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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · February 18, 1904 · Chapter 160

Chapter 160. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 160.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other purposes. February 18, 1904. [[H. R. 10954](/us/bill/58/hr/10954).] [[Public, No. 22](/us/pl/58/22).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Urgent 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 four, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely: executive office.
Executive Office. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationeryContingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriages, horses, and harness, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-six cents. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. State Department. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary, and makeAlaskan boundary.Vol. 32, p. 1961. the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, one hundred thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.
For additional amount to enable the President to cooperate throughCommission on international exchange. diplomatic channels with the Governments of Mexico, China, Japan, and other countries, for the purpose set forth in the message of the President and accompanying notes submitted to Congress January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three, and printed as Senate Document Numbered One hundred and nineteen, second session Fifty-seventh Congress, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the commission appointed for this purpose shall terminate November first, nineteen hundred and four.
For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence ofContingent expenses. horses, to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, two thousand dollars. For the purchase of two horses for the official use of the DepartmentPurchase of horses. of State, five hundred dollars. For balance due Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company forTelephone service. exchange service for the quarter ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, thirty-three dollars and thirty-nine cents.
FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. Foreign intercourse. Diplomatic Service in the Republic of Panama: For salary ofPanama.Diplomatic officers to. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Panama at the rate of ten thousand dollars per annum, and salary of secretary of legation at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, from date of taking the oaths of office, respectively, until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, six thousand three hundred and one dollars and twenty-nine cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To supply a deficiencyContingent expenses, missions. in the appropriation “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifteen thousand dollars.16 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions.” for the fiscal years as follows;
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and one dollars and ninety-seven cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. twenty-three thou sand eight hundred, and seventy-one dollars and seventy cents. Emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service:Unforeseen emergencies. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). Statutes, forty-five thousand dollars. For expenses, not salaries, of inspection of consulates, to be expendedInspection of consulates. under the direction of the Department of State, eight thousand dollars. Clerk hire to legation to Spain: To pay amounts found due bySpain.Clerk hire. the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Clerk hire to legation to Spain” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. one dollar and thirty-eight cents.
Repairs to legation and consular premises: To enable the SecretaryRepairs to legations, etc. of State to keep in repair the legation and consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, two thousand dollars. Consular service in Manchuria: For the following for the balanceManchuria.Consular service in. of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four: Consul-general at Mukden, Manchuria, at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum; consul at Antung.
Manchuria, at the rate of three thousand rive bundled dollars per annum: consultant Dalny, Manchuria, at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum; in all. four thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To supply aContingent expenses, consulates. 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 four, forty-five thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses. United States consulates,” for the fiscal years as follows; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars mid twenty-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. seven thousand six hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-rive cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary:
For two clerks of class four, to beSecretary’s Office.Revising customs regulations. engaged during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, in revising the customs regulations, one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses: For purchase of horses and wagons, forContingent expenses. office and mail service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, five hundred dollars.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage, etc. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.17 For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grateFuel, etc. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal bods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, one thousand five hundred dollars. 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 three, two hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-three cents. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,Lighting. gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, four thousand dollars. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, ventilators, typewriters, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings andMiscellaneous. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same; stamp ink, spittoons, soup, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public unction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department; payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent, including heat, light, and janitor and elevator service, forLife-Saving Service, Rent, etc. office of the Life-Saving Service, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, at not exceeding three hundred dollars per month, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof us may be necessary: for removing furniture and records thereto and the erection of shelving, three hundred dollars; in all. one thousand eight hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Numbering, adding, and other machines, Treasury Department.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, forty dollars and twenty cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Investigation of accounts and traveling expenses,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses. Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. four hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-one cents.
Office of Auditor for the Post-Office Department: ForAuditor for Post-Office Department.Skilled laborers. twenty-five-skilled laborers, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of Auditor for State and other Departments: ForAuditor for State, etc., Departments.Additional clerks. the following additional clerks for the balance of the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and four, namely:
For two clerks of class four: two clerks of class three, and three clerks of class one; in all, four thousand18 three hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of the Treasurer: For the following additional employeesTreasurer’s Office.Additional employees. for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, namely: For one clerk of Class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; nine expert counters, at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum each; one laborer; and one foreman pressman at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; in all. six thousand and twenty-five dollars.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For rent of buildingEngraving and Printing Bureau.Rent. occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for storage and other purposes, during five months and twenty-eight days, to December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three, at a rental of sixty dollars a month, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty cents. Louisiana Purchase Exposition: For the purpose of further aidingLouisiana Purchase Exposition.Additional aid granted. in the payment of the cost of the. construction, completion, and opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at the city of Saint Louis, on or before April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, four million six hundred thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the LouisianaPayments.
Purchase Exposition Company on the request of the president of said company, and in amounts as follows: One million dollars upon the passage of this Act. one million dollars during the month of February, one million dollars during the month of March, one million dollars during the mouth of April, and six hundred thousand dollars during the month of May, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided,* That of said*Provisos*.Board of lady managers.Amount to be paid. sums, one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid by said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company to, or on the order of, the board of lady managers of said exposition for such purposes as said board of lady managers shall approve and at such times as said board of lady managers shall request the same.
That to insure the application of allDisbursements. said moneys to the purposes for which the same is appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint a suitable person or persons whose duty it shall be to supervise the disbursement of the same when paid, as herein provided, and to make a full and complete report thereof to him as he may require: *Provided further,* That the amount herebyRepayment by Company. appropriated when paid to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, as herein provided, shall constitute an indebtedness of the said company to the Government of the United States and shall be repaid by said company to the Treasury of the United States.
That for theLien on gross receipts. purpose of protecting the (government and insuring the repayment of said sum of four million six hundred thousand dollars, the Government shall have a first lien upon the gross receipts of said exposition company from all paid admissions to the grounds of said exposition and from all moneys received from concessions. That before any part ofGuarantee required. this appropriation is paid, as herein before provided, the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall execute, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, an instrument in writing giving and securing to the Government a first lien upon its said gross receipts, and said exposition company shall at the same time guarantee to the Government, under suitable penalties, that the said gross receipts are then entirely free from liens, mortgages, or other incumbrances, and that it will not pledge or in any way incumber or dispose of said receipts so as to injure or affect the right of the Government to first receive therefrom the amount to be returned to the Treasury, as herein provided.
