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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 32 STAT. · February 14, 1902 · Chapter 17

Chapter 17. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 17.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes. February 14, 1902.[[Public, No. 9](/us/pl/57/9).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Urgent deficiencies appropriations.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. Statement Department. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horses, Contingent expenses.to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and twelve dollars and six cents. foreign intercourse.
Foreign intercourse. For new system of heating the legation building at Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo, Japan. Legation building.owned by the United States Government, and for a fireproof vault, for the preservation of the records and archives of the legation, five *Post,* p. 810.thousand seven hundred dollars. To pay the Government of the Republic of Chile the sole award Chile. Payment of award to. Vol. 30, p. 1596. Vol. 27, p. 965.made against the United States under the convention concluded on May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to revive the convention of August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to adjust the claims of citizens of either country against the other, three thousand dollars.
For repaying to the Government of Mexico money erroneously La Abra and Well claims.Repayment to Mexico.Vol. 27, p. 409.claimed by and paid to the United States on account of the awards, adjudged to have been fraudulently made, in the La Abra and Weil claims, four hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy cents. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in Unforeseen emergencies.the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, forty thousand dollars, or so much t hereof as may be necessary.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Chargés d’affaires ad interim.on account of the appropriation “Salaries, charge, d’affaires ad interim,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-five cents. 6 Interpreters to legations. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, interpreters to legations,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four dollars and forty cents.
Contingent expenses missions. To pay amounts found duo by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventeen thousand five hundred and ninety-eight, dollars and thirty-three cents. Consulates. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty-six cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-six cents. Consular, etc., reports. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Publication of diplomatic, consular, and commercial reports,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars and five cents.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Loans and Currency Division. Office of the Secretary: Division of Loans and Currency: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Counters.two, namely: Three expert money counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, and three paper counters, at the rate of six hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; in all, two thousand and ten dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Treasurer’s office. Clerks, etc. Office of the Treasurer: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, namely: One chief of division, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one assistant chief of division, at the rate of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; six clerics of class one; six clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; twelve clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each; one messenger; twenty expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; six pressmen, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum each; ten separators, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; ten feeders, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; seven laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; and two charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each; in all, thirty-five thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Distinctive paper, etc., securities. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper, including transportation and mill expenses, with authority to employ an assistant register in addition to the other employees at the Government mill now authorized, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand and twenty-five dollars. Contingent expenses. Freight, etc. Contingent expenses: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department:
Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and eleven dollars and forty-four cents. Gas, etc. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Gas, and so forth,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seven dollars and seventy-four cents. Storage building. Rent, etc. Rent of building for storage, Treasury Department: For rental of building at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per 7month, for five months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Recoinage of gold coins: To pay amounts found due by the Recoinage of gold coins.accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Recoinage of gold coins” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand eight hundred and six dollars and ninety-nine cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty-eight cents. Plans for public buildings: To pay amounts found due by the Plans for public buildings.accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Plans for public buildings” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-four cents.
Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act: To pay amounts Chinese exclusion.found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act” for the Vol. 27, p. 25.fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and thirty-seven cents. Enforcement of the alien contract-labor laws: To pay amounts Alien contract labor laws.found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Enforcement of the alien contract-labor laws” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifteen dollars and forty-three cents.
Payment to the Tacoma Mill Company: To compensate the Tacoma Mill Company, Tacoma, Tacoma Mill Company. Payment to.Washington, for losses sustained in consequence of a collision between the revenue steamer Bear and a raft of logs in tow of the steamer Wasp, off Point Robinson Light on the night of December eighteenth, nineteen hundred, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents. Payment to the Merchants’ Coal Company: To compensate the Merchants’ Coal Company.
Payment to.Merchants’ Coal Company, Baltimore, Maryland, for damages caused to pier at Locust Point by the revenue steamer Onondaga on June first, nineteen hundred, fifty-seven dollars. Payment to owners of Norwegian steamship Kvarven: To compensate “Kvarven.” Payment to owners.the owners of the Norwegian steamship Kvarven for damages caused to said steamship by the revenue steamer Bear at Saint Michael, Alaska, October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven hundred and ninety-three dollars.
Payment to the Alaska Exploration Company: To pay the Alaska Exploration Company. Payment to.account of the Alaska Exploration Company, San Francisco, California, for sacking coal, and for demurrage, in connection with supplying the United States steamship Nunivak with coal at Saint Michael Harbor, Alaska, in July and August, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. Damages to schooner Rebecca J. Moulton: To reimburse Captain W.
C. Hodgkins. Reimbursement.W. C. Hodgkins, assistant, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the amount paid by him for cost of repairs to yawl belonging to the schooner Rebecca J. Moulton, damaged by the Coast Survey steamer Blake while entering the dry dock at East Boston, Massachusetts, September eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six dollars. collecting the revenue from customs. Collecting customs revenue. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred thousand dollars. 8 collecting internal revenue. Internal revenue. Agents, etc. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fecal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand dollars. Stamp agent. For one stamp agent, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, and one counter at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum; in all, one thousand and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to he reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Rebate of tobacco tax. For the payment of drawback or rebate on original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured tobacco, snuff, and Vol. 81, p. 940.
Vol. 80, p. 448.cigars, as provided in section four of the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one, amending the war-revenue act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and to reduce taxation thereunder, three million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Paper for stamps. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury’ on account of the appropriation “Paper for internal-revenue stamps” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. four thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty-three cents.
Refunding taxes. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected,” fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. Redemption of stamps. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps,” nine thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-four cents. engraving and printing.
