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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · March 3, 1905 · Chapter 1483

Chapter 1483. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1483.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 18969](/us/bill/58/hr/18969).] [[Public, No. 216](/us/pl/58/216).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Adrian, Mich.Adrian, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Albert Lea, Minn.Albert Lea, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, eighteen thousand dollars. Amesbury, Mass.Amesbury, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of budding under present limit, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Allentown, Pa.Allentown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Anderson, Ind.Anderson, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Anniston, Ala.Anniston, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Athens, Ga.Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Atlantic City, N. J.Atlantic City, New Jersey, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Baltimore, Md.Custom-house.Additional land.Baltimore, Maryland, custom-house: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the properties known as the Peabody and Guiiton properties, immediately Public Laws, 2d sess., p. 453.adjacent to the site of said custom-house building, as provided in the Act of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, fifteen thousand dollars.
Batesville, Ark.Batesville, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Battle Creek, Mich.Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Biloxi, Miss.Biloxi, Mississippi, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Buffalo, N. Y.Marine hospital.Buffalo, New York, murine hospital:
For continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. 1157 Champaign, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building underChampaign, Ill. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Charlottesville, Virginia, post-office and court-house; For completionCharlottesville, Va. of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Chicago, Illinois, temporary building for post-office: For rental ofChicago, Ill.Rent. temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for a portion of the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, thirteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For completion ofNew building. building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Chillicothe, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building underChillicothe, Ohio. present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, post-office, custom-house, and court-house: ForCleveland, Ohio. continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided, *That no part of the amount herein appropriated*Proviso*.Restriction. shall he used in the construction of the exterior of the outer walls of a material other than granite.
Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quartersRent. for the accommodation of Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty-four thousand dollars. Colorado Spriggs, Colorado, post-office, and court-house: For continuationColorado Springs, Colo. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Columbia, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building, fifteenColumbia, Mo. thousand dollars. Crawfordsville, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underCrawfordsville, Ind. present limit, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Deadwood, South Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuationDeadwood, S. Dak. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Decatur, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building underDecatur, Ill. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Dekalb, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building underDekalb, Ill. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Detroit, Michigan, post-office and court-house: For additional amountDetroit, Mich.Repairs, etc. for repair’s and improvements to enlarge the accommodations of the post-office room in the post-office and court-house building at.
Detroit, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Durham, North Carolina, post-office: For completion of buildingDurham, N. C. under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Elkhart, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underElkhart, Ind. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Evanston, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building underEvanston, Ill. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Evanston, Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For continuationEvanston, Wyo. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Fargo, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuationFargo, N. Dak. of work under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Findlay, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building under presentFindlay, Ohio. limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Flint, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building under presentFlint, Mich. limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Florence, South Carolina, post-office and court-house: For completionFlorence, S.
C. of building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of buildingFond du Lac, Wis. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Fresno, California, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofFresno, Cal. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gainesville, Texas, post-office: For completion of building underGainesville, Tex. present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Geneva, New York, post-office:
For continuation of building underGeneva, N. Y. present limit, ten thousand dollars. 1158 Georgetown, S. C.Georgetown, South Carolina, post-office and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars, Gloversville, N. Y.Gloversville, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Grand Forks, N. DakGrand Forks, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, seventy-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Grand Haven, Mich.Grand Haven, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Greeneville, Tenn.Greeneville, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present, limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Guthrie, Okla.Guthrie, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Hammond, Ind.Hammond, Indiana, post-office and court-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Harrison, Ark.Harrison, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Hastings, Nebr.Hastings, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Henderson, Ky.Henderson, Kentucky, post-office: For completion of b nil ding under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Holyoke, Mass.Holyoke, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Huntington, W. Va.Huntington, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Hutchinson, Kans.Hutchinson, Kansas, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Indianapolis, Ind.Indianapolis, Indiana, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:
For completion of building under present limit, six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Rent.Indianapolis, Indiana, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and all expenses incident thereto, twenty-two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Ithaca, N. Y.Ithaca, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Jacksonville, Fla.Jacksonville, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and so forth:
For completion of extension under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Increase from rental savings.To make good to the appropriation for construction, the estimated amount saved in rental, by the uninterrupted occupancy of the building during the period of construction of extension thereof, fifteen thousand dollars, Jacksonville, Ill.Jacksonville, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Kankakee, Ill.Kankakee, Illinois, post-office:
For completion of building under present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Kingston, N. Y.Kingston, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Laramie, Wyo.Laramie, Wyoming, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Laredo, Tex.Laredo, Texas, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Lawrence, Kans.Lawrence, Kansas, post-office:
For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Lebanon, Pa.Lebanon, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Lincoln, Nebr.Lincoln, Nebraska, court-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 1159 Little Falls, New York, post-office: For completion of building underLittle Falls, N.Y. present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Logansport, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underLogansport, Ind. present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings: For rental of temporaryLos Angeles, Cal.Rent. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, twenty thousand dollars. Louisiana, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building underLouisiana, Mo. present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Macon, Georgia, court-house, post-office, and so forth: For continuationMacon, Ga. of extension under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Marblehead, Massachusetts, post-office; For completion of buildingMarblehead, Mass. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Marshalltown, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building underMarshalltown, Iowa. present limit, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, Maysville. Kentucky, post-office: For completion of building underMaysville, Ky. present limit, ten thousand dollars, .
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingMcKeesport, Pa. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Muskegon, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For continuationMuskegon, Mich. of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars, Nashua, New Hampshire, post-office: For completion of building underNashua, N. H. present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office: For continuationNashville, Tenn. of extension under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Natchez, Mississippi, post-office: For completion of building underNatchez, Miss. present limit, seventeen thousand five, hundred dollars. Nevada, Missouri, post-office: The Secretary of the Treasury isNevada, Mo.New site. hereby authorized, in his discretion, to exchange the property hereto-fore acquired for a site for the Federal building in the city of Nevada. Missouri, under the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “AnVol. 32, p. 318. Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes.” approved dune sixth, nineteen hundred and two, for another site more centrally located in said city: *Provided, *That the same can be acquired without*Proviso*.No additional cost. additional cost to the United States.
Newcastle, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingNewcastle, Pa. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. New York, New York, custom-house: For continuation of buildingNew York, N. Y.Custom-house. under present limit, one million five hundred thousand dollars. Niagara Falls, New York, post-office: For continuation of buildingNiagara Falls, N.Y. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Norristown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of buildingNorristown, Pa. under present limit, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Oak Park, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building underOak Park, Ill. present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Ogden, Utah, post-office and court-house: For continuation of buildingOgden, Utah. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Oil City, Pennsylvania post-office: For completion of building underOil City, Pa. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Ottawa, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building underOttawa, Ill. present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Owosso, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building underOwosso, Mich. present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Pekin, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under presentPekin, Ill. limit, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Perth Amboy, New Jersey, post-office and custom-house: For completionPerth Amboy, N. J. of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. 1160 Pierre S. Dak.Pierre, South Dakota, post-office and court-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Pittsburg, Pa.Marine hospital.Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, marine hospital: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Portland, Oreg.Rent, etc.Portland, Oregon, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, twenty-four thousand dollars. Providence, R. I.Providence, Rhode Island, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:
For continuation of building under present limit , three hundred Sale of land to widen street.thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, ts authorized to sell to the city of Providence, Rhode Island, the whole or such portion of the lot of laud and the building thereon belonging to the United States, situated on South Main street in said *Proviso*.Restriction.city, as shall be required for the widening of said street; *Provided, *That after investigation he shall find that such sale is not adverse to the interest of the United States.
Reno, Nev.Reno, Nevada, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Richmond, Ind.Richmond, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Rock Hill, S. C.Rock Hill, South Carolina, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Saint Joseph, Mo.Saint Joseph, Missouri, post-office: For completion of extension of building under present limit, one hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents.
San Francisco, Cal.San Francisco, California, custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Temporary offices.San Francisco, California, appraisers’ stores (newt: To lit up offices for customs officials during construction of new custom-house building, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.Saratoga Springs, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Savannah, Ga.Marine hospital.Savannah, Georgia, marine hospital: For completion of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Seattle, Wash.Seattle, Washington, court-house, custom-house, and post-office: For completion of building under present limit, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Selma, Ala.Selma, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Sterling, Ill.Sterling, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Superior, Wis.Superior, Wisconsin, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. , Tacoma, Wash.Tacoma, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Torrington, Conn.Torrington, Connecticut, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Traverse City, Mich.Traverse City, Michigan, post-office and custom-house:
For completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Vincennes, Ind.Vincennes, Indiana, post-office; For completion of building under present limit, twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Warren, Ohio.Warren, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Washington, Pa.Washington, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Waterloo, Iowa.Waterloo, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Wausau, Wis.Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. 1161 Westchester, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of buildingWestchester, Pa. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:Wheeling, W.
