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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · March 3, 1905 · Chapter 1484

Chapter 1484. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1484.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 19150](/us/bill/58/hr/19150).] [[Public, No. 217](/us/pl/58/217).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money In the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Horses.For the purchase of four horses for the official use of the Department of State, one thousand two hundred dollars. International Prison Commission.International Prison Commission: For transportation, typewriting and clerical work, traveling expenses, postage, stationery, and labor in the making of reports for the International Prison Commission, nine hundred and twenty-one dollars. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Chargés d’affaires ad interim.Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim:
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim.” for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-four dollars and thirty-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-six cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one dollar. Legation, China.Rent.Rent of buddings for legation in China:
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of buildings for legation in China,” for the fiscal rear nineteen hundred and three, sixteen dollars and fifty-four cents. ’ Bringing home criminals.Bringing home criminals: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Bringing horn 1 criminals, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ten cents.
Contingent expenses, consulates.Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent expenses, United States consulates.” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty thousand dollars. Future estimates for consulates.Hereafter the Secretary of State shall, in submitting estimates for the consular service, segregate, and submit separately, estimates for refit of consular offices, and under contingent expenses estimate for the amount required annually to be expended at consular offices for purposes within the discretion of the Department.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury an account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates.” for the fiscal years as follows: 1215 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, forty thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-seven cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-seven cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary:
For one clerk of class two, in the officeTreasurer’s Office.Clerks, etc. of disbursing clerk, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and fifty-five dollars. Office of Auditor for Interior Department: For one clerk ofOffice of Auditor for Interior Department. class four, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. one thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of Auditor for State and other Departments: For the followingOffice of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, namely:
One clerk of class four: two clerks of class two; and two clerks of class one; in all, two thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars. Office of Auditor for the Navy Department: For the followingOffice of Auditor for Navy Department. increased force in the office of the Auditor for the Navy Department for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five: One clerk of class four; one. clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one: four clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; four clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each; in all, five thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Office of Treasurer of the United States: For the following Office United States Treasurer.increased force in the office of the Treasurer of the United States for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five: Five expert counters, at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum each; seven expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each: in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the following increased force in the office of the Treasurer ofAdditional force- the United States (national currency to be reimbursed by national banks) for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five: One assistant bookkeeper, at the rate of two thousand dollars; one clerk of class one; three expert counters, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each; one expert counter, at the rate of eight hundred dollars; five expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand three hundred and five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For reimbursement of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing forEmployees from Engraving and Printing Bureau. the services of employees detailed to the office of the Treasurer of the United States, employed in the national bank redemption agency, six thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryNational currency.Special examinations, etc. on account of the appropriation “Examination of national banks and bank plates.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and fifty dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay Cora B.Cora B. Thomas.Payment to. Thomas her salary as a clerk in the Treasury Department at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum from July third, nineteen hundred and four, to July first, nineteen hundred and five, and for this purpose the sum of one thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and twelve cents is hereby appropriated, and from and after said date he is authorized in his discretion to continue the name of said Cora B.
Thomas on the rolls of the Treasury Department in her present grade as a clerk. Contingent expenses: To pay the account of the SmithsonianContingent expenses. Institution for the transmission of mail matter for the Treasury Depart-1216ment on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, thirty-four dollars and thirty-five cents. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, eight thousand dollars. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Fuel, and so forth.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses. Treasury Department: Gas, and so forth.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Transporting silver coins.Transportation of silver coin: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of silver coin, ten thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin,” for the list al year nineteen hundred and four, seventy-five cents. Transporting minor coins.Transportation of minor coins: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of minor coins, five thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Transportation of minor coins,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, nine, hundred and seventy-nine dollars and nine cents. Recoining gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for recoinnge of gold coins, ten thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Recoinage of gold coins.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-two cents.
Public buildings.Repairs and preservation.Repairs an d preservation of public buildings: For repairs and preservation of public buildings and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars.
Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, twenty thousand dollars. Furniture, etc.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 tor new buildings., exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and ten thousand seven hundred dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Collecting customs revenue.Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, three million dollars. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. one million five hundred thousand dollars. 1217 To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, twenty thousand dollars.
To refund to K. Odo and T. Murakami amounts collected from themK. Odo and T. Murakami.Refund to. erroneously on merchandise imported into the port of Honolulu, Hawaii, in September, nineteen hundred and two, and covered into the Treasury as a fine, which has been since remitted, five hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty cents. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: For maintenancePublic Health and Marine-Hospital Service.Maintenance.Vol. 23, p. 57. and ordinary expenses of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service in addition to the tonnage tax appropriated by Act of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, made necessary by decrease in the tonnage tax, and added expense in the maintenance of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and additional expendituresVol. 32, p. 712. entailed under the provisions of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency and change the name of the United States Marine-Hospital Service,” two hundred thousand dollars for the fiscal years, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two hundred thousand dollars. That so much of section fifteen of an Act entitled “An Act to removeRepeal of permanent appropriation from tonnage tax.Vol. 23, p. 57. certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as makes a permanent appropriation of the receipts for duties on tonnage provided for by said Act for the expenses of maintaining the Marine-Hospital Service is hereby repealed, to take effect from and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall,Estimates. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, and annually thereafter, submit to Congress, in the regular Book of Estimates, detailed estimates of the expenses of maintaining the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, seven thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this amount be used in defraying the*Proviso*.Witnesses. 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.
” Relief of the heirs of George McGhehey: To enable the SecretaryGeorge McGhehey.Relief of the heirs of.*Post*, p. 1831. of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of the Act for the relief of the heirs of George MeGhehey for services rendered as mail contractor, approved February eighth, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries ofClerks, etc., salaries. all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate 1218printers’ assistants, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and sixteen cents, to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso*.Large notes.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 executing the Vol. 31, p. 45.requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of Caine, 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, thirty-eight thousand two hundred and one dollars and sixty-six cents, 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 Vol. 31, p. 45.may be necessary in 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. internal revenue.Internal revenue.
Redemption of stamps.Vol. 32, p. 506.To pay amounts which may be found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury for redemption of stamps under the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps” (certified claims), fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-six cents. Refunding taxes.To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected” (certified claims), two thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
Cutters “Bear,” “Woodbury,” and “Manning.”Repairs, etc.For amount necessary to meet expenses for extraordinary repairs to Bear, Woodbury, and Manning; and for increased cost of rations for crews, and for increase in quantity of fuel consumed, fifty-seven thousand one hundred and six dollars and eighty-three cents. Expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents.
Steamer “Thetis.”For thoroughly overhauling and repairing the United States steam-ship Thetis, to put the vessel in efficient condition for work in Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean, thirty thousand dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. Lewis and Clark Exposition.Keeper and surfman.Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, from the regular annual appropriation for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, the services of a keeper and *Ante*, p. 177.surfmen detailed for duty at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, at Portland, Oregon, during the months of April, May, and June, nineteen hundred and five, the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. 1219 under the smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryNational Zoological Park. on account of the appropriation “National Zoological Park,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent expenses, Independent Treasury. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses. Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars and ten cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
Mint at Denver, Colorado: For wages of workmen and notDenver, Colo. exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, five thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. To complete the mechanical equipment of the mint at Denver, Colorado, thirty thousand dollars. Bullion fund: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized toPhiladelphia, Pa.Bullion fund.Reimbursement. reimburse the bullion fund of the mint at Philadelphia for the balance of forty-six thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-two cents due on account, of the melter and refiners gold wastage out of the unexpended balance to the credit of the appropriation for parting and relining bullion.
Reimbursement of Frank A. Leach: For reimbursement ofFrank A. Leach.Reimbursement. Frank A. Leach, superintendent of the Mint at San Francisco. California, for amount of money paid into the Treasury of the United States, being the sum stolen from the cashier’s vault by the chief clerk of the Mint, twenty-five thousand dollars. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints and assayExaminations, etc. offices for the purpose of supervising the annual settlements and for special examinations, four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySan Francisco, Cal.Contingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. To pay amounts found due fey the accounting officers of the TreasuryNew machinery. on account of the appropriation “New machinery, mint at San Francisco,” four hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-seven cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCharlotte, N. C.Contingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, assay office at Charlotte,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three dollars and ninety cents. independent treasury.Independent Treasury. Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: For two clerks,Baltimore, Md.Clerks. at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars each for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand and thirty-eight dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses,Contingent expenses. Independent Treasury, ten thousand dollars. government in the territories.Territories. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryAlaska. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Territory of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one dollar and thirty-two cents. 1220 New Mexico.Salary of additional associate justice.*Ante*, p. 542.For the salary of the additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico, appointed under the Act of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-two cents; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three thousand dollars. Oklahoma.Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma: Logan Comity Investment Company, rent of office rooms for second quarter nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-five dollars: James M. McConnell, balance of salary for first quarter nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and eight dollars and sixty-five cents, and for salary second quarter nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and seventy-five dollars, as clerk in Secretary’s office, four hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-five cents;
Louis Thomas, two months’ salary as clerk and stenographer in Secretary’s office, one hundred and fifty dollars; Nellie Z. Kimball, two months’ salary as clerk and stenographer in Secretary’s office, one hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Assessor’s office.Assessor’s office: To enable the assessor of the District of Columbia to complete the assessments of real and personal taxes by the employment of temporary services, eight hundred dollars.
Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: For amount required to pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and fifty-five dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five dollars. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, for the fiscal years that follow:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one dollar and fifty-six cents. Postage.For additional amount required for postage for strictly official mail matter, two thousand dollars. Judicial expenses.For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for judicial expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For additional amount required for general advertising authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty cents. Repairs.For shelving and repairs to old record vault, and for services in the arrangement of records therein, necessary for their preservation, four hundred and fifty-five dollars. Permanent system of highways.Expenses.Permanent system of highways:
For additional amount required to pay the expenses of carrying out the plan for the extension of a Vol. 27, p. 532.permanent system of highways in conformity with the “Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Colombia lying outside of cities,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, thirteen dollars and ninety-eight cents.
Harbor and river front.Streets: Harbor and river front: For additional amount required for the improvement and protection of the harbor and riverfront, the enforcement of laws and regulations, construction and maintenance of 1221wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, eight hundred and fifteen dollars. Bathing beach: For additional amount required for necessaryBathing beach. expenses of removing and establishing the bathing beach on the inner basin near the present bathing-beach site, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-one dollars and eighty-three cents.
For additional amount required for the construction, maintenance,Floating baths. and repair of floating baths, to be moored in the tidal reservoir or the water front of Washington at such points as may be agreed upon by the Commissioners of the District, of Columbia and the Secretary of War, fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, twenty dollars. Extension of streets and avenues: For additional amountExtension of Euclid place. required to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to public Act approved*Ante*, p. 518.
April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to connect Euclid place with Eric street,” to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and five cents. To reimburse Alice L. Riggs for moneys expended and obligationsAlice L. Riggs.Reimbursement. incurred by her in the partial construction of an automobile sales room and storage barn on lot one hundred and seven, in square two hundred and ten, under a permit issued by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said permit having been subsequently revoked by said Commissioners, one thousand and four dollars and ninety-six cents, or so much thereof as may he necessary, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
To reimburse Dewis I. O’Neal, justice of the peace in and for theLewis I. O’Neal.Reimbursement. District of Columbia, for the loss, through robbery of the safe in his office, of certain moneys collected by him pursuant to law and belonging to the District of Columbia, the amount thereof having been subsequently paid to the District of Columbia from personal funds of the said O’Neal, one hundred and forty dollars, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
For additional amount required to provide, the necessary funds forEuclid place, etc. the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to*Ante*, p. 518. Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, to connect Euclid place with Erie street, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents. For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds forEighth street NW. the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to*Ante*, p. 248.
Act approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, for the extension of Eighth street northwest, or Wrights road, District of Columbia, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, sixty-seven dollars and seven cents. For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds forWyoming avenue. the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to*Ante*, p. 579. Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, for the extension of Wyoming avenue to Twenty-third street west, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, forty-two dollars and ninety-three cents.
For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds forExtending S street. the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant toVol. 30, p. 1344. Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to extend S street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, and Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for the extension ofExtending Columbia road.Vol. 31, p. 667. Columbia road east of Thirteenth street, and for other purposes, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. 1222 Widening V street.Widening V street:
For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings*Ante*, p. 521. taken pursuant to Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, for the widening of V street northwest, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, seventy-two dollars and fifty-seven cents. Public schools.Public schools: For additional amount required for repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars.
Heating, etc., apparatus.For additional amount required for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, two thousand dollars. Fire extinguishers, etc.For additional amount required for fire extinguishers and tire escapes for school buildings, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-nine dollars. For additional amount required for contingent expenses for the fiscal years that follow; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ten dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventy-five dollars.
Metropolitan police.Edward Murphy.Metropolitan police: For amount required to pay the salary of Edward Murphy, private of the Metropolitan police force for the month of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seventy-five dollars and sixty cents. Fire department.Contingent expenses.Fire department: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, forty dollars. For forage, seven thousand dollars. Health department.Food inspectors, etc.Health department: For additional amount required for the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other daily products, three hundred dollars. Prevention of contagious diseases.Vol. 26, p. 691.For additional amount required for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen Vol. 29, p. 635.hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighteen dollars and fourteen cents.
Police court.Jury.Courts: For additional amount required for compensation of jury, police court, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six dollars. Additional ground for new building.Police court building: For additional amount required to pay costs incident to condemnation of additional ground in square numbered four hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of Washington, for site for a new police court building, ninety-nine dollars. Judgments.Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven and Three hundred and twenty-four and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety of this session, twelve thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twelve cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law. from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Jail.Support of prisoners, District of Columbia: For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, four thousand dollars. Lunacy writs.Writs of lunacy: For additional amount required to defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico de inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for 1223the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, for the fiscal years that follow:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred and seventy dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. Board of Children’s Guardians: For additional amount requiredBoard of Children’s Guardians.Care of children. for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, three thousand five hundred dollars, with authority to pay not more than five hundred dollars of said amount to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control.
For additional amount required for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, for the services of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eight hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-eight cents, with authority to pay said amount to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For additional amount requiredFreedmen’s Hospital. for fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, forty-four dollars and sixty-four cents.
Garfield Hospital: For additional amount required for isolatingGarfield Hospital. ward, Garfield Hospital, one thousand dollars. Militia: For amount required to pay the Pennsylvania RailroadNaval militia.Transportation expenses. Company for transportation of officers, men, and baggage of the Naval Battalion, militia. District of Columbia, from Washington, District of Columbia, to League Island. Pennsylvania, on September fifth, nineteen hundred and four, five hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-three cents.
For purchase of coal for the United States steamship Puritan, andSteamship “Puritan.”Coal, etc. for necessary expenses in the care of said ship, three thousand six hundred dollars. To pay the Metropolitan Cab Company the amount found due by aMetropolitan Cab Company.Payment to. board of survey convened by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, for losses sustained by said company through death and injury to horses hired by it to said militia for use during the annual encampment at Leesburg, Virginia, between July twenty-third, nineteen hundred and three, and August first, nineteen hundred and three, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toHalf from District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certainAdvertisements. newspapers for publishing advertisements for proposals for construction work and military supplies and set forth on pages eighteen and nineteen of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for construction work, and so forth, and set forth on page nineteen of House Document Numbered 1224Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, twenty-one dollars and thirty-three cents. George T. Holloway.Credit in accounts.Credit in accounts of Major George T. Holloway: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to open the accounts of Major George T.
Holloway, additional paymaster. United States Volunteers, and to credit him with the sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-three cents, as recommended, under authority of the Secretary of War, by the Paymaster-General United States Army. Harry Parshall.Refund to estate of.Refund to the estate of Harry Parshall: To refund to Jessie M. Parshall, of Valentine. Nebraska, widow of Harry Parshall, formerly second lieutenant, Twenty-second United States Infantry, the sum belonging to the said Harry Parshall and erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts,” by Captain O.
B. Meyer, Fourteenth United States Cavalry, as per certificate of deposit Numbered Three hundred and three of September twentieth, nineteen hundred and four, fifty dollars. J. B. Houston.Reimbursement.Reimbursement to Major J. B. Houston: To reimburse Major J. B. Houston, paymaster. United States Volunteers, the amount refunded by him to the Government on account of payment on September third, nineteen hundred, at Portland, Oregon, of two sets of forged final statements of discharged enlisted men, through no fault on his part, three hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Eben Swift, jr.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Eben Swift, Junior: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Eben Swift, junior, Eleventh United States Cavalry, the sum of four hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents standing against him on the books of the Treasury. John J. Boniface.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Lieutenant John J. Boniface: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant John J.
Boniface, Fourth United States Cavalry, the sum of one hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-two cents .standing against him on the books of the Treasury. Charles Keller.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts or Captain Charles Keller: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Caplin Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, the sum of thirteen dollars and sixty-three cents now standing against him on the books of the Treasury.
James M. Marshall.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Colonel James M. Marshall: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen the. accounts of Colonel James M. Marshall, Assistant Quartermaster-General, United States Army, and to credit him with the sum of thirty-three dollars, expended by him in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under instructions of the Assistant Secretary of War and the Quartermaster-General, in payment for preparing an abstract of title of certain land donated to the United States for the military post at Fort Harrison, Montana.