TheMethod of payment. said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall repay into the Treasury of the United States the said sum of four million six hundred thousand dollars, as follows: On the fifteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and four, said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury in detail the total amount of all said gross receipts received by said company from June first to June fifteenth, both inclusive, and forty per centum of such receipts shall19 at the same time be paid to the Secretary of the Treasury and there-after, during said exposition, and until said sum of four million six hundred thousand dollars shall have been fully paid as herein provided, a like detailed report of said gross receipts shall be made by said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company on the first and fifteen of day of each month and in the same manner and at the same time forty per centum of said gross receipts shall be paid by said company to said Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided, *That from and after the first day of July, nineteen hundredMinimum payments. and four, and until the said sum of four million six hundred thousand dollars shall have been fully paid, the said payments on the fifteenth and first day of each and every month of forty per centum of said gross receipts shall not be loss than five hundred thousand dollars; *Provided further,* That if at any time after said exposition companyProceedings in case of default. has received the amount hereby appropriated it makes default in the application or in the repayment of said sum, or any part thereof, as herein required, then, and in that case, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to supervise the collection and take possession of all said gross receipts and continue such supervision and possession until the full sum of said four million six hundred thousand dollars has been collected and repaid into the Treasury of the United States, as herein provided.
In accepting the amount hereby appropriated theAcceptance of conditions. said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company shall be taken and held to agree to all the terms and conditions upon which the same is made and upon which the same is to be repaid into the Treasury of the United States: *Provided,* That range cattle and halter-broke cattleExhibition of cattle. from all Sections of the United States, whether above or below the quarantine line established by the Secretary of Agriculture, may be exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Government Board, Louisiana Purchase Exposition: The ActGovernment exhibit.Vol. 32, p. 445, amended. of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended by inserting at the end and as a part of the paragraph making an appropriation of eight hundred thousand dollars for a Government exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, the fol1owing words; *Provided further,**Proviso*.Rent of workshops, etc., in District of Columbia.
That the, said United States Government Board is authorized to rent such workshops and storage and office rooms in the District of Columbia as may be required for temporary use in connection with the preparation and safe-keeping of the said Government exhibit.” And the accounting officers of the Treasury Department arc hereby authorized to allow any reasonable expense heretofore incurred by said Government Board in the rental of workshops and storage and office rooms in the District of Columbia for the purpose named.
Paris Exposition: The following provisions of the deficiency appropriationParis Exposition.Use of unexpended balance.Vol. 32, p. 555. Act, approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, namely: “To complete the unfinished work of the late United States Commission to the International Exposition at Paris in nineteen hundred, and to defray the expenses of distributing the medals mid diplomas awarded to exhibitors from the United States, to be expended under the direction of the President, there is hereby appropriated for such purposes such sums of money as have been covered into the Treasury as proceeds derived from the sale of furniture or other property used by the Commission, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirteen thousand eight him died and seventy-five dollars and twenty-one cents,” are herein further continued and the appropriation made available from the end of said fiscal year nineteen hundred and three to September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.20 Transportation of silver coin:
To pay amounts found due byTransportation of silver coin. the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin,” tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-two cents. Transportation of minor coins: To pay amounts found due byTransporting minor coins. the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Transportation of minor coins,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-four cents.
Recoinage of gold coins: To pay amounts found due by theRecoinage of gold coins. accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Recoinage of gold coins,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, four thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of ail public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, twenty thousand dollars: and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent, a deficiency therein.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairsFurniture, etc. of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, eighty thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.
For furnishing complete in every detail the new post-office andSan Francisco, Cal. court-house building at San Francisco, California, one hundred thousand dollars. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchaseFuel, lights, and water of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current, for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light willing, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, sixty-five thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be*Proviso*.Gas governors. paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.
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 the21 United States and of foreign governmental, as well as the wins 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, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six hundred dollars: *Provided,* That*Proviso*.Witnesses. no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts,” Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act:
To pay amountsChinese exclusion. found due by the Auditor for the Treasury Department on account of the appropriation for “Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirteen thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars. Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expensesCollecting customs revenue. 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, two million four hundred thousand dollars.
Supplies furnished destitute natives of Alaska during anAlaska Exploration Company and others.Payment to, for supplies furnished destitute Alaskans.Vol. 32, p. 1048. epidemic in nineteen hundred: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury under the provisions of the deficiency Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, on account of supplies furnished to destitute natives of Alaska during an epidemic in the year nineteen hundred, as follows: Alaska Exploration Company, San Francisco, California, thirty-three dollars:
Alaska Commercial Company, San Francisco, California, twenty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifteen cents; North American Transportation and Trading Company, Seattle, Washington, one thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and forty cents. Owners of British steamship Mogul: To pay the amount found“Mogul,” British steamship.Payment to owners.Vol. 32, p. 1048. due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, under the provisions of the deficiency Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, to Gallatly, Hankey and Company, of London.
England, owners of the British steamship Mogul, for damages by reason of the collision between said steamship and the United States transport Warren in Manila Bay. December thirtieth, nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand three hundred and three dollars and seven cents. Relief of the executors of James P. Willett; To enable theJames P. Willett.Payment to executors.Vol. 32, p. 1696. Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of the “Act for the relief of the executors of James P.
Willett, deceased, late post-master of the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty--eighth, nineteen hundred and three, five thousand dollars. Relief of Edward S. Chill: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryEdward S. Crill.Payment to.Vol. 32, p. 1611. to carry out the provisions of the “Act for the relief of Edward S. Crill” approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. Refund of duties to North American Transportation andNorth American Transportation and Trading Company.Refund of duties to.
Trading Company: To refund to the North American Transportation and Trading Company, of Seattle. Washington, the sum of one thousand and seventy-five dollars, being the amount of duties unlawfully collected from said company on account of cost of repairs of the barge New York, it appearing that said vessel was not enrolled and licensed under the laws of the United States within the meaning of section[R.S., sec. 3114, p. 598](/us/rs/s3114/p598). thirty-one hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes.