Va. For continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Yankton, South Dakota, post-office: For completion of buildingYankton, S. Dak. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Zanesville, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building under presentZanesville, Ohio. limit, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: ForWashington, D. C.Treasury buildings. repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eighteen thousand dollars.
Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance of theAutomatic fire alarm. automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Bureau of Engraving and Printing building, Washington, DistrictBureau of Engraving and Printing. of Columbia: For completion of buildings under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. For the acquisition of square three hundred and twenty-four, in thePost-Office.Purchase of square 324.Vol. 32, p. 1211. city of Washington and District of Columbia as a site for an addition to the Post-Office building, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, four hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs andSitka, Alaska.Repairs, etc. preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of the sum hereby appropriated*Proviso*.Superintendents, etc. not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be used, in the disc return of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment, outside of the District of Columbia, of superintendents and others, including mechanical labor force, at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.
And hereafter, unless otherwise specifically providedTemporary quarters. by law, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to secure temporary quarters for the use of Government officials pending the alteration, improvement, or repairs to. or the remodeling, reconstruction, or enlargement of, any public building belonging to the United States under the control of the Treasury Department, theAppropriations available. following-named appropriations shall be available, if necessary, in connection with such portions of the premises as may be. rented for or occupied by such officials in the same maimer, for the same purpose, and to the same extent as if the title to such premises were vested in the United States, namely:
Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings; furniture and repairs of same for public buildings: pay of assistant custodians and janitors; and vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, andHeating apparatus. ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations and exclusive of marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but of this amount, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may beMechanics, etc. expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs or inspecting work done on heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, andVaults, safes, and locks. locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, forty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal 1162services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs and inspecting work done.
Books of reference, etc.Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like nature for use of the office of the Super-rising Architect of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars. Electrical devices.Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For maintenance of the electrical protective devices installed under authority of the sundry Vol. 32, p. 1091.civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, twenty thousand dollars. marine hospitals.Marine hospitals.
Chicago, Ill.Chicago, Illinois, marine hospital: For completion of north boundary wall, two thousand five hundred dollars. Louisville, Ky.Louisville, Kentucky, marine hospital: For building for laundry and attendants’ quarters, six thousand dollars. San Francisco, Cal.San Francisco, California, marine hospital: For building for attendants’ quarters, six thousand dollars. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Reedy Island, Delaware River.Reedy Island, Delaware River, quarantine station:
For isolation hospital, laundry machinery, storehouse, and improvements, eleven thousand six hundred dollars. Gulf.Gulf quarantine station: For main gangway, fence, and boathouse, ten thousand six hundred dollars. San Francisco, Cal.San Francisco, California, quarantine, station: For telephone line, quarantine buoys, and improvements, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Columbia River.Columbia River quarantine station: For main gangway, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Port Townsend, Wash.Port Townsend, Washington, quarantine Station:
For isolation hospital, and drainage and grading, nine thousand five hundred dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. Superintendents.Salaries.For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; .
For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand seven hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand dollars; 1163 For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the life saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and eighty-six keepers of life-savingKeepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boatCrews. stations, including the old Chicago station and at the building to be erected on the grounds of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition at Portland.
Oregon, under authority of section four of the ActPublic Laws, 2d sess., p. 177. of Congress approved April thirteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboatCompensation of volunteers. stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfitsFuel, repairs, etc. for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary: supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and purchase of fuel in kind for officers ofCommutation of quarters. the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eightVol. 22, p. 57. of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and cure of same: and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent,Contingent expenses. repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million five hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on theEstablishment of new stations. sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, thirty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service; For pay and allowances of captains, lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers, assistant engineers, and constructor. Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, and surgeons and pilots employed, and rations for the same: for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters: for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other watersSeal fisheries. of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska: for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating toAnchorage. 1164the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, Vol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 30, p. 1081.Vol. 29, p. 54.approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and an Act relating to the anchorage Vol. 31, p. 682.of vessels in the Kennebec River at or near Bath, Maine, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Derelicts.The President in his discretion may temporarily detail any vessel or vessels of the Navy to remove or destroy derelicts in the course of vessels at sea. The regulations to govern the-detail and service of said vessels shall be proscribed by the Secretary of the Navy and approved by the President. Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and Neuse River, N. C.Revenue cutter.*Ante*, p. 604.Toward the construction of a. steam revenue, cutter of the first class for service in the waters of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and Neuse River, North Carolina, authorized by an Act approved .January twelfth, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such construction at a cost not to exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, the limit fixed by said Act.
Depot site.That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to acquire a suitable site in the State of Maryland upon which to establish a depot for the Revenue-Cutter Service, and for this purpose the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. Salaries.For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million one hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:*Proviso*.Large notes. *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 he necessary in executing the requirements of the Act Vol. 31, p. 45.“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, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under *Proviso*.Large notes.the 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.
Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles, and of 1165horse and vehicle for official use of the Director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred and ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-Office DepartmentRent. to supervise, the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a rental of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars.
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, tinder the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesAmerican ethnology. among the American Indians under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of AstrophysicalAstrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Building for National Museum:
For continuing the constructionNational Museum.Building. of the building for the National Museum, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, one million five hundred thousand dollars. National Museum: For eases, furniture, fixtures, and appliancesCases, furniture, etc. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeat, light, etc. service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars.
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collectionsPreservation, etc., of collections. from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum. For the transportation from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,Louisiana Purchase Exposition.Transportation of exhibits from.
Saint Louis, Missouri, to the United States National Museum, Washington, District of Columbia, of exhibits acquired by the United States Government for addition to the collections in the National Museum, including expenditures incurred prior to March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, for packing, freight, cartage, unpacking, and all other necessary expenses incident thereto, to be immediately available, six thousand five hundred dollars. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby tendered,Government building.Tender of, to District of Columbia for public purposes. for the use hereinafter specified, the structural steel and other essential portions of the building lately occupied by the United States Government exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis, and 1166if said tender is accepted within ninety days from the date of the approval of this Act and the Secretary of the Treasury is notified thereof, then all right, title, and interest in said material is hereby vested in said Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be by them used directly or indirectly through any corporate organization that may be created for the purpose of constructing a public building of such size and strength as will permit the use of said material substantially in the No expense to United States.form in which it was used at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; said tender to be made upon the further condition that the tearing down of said Government building and the transportation of the material to Washington, District, of Columbia, shall involve no expense to the Storage of material.United States.
If said tender is accepted as aforesaid permission is hereby granted to store said material on some unimproved public reservation in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to be selected by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds with the approval of the Secretary of War. Books, etc.For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. Repairs, etc.For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollar.
Rent.For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Postage.For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. National Zoological Park.National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds: erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five, hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and veil tiles required for official purposes, ninety-five thousandHalf from District revenues. dollars; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States, interstate commerce commission.Interstate Commerce Commission.
Salaries of Commissioners.Vol. 24, p. 386.For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; Expenses.Vol. 24, p. 379.For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to give effect to the provisions of the Act to regulate commerce, and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office.
In all, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Arbitration of railroad differences.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090.The unexpended balance of the, sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, 1167which was reappropriated by the Act of April twenty-eighth, nineteenVol. 32, p. 1107 hundred and four, is hereby unappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531. regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, seventy-five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.Miscellaneous. Paper and stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, includingPaper and stamps. freight, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Punishment for violations of internal revenue laws: ForPunishing violations, internal-revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act: *Provided, *That necessary books of*Proviso*.Purchase of books, etc. reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin:
For transportation of silver coin,Transporting silver coin. including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin, when requested to do so: *Provided, *That an equal amount in coin or currency*Proviso*.Deposits. shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shallReport of cost. report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin,Transporting minor coin. eighteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been*Proviso*.Deposits. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to CongressReport of cost. the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinaqe of gold coins: For recoinage of lightweight gold coinsRecoining gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). of the Revised Statutes of the United States, six thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities:
For paper,Distinctive paper, etc. including transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, three counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed 1168from the Treasury as superintendent, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. United States securities.Witness, destruction.Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Sealing and separating.Seating and separating United States securities: For materials required to seal and Separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink. printers’ varnish, sperm oil. white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. National currency expenses.Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including express, mill, and other necessary expenses, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Canceling, etc.Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same: and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil. cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.Custody of dies, roles, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely:
One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: in all, eleven thousand dollars. Public buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors.Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, one million three hundred and thirty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Inspector of supplies.General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture, etc.Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suit-able person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars: and for actual necessary expenses, including expenses of assistant, not exceeding three thousand dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Assistant inspector.For assistant inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars. Furniture and repairs.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, four hundred thousand dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United 1169States shall he used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchaseFuel, lights, and water. of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million one hundred thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided, *That no sum shall be*Proviso*.Gas governors. paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be usedPneumatic tube prohibition. for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc.Expenses. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven[R.