John Stephen Sewell.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Captain John Stephen Sewell: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and hereby directed to allow and credit on the books of the Treasury the sum of two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents in settlement of the accounts of Captain John Stephen Sewell, Corps of Engineers. Texas.Investigating services of volunteers, etc.State of Texas: The Secretary of War is hereby directed to inquire, and report to Congress for its consideration, what sum or sums of money were actually expended by the State of Texas during the period of time between February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, in payment of State volunteers or rangers called into service by authority of the governor 1225of Texas, to defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations, for which reimbursement has not been made out of the Treasury of the United States.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military Establishment. Pay of the Army: For pay of officers of the staff and line, fivePay of officers. hundred thousand dollars; For pay of enlisted men, nine hundred thousand dollars;Enlisted men. In all, one million four hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out ofVol. 32; p. 508. the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized byMileage. law, one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpendedVol. 32, p. 512. balance of the appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven hundred thousandReappropriation. dollars, together with the further sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of theVol. 32, p. 514. appropriation for “Regular Supplies” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, which is hereby reappropriated for said purpose. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety thousand dollars. Military post, Fort Snelling, Minnesota:
To complete the purchaseFort Snelling, Minn.Target range. of land lying south of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation for use as a target range, and for the purchase of the improvements thereon, fifteen thousand dollars. For repair of the Tennessee soldiers’ monument, the property of theKnoxville, Tenn.Repair of monument. United States, in the national cemetery at Knoxville, Tennessee, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Claims for property taken from Confederate officers and soldiers after surrender:Property of Confederate soldiers.Vol. 32, p. 43.
For payment of claims filed with the Quartermaster-General under Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and amendments thereto, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terras of surrender, one hundred thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Survey for wagon road from Valdez to Fort Egbert, Alaska:Alaska.Wagon road. For a survey and estimate of cost of a wagon road from Valdez to Fort Egbert, on the Yukon River, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand seven hundred dollars and sixty-three cents.
Survey for military trail between Yukon River and Cold-foot, Alaska:Military trail. For surveying and locating a military trail under the direction of the Secretary of War, by the shortest and most practicable route, between the Yukon River and Coldfoot, on the Koyukuk River, to be immediately available, one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifteen cents. 1226 military academy.Military Academy. Current expenses.Current and ordinary expenses: For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Fuel, etc.Fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steamheating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, five thousand dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, ten thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten dollars and thirty-eight cents. Jubilee Centennial History.*Ante*, p. 448.Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses:
For the printing by the Public Printer of six thousand copies of the Jubilee Centennial History of the United States Military Academy, one thousand of which shall be for the use of the Senate and two thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and the balance to be distributed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy under the direction of the Secretary of War, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Leavenworth, Kans.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers:
Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, six thousand dollars. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifteen thousand dollars. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana:
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nine thousand dollars. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For transportation, namely: For transportation of the members of the Home for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety-seven dollars and twenty cents.
Danville, Ill.Danville Branch, at Danville. Illinois: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand six hundred, dollars. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars.
Dayton, Ohio.Dayton Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: To pay the judgment of the court of common pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio, rendered November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, against the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers-, Central Branch, in favor of Neil Overholzer, together with the costs, six hundred and three dollars and eighty-nine cents. State and Territorial Homes.State or Territorial Homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support, of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act Vol 25, p. 450.approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for 1227Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seven dollars and ninety-three cents: *Provided,* That one-half of any sum or*Proviso*.Pensions retained. sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.Buildings and grounds, D. C. To reimburse the appropriation for reconstruction and repair ofRepairs. post-and-chain fences, and other purposes, on account of increased expenses for removing snow and ice, two thousand dollars. Sherman statue: To pay for the collection of materials, preparation,Sherman statue. editing, proof reading, and supervision through the press of the volume (Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty) authorized by concurrent resolution of Congress, numbered fifty-seven,Concurrent Resolutions, 2d sess., p. 9.
Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, entitled “Sherman, a Memorial in Art, Oratory, and Literature, by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, with the aid of the Congress of the United States.” said amount to be disbursed by the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds, seven hundred dollars. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.State, War, and Navy building. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, five thousand threeFuel, etc. hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-one cents.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, newspapers,Contingent expenses. plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage. postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, including not exceeding two hundred dollars for repairs of Mills Building, two thousand dollars. Naval Observatory: For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, andNational Observatory.Fuel, etc. other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of the boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, two thousand dollars.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval Establishment. To reimburse the American Society in London the amount advancedAmerican Society, London.Reimbursement. by said organization to enable a deserter from the United States Navy to return to his ship, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty dollars and seven cents. To pay Martini A. Hughes, widow of Edward M. Hughes, late commander,Edward M. Hughes.Payment to widow. United States Navy, amount due the late Commander Hughes for the difference between mileage and expenses allowed and that that should have been allowed, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and three cents.
General account of advances: To reimburse “General accountGeneral account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167. of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums 1228appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: Emergency fund.For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and two, six thousand five hundred and one dollars and sixty cents;
For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and one, nine hundred and seventy dollars and ninety cents; For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred, six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-five cents; Pay.For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and one, eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and two cents; For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fourteen dollars and six cents;
For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two dollars and thirty-three cents; Pay, miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-eight cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and one, twenty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents: For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifty-three dollars and sixty-two cents; Contingent.For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifteen dollars and twelve cents;
Marine Corps.For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one. eighty-five dollars and seventy-three cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, forty dollars; For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, five dollars and ninety-four cents; For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty dollars; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-two cents; Bureau of Navigation.For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, three thousand and sixty-six dollars and seventy-eight cents:
For transportation, recruiting and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-five cents; For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-three cents; For outfits for landsmen, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred, three hundred dollars; For naval training station, California, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and five dollars and nineteen cents; Bureau of Ordnance.For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and three, four hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-eight cents: Bureau of Equipment.For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two, fifty dollars;
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two, forty-two dollars and twenty-two vents; 1229 For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred andBureau of Yards and Docks. four, nine thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and forty-seven cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and two, twelve dollars and ninety-six cents; For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteenBureau of Medicine and Surgery. hundred and one, thirty dollars;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and four, five thousand four hundred and four dollars and sixty-two cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and two. sixty-six dollars and thirty-five cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and one, eight dollars; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, eleven dollars and twenty-three cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteenBureau of Supplies and Accounts. hundred and three, four thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-seven cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand and eighty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and one, ten dollars and eighty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and six cents;
For civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. nineteen hundred and two, eighteen dollars and eighty-five cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundredBureau of Steam Engineering. and three, five thousand and twenty-three dollars and sixty-nine cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-five cents;
For dry dock, Habana, Cuba, three thousand one hundred andHabana, Cuba.Dry dock. ninety-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents; in all, one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-nine cents. Pay, miscellaneous: To pay bill of The Dispatch Company forDispatch Company, Va.Payment to. adverting in the Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, in December, nineteen hundred, and January, nineteen hundred and one, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. four dollars and eighty-one cents. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Contingent: For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps, includingContingent expenses. all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty thousand dollars. To pay accounts on file in favor of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies for services rendered the Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five dollars and thirty cents. Transportation and recruiting: to pay account on file for advertisingTransporting and recruiting. for recruits.
Marine Corps, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay account on file for advertising for recruits. Marine Corps, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty dollars. 1230 To pay account on the for transportation of enlisted men, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, forty-four dollars and eighty cents. Fuel, etc.Fuel: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, four thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-one cents.
Military stores.Military stores: Military stores for the Marine Corps, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty thousand dollars. naval academy.Naval Academy. Fuel, etc.Fuel, oil, waste, and other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools, and for beating and lighting the academy and bandsmen’s quarters, ten thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including the payment of voucher in favor of the Annapolis, Washington and Baltimore Railroad Company for service during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifty-nine cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Transportation.Transportation: For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentices at home and abroad: transportation and subsistence en route to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey; transportation and subsistence en route to the places of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides, and other expenses incident to transportation. on account of fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, sixty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of the appropriation “Transportation, Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty-four cents. Colliers.Maintenance.Maintenance of colliers: For pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Coasters Harbor Island.Naval War College.Naval War College: For maintenance of Naval War College at Coasters Harbor “Island and care of grounds for same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For public printing and binding for the Naval War College, one thousand two hundred dollars. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance stores.Ordnance and ordnance stores: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-seven thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. 1231 To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, eleven thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and eighty cents.
Contingent: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent,Contingent. Bureau of Ordnance,” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account, of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand and eighty-three dollars and fourteen cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance.” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, thirteen dollars and thirty-nine cents. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels: To pay the vouchers set forth on pageEquipment of vessels. thirty-two of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named bad been covered into the Treasury, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and four cents. To pay the vouchers set forth on page thirty-two of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named had been covered into the Treasury, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two thousand and seventy-two dollars and thirty cents.
Contingent: To pay bills in hand and outstanding obligationsContingent. incurred under the appropriation named, the amount in the Treasury thereunder having been exhausted, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand and seventy-eight dollars and eighteen cents.