Engraving and Printing Bureau. Salaries. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy six cents, to be expended under the Proviso. Large notes.direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in Vol, 31, p. 45.executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Wages. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand six hundred and seven dollars and seventy-six cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary Proviso. Large notes.of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements Vol. 31, p. 45.of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. 9 For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials.distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, two hundred and eight thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fourteen cents.
For rent of building now occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Rent.Printing for storage and other purposes, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. coast and geodetic survey. Coast and Geodetic Survey. For unusual and extraordinary repairs to steamer Patterson, twenty-five “Patterson,” repairs.thousand dollars. public buildings. Public buildings. For custom-house and post-office at Bristol, Tennessee: For completion Bristol, Tenn.of building under present limit, five thousand dollars.
For post-office at Carrollton, Kentucky: For completion of building Carrollton, Ky.under present limit, five thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Dubuque, Iowa: For completion Dubuque, Iowa.of improvement and enlargement of the building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. For mint of the Unified States at San Francisco, California: For completion San Francisco, Cal., mint.of new boiler plant, pumps, and necessary repairs to machinery and appliances, eight thousand dollars.
For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Saint Paul, Minnesota: Saint Paul, Minn.For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Rent of buildings, Cleveland, Ohio: For rental of quarters at Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. Rent, temporary quarters, etc.Ohio: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and for moving furniture, fixtures, safes, and other Government property, and other contingent expenses incidental to such removal, six thousand dollars.
For repairs and increased accommodation in the post-office and Frenchman’s Bay, Me.custom-house building in the customs distinct of Frenchman’s Bay, Maine, and extension of the heating apparatus in the same, seven thousand dollars. For post-office at Columbus, Georgia: For completion of building Columbus, Ga. Payment to Richardson and Burgess.under present limit, three thousand dollars: and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay from this appropriation to Messrs.
Richardson and Burgess, contractors for the construction of the addition to said building, the sum of two thousand five, hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-two cents, for continuing the terra cotta cornice and frieze of said addition, to correspond with the cornice and frieze of main portions of said building, the balance of said appropriation to be used for the completion of said building. life-saving service. Life-Saving Service. Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, Long Branch station.
Purchase of site. Vol. 26, p. 958; Vol. 27, p. 649.from the amounts appropriated by the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (Statutes at Large, volumes twenty-six and twenty-seven, pages nine hundred and fifty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine, respectively), for the purchase of a site for the Long Branch Life-Saving Station, and remaining unexpended, so much as may be required to purchase a suitable site, without regard to the restrictions of the proviso contained in said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. light-house establishment.
Light-House Establishment. For completing the establishment of alight and fog-signal station at Hog Island Shoal, R. I.Hog Island Shoal, Rhode Island, three thousand two hundred dollars. 10 Russell Island, St. Clair River, Mich. For removal of the wreck of the crib on which was exhibited light numbered twelve, at the foot of the shoal just above the head of Russell Island, Saint Clair River, Michigan, nine hundred dollars. Frederick M. Symonds. Credit in accounts. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the account of Commander Frederick M.
Symonds, United States Navy, inspector of the Ninth light-house district, for the third and fourth quarters of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, the amount of five hundred and ten dollars and seventy-five cents, paid by him from the appropriation “Supplies for light-houses, nineteen hundred and one,” and the amount of sixteen dollars and seven cents, paid by him from the appropriation “Salaries of keepers of light-houses, nineteen hundred and one,” for the hospital, surgical, medical, and traveling expenses of the keepers of Squaw Island Light Station, Michigan, said expenses having been specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Light-House Board, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury. mints and assay offices.
Mints and assay offices. San Francisco, Cal. Mint at San Francisco, California: For wages of workmen and adjusters, two thousand dollars. Seattle, Wash. Assay office at Seattle, Washington: For incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Wages and contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, eighty-three dollars and thirty-six cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifty-seven dollars and sixty-two cents. independent treasury. Independent Treasury. Special agents, etc. 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 R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718.and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, three thousand dollars.
GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES. Territories. Oklahoma. Contingent expenses. Territory of Oklahoma: For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, one thousand dollars. Arizona. Contingent expenses. Territory of Arizona: For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars. New Mexico. Contingent expenses. Territory of New Mexico: For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, five hundred dollars.
FISH COMMISSION. Fish Commission. Tupelo, Miss., hatchery. Vol. 31, p. 1151. For the purchase of land for site for the fish-hatching and fish-culture station authorized at Tupelo, Mississippi, by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Marine Biological Station, Beaufort, N. C. For the completion of the Marine Biological Station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Beaufort, North Carolina, including the construction of buildings and wharfs, the purchase and installation of pumping and electric-light plant, and equipment of the station, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. 11 Fish hatchery, Erwin, Tennessee:
For the completion of the fish-cultural Fish hatcheries. Erwin, Tenn.station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Erwin, Tennessee, including the construction of ponds and an additional water supply and for purchase of additional land, tire thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Green Lake, Maine: For the completion of the fish-cultural Green Lake, Me.station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Green Lake, Maine, including the construction of ponds, roads, and buildings, extension of wharf, purchase of land, and an additional water supply, four thousand dollars.