S., sec. 4718, p. 919](/us/rs/s4718/p919).Vol. 28, p. 965. hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes the Act of March second. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for no other purpose whatever, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided, **Provisos*.Witnesses.That no paid of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts:” *Provided further, *That the investigation of claims for the reimbursementReimbursement. of expenses of the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners shall be at the instance and under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and no part of any accrued pension shall hereafter be used to reimburse any Slate, county, or municipal corporation for expenses incurred by such State, county, or municipal corporation under State law for expenses of the last sickness or burial of a deceased pensioner.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessaryLocal appraisers’ meeting. expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Lands and other property of the United States:
For custody,Lands, etc. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers fees, four hundred dollars. 1170 Alaska fund.*Ante*, p. 616.Alaska fund: That the moneys described as the “Alaska fund,” in section one of “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States for the uses and purposes in said Act mentioned.
Quarantine service.Maintenance.Quarantine Service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Port-land, Maine. Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Delaware Breakwater. Reedy Island. Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear. Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Cumberland Sound, Saint Johns River, Biscayne Bay, Key West, Boca Grande, Tampa Bay, Cedar Key. Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass), Pensacola, Gulf.
San Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River, Port Townsend and supplemental stations, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. Printing.An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation “Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.
” Books.Books and journals for use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau may be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated *Ante*, p. 466.and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and one hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of all officers and employees of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service assigned to duty in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same: and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which maybe then in force, the same to be immediately available.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. immigration stations.Immigration stations. Ellis Island, N. Y.Ellis Island, New York, immigrant station: For the construction of a contagious-disease hospital upon the proposed new island, including additional power plant and appurtenances, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum shall he paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration. San Francisco, Cal.Angel Island.San Francisco, California, immigrant station:
Toward the construction of a main building and other necessary buildings for an immigration detention station on Angel Island in the harbor of San Francisco, and furnishing the same, including wharf landings, improvement of grounds, and other necessary objects as set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-six of the present session, one hundred thousand dollars, which stun shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, and the total cost of said station complete, under a contract or contracts therefor 1171which are hereby authorized to be entered into by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars. light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.
Ames Ledge light station, Maine: For purchasing land on which toAmes Ledge, Me. build an oil house, and so forth, at Ames Ledge light station. Kennebec River. Maine, one hundred dollars. Tender for inspector, third light-house district: Toward constructing,Third district tender, etc. equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new light-house and buoy tender, for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the third light-house district, fifty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Horseshoe Reef light station, New York: For rebuilding with ironHorseshoe Reef, N. Y. the wooden superstructure, five thousand dollars. Ambrose Channel. New York Harbor, New York: Toward the constructionAmbrose Channel, New York Harbor.New light-house. of a light-house at the intersection of the axis of the East Channel and the west edge of it, to form a range in Ambrose Channel, New York Harbor, New York, at a total cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, twenty-five, thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may contract*Proviso*.Contract. for the construction and completion of said light-house within the limit of cost herein authorized.
Delaware Bay and River, namely: Toward establishing a light-houseDelaware Bay and River.Goose Island Flats.Light-house, etc. and fog signal on Goose Island Flats, forty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light-house and fog signal, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed eighty-five thousand dollars. Guantanamo, Cuba, naval station light-house service: For maintainingGuantanamo, Cuba.Additional lights, etc. existing aids to navigation, to establish and maintain additional lights, day marks, and beacon lights where required; to build a light-house depot, with dock, buoy shed, storehouse, custodian’s quarters, and an oil house, including purchase of land therefor, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Tender for inspector, fourth light-house district; Completion of theTender, fourth district. lender for the inspector of the, fourth light-house district to take the place of the worn-out tender Zizania, seventy-five thousand dollars. Diamond Shoal light station, North Carolina: For furnishing theDiamond Shoal, N.C. Lenses, etc., for stations.*Post*, p. 1266. lens and equipment under the provisos of an Act to provide for the construction of a light-house and fog signal at said station when, in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, said structure shall be sufficiently completed to permit of their installation, thirty thousand dollars.
Tender for inspector, sixth light-house district: Completing a tenderTender, sixth district. for the inspector of the sixth light-house district, eighty thousand dollars. Hillsboro Inlet light station, Florida: For completing constructionHillsboro Inlet, Fla. of a first order light station at or near Hillsboro Inlet, east coast of Florida, twenty thousand dollars. Toward the construction of a lightship to be placed on the outerBrunswick, Ga.Light-ship. bar of Brunswick, Georgia, forty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said light-ship, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed ninety thousand dollars.
Sabine bank light station. Texas: For completing the Sabine lightSabine bank, Tex. station, Texas, twelve thousand dollars. Toledo Harbor range lights, Ohio: For repairs and improvements toToledo Harbor, OhioRange lights. protect the towers at the Maumee Bay straight channel range lights marking the channel for entering and leaving the harbor of Toledo, Ohio, six thousand dollars. 1172 Old Mackinac, Mich.Additional land.Old Mackinac light station, Michigan: For additional land adjoining Old Mackinac light station, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan, four hundred dollars.
Rock of Ages, Mich.Survey, etc., of site, etc.Rock of Ages, Michigan, light and fog-signal station: For making a survey and examination of the site, detailed plans and estimates, and beginning the work of construction of a light and fog-signal station on the Rock of Ages, 0$ the western end of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. Detour, Mich.Detour light station, Michigan: For purchase of a lens, which will show a fixed light varied by a flash, at Detour light station, mouth of Saint Marys River, Michigan, four thousand dollars.
Lake Superior.Tender.Tender for Lake Superior: Tender for Lake Superior, to be used by the inspector of the eleventh light-house district: To complete a tender for Lake Superior to be used by the inspector of the eleventh light-house district, ninety thousand dollars. Twelfth district.Repairs to tender.Tender in twelfth light-house district: For repairs of the light-house tender Manzanita, now on duty in the twelfth light-house district, forty thousand dollars, light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment.
Supplies, etc.Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for hooks, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of Light-House Board in attending meetings of hoard at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, etc.Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improving light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pierhead and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, seven hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Keepers’ salaries.Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Light vessels.Expenses of light vessels: For seaman’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental, expenses of light vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Buoyage.Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house 1173engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals, including submarine, signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites tor fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For the pay of officers and crews of light-houseLighting rivers. tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors: and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River. Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland:
York River, James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the, channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for ail such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys,Survey of sites. and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil housesOil houses. for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided, *That*Proviso*.Limit. no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.
Porto Rican light-house service: For maintaining existing aidsPorto Rico. to navigation and to establish and maintain additional day marks and beacon lights and buoys, where required on Porto Rico and adjacent, islands, including purchase of land for same and the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspector and light-house engineer and at the light-house depot, seventy-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes:
To enableGreat Lakes. the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars. Pointe au Pelee light-vessel, Lake Erie: For maintenance of aPointe au Pelee, Lake Erie. light-vessel on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey ofSurvey of coasts under jurisdiction of United States. the coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of 1174the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and cur-rent observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing oft the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessaryCoast Pilot. resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Repairs, etc.not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and *Proviso*.Advances.Labor, and under the following heads: *Provided, *That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer, or to a civilian chief of party, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct.
Field expenses.For field expenses: For surreys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Unfed States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available,*Proviso*.Island limitations. and to continue available until expended: *Provided, *That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars.
Pacific coast.For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available,*Proviso*.Employment, etc., of Filipinos. and to continue available until expended: *Provided, *That this appropriation be available for the transportation to and from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars. Coast Pilot.For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may he necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars.