To pay the following voucher, not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named had been covered into the Treasury, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one: Metropolitan Steamship Company, three dollars and twenty-five cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance, Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yardsMaintenance. and docks, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-one cents. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Contingent: For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteenContingent. hundred and four, to pay approved vouchers set forth on pages thirty-three, thirty-four, and thirty-five of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven, and in House Document Numcd Three hundred and thirty-three, of this session, six thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents. 1232 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.” fiscal rear nineteen hundred and four, three thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “’Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents. W. H. Lowdermilk and Company.Payment to.For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and two, to pay bill of W. H. Lowdermilk and Company, eight dollars. For contingent. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three and prior years, to pay approved vouchers set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-three of this session, forty-five dollars and forty-nine cents.
Washington, D. C.Naval hospital.Naval hospital: For additional appropriation for completing upon original plans the naval hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars. Brooklyn, N. Y.Naval laboratory.Naval laboratory: For additional appropriation for completing upon original plans the naval laboratory, Brooklyn, New York, nine thousand dollars, and for the installation of metal and other shelving, eleven thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Provisions.Provisions, Navy: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal rear nineteen hundred and three, seventy-four dollars and ninety-five cents. Contingent.Contingent: To pay accounts set forth on page thirty-six of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, on account of “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” on account of fiscal year nineteen hundred and prior years, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Pacific Coast Company.Payment to.Construction and repair: To pay hill of the Pacific Coast Company, of Seattle, Washington, for coal and charcoal delivered at the navy-yard. Puget Sound, Washington, in July, nineteen hundred and two, under written contract numbered seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, dated June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and one; voucher for payment of the same having not been received by the Paymaster-General for approval and payment until after the lapse to the surplus fund of the unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation chargeable, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two (submitted), one thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty-one cents, bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Steam machinery.Steam machinery: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven hundred thousand dollars. To pay amounts on account of “Steam machinery,” set forth on page thirty-seven. House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, and for fiscal years as follows: 1233 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and six cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one dollar and eighty-six cents. miscellaneous, navy.Miscellaneous. To reimburse the enlisted men of the Navy whose bedding or clothingDestroyed clothing. was destroyed in tires on board the Olympia, the Alliance, and the Pontiac, two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventeen cents. To reimburse the enlisted men of the Navy whose blankets were rendered unserviceable on board the United States steamship Missouri, in rescuing bodies after an explosion, fifty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
For the hulls and outfits of vessels, and steam machinery of vesselsHulls, etc. heretofore authorized, seven million dollars. Toward the armament and armor, of domestic manufacture, for vesselsArmament and armor. authorized, six million dollars. Toward the completion of the equipment of the new vessels authorized,Equipment of new vessels. one hundred thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. office of the secretary. For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its severalStationery. bureaus and offices, including the United States Geological Survey and the Civil Service Commission, nine thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySpecial inspectors, expenses. on account of the appropriation “Expenses, special inspectors. Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifty dollars and fifty cents. Pension Office: For private secretary to be selected and appointedPension Office. by the Commissioner of Pensions at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to dune thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, both inclusive, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Indian Office: For the following for the fiscal year ending JuneIndian Office.*Ante*, p. 192. thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely: Three, copyists, at one thousand dollars each, and for two copyists, at nine hundred dollars each, paid from the tribal funds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Patent Office: For the following additional force for the fiscalPatent Office. year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely:
One examiner of trade-marks and designs, two thousand five hundredTrade-marks, etc.Salaries of examiners, etc. dollars: two first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; two second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars: two third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars: three fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class two, and three clerks of class one; in all, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.
For producing the Official Gazette, including the weekly, monthly,Official Gazette. bimonthly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, eighty thousand dollars. 1234 Copies of drawings, etc.For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications;Vol. 28, p. 620. said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing *Proviso*.Work at Government Printing Office.and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provide, *That the entire, work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, forty thousand dollars.
Use, etc., of inventions.For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to tiling applications for patents, and for expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, two hundred dollars. Industrial Property Bureau, contribution.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “International protection of industrial propert, Patent Office, ” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, to pay the amount due the International Bureau for cost of exchange on the contribution of the United States for that year, five dollars and fifteen cents.
General Land Office.Rollers, etc., for maps.*Ante*, p. 409.General Land Office: That the unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the deficiency Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, for rollers and other material and for labor required in mounting maps of the United States ordered for the use of Congress Vol. 31, pp. 121, 997.Vol. 32, p. 158.by the Acts of April seventeenth, nineteen hundred, March third, nineteen hundred and one, and April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, made available for expenditure during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and five and nineteen hundred and six.
Maps.For connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office: To supply a deficiency existing in the appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents. Repairs to buildings.Interior Department buildings: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building occupied by the Interior Department, and for preservation and repair of steam heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, Automatic stokers.buildings, Department of the Interior: for the installation of three improved automatic stokers for the prevention of the emission of smoke from the stacks of the heating and lighting plant for the Interior Department buildings, located in the old Post-Office Department , building, occupied by the Interior Department, two thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Capitol building and grounds.Lighting, etc.Capitol building: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including gas and electric lighting, lamp lighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting and for general repairs, two thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. Rent for drafting rooms.Authority is hereby granted to rent necessary drafting rooms for work in connection with the office building for the House of Representatives, and to pay therefor out of appropriations made for said building at the rate of not exceeding seventy dollars per month from November first, nineteen hundred and four, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane.
E. G. Schafer.Payment to.For pipe, fittings, and so forth, furnished by E. G. Schafer and Company, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four; one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-five cents. 1235 For additional wells and water filters, six hundred and forty-eight dollars and ten cents. To reimburse Doctor William A. White, superintendent of the GovernmentWilliam A. White.Reimbursement. Hospital for the Insane, for expenses incurred by him for printing, binding, engraving, and blank books for the use of the Government Hospital for the Insane, such expense having been disallowed in the accounts by the Comptroller of the Treasury under date of August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, upon the ground that the items should have been procured from the Government Printing Office under section eighty-seven of the Act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for current expenses. Government Hospital for the Insane, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb.Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidentalSalaries and incidental expenses. expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two thousand five hundred dollars. public lands service.Public lands.
Office of surveyor-general of Alaska: To pay amounts foundSurveyors-general.Alaska. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one dollar and fifty-eight cents. Office of the Surveyor-General or Colorado: For additionalColorado. clerks in his office, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. five thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of land offices: To meet a deficiency inContingent expenses. the appropriation for this purpose, subject to the limitations and restrictions stipulated under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, forty thousand dollars. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing public moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Protecting public lands, timber, and so forth: DepredationsProtecting public lands, etc. on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp land indemnity: To supply a deficiency existing in the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, four thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Protecting public lands, timber,” and so forth, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and ten cents.
Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho:Montana and Idaho.Classification of mineral lands. For publication of reports of lands classified by the late board of mineral land commissioners in the Helena and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and in the Coeur d’Alene land district, in the State of Idaho, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved FebruaryVol. 28, p. 683. twenth-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the ActVol. 31, p. 615. of June sixth, nineteen hundred, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary to meet the payment of the unsettled bills for publications chargeable to the appropriation “Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho, 1236fiscal year nineteen hundred and one.” set forth on page forty-eight of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session. geological survey.
Geological Survey.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Geological Survey ” (topography) for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, fifty dollars and ten cents. Structural materials.Investigation of.*Ante*, p. 1187.For 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, five thousand dollars.
Annual Report of Director.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 32, p. 1146.The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, under the head of public printing and binding for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, “For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, wafer-supply, papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for additional copies of such maps included in the above as may be needed for general purposes, sixty-five thousand dollars.” amounting to fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty-six cents, is hereby made available for expenditure (hiring the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, to complete the reports referred to, to be expended by the Public Printer.
W. N. Brown.Reimbursement.For reimbursement, in part of expenses incurred and paid for by W. N. Brown, topographer and chief of party in the United States Geological Survey at Cairo, West Virginia, in connection with the disposal of the body of George Seidel, field assistant, who died suddenly in camp of dysentery directly due to heat stroke resulting from the work he was performing for the Government, sixty-two dollars and thirty cents. indian affairs.Indian Affairs. Indian schools.Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses of the superintendent of Indian schools, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
Transportation of goods, etc.For the necessary expends of transportation of Indian goods, provisions, and other supplies for the various Indian tribes: That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and three,” to “Transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and four,” the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to pay the outstanding indebtedness for nineteen hundred and four.
Purchasing, etc., supplies.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies, tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seventy-two dollars and sixty-seven cents. Pawnee schools.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Pawnees, schools,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three dollars and seventy-two cents.