Fish hatchery, Duluth, Minnesota: For the completion of the fish-cultural Duluth, Minn.station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Duluth, Minnesota, including improvement of grounds and an additional water supply, two thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Gloucester, Massachusetts: For the completion of the Gloucester, Mass.fish hatchery of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Gloucester, Massachusetts, including the construction of retaining pens for holding five codfish, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Fish hatchery, Woods Hole, Massachusetts: For the purchase and Woods Hole, Mass.installation of a steam boiler at the fish hatchery of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, two thousand dollars. Steamer Albatross, Fish Commission: For the construction or purchase “Albatross.” Surfboat.of a surf boat for the use of the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross, five hundred dollars. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission.
To pay Edward A. Moseley, secretary and disbursing agent Interstate Edward A. Moseley. Payment to.Commerce Commission, the amount disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury for official telegrams paid by him in the fiscal year nineteen hundred by order of the Commission, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-six cents. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. Insurance department: To pay the superintendent of insurance Insurance department. Superintendent and clerk.from January first, nineteen hundred and two, to June thirtieth, nineteen hunched and two, inclusive, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and for a clerk to the superintendent for the same period, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses.required for the office of the superintendent of insurance, including rent, furniture, stationery, printing, books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, and other general necessary expenses of his office, six hundred dollars. Surveyor’s office: For such employees as may be required in Surveyor’s office. Vol. 28, p. 689.accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the surveyor of the District of Columbia a salaried officer, five thousand dollars.
Public schools: For amount of increased cost of the fireproof Public schools. Manual trainingmanual-training school building, first eight divisions, forty-five thousand dollars. Free public library: For three temporary cataloguers, at five Free Public Library. Cataloguers.hundred and forty dollars each; in all, to be available until expended, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. For purchase of books, to be available until expended, forty thousand Books.dollars. 12 Justices of the peace.
Counts: For amount required to pay the salaries of the, ten justices of the peace at the rate of three, thousand dollars per annum each, and for rent, stationery, and other expenses at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum each, from January first, nineteen hundred and two, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Lunacy writs. Writs of lunacy: For amount required to pay the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia accrued fees in lunacy cases, for the six months ended December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, seven hundred and fifteen dollars.
Half from District revenues. One-half of the foregoing amounts foment 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. J. A. Howells & Co. Reimbursement. Miscellaneous advertising: To reimburse J. A. Howells and Company, publishers of the Ashtabula Sentinel, of Jefferson, Ohio, for the amounts paid to various newspapers for publishing an advertisement for horses for the Army during the war with Spain, twenty dollars and seventy cents.
Rochambeau statue. Site and pedestal. *Post,* p. 737, 741. Statue of Rochambeau: For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for the statue of Rochambeau by Ferdinand Hamar in the city of Washington, said site to be selected on any unoccupied public ground by, and the said pedestal erected under the supervision of, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the chairmen of the Committees on the Library of the Fifty-seventh Congress, and to defray the expenses attending the unveiling of said statue of Roehambeau, *Provisos.* Balance for statue.fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That any part of this sum not required for preparation of the site and erection of said pedestal and for the expenses attending the unveiling of said statue may be used and expended for the completion of said statue and pedestal:
Location.*And provided further,* That said statue shall not be located in the grounds of the Capitol or the Library of Congress. Executive Mansion, repairs, etc. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, seven thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. military post. Military post. Manila, P. I. Construction of buildings. *Post,* p. 465. For the establishment in the vicinity of Manila, Philippine Islands, of a military post, including the construction of barracks quarters for officers, hospital, storehouses, and other buildings, as well as water supply, lighting, sewerage, and drainage, necessary for the accommodation of a garrison of two full regiments of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and two batteries of artillery, to be available until expended, five hundred thousand dollars. fortifications.
Fortifications. Preservation, etc. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, three thousand dollars. yellowstone national park. Yellowstone Park. Freight. Improvement of Yellowstone National Park: For payment of the account of the Northern Pacific Railway Company for transportation of cast-iron water pipe from Billings, Montana, to “Cinnabar, Montana, for service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty-one dollars and ninety-six cents. 13 military establishment.
Army. Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, and Shooting ranges, etc.ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies: For purchase and manufacture Ordnance stores.of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For reimbursement of contract or acting assistant surgeons, as provided Contract surgeonsin the paragraph appropriating ten thousand dollars therefor in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen Vol. 31, p. 1023.hundred and one (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-one, page ten hundred and twenty-three), ten thousand dollars. military academy.
Military Academy. Pay: For extra pay of one enlisted man as assistant and attendant Library assistant.at the library, at fifty cents per day, during each of the fiscal years nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and one, twenty-six dollars. Current and ordinary expenses: For repairs and improvements, Current expenses. Repairs and improvements.namely: Timber, planks, boards, joists, wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse. iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of architect, overseer, and citizen mechanics and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men. nine thousand dollars.
For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps and lighting Lights, etc.supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of same, one thousand dollars. For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, Fuel, etc.heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, tire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, ten thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses:
For gas coal, oil, Miscellaneous and incidental expenses.candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking, for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, one thousand five hundred dollars. For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars. Buildings and grounds: For completing the laying out of the cadet Buildings and grounds.Cadet camp.camp, draining, filling, leveling, piping, and so forth, six thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Homes. For construction at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tenn. Construction.Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, near Johnson City, Tennessee: to complete the hospital group of buildings, power house, barracks, mess hall and kitchen, laundry, storehouse, administration building, chapel, officers’ quarters, lodge and gateway, and al! other necessary buildings: and for all necessary furniture, machinery, and equipment for said hospital, barracks, and other buildings: for steam and water mains, piping for sewerage and water; electric lighting plant, cold-storage and ice plant, construction of roads, and for improvement of grounds and fencing, the Board of Managers of the National Home, for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are authorized to enter into contracts, to be paid for as appropriations may be made from time to time by law. not exceeding in the aggregate for all of said enumerated objects the sum 14of nine hundred thousand dollars, toward which there is hereby appropriated the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Dayton, Ohio. Transportation. At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For transportation of members of the Home for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents. Subsistence. 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, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Household. For household expenses, including- the same objects Specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Acts, respectively, and for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, seven thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and eight cents. Electric-light plant. For the renewal and completion of the electric-light plant, thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
Milwaukee, Wis. Household. At the Northwestern Branch at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For household expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Acts, respectively, and for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety cents. Togus, Me. Household. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine:
For household expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Acts, respectively, and for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and twenty-two dollars and three cents. Water supply. For repairs to reservoir, relaying stone abutments, raising road bridge, and putting in flume gates, three thousand dollars.