Magnetic observations.For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels Points to State surveys.between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical 1175positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars.
For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-HouseSpecial surveys. Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, twelve thousand dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent,Miscellaneous. including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Department of Commerce and Labor regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegate, at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, notGeodetic Association. to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars. *Provided, *That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be*Proviso*.Interchangeable expenditures. available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to anyone item of appropriation.
In all, for field expenses, two hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenanceVessels. of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For allPay, etc. necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including pay and subsistence of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, two hundred and ten thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars.
Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, fiveSalaries.Superintendent. thousand dollars: For pay of assistants, to be Employed in the field or office, as theAssistants. Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars;
For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one, thousand six hundred dollars each: For four assistants, at. one thousand four hundred dollars each; For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: For six aids, at nine hundred dollars each; and For twenty-three aids, at not to exceed seven hundred and twentyAids. dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand fiveOffice force. hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hunched dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; 1176 Chart correctors, etc.For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, type-writers, and copyists, namely:
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For nine, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two. at two thousand dollars each: For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars: Computers.For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely; For two, at two thousand dollars each: For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars: For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars;
For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For nine, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars;
Electrotypers, etc.For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For eleven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For six, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely:
For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; In all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. Office expenses.Office expenses:
For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing: engraving, printing, photograph-1177ing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photo lithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the of lice at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars; for stationery for the office and Held parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as herein-before provided for officers of the Held force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.Bureau of Fisheries. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars;Salaries.Commissioner, etc. deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars: one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at. nine hundred dollars each; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, two hundred and forty dollars: in all, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Office, of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundredOffice of accounts. dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: one clerk of class one; bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousandOffice of architect and engineer. two hundred dollars; assistant architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousandDivision of fish culture. seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station andStation employees.Central Station. Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia:
Superintendent of station and aquaria, one thousand five, hundred dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars: two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, oneFish ponds. thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; four laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each: in all, five thousand and forty dollars.
Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveGreen Lake, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine 1178hundred dollars: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, four thousand three, hundred and eighty dollars. Craigs Brook, Me.Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, four thousand and eighty dollars.
Saint Johnsbury, Vt.Saint Johnsbury (Vermont.) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars, Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers. at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.
Woods Hole, Mass.Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars: three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand one hundred dolors. Cape Vincent, N. Y.Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
Battery Island, Md.Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Bryans Point, Md.Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Wytheville, Va.Wytheville (Virginia) Station; Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.
Put in Bay, Ohio.Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville, Mich.Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, Alpena, Mich.Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth, Minn.Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Neosho, Mo.Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each: in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville, Colo.Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars, 1179 San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveSan Marcos, Tex. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: Superintendent,Baird, Battle Creek, Cal. one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveClackamas, Oreg. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveManchester, Iowa. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars: three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredBozeman, Mont. dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredErwin, Tenn. dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNashua, N. H. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveEdenton, N. C. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBaker Lake, Wash. five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty-dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCold Springs, Ga. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveSpearfish, S. Dak. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars: three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveTupelo, Miss. hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBoothbay Harbor, Me. five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each: three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, seven thousand one hundred dollars. Mammoth Springs (Arkansas) Station; Superintendent, one thousandMammoth Springs, Ark. five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two 1180laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; In all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Employees at large.Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two cockswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees.Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each: five car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. Division of inquiry.Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars: assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars: assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Biological station, N. C.Biological station. Beaufort, North Carolina: Custodian and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, al five hundred and forty dollars each; in al l. one thousand eight hundred dollars. Division of statistics, etc.Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Vessels.“Albatross.”Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars: one. fishery expert, one, thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. “Fish Hawk.”Steamer Fish Hawk; Ono cabin boy, three hundred dollars. “Grampus.”Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars: cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy. four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. “Phalarope.”Steamer Phalarope: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred dollars. “Curlew.”Steamer Curlew: Pilot, one thousand one hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars: in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Administration expenses.Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, furniture, purchase and care of necessary horses and vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of Commissioner when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and com-1181pensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operationsPropagation expenses. of the fish-cultural stations of the Bureau, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus. contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches,Maintenance of vessels. including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses ofInquiry respecting food fishes.Field, etc., expenses. the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish-culture; for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the development of the commercial fisheries, expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-five thousand dollars. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expensesStatistical inquiry. in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchangeable expenditures. expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Fish hatchery. Woods Hole, Massachusetts: For construction andStations.Woods Hole, Mass. repair of wharves and buildings, ten thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Bozeman, Montana: For the purchase of land andBozeman, Mont. construction and repair of buildings, six thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Clackamas. Oregon: For the purchase of land andClackamas, Oreg. construction of buildings at Clackamas and auxiliary stations, five thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Spearfish, South Dakota: For the purchase ofSpearfish, S. Dak. additional lands, construction of buildings, repair of damage caused by flood, and protection of station against floods, eleven thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Baker Lake, Washington: For the construction andBaker Lake, Wash. repair of roads, trails, and buildings, five thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Battle Creek, California: For the purchase of landBattle Creek, Cal. and construction of buildings, five thousand dollars. Fish hatcheries, Alaska: For the establishment of one or moreAlaska.Salmon fisheries, etc. hatcheries in Alaska for the propagation of salmon and other food fishes, at points to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce, and Labor, including the purchase of sites, construction of necessary buildings and ponds, purchase and hire of boats, equipment, and such temporary help as may be required for construction and operation of the hatcheries, to be immediately available, fifty thousand dollars. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, including salariesAgents. of one agent, at two thousand five hundred dollars, and one assistant agent, at two thousand dollars, seven thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor.Miscellaneous. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses ofAlaskan seal fisheries.Agents’ salaries, etc. agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three 1182thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; and for the purchase of stationery for the use of said agents, and the expense of transporting the same to the Pribilof Islands. Alaska; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Food, etc., for natives.To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George. Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Chinese exclusion.Enforcement or the Chinese-exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, six hundred thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of *Proviso*.Publications.Immigration as additional compensation: *Provided,* That the annual subscriptions for publications for use in the immigration service at large may be paid in advance. Shipping commissioners.Contingent expenses shipping service: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, seven thousand dollars; and this sum shall be in full for all such expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and shall be so disbursed as to prevent a deficiency therein. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs.Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building occupied by the Interior Department, ten thousand dollars. For preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, buildings. Department of the Interior, five thousand dollars. For the improvement of the heating of the old Post-Office building, twenty-four thousand dollars. Capitol.Repairs.For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, thirty thousand dollars. New office building for Senate.*Ante*, p. 481.Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the United States Senate provided for in the sun-dry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the. purchase of necessary technical and other books, five hundred and eighty thousand *Proviso*.Compensation of employees.dollars, to continue available until expended: *Provided,* That any clerk or other employee designated by the commissions on the Senate office building, the House office building, or the joint commission on the Capitol extension, respectively, and who may now be receiving a salary from the Government, shall be paid front the date of his appointment such compensation as may be fixed by the respective commissions, not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum in any case. New office building for House of Representatives.Vol. 32, p. 1113.Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, provided for in the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and 1183three, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical and other books, nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars, to continue available until expended. To continue the construction of a building for a heating, lighting,Heating, etc., plant. and power plant in connection with the office building for the House of Representatives, the installation of necessary machinery, for labor and material, construction of ducts, heating mains, subways, and traction system connecting the Capitol building, and for all other appliances, and for each and every purpose in connection with all of the foregoing, three hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars. To provide Hags for the east and west fronts of the center of theFlags. Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inRepairing works of art. the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joi at Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of theCapitol grounds. improvement of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walks, and roadways, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the improvement of the Capitol grounds for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four is hereby made available for the purchase of fertilizer, seeds, trees, shrubberies, and plants, and labor and material incident thereto, for the improvement of the Capitol grounds during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol andLighting Capitol and grounds. grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives: for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, lamplighters, gas litters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house and SenateRepairs, stables, etc. and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and court-yards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs of Building, Court of Claims: For special repairs to theCourt of Claims building.Repairs. building occupied by the Court of Claims, namely, for painting, sky-lights, new roofing, new doors and sash, glazing: new steam-heating boilers, electric wiring, and for labor and material for and incident to the foregoing, seven thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales oh public lands.Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: ForRegisters and receivers. 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, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expenses. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided, *That this appropriation shall*Provisos*.Per diem. be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That no expenses chargeable to theRestriction on expenses. 1184Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Depositing moneys.Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, three thousand dollars. Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp claims.Depredations on public timber, projecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of ad justing claims for swamp hinds, and indemnify for swamp lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars:*Proviso*.Agents’ per diem. *Provided,* That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-ear fares. Hearings in land entries.Expenses of Hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, twelve thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys.Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Desert lands.Examination of selections.Vol. 28, p. 422.Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States tinder the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one. thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Expenses.*Provided,* That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Transcripts from records.Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven *Provisos*.Compensation.hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided,* That persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand: Restriction.*Provided further,* That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall be expended in anyone month of the year for which it is available. surveying the public lands.Surveying. Surveys, rates.For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section*Provisos*.Preferences.Vol. 25, p. 676. lines: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of hinds granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except 1185railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lien of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office mayExtra rates, heavily timbered, etc., lands. allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous. or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for town-ship, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further, *That inLands in California, etc. the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense under-growth. rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines: the provisions of section twenty-four[R. S., sec. 2411, p. 441](/us/rs/s2411/p441). hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And ofResurveys, etc. the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation not exceeding six dollarsPer diem. per day, and such per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coalInspecting mineral lands. fields, and timber districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys, office examination of surveying returns, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, and from the amount hereby appropriatedSurveys in Nevada. there may he expended for surveys in the mining regions of Nevada, situated south of the first standard parallel north of Mount Diablo base line, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed toWyoming.Resurvey of certain townships. cause to be made a resurvey of the following townships in the State of Wyoming: Townships twenty-one north, ranges one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen, and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-two north, ranges one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-three north, ranges one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred 1186and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-four north, ranges one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian; and township twenty-five north, ranges one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen, and one hundred and twenty west of the sixth principal meridian. And all rides and regulations of the Department of the Interior requiring petitions from all settlers on said lands asking for a resurvey and an agreement to abide by the result of the survey, so far as these lands are concerned, are hereby abrogated: *Proviso*.Bona fide rights not affected.*Provided, *That nothing herein contained shall he so construed as to impair the present bona tide rights or claims of any actual occupant of any of said lands so occupied to the amount of land to which, under the law, he is entitled. Abandoned military reservations.For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Vol. 23, p. 103.Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. For pay of a custodian of Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation, Idaho, four hundred and eighty dollars. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. Salaries of Director, etc.Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Scientific assistants.Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists. at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars: For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each: in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Expenses.For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure. mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams, and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, in chiding the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: Skilled laborers.For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty thousand dollars; Topographical surveys.For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; 1187 For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the UnitedPaleontologic researches. States, ten thousand dollars; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofMineral resources of Alaska. Alaska, eighty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical, etc., researches. United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of theMineral resources.Investigation of mineral black sands. United States, including phosphates, and the investigation of methods of extraction of the mineral values of the black sands of the Pacific slope, which report shall be published in one octavo volume and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directoriesBooks, etc. and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the UnitedMaps. States, one hundred thousand dollars: For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of theWater supply. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, two hundred thousand dollars; For the continuation and completion on or before July first, nineteenStructural materials.*Post*, p. 1236. hundred and six, of the investigation of the structural materials of the United States (stone, clays, cements, and so forth) under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be immediately available, seven thousand five hundred dollars: For the continuation and completion at Saint. Louis, Missouri, on orCoal, etc., test.*Ante*, p. 603. before July first, nineteen hundred and six, of the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, and other fuel substances of the United States, in order to determine their fuel values, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be immediately available, two hundred and two thousand dollars: For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been orSurvey of forest reserves. may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For steel book stacks, shelving, and map cases for the library of theSteel book stacks, etc. Survey, seven thousand dollars. In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million four hundred and eighty-four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. The Secretary of the interior may authorize such expenditure asReclamation service office.Rent. may be necessary, not exceeding three thousand dollars, for rent of office accommodations in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for the reclamation service, established by Act approved June seventeenth,Vol. 32, p. 388. nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of and lands.” That the Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase, ofLaw books, etc. such law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications as are needed in carrying out the surveys and examinations authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteenVol. 32, p. 388. hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories 1188for the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of and lands,” and such expenditures shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior.Miscellaneous. Hot Springs, Ark.Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For filling up lakes in Whittington Lake Reserve Park, six thousand dollars. Yellowstone Park.Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, including two thousand five hundred dollars for maintenance of buffalo, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Yosemite Park.*Post*, p. 1286.Yosemite National Park: For protection, and improvement of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toil roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand four hundred dollars. Sequoia Park.Sequoia National Park: For the protection and improvement of the Sequoia National Park, and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and extension of roads, to be (Expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars. General Grant Park.General Grant National Park: For protection and improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the super-vision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. Crater Lake Park.Crater Lake National Park: For protection and improvement of the Crater Lake National Park, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. Wind Cave Park.Wind Cave National Park: For the management, improvement, and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars. Supreme Court Reports.Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisions of the Supreme Court for two hundred and sixty copies of volumes one hundred and ninety-six to one hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, under the provisions of Vol. 25, p. 661.Vol. 32, p. 630.section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, and for thirteen copies of volume forty-nine of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. Alaska.Education of Eskimos, etc.*Ante*, p. 619.Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under bis direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Indians, and other natives of Alaska: for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for text-books and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Reindeer.Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the cure and management of the reindeer, fifteen thousand dollars. Government Hospital for Insane.Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy. Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, per-1189sons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicle for official use of the superintendent, three, hundred and five thousand eight hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. For the building and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as foliows; For general repairs and improvements, thirty thousand dollars. For roadways, grading, and walks, ten thousand dollars. For increased reservoir capacity, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. for providing coal trestle and storage capacity for anthracite coal, two thousand five hundred dollars. For extension of cold-storage and ice-making plant in accordance with plans, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Cake and custody of the insane, district of Alaska: For theAlaska.Care, etc., of insane.*Ante*, p. 619. care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, up to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, to be immediately available. seventeen thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support ofColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty thousand dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. For additions to the buildings of the institution, to furnish additional accommodations for pupils, and to provide for the heating of the buildings from a central plant, and for lighting the buildings by electricity, thirty thousand dollars. Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University,Howard University. to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, thirty-five thousand dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, seven thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural-history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, forty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For salaries and compensationFreedmen’s Hospital.Salaries. of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; assistant surgeon, clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engineer, 1190matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation. medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including the purchase of a suitable ambulance and harness not to exceed seven hundred dollars, twelve thousand dollars; In all, twenty-eight thousand dollars. New building.Public Laws, 2d sess., p. 488.For the construction of the new Freedmen’s Hospital building, as provided in the sundry civil appropriation acts approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, and April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, respectively, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Board of Charities.Contract with, for care, etc., of persons admitted to Freedmen’s Hospital.The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia for the care and treatment of persons from the District of Columbia admitted to the Freedmen’s Hospital; and any money that may be received, from this source, on and after July first, nineteen hundred and five, shall be paid to the Secretary of the Interior, to be applied to the uses and purposes of the hospital. Estimates.Hereafter estimates for expenses and maintenance of the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum shall be submitted by the Secretary of the Interior. Reimbursement to District.Vol. 32, p. 1113.That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, and sums hereafter appropriated under authority conveyed in said Act, for the construction of a new Freedmen’s Hospital building and accessories shall be paid wholly from the Treasury of the United States, and any part of said sum or sums already expended from the revenues of the District, of Columbia shall be reimbursed and credited to said revenues, and said appropriation shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Frankford, Pa.Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For extension of system of water supply, twenty-two thousand dollars; For completing extension of shop used for loading small-arms cartridges at Frankford Arsenal, three thousand tire hundred dollars; In all, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Rock Island, Ill.Machinery, etc.Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island. Illinois: For machinery and shop fixtures, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Care, etc.For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings: for building fences and sewers, grading grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars. For maintenance and operation of power plant, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Bridge.For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island Bridge and Viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Sandy Hook proving ground.Sandy Hook proving ground, New Jersey: For rebuilding and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, store houses, and quarters, four thousand dollars: For one set of quarters for locomotive engineer, four thousand dollars. For purchase and installation of machine tools and motors, and enlargement of carpenter shop, four thousand dollars; In all, twelve thousand dollars. Powder depot, near Dover, New Jersey: For storehouses for reserve supply of war material, thirty-six thousand dollars; 1191 For increase of transportation facilities, ten thousand dollars; In all, forty-six thousand dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For generalSpringfield, Mass. care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars. Testing Machines, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materialsWatertown, Mass.Testing machines. in earing for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machines at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may he required, fifteen thousand dollars. Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York: For repairs toWatervliet, N. Y. the inclosing wall of the reservation and retaining walls at lower shops, five thousand dollars. Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For additional machineryAugusta, Ga. for use at said arsenal, fifty thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenalsRepairs. and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, District of Columbia. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia,Improvement and care. as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For rare and improvement of Monument grounds and annex (PotomacMonument grounds. Park ) to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and preservation of reservation numberedOld canal. seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended*Proviso*.Expenditure. upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine: care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary horses and vehicles for official use. twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five, hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying asphalt and other walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. 1192 Potomac Park.For utilizing for the purpose of u nursery the unimproved portion of Potomac Park between the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the tidal reservoir, and the Potomac River, and for the general improvement of the grounds, in Accordance with plans prepared in the office of public buildings and grounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, sixty-five thousand dollars. Half from District revenues.One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and sixty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. Miscellaneous.For sewering and draining the propagating gardens, two thousand five hundred dollars. For this amount to make salary of the chief clerk of the office of public buildings and grounds two thousand four hundred dollars per annum; as heretofore provided, four hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars. Executive Mansion.Repairs.Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, six thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of conservatory and greenhouses, nine thousand dollars. For repairs to and reerection of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. Lighting Executive Mansion and grounds.Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twenty thousand *Provisos*.Maximum per lamp.dollars: *Provided,* That for each five-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas. including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropri-1193ated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further,* ThatPart from District revenues. four thousand two hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: *And provided further,* That notHigher candlepower lamps. more than six thousand dollar s of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing, and painting park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty-five dollars per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion groundsElectric lights. within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting six are electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights: in all, four thousand five hundred and five dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes,Repair of water pipes. purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and 1 he building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office:Government telegraph. For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. For removing cables of lines from the roof of the Treasury DepartmentRemoving cable lines, etc. building and placing them underground, one thousand two hundred dollars: and authority is hereby granted for laving the necessary conduits under the streets, avenues, and sidewalks of the city for that purpose. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car. at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month: one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month: three night and day watch-men, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Repairs of building where Abraham Lincoln died: For paintingRepairs to house where Lincoln died. and miscellaneous repairs, four hundred dollars. 1194 engineer department.Engineer department. Rivers and harbors.Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: Charleston, S. C.Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, twenty-five thousand dollars. Vol. 29, p. 202.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Portland, Me.Back Cove.Improving Portland Harbor, Maine: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized Vol. 29, p. 202.to modify the project for improvement adopted by the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. so as to continue the depth of thirty feet at mean low tide for the width of about three hundred feet up Fore River as far as the Boston and Maine Railroad bridge, and to secure a channel of entrance to Back Cove of the same depth and width: *Proviso*.Maximum cost.*Provided,* That the total cost of work heretofore and herein authorized to be done shall not exceed the limit of cost fixed by the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Buffalo, N. Y.Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York; For continuing improvement, one hundred and fortythree thousand five hundred and six dollars. Cleveland, Ohio.Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred dollars. Cumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla.Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, forty thousand dollars. San Pedro, Cal.Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Winyah Bay, S. C.Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of harbor at Winvah Bay, seventy-five thousand dollars. Vol. 30, p. 1121.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: Gowanus Bay, N. Y.Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuing improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, two hundred thousand dollars. Black River, Ohio.Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: For continuing improvement. in completion of contract authorization, of harbor at mouth of Black River, Lorain. Ohio, twenty thousand dollars. Ambrose Channel, N. Y.Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuing improvement of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, seven hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and ten dollars. Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pa.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg. Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, one hundred thousand dollars. Toledo, Ohio.Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. Vol. 32, p. 331.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and two, as follows: Boston, Mass.Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement by providing channels thirty-five feet deep, and of authorized widths, from the navy-yard at Charlestown and the Chelsea and Charles River bridges to President Roads, and thence by route designated as numbered three th rough Broad Sound to the ocean, nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Gloucester, Mass.Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement in accordance with the approved and modified project, fifty thousand dollars. 1195 Improving Lake Erie entrance to Black Rock Harbor and ErieLake Erie, N. Y.Black Rock Harbor. Basin, New York: For continuing improvement, fifty-two thousand dollars. Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For continuingArthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. improvement of channel from Kill von Kull to Raritan Bay, seventy thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah. Georgia: For continuing improvementSavannah, Ga. in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvementCleveland, Ohio. in accordance with the plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvementPassaic River, N. J. from the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad bridge to deep water in Staten Island Sound, seventy-five thousand dollar’s. Improving Great Peden River, South Carolina: For continuing improvementGreat Pedee River, S. C. of upper portion of river, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving of Saint Johns River, Florida: For continuing improvementSaint Johns River, Fla. from Jacksonville to the ocean in completion of contract authorization, two hundred and five thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama:Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Ala. For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, by the construction of locks and dams, numbered one, two, and three in the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: For continuing improvementMississippi River.Southwest Pass. in accordance with the approved or modified project as authorized, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis,From the mouth of the Ohio to the Missouri. Minnesota: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is authorized to examine the materials furnished and the work and labor done since November first, nineteen hundred, to May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and one, in accordance with the method and system and under the plans of the United States engineer officers in charge to prevent the erosion of the banks at or near Sawyers Bend, in the harbor of Saint Louis, so as to improve the channel and preserve the protection works at said point, and to ascertain the reasonable value of such materials, work, and labor so furnished and done, and to pay out of said sum herein authorized for so much of the same as was in the interest of navigation: not, however, to exceed the sum of fifteen thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization,Missouri River to Saint Paul, Minn. from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul. Minnesota, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuingOuachita and Black rivers, Ark. and La. improvement of Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana, in completion of contract authorization, by the construction of lock numbered four, near Monroe, Louisiana, and of lock numbered six. near Roland Raft, Arkansas, twelve thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama,Tennessee River. and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals by the construction of a lateral canal, in completion of contract authorization, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River.Dam No. 37. improvement by the construction of lock and dam numbered thirty-seven, fifty thousand dollars. , Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: ForBig Sandy River, W. Va. continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization by 1196the construction of locks and dams on Big Sandy River and Tug and Levisa forks of the same, eighty-five thousand dollars. Detroit River Mich.Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvement from Detroit to Lake Erie, in accordance with “Plan A.” five hundred thousand dollars. Saint Marys River, Mich.Improving Middle and West Neebish Channels, Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement, one million two hundred thousand dollars. Mormon Channel, Cal.Improving Stockton and Mormon channels, California: For continuing improvement by dredging and by the construction of a canal to divert the waters of Mormon Channef into Calaveras River at and near the city of Stockton, forty-nine thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars. under the mississippi river commission.Mississippi River Commission. From Head of Passes to the Ohio.Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization of Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. Maintenance.For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials’ one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Superintendents.For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-two thousand and sixty dollars. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other Vol. 17, p. 367.burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and Vol. 20, p. 281.seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, fifty thousand dollars. Graves in Cuba and China.For marking the places where American soldiers fell and were temporarily interred in Cuba and China, nine thousand five hundred dollars. said sum to be immediately available. Roadways.Repairing, roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to road-ways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special *Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden.authority of Congress: *Provided,* That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, twelve thousandRestriction. dollars: *Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway within the corporate limits of any city, town or village. Burial of indigent soldiers.Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war and soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain who die in the District of Columbia, or in the immediate vicinity thereof, and of such soldiers, sailors, and marines who die in the District of Columbia and are buried in the immediate vicinity thereof, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. 1197 National cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California:Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments,Antietam battlefield, Md. tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public laud within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendentSuperintendent. to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad:Bringing home remains from abroad. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die al military camps or who are killed in action, or who die in the field or hospital hi Alaska, and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea. twenty-tire thousand dollars. Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports:Bringing home remains of civil employees, etc. To enable the Secretary of War. in bis discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Culm. Porto Rico. Hawaii. China. Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, two thousand five hundred dollars. Confederate Moend, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care,Confederate Mound, Chicago. protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery. Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: For grading, draining,Arlington National Cemetery, Va. making roads, planting trees, and otherwise preparing the grounds in the addition to the Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, Wisconsin: For the improvementFort Crawford, Wis. and repair of the military cemetery on the Fort Crawford Reservation at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and for the purpose of purchasing a suitable approach to said cemetery, the sum of three thousand dollars heretofore appropriated is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. miscellaneous objects, war department.Miscellaneous. Military posts: For the construction and enlargement of buildingsMilitary posts. at such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary; for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with adopted project for seacoast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, one million two hundred thousand dollars; but no part of the money appropriated for military posts shall be used for the purchase of any land except as herein specially provided. Army General Hospital: For the purchase of a site for and towardArmy General Hospital site, etc. the construction of an army general hospital, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and the total cost of said hospital,Limit of cost. including site therefor, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. 