Arizona and New Mexico.Support of Indians.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. One hundred and eighty dollars. W. H. Marshall.Payment to.For payment to W. H. Marshall, of Saint George, Utah, for forty-three thousand feet of flooring and five thousand feet of lumber furnished 1237the superintendent of the southern Utah school for the Shebit Indians during July, nineteen hundred and four, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMississippi Choctaws.Removal to Indian Territory. on account of the appropriation “Removal of Mississippi Choctaws to the. Indian Territory,” two hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-four cents. For support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for otherIndian schools.Support, etc. educational purposes; That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Indian schools, support, nineteen hundred and three,” to “Indian schools, support, nineteen hundred and four,” the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to pay the outstanding indebtedness for nineteen hundred and four.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryTulalip Reservation, Wash. on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Tulalip Reservation, Washington: Buildings,” three dollars and sixty-two cents. For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Indian Territory,Incidental expenses.Indian Territory. including incidental expenses of the inspector’s office and for pay of employees, eight thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMontana. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Montana, including employees,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCanton, S. Dak.Asylum for insane. on account of the appropriation “Asylum for insane Indians, Can-ton, South Dakota,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, four hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-five cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for Commission to theCommission to Five Civilized Tribes.*Ante*, p. 204. Five Civilized Tribes, including all objects mentioned under this title of Appropriation as provided in the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, being the amount absolutely required to complete the work of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes within said fiscal year, forty thousand dollars.
For clerical work and labor connected with the sale and leasing ofCreek and Cherokee lands, sale, etc., expenses. Creek and leasing of Cherokee lands, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the IndianPurchasing, etc., supplies. Service and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars.
For the support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupilsMorris, Minn.Indian pupils. at Morris, Minnesota, one thousand dollars. interior department, miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. To pay amounts, found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryGrant National Park. on account of the appropriation for “General Grant National Park,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four dollars and thirty-six cents. For payment to certain United States deputy surveyors for surveysSurveys, etc. and resurveys of public lands executed by them, necessary to complete the surveys under their contracts, being the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal years in which the work was executed, and as set forth on pages forty-four and forty-five 1238of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-six cents.
PENSIONS.Pensions. Army and Navy.Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, *Provisos*.Navy pensions.under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress: *Provided,* That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient Accounts.for that purpose: *And provided further,* That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately, four million five hundred thousand dollars.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Departments. Stationery.For stationery and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, six thousand dollars. Fuel.For fuel, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents. Horses, etc.For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, three hundred dollars. Telegraphing.For telegraphing, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty cents.
Furniture.For furniture, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, forty dollars and ninety-one cents, out of the postal, revenues.Postal service. Rent, etc.For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices, fifty thousand dollars. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, fifty-nine thousand dollars. Wrapping paper, etc.Wrapping paper, twenty thousand dollars. For wrapping paper and paper for facing slips for the fiscal rear nineteen hundred and two. one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
B. Chambers.Payment to.For postmarking and rating stamps, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, to enable the Post-Office Department to pay B. Chambers, Lodge, Virginia, the contractor for the manufacture of postmarking stamps, for steel divs “1906,” heretofore ordered and received from him, and which amount was disallowed by the Comptroller of the Treasury, one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. Blanks, etc.For blanks, blank books, printed matter, metal advertising signs, twine, carbon paper, and articles pertaining to its use in the issue and payment of money orders, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixteen cents.
Facing slips, etc.For printing facing slips, and cutting same, card slide labels, blinks, and books of an urgent nature, five thousand dollars. Mail messenger service.For mail messenger service, forty-one thousand dollars. Bags, etc.Mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto, thirty-seven thousand dollars. Stamped envelopes.For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, ten thousand dollars.
Distribution.For pay of agents and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, five thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of agency, two thousand dollars. Postal cards.For pay of agents and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, one thousand dollars. 1239 For pay of rural carriers in the rural free-delivery service, threeRural free delivery. hundred thousand dollars.
For salaries of clerks at division headquarters of post-office inspectors,Inspectors, etc. traveling expenses of inspectors without per diem, and of inspectors in charge, and expenses incurred by field inspectors not covered by per diem allowances, ten thousand dollars. Compensation of postmasters: For amount to reimburse the postalPostmasters’ compensation. revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, including amounts certified in House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-six, of this session, five hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Railway mail service: For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneousRent, etc. office expenses, schedules of mail trains, telephone service, typewriting machines, and badges for railway postal clerks, three thousand dollars. For refunds of postage, including amounts certified in House DocumentRefunds of postage. Numbered Three hundred and four, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four dollars and sixty-two cents, For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three dollars and sixty cents.
For city free-delivery service, incidental expenses, including amountsCity free delivery. certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and four, of this session, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four dollars. For miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, to pay amountMiscellaneous items. certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and four, of this session, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-three cents.
For rural free-delivery service, including amounts certified tn House Document Numbered Three hundred and four, of this session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-three cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-six cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, forty-eight dollars and two cents. For canceling machines, to pay amounts certified in House DocumentCanceling machines.
Numbered Three hundred and four of this session, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and prior years, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety cents. For rewards, to pay amounts certified in House DocumentRewards. Numbered Three hundred and four of this session, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and prior years, one thousand four hundred dollars. To pay to Edward G. Edgerton, postmaster at Yankton, SouthEdward G. Edgerton.Payment to. Dakota, in full for difference in compensation he was obliged to pay over and above the regular contract price with Simon Price, who had resigned, to Thomas Rogers, for carrying the mails on mail messenger route numbered two hundred and fifty-nine thousand and fifty-three, Yrankton, South Dakota, between July eighteenth and thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, pending the letting of a new contract for service on said route, twenty-two dollars and seventy-six cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For stationery for the fiscal years as follows:Stationery. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and four, four dollars and sixty cents. 1240 Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, book of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty-two dollars and two cents. Ponce, P. R.Prize money.Prize money, Ponce, Porto Rico: To satisfy a decree rendered by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in the case of Charles H. Davis, captain. United States Navy, and others, against the Paz, ventura, and others, one thousand five hundred dollars.
William Michael Byrne.Payment to.Payment of William Michael Byrne: For the payment of William Michael Byrne for salary as United States district attorney for the district of Delaware, from March fifth to October sixth, nineteen hundred and three, inclusive, one thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty-one cents. Indian Territory.Judicial expenses.Judicial: For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables and expenses of commissioners and judges, in the Indian Territory” one thousand dollars.
Deputy clerks.Vol. 28, p. 695.For 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, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-one cents. Additional circuit judge.*Ante*, p. 617.For the salary of the additional circuit judge for the first judicial circuit (Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five):
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three thousand two hundred and eleven dollars and eleven cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven thousand dollars. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. Marshals.For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, nineteen dollars and seventy-eight cents. District attorneys and assistants.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys.
United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and tour, three thousand and seven dollars and eighty-three cents To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account pt the appropriation “Fees of district attorney, southern district of New York, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-four cents, 1241 For fees of clerks.
United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows:Fees of clerks. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, forty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Fees of clerks, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows:Jurors’ fees.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses, forty thousand dollars.Witnesses’ fees. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of courtrooms. fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySupplies. on account of the appropriation for “Supplies for United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and forty dollars and forty-eight vents.
For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,* That all persons employed under section seven hundred*Provisos*.Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p/136). 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,* That no such person shall be employed during vacation;Vacation. of reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges ofExpenses of judges. the circuit courts of appeals, not to exceed ten dollars per day; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensationJury commissioners. for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records for the fiscal years as follows; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in so far as it may be*Provisos*.Alaska. deemed necessary by the Attorney-General this appropriation and the like appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska: *Provided further,* That the unexpended Government funds which were in the handsUse of unexpended funds.*Ante*, p. 616. of the clerks of the district court for the district of Alaska at the close of January twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and five, shall be available for the payment of court expenses in so far as they were available by virtue of then existing law. notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the 1242establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes.
” For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fourteen thousand dollars. Miscellaneous expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Miscellaneous expenses. United States courts,” for the fiscal y8ar nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and fifteen dollars and fifteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.
Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary.United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the support of the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.Salaries, etc.Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For salaries and expenses, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, namely:
For expenses of taking testimony abroad, to be available until used, twenty-five thousand dollars; and said Commission may expend not exceeding two hundred dollars for the purchase of law books, maps, and books of reference. Gaspar A. Betancourt.Payment to personal representative of.To pay the award in favor of the personal representative of Gaspar A. Betancourt ten thousand dollars, at the end of sixty days from the date of said award if no new trial or rehearing shall have been had, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Agricultural Department.
Bureau of Animal Industry.General expenses.*Ante*, p. 280.Bureau of Animal Industry: To supply a deficiency tn the appropriation “General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars under this title in the “Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five.” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Protection of forest reserves.Protection of forest reserves: To meet a deficiency in the appropriation for forest reserves, including the objects mentioned and limitations and restrictions mentioned under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty thousand dollars, of which amount not exceeding one hundred dollars may be used for the purchase of law books. William H. Lacy.Payment to.To pay the account of William H.