Refund to owners of Tug M. F. Parsons: To refund to the collectorTug “M. F. Parsons.”Refund of fine. of customs at Port Huron, Michigan, the sum of fifty dollars22 received by him as a fine on the Canadian tug M. F. Parsons and deposited by him to the credit of the United States Treasurer July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, for repayment by him to the owner or owners of the tug, or to the person or persons found by the collector to be entitled to receive the amount. Payment to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company:
To pay thePacific Coast Steamship Company.Payment to. account of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for damages to their steamer Ramona, caused by collision with the United States revenue steamer McCulloch off Martinez, California, April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, fifty dollar and thirteen cents. collecting internal revenue. Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers,Agents, etc., salaries. salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryPaper for stamps. on account of the appropriation “Paper for internal-revenue stamps,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of theRedemption of stamps. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps,” one thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and one cent.
To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of theRefunding taxes. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected,” fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. For amount necessary to meet expenses for repairs to the revenueRepairs to vessels, etc. steamers Galveston. Manhattan. Hudson. Calumet, Fessenden, and Dexter, and for increased cost of supplies and rations for the service, one hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryExpenses. on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Gutter Service” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eleven thousand seven hundred and Sixty-nine dollars and eight cents. public buildings. Public buildings. Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia, specialTreasury building.Repairs, etc. repairs: For enlarging the present drafting room of the Office of the Supervising Architect, Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia, in order to furnish additional working space for an increase in the force, including all necessary changes in plumbing, and all changes incident to this work; and for all materials and labor required in the execution of the work, twelve thousand dollars.
For rewiring Treasury building for electric lighting, includingElectric wires. exterior lighting, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Replacing main sewers in north, south, and west corridors, subbasement,Sewers. Treasury building, twenty-four thousand dollars. For additional labor and materials necessary to complete two vaultsEngraving and Printing.Vaults. now in course of construction at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryBuffalo, N. Y. on account of the appropriation for “Custom-house and post-office, Buffalo, New York,” forty-four dollars and forty cents.23 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryDes Moines, Iowa. on account of the appropriation for “Post-office, court-house, and custom-house, Des Moines, Iowa.” one dollar and twenty cents. Boone, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under presentBoone, Iowa. limit, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Centerville, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building underCenterville, Iowa. present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Omaha, Nebraska, court-house, custom-house, and post-office: ForOmaha, Nebr. completion of building under present limit, five thousand dollars. Bangor, Maine, custom-house and post-office: For balance of theBangor, Me.Repairs to bridge. Government’s share of one-half of the estimated cost of repairing the bridge which spans the Kenduskeag stream and furnishes the approach to the custom-house and post-office at Bangor, Maine, five thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Greensboro, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For rental ofGreensboro, N. C.Rent. temporary quarters, and expenses incident thereto, two thousand five hundred dollars. Rome, Georgia, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quartersRome, Ga.Rent. for the accommodation of certain Government officials and expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars. Jacksonville, Florida, post-office and custom-house: For rental ofJacksonville, Fla.Rent. temporary quarters and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars.
Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings: For rental of temporaryLos Angeles, Cal.Rent. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Macon, Georgia, public building: That upon the acquisition of theMacon, Ga.Repairs, etc.Vol. 32, p. 1210. additional land authorized by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, for the enlargement of the Federal building site at Macon, Georgia, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to improve, repair, and remodel any building or buildings thereon which, in his opinion, may be made suitable for occupancy and use for post-office and such other purposes as may be practicable during the time the Federal building is being enlarged, remodeled, andVol. 31, pp. 590, 1134. extended, and the appropriations heretofore made by the Acts of Congress approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, and March third, nineteen hundred and one. for rental of temporary quarters for Government officials at Macon.
Georgia, are hereby reappropriated and made available, in addition to the purposes therein expressed, for the carrying into effect of the authorization herein contained and all expenses incident thereto. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, andHeating, etc., apparatus.*Post*, p. 458. ventilating apparatus, twenty-five thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, andVaults, safes, and locks. locks, and repairs to the same for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, fifteen thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia in making repairs and inspecting work done.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryRepairs. on account of the appropriation for “Repairs and preservation of public buildings” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven dollars. independent treasury. Independent Treasury. Salaries, Office of Assistant Treasurer at Philadelphia: For twoAssistant Treasurer’s Office, Philadelphia. clerks, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each, and one money counter, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-five cents, or so much thereof us may be necessary. 24To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand three hundred arid ninety dollars and nine cents. mints and assay offices.
Mints and assay offices. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySeattle, Wash. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three dollars and sixty-three cents. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. Harbor and river front: For the improvement and protection of theHarbor and river front. harbor and river front, the enforcement of laws and regulations, construction and maintenance of wharves and buildings, and for other necessary items and services, four hundred dollars.
To enable the assessor of the District of Columbia to complete theAssessments. assessments of real and personal taxes by the employment of temporary services, eight hundred dollars. For night schools for pupils not over twenty-one years of age, andPublic schools.Night schools. teachers of night schools may also be teachers in the day schools, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel for public schools, twenty thousand dollars.Fuel. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and apparatusManual training. to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of building to be occupied temporarily during constructionPolice.Rent. of the new fifth precinct station, one hundred dollars. Toward carrying out the provisions of the Acts of Congress providingUnion railroad station.Purchase of land, grading, etc.Vol. 31, p. 779.Vol. 32, p. 913.*Post*, p. 368. for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of the hind necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paying, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line of grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, two hundred thousand dollars.
One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriationsOne-half from District revenues. 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. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theH. M. Chittenden.Credit in accounts. accounts of Captain H. M. Chittenden, Corps of Engineers, the sum of eleven dollars and forty-five cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theThomas H. Handbury.Credit in accounts.s accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Handbury, Corps of Engineers, the sum of thirteen dollars and one cent, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theJohn Millis.Credit in accounts. accounts of Major John Millis, Corps of Engineers, the sum of one dollar and seventy-six cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury.25 The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theFarrand Sayre.Credit in accounts. accounts of Captain Farrand Sayre.
Eighth United States Cavalry, the sum of two hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized andC. H. Conrad.Credit in accounts. directed to reopen the accounts of Captain C. H. Conrad. Third United States Cavalry, and to credit him with the amount of thirty-two dollars and eighty-five cents, expended by him on April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in payment for extra-duty services at Fort Clark, Texas, rendered after the passage of the Act approved AprilVol. 30, p. 365. twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, abolishing extraduty pay entirely in time of war, which Act became immediately effective, as war existed at the date of its passage.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed, in theGeorge W. Baird.Credit in accounts. settlement of the accounts of George W. Baird, major and paymaster. United States Army, and lieutenant-colonel and deputy paymaster-general United States Army, to allow such credits for payments, not, to exceed six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and three cents, as may be recommended under authority of the Secretary of War by the Pay-master-General of the Army. To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certainAdvertisements. newspapers for publishing advertisements for proposals for construction work, and so forth, as set forth in House Document Numbered Four hundred and eleven of this session, twenty dollars and fifty-two cents.