1198 Fort Niagara, N. Y.Additional land.Land for enlargement of military post, Fort Niagara, New York: For purchase of approximately six hundred and fifty acres of hind lying eastward and adjoining Fort Niagara. New York, to provide for the enlargement of the post to accommodate one regiment of infantry, one squadron of cavalry, and two batteries of field artillery, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Governors Island, N. Y.Enlargement of Governors Island, New York: For continuing plan of improvement for the enlargement of Governors Island. New York Harbor, by wharf work, dredging, bulkhead, and filling, one hundred thousand dollars. Sandy Hook, N. Y.Sandy Hook, New Jersey: For the construction of a sea wall for the protection of the northern beach of the United States lands at. Sandy Hook, New Jersey, forty thousand dollars. Presidio of Monterey, Cal.Additional land for target range.Enlargement of target range, Presidio of Monterey, California: For the purchase of about one, hundred and fifty acres of land adjoining the United States military reservation, Presidio of Monterey. Monterey. California, for enlarging the target range, ten thousand dollars. Fort Logan, Colo.Target range.Target range, Fort Logan, Colorado: For the purchase of section twenty-nine, and one-half of section twenty, township six south, range sixty-six west, for use as a target range for the garrison of Fort Logan, Colorado, six thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Fort Monroe, Va.Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, painting, repairs to roof, brooms, shovels, and so forth, six thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars: in all, seven thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars. Repairs, etc.Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadways, macadamizing, paving, drainpipes; electric lights for streets; two thousand and five dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars: two laborers policing roads, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: in all, three thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. Sewer system.Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. Presidio, Cal.Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California: For continuing the improvement of the grounds within the Presidio Military Reservation, at San Francisco, California, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Yellowstone Park.Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For Completing the improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, in accordance with the approved project, eighty-three thousand dollars: for maintenance and repair of existing improvements, fifty thousand dollars: in all, one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; to be immediately available*Proviso*.Forest Reserve. and to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That of this amount thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in the Yellowstone Forest Reserve east and south of the park. Military parks.Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; 1199for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, completing the inclosing of Point Park; the purchase of small tracts of lands, the purchase of which has heretofore been authorized by law; in all, thirty-one thousand dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work ofShiloh. establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh. Tennessee: for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, and historical tab-lets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, twenty-four thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingGettysburg. the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon: making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, fifty-seven thousand dollars. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work ofVicksburg. establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; these and other necessary expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Maps, War Department: For publication of maps for use of theMaps. War Department, inclusive of war maps, three thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey ofSurvey of northern and northwestern lakes. northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing and Issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating hike levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, one hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries:Transportation of reports. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial Limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. to persons disabled hi the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the supportProvidence Hospital, D. C.Destitute patients. and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of 1200Half from District revenues.the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital.Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the Half from District revenues.District of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Army Medical Museum, etc.Army Medical Museum and Library Building: For six iron book stacks in library hall, including iron supports, stairs, perforated gallery floors, and necessary hardwood shelves, eight thousand dollars. California Débris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. New York Harbor.Deposits.Harbor of New Fork: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: Inspectors, etc.For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars: Crews, tugs, etc.For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch, sixty-five thousand dollars: Repairs.For general repairs and overhauling steam tugs, ten thousand dollars; In all, eighty-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and tire company: for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home: for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home: and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Proviso*.Effects of dead members.*Provided,* That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments: and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, sixty thousand dollars: Subsistence.For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the Branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars; Household.For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters: for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the Branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the Home: for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, 1201and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration: for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards, and for the quarters of the assistant surgeons, nurses, and other civilian employees attached to the hospital permanently employed and residing at the Branch; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining-room employees: carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-seven thousand dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. Home, three thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Repairs. carpenters, painters, gas litters, electrical workers, plumbers, tin-smiths, steam litters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-seven thousand dollars; For nurses’ quarters, twelve thousand fire hundred dollars;Nurses’ quarters. For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Farm. farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; for rent of leased lands, and for repairs not done by the Home, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, six hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: ForMilwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. current expenses, including the. same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, sixty-eight thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For trail spoliation of members of the Home, one thousand eightTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirty-rive thousand dollars: For ventilating apparatus for hospital, three thousand dollars; For cement sidewalks, four thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Brunch, ten thousand five hundred dollars: In all, three hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Togus, Me.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars; 1202 Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy-seven thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; Library.For addition to and alteration of library building, seven thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. Hampton, Va.Current expenses.At the Southern Branch, at Hamiton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-eight thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand three hundred dollars; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars; Sea wall.For concrete and cement sea wall, eighteen thousand dollars; Jones Creek.For timber revetment in Jones Creek, four thousand six hundred and forty dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses.At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Brandi, forty-four thousand dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ninety thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars: Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; Nurses’ quarters.For addition to nurses’ cottage, five thousand dollars; Heating.For renewal of radiating surface of heating plant in barracks and mess hail, seventeen thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars. Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses.At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-four thousand dollars; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; 1203 For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For additional barrack, thirty-four thousand dollars;Additional barracks. For storage reservoir, seven thousand two hundred dollars;Reservoir. For installation of one tire pump, one feed pump, and one ice-makingFire pump, etc. tank, complete, seven thousand one hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and sixty thousand three hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses,Marion, Ind.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement. piping, and preservation of natural gas. oil, and wafer, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the. Home, two thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, and including bathroom in hospital, forty-two thousand dollars: *Provided,* That noProviso.Restriction. part of the appropriations for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For oil and cement house, five hundred dollars; For dairy barn, nine thousand dollars; For powder house, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; For fumigating house, five hundred dollars; For conservatory, six thousand dollars;Conservatory. For refrigerating and cold-storage plant, twenty-five thousandCold-storage plant. dollars: For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, ten thousand dollars: In all, three hundred and fifteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses,Danville, Ill.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars: For subsistence, including the, same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, seventy-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, thirty thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars:Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eleven thousand five hundred dollars: In all, three, hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. At the Mountain Branch, at Johnson City, Tennessee: ForJohnson City, Tenn.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; 1204 Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars: Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; Transportation.For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand five hundred dollars: Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars: Barn.For dairy barn, nine thousand dollars; For steel coal shed, three thousand dollars; For oil house, five hundred dollars: For band stand, two thousand dollars; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, at Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred thousand dollars. Officers’ quarters.For officers’ quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars; Conservatory.For conservatory, seven thousand five hundred dollars: In all, one hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Clothing.For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums-expended for labor, material, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. Salaries, Board of Managers, etc.For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: Pay of officers.For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars: secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general, three thousand dollars; assistant, general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars: two assistant inspectors-general, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, twelve thousand dollars; messenger service for president s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, four thousand five hundred dollars: agents, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, sixteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars: for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars. In all, three million nine hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars. State and Territorial homes.State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support Vol. 25, p. 450.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 *Provisos*.Restriction.Volunteer Soldiers, one million seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall he apportioned to any State or Territorial Home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions Vol. 22, p. 565.of section four of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for 1205other purposes; but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial Home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: *And provided further,* That no part of thisProhibition on sale of liquors. appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial Home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of payBack pay and bounty. of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth,Vol. 14, p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two hundred thousand dollars, For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on accountWar with Spain.Arrears of pay, etc. of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and that are chargeable to the appropriations t hat have been carried to the surplus fund, one hundred thousand dollars, UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualWashington, D. C.Court-house repairs. repairs, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five thousand dollars. Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuingPenitentiaries.Fort Leavenworth, Kans. construction of the new United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, two hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That no part*Proviso*.Residences. of this sum shall be used for the construction of a warden’s residence costing, complete, in excess of ten thousand dollars, or a deputy warden’s residence costing, complete, in excess of eight thousand dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For continuingAtlanta, Ga. the construction of the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and the wall surrounding same, fifty thousand dollars, which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution: and so much of the appropriation for the same purpose in the deficiency Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, as shall be now unexpended, is hereby made available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: TheMcNeil Island, Wash.Use of balances. unexpended balance of the appropriation of thirty thousand dollars for the construction of additional suitable buildings, prison wall, additional lands, including clay deposit, and wharf for the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, made in the sundry civil appropriationVol. 32, p. 1144. Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: ForDefending suits in claims. defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United State and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty-five thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimesProsecution of crimes. against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation 1206of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall he examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons: to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty thousand dollars. Punishing violation of intercourse acts.Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For defecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for (his purpose, four thousand dollars. Traveling, etc., expenses.