Lacy for material and labor used and employed in April, nineteen hundred and four, in plastering rooms in the building known as thirteen hundred and sixty-two B street southwest. Washington, District of Columbia, occupied as a laboratory by the Bureau of Animal Industry, under a lease duly made and executed, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. Postage.Office of the Secretary:
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Postage, Department of Commerce and Labor, bureaus transferred.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-five cents. 1243 Bureau of Corporations: The unexpended balance of the appropriationBureau of Corporations.Special attorneys, etc.Unexpended balance available.*Ante*, p. 136.Vol. 32, p. 827. of forty-six thousand dollars made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of special attorneys and others for the purpose of carrying on the work of said Bureau as provided by the Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of fifteen thousandPer diem. dollars made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for per*Ante*, p. 136. diem, in lieu of subsistence to each of said special attorneys and others while absent from their homes on duty, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses, including necessary sleeping-car fares, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
Diplomatic, Consular, and Commercial Reports: To pay amountsConsular, etc., reports. found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Publication of Diplomatic, Consular, and Commercial Reports,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eight hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents. Bureau of Standards: For extra labor during the fiscal year nineteenBureau of Standards.Apparatus. hundred and five, necessary in connection with the installation of apparatus and equipment in the new physical laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For covering with wood the concrete floors on the ground floorCovering concrete floors. of the physical laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, two thousand dollars. For painting interior walls and corridors of the physical and chemicalPainting. laboratories of the Bureau of Standards, two thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel for beat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, printingFuel, etc. and binding, books and periodicals; traveling expenses; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of 5Veights and Measures, and contingencies of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars, one hundred dollars of this amount to be available to meet deficiencies in the appropriation “General expenses, Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and four. ” For the erection of a fire-proof outbuilding in connection with theFireproof building. mechanical equipment of the Bureau of Standards, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryGeneral expenses. on account of the appropriation “General expenses, National Bureau of Standards,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seventy-five dollars and thirty-three cents. Light-House Establishment: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent ofLight-House Establishment.Salaries, etc. 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, thirteen thousand dollars.
For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporaryLight vessels.Wages, etc. 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-1244house inspectors and the light-house engineers, and at light-house depots, thirteen thousand dollars. Census Office.Cotton reports.*Post*, p. 1282.Census Office: For additional amount required to enable the Director of the Census to comply with that provision of joint resolution of Congress, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and five, directing that the Director of the Census shall make semimonthly publication of the amount of cotton ginned in lieu of the monthly reports which be now makes, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Herman Morris.Payment to.To pay Herman Morris for services as supervisor of the census for the third supervisor’s district of Kentucky from July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, until January eighth, nineteen hundred, four hundred dollars. Coast and Geodetic Survey.Repairs.Steamer “Patterson.”Coast and Geodetic Survey: For repairs to the Coast Survey steamer Patterson during the month of April, nineteen hundred and four, made necessary by the cracking and collapse of her main furnaces at sea, repairs to the main boilers and boat davits, five thousand five hundred and three dollars.
Steamer “Pathfinder.”That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for new steamer Vol. 32, p. 1099.and outfit for Coast and Geodetic Survey authorized in the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, be, and is hereby, made available for the deficiency caused by the repairs to the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Pathfinder during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. Richards Building.Repairs, etc.For pointing, painting, and calcimining six rooms and hallway, repairs to roof of carpenter shop, repairs to roof, valleys, and gutters of portion of building occupied by engraving division, Richards Building, and necessary glazing, together with repairs to six rooms and hallway, Butler Building, five hundred dollars.
Ellis Island, New York Harbor.Dredging.Expenses of regulating immigration: For additional dredging in and about Ellis, Island, New York Harbor, payable from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, ten thousand dollars. Nora Kelly.Payment to.For payment to Mrs. Nora Kelly, contract caterer at the Boston, Massachusetts, immigration station, cost of maintenance of the alien, Franciska Romanska. during detention as a witness in behalf of the United States in a suit at law under the immigration laws, from August seventeenth to September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, to be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, sixteen dollars and forty cents. *Provisos*.Witnesses.*Provide* That the necessary expenses incident to the detention of aliens ordered deported, whose attendance as witnesses is required in behalf of the United States in prosecutions arising under the immigration laws, may be paid from the permanent appropriation for Honolulu, Hawaii.Quarantine station.Vol. 32, p. 1091.“Expenses of regulating immigration:” *And provided further,* That nothing contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act. approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, making appropriation for the establishment of an immigration station at Honolulu, Hawaii, shall be construed to prevent payment of the cost of the furniture and equipments required for said station from the permanent appropriation for “Expenses of regulating immigration.
” Canadian Pacific Railway Company.Payment to.The Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to pay, out of the existing appropriation for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws, to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company the sum of sixteen thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty cents, for reimbursement of cost of maintenance of alleged native-born Chinese in the years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four for the period during which, by order of the courts under habeas corpus proceedings, said Chinese were 1245detained in the detention station at Malone, New York, until said Chinese were delivered to said company for deportation to China.
Refund of fine to Rafael Subira: To refund to Rafael Subira,Rafael Subira.Refund of fine to. of Ponce, Porto Rico, the sum of twenty dollars, erroneously received from him, under section fifteen of the Act of March third, nineteenVol. 32, p. 1217. hundred and three, which sum was erroneously covered into the Treasury as a navigation line, twenty dollars. Payment to Joseph C. Hudson: To pay to Joseph C. Hudson,Joseph C. Hudson.Payment to. of El Paso, Texas, for information furnished to Adam G.
Malloy, inspector in the immigration service, on April second, nineteen hundred and two, which information led to the conviction of Fritz Brinck for importing aliens under contract from Mexico in violation of the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, oneVol. 23, p. 332. hundred and twenty-five dollars. Payment to owners of steam towboat Cumberland: For paymentSteam towboat “Cumberland.”Payment to owners. to the owners of the steam towboat Cumberland for services rendered April ninth and tenth, nineteen hundred and four, in the channel of the harbor at Portland.
Maine, in patrolling during the night and morning, for the protection of incoming steamers, the vicinity of the wreck of the schooner Stephen Bennett, which sunk April ninth, nineteen hundred and four, through collision with the steamer Southwark, one hundred dollars. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay the heirs at law of Honorable George F. Hoar, late a SenatorGeorge F. Hoar.Payment to heirs of. from the State of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of Honorable.
Matthew S. Quay, late a SenatorMatthew S. Quay.Payment to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inCompensation of officers, etc. the service of the Senate, namely: For five annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees,Clerks to Senators. at one thousand five hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for sixteen pages for thePages.
Senate Chamber at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, from March fourth to March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and five, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. There shell be employed in the office of the Secretary of the SenateAssistant Secretary of the Senate.Office created. an Assistant Secretary of the Senate (Henry M. Rose), at an annual salary of five thousand dollars, and the sum of six thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars is hereby appropriated for the balance of the present fiscal year and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, forty thousand dollars.Miscellaneous items. For repairs of Maltby Building, five hundred dollars.Maltby Building.
That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Charles G. Long, clerk to Honorable Philander C. Knox, ofCharles C. Long.Services. Pennsylvania, from July first to December fifth, nineteen hundred and four, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriations for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. 1246 C. E. Richardson.Services.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay C.
E. Richardson for extra services rendered in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, one hundred and fifty dollars. Official reporters.Extra services.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and four, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. J. H. Jones.Payment to.To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the third session of the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Ormsby McHarg.Extra services.To pay Ormsby McHarg for indexing and for extra services as clerk to the Committee on Pensions seven hundred and fifty dollars. Dennis M. Kerr.Services.To pay Dennis M. Kerr for services as assistant clerk, by detail to the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. James B. Finch, jr.Services.To pay James B. Finch, junior, assistant clerk to the Committee on Indian Affairs, for extra services in compiling and preparing indexes to committee reports, and stenographic work, two hundred and fifty dollars.
William B. Turner.Payment to.To pay William B. Turner for preparing index to the report of Robert C. Morris, agent of the United States before the United States and Venezuelan Claims Commission, two hundred and fifty dollars. Lewis and Clark Exposition.Joint Congressional committee.Concurrent Resolutions, p. 13.To defray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of the Senate and House authorized to attend and represent the Congress of the United States on the occasion of the formal opening ceremonies of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental-Fair, tube held at Portland.
Oregon, June first, nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum four thousand dollars shall be accredited to the Senate, to be Expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and six thousand dollars accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, and by the Committee on Accounts of the House, respectively.
Private claims.Index of Senate, 58th Congress.To enable the Committee on Claims to prepare a record and index of private claims introduced in the Senate during the Fifty-eighth Congress, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so ranch thereof as may be necessary, to be paid upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee; and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman, may be paid as additional compensation to any officer or employee of the United States, this amount to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
Said work shall be completed and reported to the Senate on the first day of the first regular session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, and the usual number of copies shall be printed ready for distribution on said date. Canal Zone.Unexpended balance available.*Ante*, p. 429.That so much of the sum appropriated by the Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, to defray the expenses of the Commission created by that. Act, remaining unexpended, may be expended by said Commission under the direction of the chairman of said Commission for the further investigation of the matters for which said Act provided, but no expenditure beyond said unexpended balance Commission continued.shall be made: and the Commission is hereby revived and continued until the beginning of the next session of Congress. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
Congressional employees.Extra month’s pay.To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and 1247House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and five, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W. A. Smith. Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the third session of the Fifty-eighth Congress, a stun equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available.