Hampton, Va. Repairs. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Ventral Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. seven thousand dollars. Household. 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 one, seven thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-five cents.
Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence. For the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, 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, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Marion, Ind. Dining room, etc. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For completion of barrack dining room and kitchen combined, eight thousand dollars. Santa Monica, Cal. Hospital.
At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica. California: For hospital 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, two thousand five hundred dollars. Danville, Ill. Household. At the Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: 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. thirteen thousand dollars.
Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand dollars. 15 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-one cents. For propagating house and greenhouse, five thousand dollars. Farm. For furniture for quarters for women nurses, seven hundred and Furniture.sixty dollars. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, Board of Managers.and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely:
For rent, medical examination, stationery, telegrams, and other Expenses.incidental expenses on account of the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two dollars and fifty-six cents. For traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and Traveling expenses.employees, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-two cents. State or Territorial Homes:
For continuing aid to State or Territorial State and Territorial Homes. Vol, 25, p. 450.homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty four dollars and eighty cents: *Provided,* That, one-half of any Proviso.
Deductions.sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. naval observatory. Naval Observatory. To pay the claim of W. Walter Dinwiddie for salary as assistant on W. Walter Dinwiddie. Salary.equatorial from July first to twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, sixty-seven dollars and ninety cents. naval establishment. Naval Establishment. That of the appropriation of fifty million dollars made for the National defense.
Reappropriation. Vol. 30, p. 271. Vol, 30, p. 781.national defense by the Act of March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and reappropriated by the Act of January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the unexpended balance, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure in fulfillment of contracts heretofore made and properly chargeable to said appropriation. For the reimbursement of the Philippine insular funds for small Philippine insular funds.
Reimbursement for vessels, etc.gunboats and other craft, ordnance and ordnance stores, turned over by the military authorities at Manila to the Navy, a sum of money equal to four hundred and fifty thousand and forty-two dollars and forty cents, Mexican currency, at the valuation thereof during the first quarter of the calendar year nineteen hundred, two hundred and eight thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. pay, miscellaneous.
Navy. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Pay, miscellaneous.on account of the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. To pay bill of James A. McMahon, for additional creosoting piles James A. McMahon. Payment to.for wharf at naval training station, San Francisco Bay, California, five 16thousand four hundred and thirty-three linear feet, at fifteen cents per foot, authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, approved by the Bureau of Navigation January twenty-second, nineteen hundred, and held up in the, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts from lack of funds, eight hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-five- cents. bureau of equipment.
Bureau of Equipment. Coal. For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, eight hundred thousand dollars. Equipment of vessels. For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery tor commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on hoard ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war: services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same: libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way. and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith: bunting and other materials for making and repairing Hags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except, range tinders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance stores. For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred thousand dollars.
Repairs. For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, ten thousand dollars. Armor and armament. Vol. 29, p. 378. Vol. 29, p. 644. Vol. 30, p. 389. Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; of those authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: of those authorized by the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; of those authorized by the 17Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of those Vol. 30, p. 1250.
Vol. 31, p. 706.authorized by the Act of June seventh, nineteen hundred, four million dollars. bureau of yards and docks. Bureau of Yards and Docks. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight, Maintenance.transportation of materials and stores: books, maps, models, and drawing; 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 tire 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, fifty-two thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand and fifty-six dollars and thirty-two cents. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. That of the three million dollars appropriated by the Act of March Provisions. Vol. 30, p. 1036.third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for “Provisions, Navy,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars of the unexpended balance be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, which amount the accounting officers of the Treasury’ are authorized and directed to transfer from the appropriation “Provisions, Transfer to naval supply fund.Navy, nineteen hundred,” to the naval supply fund. bureau of medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Repairs, Medicine Repairs.and Surgery,” for necessary repairs of naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, ten thousand dollars. For surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, Surgeons’ necessaries.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, thirty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Contingent.on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. ninety-four dollars and seventy-seven cents. do 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, eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and nineteen cents. marine corps.
Marine Corps. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers Hire of quarters.serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to 18the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspector, the assistant paymaster, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Repairs of barracks. Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida: Mare Island, California; Bremerton, Washington, and Sitka, Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at, such other places as the public exigencies require, and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings, five thousand dollars.
Contingent. For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bedsacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other papers, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, and pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and earbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of tire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheel-barrows. and lawn mowers, purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas. and for gas, gas oil. and introduction and maintenance of electric lights: straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets, wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, thirty thousand dollars.
New York. For installation of one auxiliary steam boiler, marine barracks, navy-yard, New York, New York, one thousand five hundred dollars. Transportation and recruiting. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and two cents. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. Special inspectors, per diem.