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight. Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Mission Indians.Special attorney.Counsel for Mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-General to employs special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California. upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. Care, etc., of rented buildings.Care of buildings rented by Department of Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the AttorneyGeneral and to be expended under his direction, ten thousand dollars. Alaska.Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, five thousand dollars. Traveling expenses.Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Insular, etc., affairs.Insular and Territorial affairs: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of insular and other territorial matters and affairs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, including the payment of necessary employees at the seat of government or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, and to be expended under his direction, twenty-five*Proviso*.Future estimates. thousand dollars: *Provided,* [hat estimates under this appropriation shall hereafter be submitted in detail under Legislative, Executive, and Judicial expenses. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.Defense of suits before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge as fixed by law, and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to be Vol. 31, p. 877.expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish 1207Treaty Claims Commission, as me in conflict herewith notwithstanding, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two hundred dollars may be expended for law books and books of reference. Enforcement of antitrust laws: That the balance of the appropriationAntitrust laws.Balances available for enforcing.Vol. 24, p. 379. of five hundred thousand dollars for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, executive, and judicialVol. 32, p. 903. appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three, shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses of the United States Courts: For defraying theExpenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii: of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States: and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals’ salaries, etc. and their deputies, one million four hundred thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordanceAdvances. with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall he made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and five, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall he made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys’ salaries, etc. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation*Provisos*.Services during vacancies. shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the offices of the United States district attorney: *Provided further,* That in no case except in the District of Columbia shall UnitedFees. States District Attorneys hereafter receive fees of office in addition to the salary allowed them by law. The District Attorney for the southernSouthern district, New York.Salary. district of New York shall hereafter receive a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum. For fees or United States district attorney for the District of Columbia,District attorney, D. C. twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistant attorneys. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedSpecial assistants. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, eighty-five thousand dollars. This appropriation shallForeign counsel. be available also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance, with section three hundred[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). and sixty-six. Revised Statutes of the United States. 1208 Clerks’ fees.For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Commissioners’ fees etc[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189.](/us/rs/s1014/p189)For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the. United States, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Jurors’ fees.For fees of jurors, one million dollars. Witnesses’ fees.For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars. Rent.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, eighty thousand dollars. Bailiffs, etc.For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one *Proviso.*Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,* That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further,*Vacation.Traveling, etc., expenses. That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificate, of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of Jury commissioners.bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous expenses.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers. including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Indian Territory.Salaries.For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges in the Indian Territory; also salaries of the deputy clerks in the Indian Territory appointed under the Act of March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and. Acts amendatory thereto, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and one thousand four hundred dollars. Supplies.For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. New York, southern district, attorneys’ fees,[R. S., sec. 825, p. 154](/us/rs/s825/p154).For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, one hundred dollars. Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before us after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, Jail repairs.who have no friends to whom they can be sent, and not exceeding five thousand dollars for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fort Leavenworth, Kans., penitentiary.United States penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Maintenance.Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden 1209seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fifty thousand dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including suchClothing, etc. clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-four thousand dollars: For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General,Miscellaneous. for fuel, forage, bay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners: for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph” gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent, escapes or suppressing mutiny, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical andHospital. surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners two thousand two hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, three hundred dollars; physique, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; steward, nine blind red dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, eight hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and store-keeper. one thousand two hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, forty-two thousand three hundred dollars: two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one Thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand six hundred dollars; For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith,Foremen. tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and eighty thousand one hundred dollars; United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support ofAtlanta, Ga., penitentiary. the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia., as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputyMaintenance. warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, forty thousand dollars; 1210 Clothing, etc.For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for exposes of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, eighteen thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, bay. light, water, stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils, and memorandum books for guards, hooks for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant, water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for genera] supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables: policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron hunks, paints and oils, library, books, newspapers, and periodicals: electrical supplies; for payment of water supply; for telegrams, telephone service. notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; and for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-Gene nd. thirty thousand dollars: Hospital.For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical instruments, and supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; Salaries.For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars: chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars: chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars: captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars: steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, one thousand dollars: two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, baker, tailor, and blacksmith, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; guards, twenty-three thousand three hundred dollars; in all, forty-six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars: In all, one hundred and thirty-six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. Reform School, D. C.Salaries.Reform School, District of Columbia: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars: teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand seven hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four matrons of families. at one hundred and eighty dollars each; two foremen of work-shops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each: farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; assistant engineer, three hundred dollars: baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at three hundred dollars each; laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; two dining-room servants, seamstress, and chambermaid, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each: florist, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, not to exceed six in number, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; secretary and treasurer to hoard of trustees, six hundred dollars: in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars; 1211 For support of inmates, including groceries. Hour, feed, meats, drySupplies. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery. plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, twelve thousand dollars: For repairs, one thousand dollars: in all, twenty-nine thousand fiveRepairs. hundred and fifty-two dollars. Hereafter the net proceeds of the farm and shops shall be coveredProceeds of farm. into the Treasury to the credit of the United States. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. For continuation of construction of building for the Department ofBuilding: Agriculture under the present limit, seven hundred thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Boundary line, Alaska and Canada: To enable the Secretary ofBoundary, Alaska and Canada. State to mark the boundary, and make the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existingVol. 32, p. 1961. treaties, sixty-five thousand dollars, together with the unexpended*Ante*, p. 15. balance of the previous appropriation for this object. Boundary line, United States and Canada: For the more effectiveBoundary west of the Rocky Mountains. demarcation and mapping of the boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada along the forty-ninth parallel west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, as established by the CommissionVol. 9, p. 869. of eighteen hundred and fifty-six to eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, to be immediately available and continue available until expended, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Legation building, Peking: For completion of United StatesPeking, China.Legation buildings. legation buildings in Peking, China, ten thousand dollars. For furnishing complete the legation buildings in Peking, China, twenty thousand dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatement of appropriations. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the third session of the Fifty-eighth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. To pay William M. Malloy for services in compiling “CompilationWilliam M. Malloy.Payment to. of Treaties in Force, Nineteen hundred and four,” under resolution of the Senate of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars. To pay George M. Buck for services and expenses in preparing theGeorge M. Buck.Payment to. third edition of Senate Election Cases, under resolution of the Senate 1212of July tenth, nineteen hundred and two, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Botanic Garden.Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, and for further repairs to foundations and for renewing the water and gas pipes in bottom of Bartholdi fountain, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. All expenses.For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of nil necessary clerks and employees: for rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for horses, wagons, and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence, of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of officers of the Government Panting Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; for bicycles, freight, expressage. telegraph and telephone service; for furniture, typewriters, and carpets; for traveling expenses, stationery. postage, and advertising: for city directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding three hundred dollars; for adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; for repairs; for other necessary contingent and Amount.miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials needed in the prosecution of the work, six million five thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-two cents; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done, by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Allotment of appropriation.For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, and for rents, three million thirty-five thousand six hundred and For Congress.forty-five dollars and eighty two cents. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Departments, etc.For the State Department, thirty five thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For the War Department, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydro-graphic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding, twenty-five thousand dollars tor the Civil Service Commission, four hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletins” and “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and 1213binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, sixty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said amount shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey. For the Department of Justice, twenty thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including twenty-five thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including thirty thousand dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the Census Office, five hundred thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteenVol. 28, p. 612. hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriatedDivision of appropriations. shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof maybe expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided,* That so much as*Provisos*.Agricultural Report. may be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of theVol. 28, p. 612. Secretary, of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotment: *Provided further,* That hereafter no part of the appropriationsRestriction on illustrations, etc. made for printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph in any document or report ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly authorizes the same, nor in any document or report of any executive department or other Government establishment until the head of the executive department or Government establishment shall certify in a letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theAnnual leaves. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing-Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 1214 Sec. 2. Sums for salaries to be in full. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for Repeal.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 3, 1905.
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