For allowance to the following contestants and contestants for expensesContested-election expenses. incurred by them in contested-election cases as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections; To William Connell, two thousand dollars;William Connell. To A. H. Jackson, four hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-fiveA. H. Jackson. cents; To W. Godfrey Hunter, in the case of Edwards against Hunter,W. Godfrey Hunter. two thousand dollars; To W. Godfrey Hunter, in the case of White against Hunter, five hundred dollars;
To D. C. Edwards, two thousand dollars;D. C. Edwards. To John D. White, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nineJohn D. White. dollars and ninety-seven cents; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. To pay the widow of W. F. Mahoney, late a Representative inW. F. Mahoney.Pay to widow of. Congress from the State of Illinois, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of Norton F. Otis, late a Representative in CongressNorton P. Otis.Pay to widow of. from the State of New York, five thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. on account of fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, including the accounts set forth in House Documents Numbered Twenty-two, Seventy-eight, and One hundred and forty-one of this session, five thousand four hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-three cents.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, five thousand dollars.Fuel and oil. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, two thousandFurniture. eight hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-one cents. For hire of horses, feed, repair of wagon and harness for the Door-keeper,Doorkeeper.Horses, etc. three hundred dollars. To reimburse the official reporters M debates and the official stenographersOfficial reporters and stenographers.Extra services. to committees of the House of Representatives for moneys actually paid out by them for clerical help and extra services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and four, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and to John J.
Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. To pay approved vouchers on file for extra stenographic servicesReporting. rendered to committees of the House, eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty-five cents. To continue employment of the docket clerk authorized by resolutionDocket clerk. of the House February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, both inclusive, six hundred and fifty dollars.
To continue employment of three assistants in the document room,Document room.Assistants. under resolution of the House of January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, both inclusive, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 1248 Library.Janitor.To continue employment of the janitor in the Library of the House, authorized by resolution of January twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, both inclusive, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, nine hundred and fifty-four dollars.
Committee on Territories.Janitor.For janitor for room of Committee on the Territories from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, both inclusive, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, nine hundred and fifty-four dollars. Document room.Janitor.To continue employment of the janitor in the document room from March third to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, both inclusive, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, two hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Folding room.Watchman.For night watchman at branch folding room from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, both inclusive, al the rate of sixty dollars per month, two hundred and thirty-four dollars. Chief Clerk.Messenger.For additional compensation to messenger in office of the Chief Clerk, three hundred and sixty dollars. Committee on Rivers and Harbors.Assistant clerk.For assistant clerk to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors from March third to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, both inclusive, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, four hundred and fifty-five dollars.
P. L. Coultry.Pay.For employment and compensation of P. L. Coultry as assistant to the foreman of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, from March third to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, inclusive, at the rate of three dollars and eighty-five cents per day, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. George E. Printy.Pay.To continue during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six the employment of George E.
Printy as assistant to foreman of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand four hundred and five dollars and twenty-five cents. D. S. Porter.Services.To pay D. S. Porter for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. Herman Gauss.Services.To pay Herman Gauss for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Paul Mitchell.Services.To pay Paul Mitchell for services as janitor to rooms of the Committee on Appropriations, three hundred dollars. L. W. Busbey.Services.To pay L. W. Busbey, for services as clerk to the Committee on Rules, five hundred dollars. Sergeant-at-Arms.Bookkeeper.For additional salary of the bookkeeper in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, at, the rate of four hundred dollars per annum from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive, five hundred and thirty dollars.
Inspector of cabs, etc.For inspector of cabs and other vehicles, at the rate of sixty dollars per month from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive, to be appointed by the 8ergeantatArms. nine hundred and fifty-four dollars. R. B. Horton.Services.To pay R. B. Horton for compiling and indexing reports and hearings for use of the Committee on Insular Affairs, two hundred and fifty dollar’s. Minority conference.Clerical services.For stenographic and typewriting services, to be expended by the chairman of the conference minority, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, six hundred dollars.
File clerk.Additional pay.For additional salary of the file clerk during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred dollars. Private claims.Digest of.Io continue during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six the employment of three clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, in the office of the Clerk of the House, to complete a digested sum-1249mary and alphabetical list of private claims presented to the House of Representatives from the Fifty-second to the Fifty-seventh Congress, inclusive, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
To pay W. A. Hawkins for services rendered and incident to refurnishingW. A. Hawkins.Services. the rooms of the Committee on the Judiciary, fifty dollars. To pay Arthur Lucas, L. W. Pulies, and Albert Scott, employees inCloak-room employees.Additional pay. the cloak rooms, additional compensation at the rate of ten dollars per month each from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars. botanic warden.Botanic Garden.
For painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heatingRepairs, etc. 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, one thousand dollars. printing and binding.Public printing and binding. For public printing and binding for the Treasury Department, toTreasury Department. be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Printing and binding for the Navy Department, to be executedNavy Department. under the direction of the Public Printer, fifteen thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior,Interior Department. including its several bureaus and offices and the Civil Service Commission, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, twenty-four thousand dollars. Printing and binding for the Department of Justice, to be executedDepartment of Justice. by the Public Printer, six thousand dollars.
For printing and binding for the State Department, to be executedState Department. by the Public Printer, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of the*Proviso*.“The Declaration of Independence.”Distribution of document, etc. document entitled “The Declaration of Independence” the Public Printer shall deliver to the Senate, five hundred and forty copies and to the House of Representatives one thousand one hundred and seventy copies for distribution, and the residue of the present editions of said document shall be delivered to the Department of State, and no further copies of said document shall be printed unless expressly authorized by Congress, and no money shall be paid to any person for the preparation of said book.
Hereafter no book or document not having to do with the ordinaryRestriction on printing books by Departments. business transactions of the Executive Departments shall be printed oil the requisition of any Executive Department or unless the same shall have been expressly authorized by Congress. That the Committee on Printing of the Senate, with three membersPrinting.Joint commission to investigate and report on. of the present House of Representatives who are reelected to the next Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker of the present House of Representatives, shall constitute a commission, and they or any sub-committee of said special joint commission are hereby’ authorized to examine into the numbers printed of the various documents, reports, bills, and other papers published by order of Congress, or of other House thereof, and of the Congressional Record, and if, in their judgment, the conditions as they find them warrant remedial legislation to report a bill at the next session of Congress making such reductions in the numbers and cost of printing and such changes and reduction in the distribution of said publications as they may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons therefor: and that the said commission is also authorized to investigate the printing and binding for the Executive Departments executed at the Government Printing Office and at the branch printing offices and binderies in 1250the various Departments, and if, in their judgment, the conditions as they find them warrant remedial legislation, to report a bill at the next session of Congress, making such reductions in expenses and imposing such checks as they may deem expedient, with a report giving their reasons therefor, and said commission is further authorized to make any other investigations calculated, in their opinion, to reduce Powers of commission.the cost of the public printing, and report the result thereof; and in making the inquiries required by this resolution said commission shall have power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to employ a stenographer to report its hearings, to call on the heads of Executive Departments and the Public Printer for such information in regard to the preceding matters as they may desire, to do whatever is necessary for a thorough investigation of the subject, and to sit Subcommittee.Expenses.during the recess of Congress.
Any subcommittee may exercise the powers hereby granted to said commission, and the expenses of said investigation shall be paid one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers duly approved by the chairman of the Committee on Printing and one-half from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. Leave of absence to employees.To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provision of law granting thirty days’ annual leave of absence to the employees of the Government Printing Office, twenty thousand dollars.
Messengers, night service.To pay Samuel Robinson. William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes as messengers on night duty during the third session of the present Congress for extra services, two hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House. Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-seven, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-four, namely:
Classification.Under the Public Printer, fifteen thousand and eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents; Under the Treasury Department, six thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-five cents; Under the War Department, two hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty-five cents; Under the Navy Department, ninety thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents; Under the Department of the Interior, fifteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-three cents:
Under the Department of Justice, four thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty cents; Under the Post-Ofiice Department, three thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and eighteen cents; Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, nine thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-one cents; In all, three hundred and sixty-one thousand and ninety-seven dollars*Proviso*.Appeals. and fifty cents: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Judgments, Indian depredation claims.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Forty-three and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty, two hundred and forty-one thousand 1251nine hundred and five dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six ofDeductions. the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claimsVol. 26, p. 853. arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to theReimbursement..
United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided,* That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph*Proviso*.Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion fora new trial or an appeal of said cause.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofJudgments, United States courts.Vol. 24, p. 505. suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-seven of this session, and which have not been appealed, as follows:
Under the Treasury Department, five thousand nine hundred andClassification. thirty-nine dollars and eight cents; Under the War Department, six hundred and sixteen dollars; Under the Navy Department, five hundred dollars; Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, three hundred dollars; In all, seven thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and eight cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided,* That none of the judgments herein provided for*Proviso*.Appeals. shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. judgment of circuit court of shawano county, wisconsin.