Sherman statue; The sum of eight thousand dollars is herebySherman statue.Payment for models, etc. appropriated, and all sums remaining from any appropriations for the Sherman statue arc hereby reappropriated, and such appropriated and re appropriated sums are made available for paying for the models of said statue and for the improvement of the grounds in its vicinity, which grounds shall be. hereafter known as Sherman plaza,Sherman plaza. and for preparing, at a cost not exceeding three hundred dollars, an illustrated description of said statue.
Reimbursement to the Government of the Philippine Islands:Philippine Islands.Reimbursement to Government of. To reimburse the amount due the government of the Philippine Islands for expenses incurred between April first, nineteen hundred and one, and December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, in the maintenance of prisoners whose support is a proper charge against the United States Government, forty thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty-seven cents. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.
State, etc., Department building. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories,Fuel, lights, repairs, etc. six thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars and forty-four cents. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Military Establishment. under the chief signal officer. For the purchase of supplies and equipments for use in the construction,Alaska.Military telegraph lines. maintenance, and repair of military telegraph lines in Alaska, two thousand five hundred dollars. office of the quartermaster-general.
Quartermaster’s Department. Barracks and quarters: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationBarracks and quarters. “Barracks and quarters” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation26 in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-five cents. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts alreadyHospitals. established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and seventy dollars and one cent.
For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of, suchMilitary posts.Construction, etc. military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with adopted projects for seacoast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-four cents.
For the purpose of erecting a suitable monument of rough masonry,Fort Phil Kearny massacre monument. and an historical tablet on the site of the Fort Phil Kearny massacre. Wyoming, which occurred on the twenty-first of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, seven hundred dollars. For the erection of buildings and repairs to same, purchase of draftFort Sill, Okla.Maintenance of Apache prisoners. animals and livestock for breeding purposes, farm and household utensils, blacksmith and wheelwright tools and repairs to same, and all other necessary articles absolutely needed for the support and maintenance of the Apache prisoners of war permanently established at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, under control of the War Department, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three dollars and ninety cents.
For repairing and improving the Government road from Springfield,Springfield, Mo.Road to cemetery. Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand seven hundred dollars. MILITARY ACADEMY. Military Academy. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, for theBoard of Visitors. fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and forty dollars. For repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards,Repairs, etc. joists, wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels and other similar materials, renewing roofs and for pay of architect, overseer, and citizen mechanics and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that cannot be done by enlisted men, five thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves,Fuel, etc. grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, tire bricks, clay. sand, and for repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and mica, ten thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams for the fiscal year nineteen hundred andPostage, etc. three, twenty-three dollars and two cents. Gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking forLighting. lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet, barracks, mess hall, shops, hospitals, offices, stables, and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For grading target range, increasing the number of targets andTarget range. capacity of the range, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, three thousand dollars.27 NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Central Branch at Dayton, Ohio: For household, including the sameDayton, Ohio. objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifteen thousand dollars.
Northwestern Branch at Milwaukee. Wisconsin: For household,Milwaukee, Wis. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and four, nine thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents. For household, namely: To reimburse the post fund of the North-western Branch for amount taken from that fund for the purchase of coal to heat the public buildings at that Branch, such expenditure having been necessary on account of a deficiency in the general fund, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty-three cents.
Southern Branch at Hampton, Virginia: For household, includingHampton, Va. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five thousand 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 four, one thousand dollars. For repairs, 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 four, two thousand dollars.
Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For household, includingLeavenworth, Kans. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-two thousand dollars. For household, namely, to reimburse the post fund of the Western Branch for amount taken from that fund for the purchase of coal to heat the public buildings at that Branch, such expenditure having been necessary on account of a deficiency in the general fund, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand eight hundred dollars and thirty-one cents.
For transportation, namely, for transportation of members of the Home, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-three cents. Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, includingDanville, Ill. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, four 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 four, eight thousand dollars.
State or Territorial Homes for disabled soldiers and sailors:State and Territorial Homes.Vol. 25, p. 450. For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty-four thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-two cents: *Provided,* That one-half of any sum or sums retained by*Proviso*.Deductions.
State Homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. 28NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. office of the secretary. Salaries, Office of Secretary of the Navy: For one clerk at the rateSecretary’s Office.Clerk. of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and ten cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office:
ToHydrographic Office.Electric motors. pay bill of the General Electric Company for three electric motors for printing presses, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five hundred and fifty-two dollars. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Naval Establishment. Emergency fund, Navy Department: To meet unforseen contingenciesEmergency fund. for the maintenance of the Navy constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand dollars.
Bringing home remains of officers and men, Navy and Marine Corps,Bringing home remains from abroad. who die abroad: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action, ashore or afloat, outside of the continental limits of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the sum herein appropriated*Proviso*.Available until used. shall he available for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died or who have been killed while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until used, and applicable to past as well as future obligations.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Bringing home remains of officers and men. Navy and Marine Corps, who die abroad,” two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eight cents. To reimburse to owner the expense of repairing damages sustainedTug “Hustler.”Payment to owner. by tug Hustler, run down from astern and sunk by United States ship Yankton, five thousand three hund red and one dollars and eighty-one cents. marine corps.
Marine Corps. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, MarineContingent. Corps,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eighty-one thousand five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent. Marine Corps” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. six hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-five cents.
For clothing for noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privatesClothing. authorized by law, twenty-five thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Military stores,Military stores. Marine Corps,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and four, twenty-five thousand dollars. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. Maintenance of colliers: To provide for the maintenance of presentColliers. fleet of colliers manned by merchant officers and crew for the remain-29der of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.
Naval training station, California: For repairs to Washington streetCalifornia. wharf, San Francisco, caused by damage by United States tug Vigilant,Naval training station. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seventy dollars and ninety cents. Naval training station, Rhode Island: For installation of ventilatingRhode Island.Naval training station. system, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents: for installation of urinals, seven hundred dollars; for construction of frame building for detention of recruits and moving of sterilizing plant, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight 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 four, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationMedical Department. “Medical Department.” including all objects mentioned under this title, of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: To supply a deficiencyContingent. in the appropriation “Contingent. Medicine and Surgery,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifteen thousand dollars. 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, one thousand two hundred and two dollars and sixty-seven cents. bureau of steam engineering.