For per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of four special inspectors, Department of the Interior, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, to be expended 19under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. To pay accounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Stationery.on account of the appropriation “Stationery, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and seventy-two dollars and nineteen vents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Contingent expenses.on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, thirty-three dollars and ninety-one cents. Preservation of census records: To pay the United States Electric Preserving census records. Lighting.Lighting Company for the use of electric current in Marini Hall, E between Ninth and Tenth streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, where the records of the Eleventh and prior censuses are preserved and stored, from May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-two cents.
Pension Office building: For the completion of the work of constructing Pension Office. Additions to building.a coal bin for the storage of coal and the building of an area-way and sewer from the west entrance of the Pension Office building and extending along the south side thereof to the eastern entrance, two thousand five hundred dollars. Elevators, Interior Department building: That the unexpended Elevators.balance of the appropriation of seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars provided in the sundry civil Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, Vol. 31, p. 612.for the construction and equipment of an elevator in the west wing of the Interior Department building shall be made immediately available in the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, for the construction of a landing and balcony on the third floor of said building, as an entrance to the west-wing elevator, and for changing the other elevators in the buildings of the Department of the Interior from the hydraulic to the electric system, and for the equipment of the same.
Reindeer for Alaska: To reimburse E. P. Bertholf, lieutenant, Reindeer for Alaska. E. P. Bertholf. Reimbursement.United States Revenue-Cutter Service, for actual traveling and subsistence expenses incurred by him between December eighth, nineteen hundred, and January second, nineteen hundred and one, in coming from Seattle, Washington, to Washington, District of Columbia, to consult with the Commissioner of Education regarding the purchase of reindeer in Siberia for introduction into Alaska, said expenses having been incurred by him prior to the receipt of official orders from the Secretary of the Treasury detailing him for duty with the Department of the Interior, and disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents.
Payment to E. P. Bertholf: To remunerate E. P. Bertholf, lieutenant, Expenses.United States Revenue-Cutter Service, acting as special agent of the Bureau of Education for the securing of reindeer in Siberia for Alaska, on account of extraordinary expenses incurred by him in Siberia, six hundred dollars. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb: For support of the Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.institution, in addition to the amount appropriated for this object in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen Vol. 31, p. 1164.hundred and one, said additional expense having been made necessary by the increase in the number of beneficiaries authorized by Act Vol. 31, p. 620.of Congress approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, two thousand dollars.
For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Capitol. Repairs.thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, twenty-one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. 20 Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds. Office created. Hereafter the office of Architect of the Capitol shall be designated as Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds shall hereafter exercise all the power and authority heretofore exercised by the Architect of *Proviso.* Changes to be approved by Congress.the Capitol, and he shall be appointed by the President: *Provided,* That no change in the architectural features of the Capitol building or in the, landscape features of the Capitol grounds shall be made except on plans to be approved by Congress.
Filter, Senate wing. For payment to the Loomis-Manning Filter Company for filter plant installed in the Senate wing of the Capitol, one thousand and fifty-three dollars and two cents. Capitol grounds Improving. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial pavement, walls, and roadways, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Lighting. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: To pay the Washington Gaslight Company for gas service during the months of March, April, May, and June, nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and one dollars and ten cents. patent office. Patent Office. Official Gazette. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, forty-seven thousand dollars. Copies of drawings. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph Vol. 28, p. 620.to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:
” Proviso. Work at Government Printing Office.*Provided,* That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, forty-five thousand dollars. government hospital for the insane. Government Hospital for Insane. New buildings. For the substitution of tile for slate on all roofs, and of copper for galvanized iron in all gutters and conductors, of the twelve buildings of the hospital extension now under contract, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Repairs, etc. For general repairs and improvements, to provide temporary accommodations for patients in any available domestic buildings, and to extend water main and sewer to new stable, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Ice plant. To complete payment for ice-making and refrigerating plant when satisfactorily tested, seven hundred and seventy-six dollars. public land service. Public lands. Registers and receivers. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, twelve thousand dollars. Alaska. To be one land district. That on and after June first, nineteen hundred and two. the number of land offices and land districts in the district of Alaska is hereby reduced to one, the location of which shall be fixed by the President. 21 Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses, land offices.other incidental expenses of the district land offices, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no expenses chargeable to the Government *Proviso.* Authority for expenses.shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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, seventy-five dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing Depositing moneys.money received from the disposal of public lands, five hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp-land claims.settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:
To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp hinds, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided,* Proviso. Agents, per diem.That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping- car fares.
Expenses of inspectors: For per diem in lieu of subsistence of Inspectors, etc., expenses.inspectors and of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct: also of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seven thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifteen cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses, special land inspectors, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and twelve dollars and eighty cents. Reproducing land records, Bismarck, North Dakota: To enable Bismarck, N. Dak. Reproducing records.the Commissioner of the General Land Office to complete the reproduction of the official plats of United States surveys constituting a part of the records of the office of the surveyor-general at Bismarck, North Dakota, which was destroyed by tire on the eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty cents.
Payment to A. W. Barber: To pay A. W. Barber, clerk, division A. W. Barber. Payment to.of public surveys, General Land Office, for per diem in lieu of subsistence, at the rate of three dollars per day, as per orders of the Secretary of the Interior, dated April first, nineteen hundred and one, while engaged in the execution of the survey of certain tracts of mining claims excluded from the Navaho Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona, as per account rendered and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three hundred and thirty dollars. geological survey.
