenty cents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, fourteen dollars and seventy cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty dollars and forty-two cents. For claims for quartermaster stores and commissary supplies, Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, two hundred and twenty dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For emergency fund, Navy Department, twenty-seven dollars.
For pay of the Navy, six hundred and seventy dollars and eighty cents. For pay, Marine Corps, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-two cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, four dollars and fifty cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, five dollars and eighty cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-eight cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-four cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, six hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. Claims Allowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For investigation of pension cases, Pension Office, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty cents. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, thirty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents.
For surveying the public lands, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents. For support of Sioux, Medawakanton band, five dollars and twenty-eight cents. 590 For payment to Edward Leader, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. For Army pensions, ninety-seven dollars. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
Claims Allowed by the Auditor for the State and Other Departments. state department. For salaries, consular service, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-two cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one dollar and eighty-three cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, twenty-two dollars and sixty cents. department of agriculture. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, nine dollars and sixty-three cents. department of justice.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, five hundred and ten dollars and ninety-five cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, one hundred dollars. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, thirty-two dollars. For support of prisoners, United States courts, eighty-six dollars. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, one hundred and forty-five dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, three hundred and ninety-nine dollars. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. Claims Allowed by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. For rent, light, and fuel, ten dollars. For free-delivery service, thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents. For inland mail transportation (star), twenty-five dollars and forty-four cents. For advertising, fifty-four dollars and thirty cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Approved, July 1, 1902.