Bureau of Steam Engineering. For purchase of materials, stores, machine tools, freight, and incidentalSupplies, etc. expenses, and for payments for repairs, materials, freight, and incidental expenses for ships on foreign stations, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty thousand dollars. To reimburse Captain G. W. Baird, United States Navy, for a pieceG. W. Baird.Reimbursement. of much-needed machinery placed on board the Dolphin in eighteen hundred and ninety-three, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, ninety-six dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySteam machinery. on account of the appropriation for “Steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-three dollars and thirty-one cents. increase of the navy. Increase of the Navy. Toward the armament and armor, of domestic manufacture, for vessels authorized, two million dollars. Public Works, Navy Department. Public works. public works, navy department. Navy-yards and stations.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For extensions and modifications,Boston, Mass. yards and docks power plant, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred dollars.30 Navy-yard, New York, New York: For partitions and improvementsNew York, N. Y. in building numbered twenty-two, fifteen thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For temporary boat shed for constructionPensacola, Fla. and repair, five thousand dollars. Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands; For extension of constructionCavite, P.
I. and repair joiner shop, two thousand eight hundred dollars. under the secretary of the navy. For necessary expenditures incident to the occupation and utilizationGuantanamo, Cuba. of the naval station at Guantanamo. Cuba, to be used for such purposes as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, two hundred thousand dollars. under bureau of navigation. For pay of inspector engaged upon work in connection with extensionNewport, R. I.Naval War College. to Naval War College at Newport.
Rhode Island, six hundred and fifty dollars. under bureau of ordnance. For clearing the sites and rebuilding shell houses numbered threeIona Island, N. Y., Naval magazine.Repairs. and four; for replacing shell houses numbered one and two; fixed ammunition houses numbered one and two; storehouses numbered one and two; power house; pump house; shipping house; cottages of gunner and watchmen; railroad tracks, and for miscellaneous repairs rendered necessary by an explosion which took place at the naval magazine, Iona Island.
New York Harbor, on November fourth, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred thousand dollars. under bureau of equipment. Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads: Continuing grading,Naval Observatory. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars. naval academy. Naval Academy. For additional coal, six thousand four hundred dollars.Coal. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. Pay of one clerk, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior,Clerk to sign Indian tribal deeds. to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the .Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, salary from March tenth to June thirtieth. nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-five cents.
For mounting with rollers United States maps of the consolidatedMaps.Mounting, for Congress. issue of nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, for delivery to the Senate and House of Representatives, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and ofRepairs. the old Post-Office Department building, three thousand dollars. patent office. Patent Office. For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, quarterly,Official Gazette. and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Official Gazette, Patent 31 Office,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-three cents. general land office. General Land Office. For the following additional force for the balance of the fiscal yearAdditional employees. nineteen hundred and four, namely: For two examiners of mineral claims and contests, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each; five clerks of class two and five clerks of class one; in all, seven thousand and fifty-two dollars and nineteen cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. capitol building and grounds.
Capitol Building and Grounds. For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol groundsImprovement of grounds, etc. and for care of the grounds, on account of fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five hundred and sixty dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire engine house, and SenateRepairs to engine house. and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and court-yards of same, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committeeHouse of Representatives.New office building.Vol. 32, p. 1113. rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, provided for in the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical and other books, five hundred and seventy thousand dollars, to continue available until expended.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Carpenter and tool shops, Capitol,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifty-five cents. government hospital for the insane. Government Hospital for Insane. For hospital extension, namely: For employment of a superintendentSuperintendent of construction.Hospital extension. of construction at a rate of compensation of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For a locomotive, seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For rubber treads for iron stairs, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. To complete power and heating plant, one thousand dollars. For the purple of installing hot-water heaters in the new building, three thousand dollars. To provide dumb-waiters and elevators in loner kitchen, one thousand dollars. To provide electrical fixtures for the administration building, three thousand five hundred dollars. For painting new buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.
For flooring for attics, two thousand four hundred dollars. For trenching and laying drainage, sewer, and water pipes to extension, four thousand five hundred dollars. For furnishing and fixing in place fire escapes, and fireproofingFire protection. such of the old buildings at the (government Hospital for the Insane as required for the protection of the lives of the inmates thereof, thirty-three thousand six hundred dollars. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For the support ofColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.Expenses. the Institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Howard University: For urgent repairs and improvements to provideHoward University.Maintenance. suitable protection against disaster by fire to the buildings of the University, as recommended by the inspector of buildings for the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars.32 miscellaneous, interior department. Miscellaneous. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: The accounting officers of theHot Springs, Ark.George W. Evans.Credit in accounts. Treasury Department are authorized and directed to allow and credit on the accounts of George W.
Evans, disbursing clerk Department of the Interior, the sum of five hundred dollars, being the amount disbursed by him under the authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior from the revenues from the Hot Springs Reservation, indefinite, which sum is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five hundred dollars. Surveying boundaries of Yellowstone National Park; For surveyingYellowstone National Park.Boundary surveys. the northern and western boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park:
To supply a deficiency existing in the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. six hundred and forty dollars and forty cents. Reimbursement to J. Scott Harrison: To reimburse J. Scott Harrison,J. Scott Harrison.Reimbursement. examiner of surveys and special disbursing agent. General Land Office, for expenses incurred and paid by him in the examination of the east boundary of the Yellowstone National Park during the month of September, nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety cents. public lands service.
For payment to Mrs. Frank B. Hensley, formerly Miss Frank B.Mrs. Frank B. Hensley.Payment to. Healy, for services as clerk in the United States land office at Wood-ward. Oklahoma. from April fourteenth to April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and three, inclusive, thirteen days, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two dollars and fourteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySurveyors-general, etc.Arizona. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expense-, office of surveyor-general of Arizona,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four dollars and fifty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryAlaska. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two dollars and eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryNevada. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, four dollars and seventy cents.