Geological Survey. For rent of additional office rooms erected on the east side of the Rent, etc.building known as the Hooe Building, situated at thirteen hundred 22and thirty F street northwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and extending from the old structure to the alley on the cast, containing above the street door twelve thousand square feet, at monthly rental of five hundred dollars, three thousand dollars. Alaska. Investigating mineral resources. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, sixty thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and three.
Maps. For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, five thousand dollars. indian affairs. Indian Department. Inspectors. For traveling expenses of eight Indian inspectors, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the Held, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, one thousand dollars.
Contingencies. For contingencies of the Indian Service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, six thousand dollars.
Purchasing supplies. To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Service, and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, fifteen thousand dollars. Preventing smallpox. For payment of liabilities already incurred and for amount necessary to be expended in suppressing the spread of smallpox in the United States among the Indians legally residing on the various Indian reservations, or on tribal lands owned by them, or on their allotments and in attendance at the various Indian schools, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, fifty thousand dollars.
Inspectors. Traveling expenses. 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, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-six cents. Supplies. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasure on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, seven hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-five cents.
Mission Indians. Support, etc. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Mission Indians,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. thirty-two cents; for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty-one dollars and eighty-three cents. Washington. Incidental expenses. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Washington, including employees, and support and civilization,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-seven cents. 23 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Indian schools.
Lawrence, Kans.on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Lawrence, Kansas: Heating plant,” one thousand and four dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Phoenix, Ariz.on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Phoenix, Arizona,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Sac and Fox Reservation, Iowa.on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Sac and Fox Reservation, Iowa,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and eight dollars and forty-eight cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Salem, Oreg.on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Salem, Oregon,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-eight cents. pensions. Pensions. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions for services Examining surgeons.rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, and each member of the examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant, whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: *Provided,* That if twenty or more applicants appear on one day, no *Provisos.* Examinations.fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made: *Provided further,* That no fee shall be No fees unless service rendered.paid to any member of an examining board who was not personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department. out of the postal revenues. Postal service. Rural free delivery: For experimental rural free-delivery service, Rural free delivery.including pay of carriers, horse-hire allowance, supplies, and mechanical appliances, four hundred and ninety-one thousand and forty dollars to enable the Postmaster-General to efficiently maintain for the remainder of the current fiscal year the rural free-delivery service. For rent of additional quarters in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for the purposes of the rural free-delivery system, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
To pay amounts on account of rural free-delivery service, set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-four, of this session, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. three thousand two hundred and three dollars and eighty-five cents. Manufacture of stamps: For manufacture of adhesive postage and Stamps.special-delivery stamps for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, nine thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety eight, cents. For registered-package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, twelve Official, etc., envelopes.thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy cents.
Rent, light, and fuel: For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, Rent, light, and fuel. *Provisos.* Limit, third-class officers.and third class post-offices, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That there shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for 24rent a sum in excess of four hundred Leases authorized.dollars, nor more than sixty dollars for fuel and light, in any one year: *And provided further,* That the Postmaster-General may, in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-offices of the first, second, and third classes at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years.
Postmasters. Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amounts retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-four, of this session, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one million nine hundred and seventy-two thousand and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-six cents. Mail transportation. Star routes. Mail transportation: To pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-four, of this session, for inland transportation by star routes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, six thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty-two cents.
Free delivery. Free-delivery service: To pay the amount, set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-four, of this session, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and five dollars and ninety-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ninety-one dollars and eighty-one cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. H. H. Thornton and others. Payment to.
To pay the judgment entered April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and one, by the United States court, northern district of Florida, in the suit of H. H. Thornton and others against D. G. Brent, collector of customs of the port of Pensacola, Florida, one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-three cents. George V. Borchsenius. Payment to. For payment of expense, accounts of George V. Borchsenius, late clerk of the United States district court, second division, district of Alaska, covering the, period from October first, nineteen hundred, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, seven hundred and fifty dollars and forty-three cents.
Insular and Territorial affairs. Expenses. Insular and territorial affairs: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of insular and other territorial matters and affairs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, including the payment of the necessary employees at the seat, of government or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, and to he expended under his direction, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Spanish Claims Commission. Expenses. Spanish Claims Commission: For expenses of Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, fifteen thousand dollars, of which not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended in the purchase of law books and books of reference, and not exceeding three thousand dollars to reimburse the Secretary of State for the services of a force of copyists to make copies of papers concerning claims required by order of the Commission; and said Commission may employ, instead of the messenger now authorized but not appointed, three, assistant messengers Vouchers.and watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; and hereafter vouchers for the expenses of the Commission shall be paid when approved and certified by the president of the Commission, and vouchers for the expenses of the Department of Justice in connection with the claims shall be paid when approved and certified by the Attorney-General. 25 For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Defense of claims.Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge, as fixed by law. and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to be expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the Act of March VoL 31, p. 880.second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, thirty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Alaska. Traveling expenses.on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, three thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Defending suits in claims.on account of the appropriation “Defending suits in claims against the United States,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, on hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Indian depredation claims.on account of the appropriation “Defense in Indian depredation claims,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, sixty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. 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 year nineteen hundred, seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Agricultural Department. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “General expenses, Division of Publications.Division of Publications,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, fifteen thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry.Bureau of Animal Industry,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, forty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Publications.on account of the appropriation “Publications, Department of Agriculture,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Collecting agricultural statistics.on account of the appropriation “Collecting agricultural statistics,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-two cents. COURT OF CLAIMS. Court of Claims. For necessary repairs of the building occupied by the Court of Repairs to building.Claims and to place the same in a sanitary condition, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, ten thousand dollars, and the basement of said building may be used for storage of files by the Treasury Department.