For payment of a judgment with interest and costs entered in theJudgment, circuit court Shawano County, Wis. circuit court for Shawano County, State of Wisconsin, in the case of Wolf River Paper and Fiber Company, plaintiff, and the Campbell and Cameron Company and the United States of America, defendants, three thousand fourteen dollars and fifty-one cents. Sec. 2. That for the payment, of the following claims, certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-two, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 1252 claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, two dollars. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, one dollar and thirty-four cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, twenty-tire dollars and twenty cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, one dollar and ninety-five cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-four cents. For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For refunding proceeds of goods seized and sold, thirteen dollars and twenty-nine cents. For expenses of Revenue-Gutter Service, nineteen dollars and twenty-two cents. For Life-Saving Service, one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, three hundred and nine dollars and thirty-two cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, four dollars. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars and two cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For salaries, Office of Quartermaster-General, fifteen dollars and eighty-two cents. For Signal Service of the Army, thirty-two dollars. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, nine thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents. For subsistence of the Army, two thousand and forty-five dollars and four cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, six hundred and thirty-two dollars and eight cents. For incidental expenses. Quartermaster’s Department, one thousand four hundred and ten dollars and ninety-five cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-one cents. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents. For barracks and quarters, five hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventeen cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, eight dollars and ninety-nine cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, eight, dollars and forty cents. For ordnance stores, manufacture, and so forth, fifty dollars.
For contingencies of fortifications, two dollars and ninety-seven cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Eastern Branch, two hundred and nine dollars and three cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Western Branch, fifteen dollars and twenty-five cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, twenty-three dollars and fifty-eight cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, one hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-three cents. 1253 For reimbursing Missouri for militia expenses (hiring the rebellion, four hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirteen cents.
For refunding to States (New Jersey) expenses incurred in raising volunteers, two hundred and twentyt-wo thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-nine vents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, seventy-seven dollars and four cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-one cents. For refunding to the State of Wisconsin expenses incurred in raising volunteers, as reported in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-six, this session, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For emergency fund, Navy Department, seventy-six dollars and twenty-two cents. For pay of the Navy, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For pay, miscellaneous, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents. For pay, Marine Corps, six hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-three cents. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, six dollars and sixty cents. For clothing, Marine Corps, four dollars and seventy-two cents.
For contingent, Marine Corps, seventy dollars and seventeen cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation. three hundred and thirty-two dollars and seven cents. For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and thirty-six cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, two hundred and seven dollars. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, three cents. For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, twenty-mine dollars and seventeen cents.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents, For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-two cents. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service. Act March second eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-three cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and sixteen dollars and seventeen cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, twenty-five cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Utah, fifteen dollars and ninety-six cents. 1254 For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Wyoming, four dollars and ninety-one cents.
For contingent expenses of land offices, three dollars and sixty-two cents. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, thirty-three dollars. For protection of forest reserves, forty-nine dollars and forty cents. For surveying the public lauds, seventeen thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty-three cents. For surveying private land claims, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy cents. For Geological Survey, twenty-two dollars and twenty cents.
For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, one dollar and seventeen cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, ninety-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes: Subsistence and civilization, twenty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. For Indian school buildings, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty cents. For Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, sixty-four dollars and forty cents. For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, twenty-nine dollars and seventy cents.
For payment to estate of Reubin James, deceased, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him in eighteen hundred and sixty-six by Comanche Indians, one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. For Army pensions, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For Navy pensions, ten dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For public printing and binding, thirty-three dollars and sixty cents. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-three cents.
For salaries of diplomatic officers while receiving instructions and in transit, one hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty-three cents. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, four hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-five cents. For fees and costs in extradition cases, six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents. For salaries, consular service, twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, thirty-three dollars and ninety cents.
For relief and protection of American seamen, twenty-seven dollars and ninety-one cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, forty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. For books, National Museum, four dollars and thirty-four cents. For expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, five dollars and seventy-five cents. For forestry investigations, one dollar and twenty-three cents. For entomological investigations, twenty-five cents. For collecting agricultural statistics, twenty cents.
For public road inquiries, fifteen cents. For meteorological observation stations, Weather Bureau, sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, twenty-five dollars and eighty-five cents. 1255 For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, seventy-seven dollars. For supplies of light-houses, ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. For expenses of light-vessels, thirty-two dollars-and eighteen cents. For expenses of buoyage, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.
For payment to Frank H. Mason, interest on judgment withheld under Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, seventy-one dollars and fifty cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, seven dollars and fifty-nine cents. For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, twenty dollars. For fees of district attorney for southern district of New York, United States courts, ninety-three dollars and seventy-one cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, one thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, four thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, seventy-two dollars. For rent of courtrooms, United States courts, two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth. United States courts, five dollars. For supplies for United States courts, twenty dollars and forty-two cents. For miscellaneous expenses. United States courts, five hundred dollars. claims allowed by the auditor of the post-office department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.
For compensation of postmasters, ten dollars and sixty-seven cents. For clerk hire, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and fourteen cents. For miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, four hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-two cents. For special delivery service, fees, sixteen cents. For canceling machines, five hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For star transportation, one thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-one cents. For rewards, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-three cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment, of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under sectionVol. 23, p. 254. two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and ninety-four dollars. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, eighteen thousand eight hundred and four dollars and eighty cents. 1256 claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars and nine cents. For subsistence of the Army, four hundred and fifty dollars and fifteen cents.
For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, three hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-four cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, ninety-five dollars and fifty-six cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, ten thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, one hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-eight cents. For relief of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, seventy-eight dollars and fifteen cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, two thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and five cents. For pay, miscellaneous, eight dollars. For pay, Marine Corps, one hundred and three dollars and thirteen cents.
For clothing, Marine Corps, seven dollars and fifty cents. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four dollars and ninety-three cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, fiscal year nineteen hum died and four, four hundred and nine dollars and seventy-nine cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, six dollars.
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, fourteen dollars and eighty-four cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, four hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-seven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one dollar and seventy-nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixteen dollars and one cent. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twenty-one dollars and sixty cents.
For indemnity for lost property, naval service. Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy-two dollars and five cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, thirteen dollars and fifteen cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, two dollars and eight cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of California, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eight dollars and nineteen cents. 1257 For surveying the public lands, twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. For Geological Survey, fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-six cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, one, dollar and twenty-five cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety-five dollars and forty-five cents.
For transportation of Indian supplies, thirteen dollars and eighty-six cents. For payment to estate of James She-wah-ha, deceased, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him in eighteen hundred and sixty-six by Comanche Indians, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For payment to estate of Jinney Casey, deceased, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from her in eighteen hundred and sixty-six by Comanche Indians, two hundred and fifty dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
State Department: For steam launch for legation at Constantinople, five dollars and thirty-nine cents. For bringing home criminals, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eight dollars and seventy-one cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents. For contingent expenses. United States consulates, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and five dollars.
For contingent expenses. United States consulates, eleven dollars and eighty-six cents. Department of Justice: For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals. United States courts, seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and nine cents. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twelve dollars and seventeen cents. For fees of clerks. United States courts, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, twelve dollars and sixty cents. For support of prisoners. United States courts, nine dollars and fifty cents. For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act February twenty-fourth,*Ante*, p. 805. nineteen hundred and five, three thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents. Sec. 4. That section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 8079.
No Department of the Government shall expend, inExpenditures in excess of appropriations forbidden.[R. S., sec. 3679, p. 723](/us/rs/s3679/p723), amended. any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law. Nor shall any Department or officer of the Government accept voluntaryVoluntary service. service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property.
All appropriationsApportionment of appropriations in monthly allotments to prevent deficiencies. made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made for the fulfillment of contract obligations 1258expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal rear, be so apportioned by monthly or other allotments as to prevent undue expenditures in one portion of the year that may require deficiency or additional appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year;
Exceptions.and all such apportionments shall be adhered to except when waived or modified in specific cases by the written order of the head of the Executive Department or other Government establishment having control of the expenditure, but this provision shall not apply to the contingent appropriations of the Senate or House of Representatives: and all such waivers or modifications, together with the reasons therefor, shall be communicated to Congress in connection with estimates for Penalty for violations.any additional appropriations required on account thereof.
Any person violating any provision of this section shall be summarily removed from office and may also be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than one month.” " Sault Ste. Marie ship canal.Celebration of opening.For the purpose of assisting in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Sault Ste. Marie ship canal, to be held in Sault Ste. Marie. Michigan, the present rear, ten thousand dollars. Oklahoma.Contracts for buildings permitted.*Ante*, p. 112.That that portion of an Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes, approved March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, which provides that the legislative assemble of the Territory of Oklahoma shall not make any appropriation or enter into any contract for a capital building, or any other public building, shall not apply to the University Preparatory Normal School at Tonkawa, nor the colored agricultural and normal school at Langston, in said Territory.
Approved, March 3, 1905.
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