For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the districtContingent expenses. land offices: *Provided, *That this appropriation shall be available, for*Provisos*.Per diem. the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices and reservations while on such duty and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That no expenses chargeableRestriction on expenses. to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal ofDepositing moneys. public lands, three thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of depositing public moneys,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four hundred and two dollars and twenty-six cents. To pay the salary due Franklin Moses as register of the land officeFranklin Moses.Payment to. at Saint Michael, Alaska, from May thirty-first to July seventh, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirteen cents.33 Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredations, etc. of claims for swamp lands and swamp-land indemnity:
To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the laws and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal mid fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands: *Provided,* That agents and others employed*Proviso*.Per diem. under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, fifteen thousand dollars.
For protection and administration of forest reserves: To supply aForest reserves.Expenses of protecting. deficiency existing in the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, three thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Protection of forest reserves,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended underTranscript of records. the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That copyists employed under this appropriation*Proviso*.Copyists. shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as tin exigencies of the work may demand. For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of theHearings in land entries.
General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. geological survey. Geological Survey. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Geological Survey,” for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and seventy-one dollars and nine cents.
To provide for the purchase of instruments, maps, file cases, andMaps, etc. so forth, to replace those destroyed by fire in the building occupied by the United States Geological Survey, on December twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and three, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofAlaska. Alaska, to continue available until close of fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, eighty thousand dollars. For completing the report of the mineral resources of the UnitedReport of mineral resources.
States and for completing a roster of all the mines of the United States, past and present, ten thousand dollars. For analyzing and testing at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition theTest of coal and lignites at Louisiana Purchase Exposition.*Post*, p. 412. coals and lignites of the United States in order to determine their fuel values and the most economic method for their utilization for different purposes, under the supervision of the. Director of the United Suites Geological Survey, thirty thousand dollars, to be available until expended: *Provided,* That all testing machinery and all coal and*Proviso*.Testing machinery. lignites to be tested shall be contributed without charge to the Government. indian affairs.
Indian Affairs. 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, fifteen thousand dollars.34 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seventy-eight dollars and sixty cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Contingencies,Contingencies. Indian Department,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryConfederated Bands of Utes.Subsistence. on account of the appropriation for “Support of Confederated Bands of Utes: Subsistence,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, sixty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents.
That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to paySwift and Company.Payment to. Swift and Company the sum of five hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-eight cents, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the support and education of Indian pupils at Rapid City, South Dakota, for net beef furnished that school for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for support of the IndianIndian schools.Morris, Minn. school at Morris, Minnesota, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of theSanta Fe, N. Mex. Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Indian school. Santa Fe, New Mexico,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of theSchool buildings. Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Indian school buildings,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-eight cents.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for “Commission, FiveCommission, Five Civilized Tribes. Civilized Tribes,” fiscal years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and four, forty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and nine cents. Town-site commissioners, Indian Territory: To pay all expensesIndian Territory.Town-site commissioners.Expenses. incident to the survey, platting, and appraisement of town sites in the Choctaw.
Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee nations. Indian Territory, as required by sections fifteen and twenty-nine of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. and all Acts amendatory thereto, thirty thousand dollars. Five Civilized Tribes: For the purpose of placing allottees in unrestrictedAllotments.*Post* p. 583. possession of their allotments, fifteen thousand dollars. pensions. Pensions. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons (pension) for servicesFees, etc., of examining surgeons. rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, under the limitations and restrictions specified under this title of appropriation in the pension appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Department of Commerce and Labor. Office of the Secretary: For such number of clerks of class four,Secretary’s Office.Additional employees. clerks of class three, clerks of class two, clerks of class one. clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum, clerks at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum, clerks at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, messengers, assistant messengers, and for the services of such other persons, at a rate of compensation not exceeding one thousand dollars each per annum, as35 the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may deem to be requisite and necessary in his office and in the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, in addition to the employees transferred from the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Contingent expenses: For all necessary contingent and miscellaneousContingent expenses. expenses of the office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the Bureaus of Manufactures and Corporations, and the bureaus and offices transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars), stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and for rent of stable therefor from July fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four; freight and express charges, postage, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, and adding mac lines, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Salaries and expenses, special agents: For compensation, to beSalaries and expenses, special agents.Salaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 415. fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of such special agents in the Bureau of Corporations, and for per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per day to each of said special agents while absent from their homes and designated headquarters on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses for said special agents, including necessary sleeping-car fares, thirty thousand dollars.
Expenses of regulating immigration: For the salary of ImmigrantImmigration.W. H. Wilkinson.Services. Inspector W. H. Wilkinson, for services rendered in the Bureau of Immigration during the period January first to July twenty-second, nineteen hundred and three, while, detailed from his official station at Alexandria, Virginia, one thousand and fifteen dollars, chargeable to the permanent appropriation, “Expenses of regulating immigration.” Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act:
To prevent unlawfulChinese exclusion. entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars. For the salary of Chinese Inspector Alfred W. Parker, while detai1edAlfred W. Parker.Payment to. to and performing service in the Bureau of Immigration in Washing-ton, for the period from April twenty-third to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, both inclusive, two hundred and seventy-six dollars. To pay amounts found due by the Auditor for State and other Departments on account of the appropriation for “Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five, hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents.
Fish Commission: To meet certain liabilities as set forth in HouseFish Commission. Document Numbered Four hundred and sixty-one, of the present session, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty-one cents. For repairs and improvements to superintendent’s residence, GreenGreen Lake, Me. Lake station, Maine, seven hundred dollars.36 Protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska: To pay amountsAlaska.Protection of salmon fisheries. found due by the Auditor for State and other Departments on Recount of the appropriation for “Protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-five cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney-General: For the following, for theClerks. balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four: One clerk of class four; and one copyist, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum: in all, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars and six cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, one thousandContingent expenses. dollars. For stationery, for the fiscal years, as follows:Stationery.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-six cents. For the rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia, used by the Department of Justice, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two thousand four hundred dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed toAmount covered in. cause the amount appropriated for this purpose, for the fiscal yearVol. 32, p. 1140. nineteen hundred and four, by the sundry civil appropriation Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, to be covered into the Treasury;
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, four hundred dollars. Defending suits in claims against the United States: To supplyDefending suits in Claims. a deficiency in the appropriation for “Defending suits in claims against the United States, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand two hundred and four dollars and forty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Defending suits in claims against the United States,” for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. eighty-four dollars and twenty-five cents. Payment to the New Jersey State prison: For payment to theNew Jersey State prison.Payment to. New Jersey State prison for overcoats at the cost of five dollars and fifty cents each, furnished to United States prisoners from New Jersey, Delaware, and Virginia, when discharged during the months of November.