UNDER LEGISLATIVE. senate. Senate. That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, authorized to Clerks to Senators. Payment of.pay to Theodore Gibson, clerk to Honorable Paris Gibson, of Montana, from March twenty-second to December first, nineteen hundred and 26one; to John Slaker, clerk to Honorable C. H. Dietrich, of Nebraska, from April sixth to December first, nineteen hundred and one; to James B. Haynes, clerk to Honorable J. H. Millard, of Nebraska, from April eleventh to December first, nineteen hundred and one, and to Edwin R.
Winans, clerk to Honorable A. B. Kittredge, of South Dakota, from July twentieth to December first, nineteen hundred and one, for clerical services rendered to the above Senators, from the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and other employees in the service of the Senate, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two. Fuel, etc. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, six thousand dollars.
Furniture. For purchase of furniture, two thousand dollar. Inquiries and investigations. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, fifteen thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items. *Proviso.* Payments must be specially authorized.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter appropriations made for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives or the Senate shall not be used for the payment of personal services except upon the express and specific authorization of the House or Senate in whose behalf such services are rendered. Nor shall such appropriations be used for any expenses not intimately and directly connected with the routine legislative business of either House of Congress, and the amounting officers of the Treasury shall apply the provisions of this paragraph in the settlement, of the accounts of expenditures from said appropriations incurred for services or materials subsequent to the approval of this Act.
Rent, warehouse. For rent for the storage of public documents of the Senate, one thousand eight hundred dollars: for repairing and putting the building in suitable condition for such use, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. James H. Kyle. Pay to widow. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Mrs. Anna D. Kyle, widow of Honorable James H. Kyle, late a Senator from the State of South Dakota, five thousand dollars. William J. Sewell. Pay to widow.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Mrs. Helen L. Sewell, widow of Honorable William J. Sewell, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey, five thousand dollars. Expenses, funeral of President McKinley. For payment of expenses incurred on account of attendance of the committee, of United States Senators at the funeral of the late President William McKinley, six thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-five cents. house of representatives. House of Representatives.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, namely: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the Vol. 28, p. 624.House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred mid ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), three thousand dollars.
J. C. Courts. To pay J. C. Courts for services as clerk to the commission to supervise refurnishing of the House, five hundred dollars. Furniture. For furniture, and repairs of the same, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses, funeral of President McKinley. For payment of expenses incurred by the Sergeant-at-Arms on account of attendance of the committee of members of the House of Representatives at the funeral of the late President William McKinley, 27six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous items etc.thirty thousand dollars. public printing and binding. Printing and binding. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Leaves to employees.law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for Printing for Congress.the public printing, including the costs of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in tin' Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for rents, books of reference, and all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, five hundred thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including Treasury Department.the Coast and Geodetic Survey, one hundred thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Interior Department, including Interior Department.the Civil Service Commission, ninety-six thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, four thousand Court of Claims.dollars. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Judgments, Court of Claims.imported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-eight and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-six, one hundred and fifteen thousand and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents: *Provided,* That none of *Provisos.* Appeal.the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired: *Provided further,* That the payment to officers Bounty, destroying enemy’s vessels.
R. S., sec. 4635, p. 902.and enlisted men severally entitled of the judgments of the Court of Claims for bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, under section forty-six hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, be made on settlements by the Auditor for the Navy Department in the manner prescribed by law and Treasury regulation for the payment of prize money, the distribution of such individual share to be in accordance with the orders, rules, and findings of the Court of Claims.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Judgments, Indian depredation claims.Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Forty-eight and Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and forty-five and One hundred and sixty-three, one hundred and sixty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be Deductions.
Vol. 26, p. 853.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 tribes affected; and the amounts 28paid 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 *Proviso.* Appeal.interests of the Indian Service: *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, u his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
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 Senate Document Numbered One hundred and thirty-nine, and which have not been appealed, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-one cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from *Proviso.* Appeal.the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Claims certified by accounting officers. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and severity-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 House Documents Numbered Two hundred and forty-eight, and Two hundred and sixty-four, and Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and forty-eight and One hundred and fifty-eight, reported to Congress at its present, session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, forty-five dollars and seventy-two cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, sixty-one dollars and seventy-two cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-four dollars and ninety cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, three dollars and thirty-seven cents. For post-office, Taunton, Massachusetts, six dollars. For salaries, Steamboat-Inspection Service, eleven dollars and eleven cents.
For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-six cents. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, eighty-four dollars and thirty-one cents. For salaries and expenses, assay office at Seattle, thirty dollars and forty-two cents For preservation of collections, National Museum, eighty-one dollars and twenty-One cents. 29 For enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty cents.
For quarantine service, sixty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, one thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, forty-two dollars and fifty-seven cents. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, seventy dollars and nine cents. For Life-Saving Service, eighty-one dollars and ninety cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers internal revenue, five hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-one cents.
For allowance or drawback, forty-four dollars and fifty-four cents. For drawback on stills exported. Act March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty dollars. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, two hundred thousand and fifty-one dollars and thirty-one cents. For relief of Continental hire Insurance Company and others, Act February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, six thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and thirteen cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For national defense, one hundred and ten dollars and thirty-eight cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, three, thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-nine cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, one dollar and thirty cents. For pay of volunteers, thirty-nine dollars and forty-three cents. For bounty under Act of July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, seventy-five dollars. For mileage to officers traveling without troops, one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-four cents.
For subsistence of the Army, seven thousand eight hundred and five dollars and fifty-nine cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one thousand and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, six hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-five cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and one cent. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, two hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-three, cents.