December, January, February, and March, during the years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight to nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, fifty-five dollars. Support of prisoners, District of Columbia: For expenses forDistrict of Columbia.Support of prisoners. maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia and for support of prisoners therein, to he expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one-half to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, one thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents.
For payment to the New Jersey State prison for overcoats, at theNew Jersey State prison.Payment to. cost of five dollars and fifty cents each, furnished to United States prisoners from the District of Columbia when discharged during the months of November, December, January. February, and March, during the years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia, five hundred and seventy-two dollars. 37EXPENSES OF UNITED STATES COURTS.
United States courts. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryDistrict attorneys. on account of the appropriation for “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-one cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, for the fiscal year nineteenClerks’ fees. hundred and three, three 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, fifteen thou sand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Fees of clerks, United States courts.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three thousand three hundred mid fifty-two dollars mid fifteen cents. For fees of jurors, fifty thousand dollars.Jurors’ fees. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent. fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand five hundred 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 arid three, six thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySupplies. on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, twenty dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Supplies for United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred mid three, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twelve cents. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. 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 fiscal years, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For continuing theAtlanta, Ga.Construction of penitentiary, etc. construction of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and the wall surrounding same, with the necessary isolation ward, chapel, and other buildings, and for the payment of salaries of necessary employees in connection therewith, and for the payment of architects for services and necessary expenses, two hundred thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department. out of the postal revenues. Wrapping paper for facing slips, ten thousand dollars.Wrapping paper. For wrapping twine and tying devices, thirty thousand dollars.Twine. To pay amount found due on account of canceling machines, fiscalCanceling machines. year nineteen hundred and two, as certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-six, of this session, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.38 Railway mail service: That the number of clerks appropriated forRailway Mail Service.Classification of clerks modified. in the railway mail service for the current fiscal year is modified so as to allow two thousand six hundred and fifty-six clerks of class two. at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, and seven hundred and eighty clerks of class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit of expenditures.Vol. 32, p. 1172.
That this change shall be made without increasing the aggregate sum of money appropriated for clerks of the several classes of the railway mail service in the Post-Office appropriation Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three. Rural free delivery: For map work in the rural free-deliveryRural free delivery.Maps. service, three thousand five hundred dollars. For labor employed and material used in the preparation of rural-route maps, for fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of carriers in the rural free-delivery service, three hundredCarriers. thousand dollars. Pay of laborers at division headquarters, rural free-delivery service,Laborers. two hundred and five dollars and forty-four cents. Pay of laborers at division headquarters, post-office inspector service, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. To pay Sterling B. Little, temporary appointee in the rural free-deliverySterling B. Little.Payment to. service, salary for the month commencing March seventh, nineteen hundred and three, ninety-three dollars and twenty-six cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury and certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-six of this session on account of the rural free-delivery service for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eight hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-one thousand and twenty-six dollars and thirty-seven cents. Incidental expenses, special agents, route inspectors, and so forth:Incidental expenses.
For amount to reimburse the postal revenue of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, being the amount expended in excess of the appropriation, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-three cents. Clerks in post-offices: Authority is hereby given to use duringTemporary clerk hire allowance. the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, out of the appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars for compensation to substitutes for clerks of first and second class post-offices on vacation, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for temporary clerk hire.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryClerk hire. and certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-six of this session on account of clerk hire for fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, forty dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, forty 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 three, six hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and seven cents.
City free-delivery service: Marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan:Detroit, Mich.Marine postal service. For amount to reimburse the postal revenue of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, being the amount expended by postmaster in excess of the appropriation, one hundred and forty-five dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryFree delivery. and certified in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-six of this session on account of the free-delivery service, for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five dollars;39 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eleven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-two cents. Mail, transportation: To pay amounts set forth in House DocumentsMail transportation. Numbered Two hundred and sixty and Three hundred and sixty-six. of this session, for inland transportation, as follows: By railroads, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred andRailroad routes. two, one thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and one cent.
By railroads, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand four hundred and seventy-two dollars and nine-teen cents. By star routes, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred andStar routes. two, five thousand six hundred and one dollars and fourteen cents. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Contingent expense,Contingent expenses. Department of Agriculture.” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifty-four dollars and fifty-four cents.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for “AgriculturalExperiment stations. experiment stations” for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty eight cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one dollar and twenty-three cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. To pay to John G. Ames the balance due him for compiling theJohn G.
Ames.Payment to. Comprehensive Index to Government Publications from eighteen hundred and eighty-one to eighteen hundred and ninety-three, authorized by joint resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand dollars. library of congress. Library of Congress. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric andFuel, lights, etc. steam apparatus, reference books, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, five thousand dollars. public printing and binding.
Public printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, includingInterior Department. its several bureaus and offices, and the Civil Service Commission, forty-two thousand dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are herebyMaterials, etc. authorized and directed to allow and credit in the settlement of the accounts of the Public Printer, on account of the public printing and the public binding for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, such sums as may have been necessarily expended by him, or may. during the current fiscal year, be required for the services, materials, and supplies enumerated in House Document Numbered Sixty-nine, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.
And such accounting officers are also authorized and directed toFurniture, etc. allow such sums as may be required of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Public printing and binding, nineteen hundred and three.” to pay for furniture, shelving, file eases, vault fixtures, and40 so forth, for use in the offices in the Government Printing Office, as set forth in House Document Numbered Seventy-two, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session. senate. Senate. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in thePages. service of the Senate, namely, sixteen pages from November ninth to December sixth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand one hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.
The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized to pay to the ReverendF. J. Prettyman.Payment to. F. J. Prettyman the salary of Chaplain of the Senate from November the ninth to November the twenty-second and from December the eighth to December the thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, the same being for services rendered as such Chaplain. For stationery and newspapers for Senators and for the President ofStationery, etc. the Senate, and for stationery for committees and officers of the Sen-ate, one thousand dollars.
For expenses maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons forHorses and mail wagons. carrying the mails, one thousand dollars. For purchase of furniture, one thousand dollars.Furniture. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, forty thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. For fitting up car buildings corner First and B streets southwest, forFolding room. the use of the folding room of the Senate, three thousand dollars. house of representatives. House of Representatives. For stationery for members of the House of Representatives, oneStationery. hundred and twenty-five, dollars.