For barracks and quarters, eight hundred and three dollars and seventy-three cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, five dollars and eighty-one cents. For burial of indigent soldiers, forty-four dollars. For Medical and Hospital Department, six hundred and sixty-two dollars and one cent. For artificial limbs, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-six cents. For ordnance stores: Equipments, one dollar and twenty-six cents. For torpedoes for harbor defense, two dollars and sixty-eight cents.
For improving Columbia River, Washington, forty-four cents. For expenses California Debris Commission, one dollar and fifty-two cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Pacific Branch, four dollars and ten cents. 30 For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, twenty-one dollars and twenty-one cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, forty dollars. For gunboats on Western rivers, twenty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, forty dollars and seventy-five cents. For expenses of Rogue River Indian war, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-five cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty-one cents.
Refund to States. In refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, namely: Maine. To the State of Maine, one hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-one cents. Pennsylvania. To the State of Pennsylvania, six hundred and eighty-nine thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents. New Hampshire. To the State of New Hampshire, one hundred and eight thousand three hundred and seventy two dollars and fifty-three cents.
Rhode Island. To the State of Rhode Island, one hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-nine cents. Disallowed claims reopened. Vol. 12, pp. 276, 615. And the claims of like character arising under the Act of Congress of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one (Twelfth Statutes, page two hundred and seventy-six), and joint resolution of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two (Twelfth Statutes, page six hundred and fifteen), as interpreted and applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the State of New York against the United States decided January sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (one hundred and sixty United States Reports, page five hundred and ninety-eight), not heretofore allowed, or heretofore disallowed, by the accounting officers of the Treasury, shall be reopened, examined, and allowed, and if deemed necessary shall be transmitted to the Court of Claims for findings of fact or determination of disputed questions of law to aid in the settlement of the claims by the accounting officers. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For emergency fund, Navy Department, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For pay of the Navy, one thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty-seven cents, For pay, miscellaneous, fourteen dollars. For pay, Marine Corps, one dollar and eleven cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, sixty-eight dollars and ninety-eight cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent. Bureau of Navigation, nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, three-thousand seven hundred and one dollars and eleven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, twenty-three dollars and fifty-two cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fifteen dollars and forty-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighteen dollars and thirty-seven cents. 31 For indemnity for lost clothing, three thousand five hundred and sixty five dollars and thirty-three cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, twenty-two dollars and eight cents.
For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, sixty-three dollars and forty-eight cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, four hundred and twelve dollars and sixty cents. For extra pay to officers and men who served in the Pacific, ninety-four dollars and twenty cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, five dollars and thirty-four cents. For maps of the United States, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For maps of the public land States, six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys for excess of deposits, twenty-five dollars. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska, two dollars and seventy-six cents. For surveying the public lands, seven thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-four cents. For surveying private land claims, six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety cents.
For Geological Survey, ninety-three dollars and fifty-eight cents. For traveling expenses of Indian inspectors, three dollars and eighteen cents. For telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies, forty-six dollars and eighty-four cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, thirty-five dollars and ninety-eight cents. For support of confederated bands of Utes: Beneficial objects, forty-six dollars and ninety-nine cents. For support of Sioux, Medawakanton band, fifteen dollars and eighty-four cents.
For incidentals in Utah, including support and civilization, five dollars and fifty cents. For Indian schools, support, one hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-two cents. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, one thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and ten cents. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. For army pensions, two hundred and ninety dollars. For navy pensions, ten dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.
Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Legislative: For printing and binding, twenty-four dollars and eighty cents. Executive proper: For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission, fifty cents. State Department: For foreign intercourse, as follows: For salaries of consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit, six dollars and thirty-four cents. For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, thirty dollars. 32 For contingent expenses, foreign missions, twelve dollars.
For salaries, consular service, two thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-two cents. For loss by exchange, diplomatic service, two hundred and seven dollars and seventy-nine cents. For emergencies arising in diplomatic and consular service, fourteen thousand and seventy-six dollars and four cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, eighty dollars and sixteen cents.
Department of Agriculture: For contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, fourteen dollars and thirty cents. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, ten dollars and sixty-five cents. For vegetable pathological investigations, fifty cents. For botanical investigations and experiments, fourteen dollars and sixty-five cents. For experimental gardens and grounds. Department of Agriculture, four dollars and thirty-five cents. For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, four dollars and eighty-five cents.
For soil investigations, five dollars and ninety cents. For entomological investigations, one dollar. For biological investigations, thirty dollars and eighty-five cents. For agricultural experiment stations, fourteen dollars and eighty cents. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, twenty-one dollars and sixty-five cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, one hundred and sixty dollars and fifteen cents. Department of Justice: For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, one hundred and five dollars and nineteen cents.
For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. For fees of Merks, United States courts, five hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, twelve dollars and fifty cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, six hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-five cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty cents.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, five hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. For free-delivery service, twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents. For rent, light, and fuel, twenty-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents. For clerk hire, twenty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For special-delivery service, eight cents. ’ For stationery and miscellaneous, money-order service, twenty-two cents. For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, eighteen dollars and fifty cents. 33 For military postal service, two Funded and two dollars and fitly cents. For compensation of postmasters, one hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-one cents. For railroad transportation, seven thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars. For mail-messenger transportation, twelve dollars and fifty-two cents.
For star transportation, except the claim numbered twenty thousand seven hundred and four, three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ten cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, fifty-seven dollars and twenty cents. For rewards, two hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, February 14, 1902.
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