To pay Members and Delegates the amounts which they certify theyClerk hire. have paid or agree to pay for clerk hire necessarily employed by them in the discharge, of their official and representative duties, as providedVol. 27, p. 757. in the joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. House resolutions adopted May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteenVol. 30, p. 687. hundred and ninety-eight, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, nine thousand two hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eleven thousand six hundred dollars. For hire of horses, feed, repair of wagon and harness for the Doorkeeper,Horses, etc. on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, sixty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, ten thousandFurniture. dollars. For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers,Folding materials. and other necessary materials for folding, for use of the members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of theVol. 28, p. 624.
Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), three thousand dollars. SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. Spanish Claims Commission. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionPayment of awards. under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundredVol. 31, p. 879. and one, certified to Congress in Document Numbered One hundred and ten of the present session, ten thousand dollars.41 For expenses incurred in connection with the taking of testimony in Cuba in claims now pending before the Commission, five thousand dollars; and said Commission is authorized to employ in Cuba one interpreter and translator at a compensation of two hundred dollars per month.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims,Payments. reported to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and seventy-five and Three hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-four cents: *Provided,* That none of the judgments*Proviso*.Appeal. herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
That the payment, to officers and men severally entitled, of theBounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels.[R. S., sec. 4635, p. 902](/us/rs/s4635/p902). judgments heroin appropriated for of the Court of Claims for bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, under section forty-six hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, be made on settlements by the Auditor for the Navy Department in the manner prescribed by law and Treasury regulations for the payment of prize money, the distribution of such individual share to be in accordance with the orders, rules, and finding of the Court of Claims.
And hereafter in all cases of final judgments and awards renderedFinal judgments. against the United States by the Court of Claims, and of final judgments rendered against the United States by the circuit and district courts of the United States, payment thereof under appropriations made by Congress shall be made on settlements by the auditor for the department or branch of the public service having jurisdiction over the subject-matter out of which the claims arose. 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 eighty-six of this session, and which have not been appealed, twenty-four thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-five 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, **Proviso*.Appeal.That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims inJudgments, Indian depredation claims. Indian depredation eases certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Documents Numbered Eleven and One hundred and thirty, sixty-five thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteenDeductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such 42 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 the United States at such times and in such pro-portions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided,* That no one of said judgments*Proviso*.Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. provided for in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the ActVol. 18, p. 110. 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 one and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two ofVol. 23, p. 254. the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and fifty, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Horses, wagons, and so forth, twenty-two dollars and seventy cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, fifteen dollars. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, forty-four dollars and forty-four cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, forty-three dollars and eighty-two cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, forty-nine dollars and forty-six cents.
For salaries and expenses of special inspectors of foreign steam vessels, twenty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, one dollar and seventy-six cents. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, one dollar and seven cents. For wages and contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle, eleven dollars and sixty-nine cents. For quarantine service, three thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-six cents.
For quarantine service, Territory of Hawaii, one thousand eight hundred and six dollars and six cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, one thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars. For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, nine hundred and fifty dollars and twelve cents. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, ninety-six dollars and three cents. For Live-Saving Service, two thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-one cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-four cents.43 For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, fifty dollars. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For rebate of tax on tobacco. Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, six hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents. For refunding moneys erroneously received and covered, one hundred and fifteen dollars.
For repayment of taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty, thirty-one dollars and ninety-two cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, seven-teen thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty-seven cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Dement. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-two cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, five dollars and six cents.
For subsistence of the Army, three thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and eight cents. For regular supplies. Quartermaster's Department, fifty dollars and seventy-three cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and nine cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, fifty thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars and sixty-four cents. For barracks and quarters, three hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, forty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, thirty-three dollars and eighty cents. For artificial limbs, twenty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents. For contingencies of fortifications, twenty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, eighty-eight dollars and fourteen cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, fifty-six dollars and four cents.
For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, nine hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For gunboats on western rivers, thirty-three dollars and forty-eight cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, seven hundred dollars and thirty-nine cents, claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, two dollars and sixty-nine cents. For emergency fund, Navy Department, twenty dollars and fifteen cents. For pay of the Navy, six hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-four cents.44 For pay, miscellaneous, one hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-six cents. For contingent, Navy, eleven dollars and seventy-eight cents. For pay, Marine Corps, one hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty cents.
For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, forty-six dollars and twenty cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, four hundred and seventeen dollars and six cents. For transportation, recruiting and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, five hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twelve cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, one thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, twenty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one cent. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two hundred and sixty dollars and ninety cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two thousand one hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, five dollars and seventy-three cents.
For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and two cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-one cents. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, forty-four dollars arid ninety-three cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys, excess of deposits. five dollars. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-three cents. For protection of forest reserves, fifteen dollars and forty cents. For appraisal and sale of abandoned military reservations, eight hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-one cents. For surveying the public lands, eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-one cents.
For Geological Survey, forty-nine dollars and thirteen cents. For pay of Indian agents, six hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-five cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-three cents. For incidentals in Nevada, including support and civilization, thirty dollars and thirty-seven cents. For incidentals in New Mexico, one dollar and seventy-five cents.
For surveying Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Standing Rock reservations, four thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars. For army pensions, ninety-six dollars.45 claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Department. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, five hundred and eighty six dollars and thirteen cents. For fees and costs in extradition cases, one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and ninety cents.
For salaries, consular service, five thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. For salaries, consular clerks, one dollar and thirty-eight cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and sea-men, six dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen, ninety-seven dollars and thirty-one cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one hundred and seventy dollars and forty-nine cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, thirteen dollars and fifty cents.
For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, four dollars and thirty-eight cents. For supplies of light-houses, twenty-three dollars and two cents. For expenses of light-vessels, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents. For expenses of buoyage, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents. For protecting property in hands of receivers, United States courts, sixty-nine dollars. For pay of special assistant attorneys. United States courts, two hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-six cents.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, fifty-five dollars and ten cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, three thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty cents. For fees of witnesses. United States courts, one dollar and ninety cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars and thirty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses. United States courts, five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. For compensation to postmasters, fifty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. For special-delivery service, sixteen cents. For clerk hire, two thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For star transportation, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and one cent. For steamboat transportation, eight hundred and eighty dollars. For post-Office car service, four thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, three hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty four cents. For rewards, two hundred dollars. Approved, February 18, 1904.
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